Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine
(comments) -
Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week
(comments) -
Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
(comments) -
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
(comments) -
Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch
(comments) -
Ending our Medium integration
(comments) -
'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes
(comments) -
Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
(comments) -
Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
(comments) -
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing
(comments) -
U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks
(comments) -
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
(comments) -
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
(comments) -
Gmail Services Global Outage
(comments) -
Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories
(comments) -
Firefox 65.0 released
(comments) -
The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)
(comments) -
YC 120
(comments) -
Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Outperforming everything with anything: Python? Sure, why not?
(comments) -
HTTP/3: from root to tip
(comments) -
Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook
(comments) -
C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival
(comments) -
Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
(comments) -
Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging
(comments) -
The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing
(comments) -
Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M
(comments) -
Show HN: X-spreadsheet – A JavaScript canvas spreadsheet for web
(comments) -
A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab
(comments) -
“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”
(comments) -
My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
(comments) -
LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009) [pdf]
(comments) -
When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)
(comments) -
Game Loop
(comments) -
Verilog sources for Western Digital's open source RISC-V core
(comments) -
Ten minutes a day
(comments) -
What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail
(comments) -
3D cartoon-like explosion in 180 lines of bare C++
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Design Patterns for Managing Up
(comments) -
Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards
(comments) -
It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit
(comments) -
Websocketd
(comments) -
Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
(comments) -
Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
(comments) -
H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads
(comments) -
How to Hack an Expensive Camera
(comments) -
Snark Barker: A 100% compatible replica of the famed SB 1.0 soundcard
(comments) -
Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
(comments) -
AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
(comments) -
Practical Linux Hardening Guide
(comments) -
Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
(comments) -
Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
(comments) -
Apple is indeed patenting Swift features
(comments) -
Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
(comments) -
US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
(comments) -
Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019
(comments) -
Oslo made its city center basically car-free
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
(comments) -
Our Software Dependency Problem
(comments) -
New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
(comments) -
Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
(comments) -
Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
(comments) -
Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
(comments) -
Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)
(comments) -
Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
(comments) -
Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
(comments) -
How to Be Successful
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get
(comments) -
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
(comments) -
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
(comments) -
A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
(comments) -
Wine 4.0 released
(comments) -
Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
(comments) -
Chromecast Support for Firefox
(comments) -
Travis CI acquired by Idera
(comments) -
Why I use old hardware
(comments) -
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
(comments) -
Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?
(comments) -
Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?
(comments) -
$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis
(comments) -
Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
(comments) -
For the Love of Pipes
(comments) -
Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton
(comments) -
Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
(comments) -
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
(comments) -
Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens
(comments) -
Proper Breathing Brings Better Health
(comments) -
Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam
(comments) -
When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
(comments) -
H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)
(comments) -
Programming Fonts – Test Drive
(comments) -
Why does APT not use HTTPS?
(comments) -
Bed that saved me from the Taliban
(comments) -
Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013)
(comments) -
CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
(comments) -
Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
(comments) -
HandBrake 1.2.0 Released
(comments) -
Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
(comments) -
Internals of PostgreSQL
(comments) -
Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO
(comments) -
Students learn from people they love
(comments) -
Windows 98 Icons are Great
(comments) -
Kubernetes Failure Stories
(comments) -
Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
(comments) -
What People Say Before They Die
(comments) -
Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America
(comments) -
Future of TypeScript on ESLint
(comments) -
Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2
(comments) -
Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government
(comments) -
Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?
(comments) -
Who is horse_js?
(comments) -
MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
(comments) -
EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Rust 1.32 released
(comments) -
Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
(comments) -
My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
(comments) -
Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
(comments) -
773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
(comments) -
Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
(comments) -
Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha
(comments) -
Costco opening a $440M chicken farm to escape America's chicken monopoly
(comments) -
I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
(comments) -
50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
DOJ: Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info
(comments) -
The Route of a Text Message
(comments) -
Networking on AWS (2018)
(comments) -
John C. Bogle Has Died
(comments) -
How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
(comments) -
Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
(comments) -
Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area
(comments) -
DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains
(comments) -
Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
(comments) -
Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
(comments) -
An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys
(comments) -
Startup Playbook (2015)
(comments) -
I'm not convinced that this wasn't the second biggest mistake of my life
(comments) -
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
(comments) -
MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license
(comments) -
How to teach Git
(comments) -
Airbnb and security camera disclosure
(comments) -
After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue
(comments) -
WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers
(comments) -
FoundationDB Record Layer
(comments) -
Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript
(comments) -
35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp
(comments) -
DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]
(comments) -
Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more
(comments) -
California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low
(comments) -
Pink Trombone
(comments) -
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
(comments) -
Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (2015)
(comments) -
Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
(comments) -
Google Earth Reverse Engineering
(comments) -
Android vendors, don’t kill my app
(comments) -
Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age
(comments) -
AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
(comments) -
Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging
(comments) -
Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
(comments) -
Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
(comments) -
Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)
(comments) -
The Embroidered Computer
(comments) -
Input: Fonts for Code
(comments) -
Open source Molten salt nuclear reactor design
(comments) -
IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku
(comments) -
Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
(comments) -
Too Many Workers Are Trapped by Non-Competes
(comments) -
GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it
(comments) -
To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays
(comments) -
The Man in Seat Sixty-One
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Show HN: A tool to find related subreddits
(comments) -
Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
(comments) -
EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing
(comments) -
Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
(comments) -
Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997
(comments) -
BitPatron – A Bitcoin Censorship-Free Patreon Alternative
(comments) -
SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
(comments) -
If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?
