top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-02-20

Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case

https://twitter.com/snowden/status/700823383961792512

10 years ago

Umberto Eco has died

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35620368

10 years ago

San Bernardino County tweets it reset attacker iCloud password at FBI's request

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20160219/san-bernardino-county-tweets-it-reset-terrorists-icloud-password-with-fbi

10 years ago

Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

http://hyperallergic.com/274635/artists-covertly-scan-bust-of-nefertiti-and-release-the-data-for-free-online/

10 years ago

The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/production.html

10 years ago

555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC

http://www.righto.com/2016/02/555-timer-teardown-inside-worlds-most.html

10 years ago

Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt

https://tacticalsecret.com/early-impacts-of-letsencrypt/

10 years ago

Judge Rules FBI Must Reveal Malware It Used to Hack Over 1,000 Computers

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/judge-rules-fbi-must-reveal-malware-used-to-hack-over-1000-computers-playpen-jay-michaud

10 years ago

A bot has successfully appealed $3M worth of parking tickets in the UK

http://www.businessinsider.com/joshua-browder-bot-for-parking-tickets-2016-2

10 years ago

LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

https://librivox.org/

10 years ago

A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/technical-perspective-apple-iphone-case

10 years ago

WINE 1.9.4 Released

https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.9.4

10 years ago

The forbidden railway: Vienna – Pyongyang (2008)

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com

10 years ago

Google Lowered Taxes by $2.4B Using European Subsidiaries

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-19/google-lowered-taxes-by-2-4-billion-using-european-subsidiaries

10 years ago

RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6920

10 years ago

An Open Letter to My CEO

https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.lsw0ksid2

10 years ago

GitHub lock-in?

http://agateau.com/2016/github-lock-in

10 years ago

Congressman Ted Lieu Statement on Apple Court Order

https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-lieu-statement-apple-court-order

10 years ago

Git – the simple guide

http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

10 years ago

Reverse engineering Android from binary to source

http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=06.%20Android%20M%20on%20zWatch

10 years ago

Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours

https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/creating-a-two-sided-marketplace-in-two-days-4482dfc1ead8

10 years ago

A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength (CVE-2015-7547)

http://dankaminsky.com/2016/02/20/skeleton/

10 years ago

Cheap BlueTooth Buttons and Linux

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/02/cheap-bluetooth-buttons-and-linux/

10 years ago

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/why-our-intuition-about-sea_level-rise-is-wrong

10 years ago

'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-to-a-hollywood-hack.html

10 years ago

What sparked the Cambrian explosion?

http://www.nature.com/news/what-sparked-the-cambrian-explosion-1.19379

10 years ago

Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (2013)

http://smerity.com/articles/2013/where_did_all_the_http_referrers_go.html

10 years ago

Basic income may be needed to combat robot-induced unemployment

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/basic-income-artificial-intelligence-ai-robots-automation-moshe-vardi-a6884086.html

10 years ago

Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015)

https://inbound.org/blog/confessions-of-a-google-spammer

10 years ago

To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind in Life

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-varon/to-anyone-who-thinks-theyre-falling-behind_b_9190758.html

10 years ago

Ubuntu trademark nonsense

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/trademark_nonsense/

10 years ago

Scala's Option monad versus null-conditional operator in C#

http://www.codewithstyle.info/2016/02/scalas-option-monad-versus-null.html

10 years ago

Novice pilot skills improved via expert-pilot brainwave patterns

http://www.kurzweilai.net/now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns

10 years ago

For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins

http://www.wsj.com/articles/for-silicon-valley-the-hangover-begins-1455930769

10 years ago

Making Charcoal [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLvqCTvOQY&feature=youtu.be

10 years ago

The Palmer Method of Business Writing

http://palmermethod.com/introductory/lesson-1/

10 years ago

How the feds took down FIFA

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14767250/the-exclusive-story-how-feds-took-fifa

10 years ago

Hacking Infix Operators into Python with Decorators

http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/Infix-Operators/

10 years ago

Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds

https://thewinnower.com/papers/now-i-am-become-doi-destroyer-of-gatekeeping-worlds

10 years ago

When the Hospital Fires the Bullet

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-health.html

10 years ago

Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35622753

10 years ago

Buzzfeed Twitter “like to hear from you if you are not white and not male.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/buzzfeed-canada-is-looking-for-writers-white-males-need-not-apply/

10 years ago

Why I want Concepts, sooner rather than later

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/p0225r0.html

10 years ago

The “Black Standard” for binary clocks (2007)

http://www.romanblack.com/binclk.htm

10 years ago