Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-30
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld
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Software made me loathe my car
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Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future
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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
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A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
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Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite
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NPM Bans Terminal Ads
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The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
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Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
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Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-29
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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exFAT in the Linux kernel
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IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation
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Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services
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MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
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Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
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3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia
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Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
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Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
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Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-28
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper
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Time anxiety: is it too late?
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Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia
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WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants
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Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study
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WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
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Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
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Lessons from Stripe
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Words that do Handstands
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A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-27
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
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Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine
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Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
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Useless Windows 10 Features
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Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
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Let's build houses for people, not cars
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Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
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No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
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Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets
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Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-26
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise
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Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
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Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
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Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
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QEMU VM Escape
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Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
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Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow?
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Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election
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Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
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Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-25
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]
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NASA said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space
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Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years
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Does the Amazon provide 20% of our oxygen?
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Ha-ha wall
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Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting
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Write your own Excel in F# (2018)
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From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
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Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
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Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-24
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why Clojure?
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Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon
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In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs
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Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything
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How to return to the flow faster
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Consume less, create more
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Datadog S-1
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WiringPi – deprecated
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Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?
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Software Architecture Guide
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-23
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife
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Some Obscure C Features
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The Many Possibilities of iMessage File Vulnerability
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VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B
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Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
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Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
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Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers
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Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
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Introducing nushell
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-22
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
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Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
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15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
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Thoughts on Rust bloat
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Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why
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Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
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Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap
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Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
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Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon
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How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-21
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Calculus Is Deeply Irrational
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Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs
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Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
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A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks (2018)
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Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
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Why does all life use the same 20 amino acids?
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
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Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015
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16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
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Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-20
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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How Rust optimizes async/await
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China
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Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
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Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket
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Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases
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People love working remotely
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‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’
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Google's software mistreats or harms the user
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IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
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IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-19
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Performance Matters
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Rules for Intuitive UX
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We Have Ruined Childhood
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How to Build Good Software
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Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library
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OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
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Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
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I Miss Microsoft Encarta
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Information operations directed at Hong Kong
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Kerbal Space Program 2
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-18
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode
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Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
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Start Your Own ISP
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Tech Interview Handbook
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Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks
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Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability
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Building ages in the Netherlands
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35% Faster Than The Filesystem
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YAML: Probably not so great after all
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack
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Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library
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Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys
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U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss
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Making email more modern with JMAP
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Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome
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The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild
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Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp
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Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading
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WeWTF
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
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The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
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I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is
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People Simply Empty Out (1986)
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Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices
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Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
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Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
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A Walk in Hong Kong
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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
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I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died
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The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
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Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling
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Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound
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WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
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I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code
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CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
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I feel like im talking to the borg
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Rust 1.37.0
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Cloudflare S-1
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963)
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Minify Your SVGs
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
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FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights
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Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day
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Psytrance Guide
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Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K
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The We Company S-1
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Attorney General Barr and Encryption
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Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Horror of Microsoft Teams
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Anxiety Looks Different in Men
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One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
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GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
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Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
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Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear
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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
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Down the Rabbit-Hole
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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
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Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-12
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Await in Rust
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The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco
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Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming
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Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
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Python Is Eating the World
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Xfce 4.14
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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
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NULL license plate not such a bright idea
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Ebola Is Now Curable
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Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-11
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Door Problem of Combat Design
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Creeping normality
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The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech
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Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest
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Get your work recognized: write a brag document
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Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
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Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference
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Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
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US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
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Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-10
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Open-source firmware
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The Erlang Rationale
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Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf]
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‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully
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Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
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Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency
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Home Chip Fab
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Who Owns Huawei?
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A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-09
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair
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Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data
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NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors
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Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
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Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
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Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details
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9th Circuit says users can sue Facebook over unlawful use of facial recognition
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Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
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Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
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Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-08
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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MoviePass Worked Out Great
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A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787'S Guts
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The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone
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AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
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Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
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AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
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GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
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Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
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Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-07
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier
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Silk
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A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera
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AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
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FFmpeg 4.2
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Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains
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Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day
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Wine on Windows 10
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Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript
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Why is modern web development so complicated?
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-06
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Amazon Is a Monopoly
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Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
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U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
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The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
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Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me
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Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
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Toni Morrison Has Died
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Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
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Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
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New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-05
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Terminating Service for 8Chan
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Calculus For The People
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All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
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Information Theory for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf]
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Rust Language Cheat Sheet
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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
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Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer
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There is no evil like reCAPTCHA
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8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
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Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-04
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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The Tragedy of UCS-2
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Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]
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Build Your Own Text Editor
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Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
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Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust
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8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
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Hy
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Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself
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Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules
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Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-03
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
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Insured price $2,758, cash price $521
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A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
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Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
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Medieval people bathed regularly
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The Art of Warez [video]
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Killing a process and all of its descendants
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Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?
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Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-02
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)
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Every Noise at Once
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Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
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35 Over 35
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Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]
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Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
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Contributing to the Mozilla code base
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Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
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“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
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Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-08-01
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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A Look at Overnight Stays at US National Parks
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Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
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LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
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Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
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The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)
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Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
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Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts
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Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
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iTerm2 3.3
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Daily Hacker News for 2019-07-31
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites
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Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along
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Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
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Employee happiness and business success are linked
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BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
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Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
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Kriegspiel
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Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
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A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
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