(comments) -
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
(comments) -
Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project
(comments) -
AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation
(comments) -
Bungie departs from Activision
(comments) -
NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time
(comments) -
Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
(comments) -
Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
(comments) -
Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it
(comments) -
A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station
(comments) -
Startups Rejecting Venture Capital
(comments) -
I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
(comments) -
Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
(comments) -
AWS gives open source the middle finger?
(comments) -
I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas
(comments) -
The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)
(comments) -
System Down: A systemd-journald exploit
(comments) -
Happy Birthday, Ruby
(comments) -
People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds
(comments) -
So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
(comments) -
Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (2014)
(comments) -
WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality
(comments) -
Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal
(comments) -
Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
(comments) -
The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons
(comments) -
Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
(comments) -
Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
(comments) -
Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018
(comments) -
Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
(comments) -
Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
(comments) -
Digitized Books from 1923 Now Available at the Internet Archive
(comments) -
Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue
(comments) -
We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
(comments) -
The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins
(comments) -
Bash 5.0 released
(comments) -
How LinkedIn detects browser extensions
(comments) -
Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
(comments) -
Sears plans to shutter after 126 years in business
(comments) -
Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Dive into Deep Learning: Berkeley Course
(comments) -
Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
(comments) -
How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming
(comments) -
Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application
(comments) -
The Hand Licking Incident
(comments) -
Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
(comments) -
Thank u, next
(comments) -
Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
(comments) -
I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets
(comments) -
Announcing unlimited free private repos
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
LiteCLI – A user-friendly command-line client for SQLite database
(comments) -
9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0
(comments) -
Chromium blacklists Nouveau
(comments) -
Talent Is Everywhere, Opportunity Is Not
(comments) -
Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
(comments) -
Tree Style Tabs
(comments) -
Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
(comments) -
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
(comments) -
Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
(comments) -
Build your own Mint
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
(comments) -
Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language
(comments) -
How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?
(comments) -
NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA to Public at RSA
(comments) -
Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
(comments) -
Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
(comments) -
iOS Menu
(comments) -
75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)
(comments) -
Syncthing graduation day
(comments) -
Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
(comments) -
Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game
(comments) -
How to Eliminate the Dreaded “Blind Spot”
(comments) -
Software Engineering at Google (2017)
(comments) -
Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
(comments) -
Bytecode compilers and interpreters
(comments) -
Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
(comments) -
YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site
(comments) -
Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
(comments) -
Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Monorepos: Please don’t
(comments) -
Migrating from Google Analytics
(comments) -
Scratch 3.0
(comments) -
Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
(comments) -
Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
(comments) -
China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
(comments) -
Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died
(comments) -
Coconut: Pythonic functional programming
(comments) -
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)
(comments) -
Show HN: HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”
(comments) -
Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
(comments) -
Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom
(comments) -
Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing
(comments) -
Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
(comments) -
Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
(comments) -
Marble Marcher: ray-traced real time game on the surface of evolving fractals
(comments) -
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
(comments) -
Thunderbird in 2019
(comments) -
New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2019-01-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?
(comments) -
Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common
(comments) -
When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive
(comments) -
Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
(comments) -
Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
(comments) -
Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech
(comments) -
Learning KVM – implement your own kernel
(comments) -
The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years
(comments) -
New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule
(comments) -
Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
(comments)
Daily Hacker News for 2018-12-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2018 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
-
CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
(comments) -
Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)
(comments) -
Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers
(comments) -
Essential C (2003) [pdf]
(comments) -
A list of lists of interview questions
(comments) -
Larry Roberts has died
(comments) -
The Elements of UI Engineering
(comments) -
The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands
(comments) -
People with Depression Use Language Differently
(comments) -
An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2015) [pdf]
(comments)