top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-07-12

Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet

https://www.blog.google/topics/public-policy/net-neutrality-day-action-help-preserve-open-internet/

9 years ago

Battle for the Internet

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

9 years ago

The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem

http://boffosocko.com/2017/07/11/the-facebook-algorithm-mom-problem/

9 years ago

Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API

https://blog.tendigi.com/starbucks-should-really-make-their-apis-public-6b64a1c2e923

9 years ago

CSS and JS code coverage in Chrome DevTools

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-release-notes#coverage

9 years ago

Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752719

9 years ago

p5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators

https://p5js.org/

9 years ago

ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

http://blog.fosketts.net/2017/07/10/zfs-best-filesystem-now/

9 years ago

Life Is About to Get Harder for Websites Without HTTPS

https://www.troyhunt.com/life-is-about-to-get-harder-for-websites-without-https/

9 years ago

Scientists Design Solar Cell That Captures Nearly All Energy of Solar Spectrum

https://www.rdmag.com/news/2017/07/scientists-design-solar-cell-captures-nearly-all-energy-solar-spectrum

9 years ago

Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed?

9 years ago

★ 316 JavaScript MIT

Microsoft's Calibri font is at the center of a political scandal in Pakistan

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/12/microsoft-calibri-pakistan-fontgate/

9 years ago

Ask HN: How does one overcome the need for instant gratification?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751439

9 years ago

Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings

https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785

9 years ago

★ 543 JavaScript MPL-2.0

Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust

https://unhandledexpression.com/2017/07/10/why-you-should-actually-rewrite-it-in-rust/

9 years ago

ClojureScript Is Not An Island: Integrating Node Modules

https://clojurescript.org/news/2017-07-12-clojurescript-is-not-an-island-integrating-node-modules

9 years ago

Analyzing GitHub, how developers change programming languages over time

https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/

9 years ago

Photos: Life inside of China’s massive and remote Bitcoin mines

https://qz.com/1026605/photos-chinas-bitcoin-mines-and-miners/

9 years ago

27000 errors in the Tizen operating system

https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0519/

9 years ago

Owl – An OCaml Numerical Library

https://github.com/ryanrhymes/owl

9 years ago

★ 1.3k OCaml MIT

How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters

https://medium.com/@alexkharlamov/how-mta-shut-down-my-app-for-penn-station-commuters-39e1cf69395f

9 years ago

How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/

9 years ago

The Ultimate-64 board

http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&catid=9&Itemid=127

9 years ago

What convinced the Supreme Court to take the Wisconsin gerrymandering case?

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/11/15949750/research-gerrymandering-wisconsin-supreme-court-partisanship

9 years ago

Turn your website into a Progressive Web App

https://mxb.at/blog/how-to-turn-your-website-into-a-pwa/

9 years ago

5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/giant-antarctic-iceberg-breaks-free-of-larsen-c-ice-shelf

9 years ago

How to build a JavaScript package manager

https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/07/11/lets-dev-a-package-manager/

9 years ago

Google is trying to patent video compression use of Asymmetric Numeral Systems

https://encode.ru/threads/2648-Published-rANS-patent-by-Storeleap/page3

9 years ago

Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” next, after HTTPS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754167

9 years ago

Disneyland raised prices to shorten waits

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-wait-times-20170712-htmlstory.html

9 years ago

NYU releases the largest LiDAR dataset ever to help urban development

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/nyu-releases-the-largest-lidar-dataset-ever-to-help-urban-development

9 years ago

Dutch app gives elderly pedestrians extra crossing time at traffic lights

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/12/dutch-app-elderly-hack-pedestrian-crossings

9 years ago

Sixth mass extinction: The era of ‘biological annihilation’

https://www.dlgnaturals.com/blog4/2017/07/11/sixth-mass-extinction-the-era-of-biological-annihilation/

9 years ago

I Am Graphics and So Can You

https://www.fasterthan.life/blog/2017/7/11/i-am-graphics-and-so-can-you-part-1

9 years ago

Project Lamdu: A Live Programming Environment and Language

http://www.lamdu.org/

9 years ago

Dotty 0.2.0-RC1

http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/07/12/second-dotty-milestone-release.html

9 years ago

I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/09/how-i-made-my-own-vpn-server-in-15-minutes/

9 years ago

Ask HN: What Happened to the Hacker News Colour Scheme?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753764

9 years ago

The Beauty of Programming (2001) [pdf]

http://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/beautyOfProgramming.pdf

9 years ago

Create your own Game Engine but don't use it

http://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/07/12/engine/

9 years ago

Encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23017.html

9 years ago

Building the XNU kernel on macOS Sierra

https://0xcc.re/building-xnu-kernel-macosx-sierrra-10-12-x/

9 years ago

Dynamism in Retreat: Consequences for Regions, Markets and Workers

http://eig.org/dynamism

9 years ago