top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-19

LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html

8 years ago

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

8 years ago

Is it time for open processors?

https://lwn.net/Articles/743602/

8 years ago

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/

8 years ago

Programming Notes for Professionals books

http://books.goalkicker.com/TypeScriptBook/

8 years ago

List of oldest companies: Before 1300

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies#Before_1300

8 years ago

Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O

http://blog.japaric.io/brave-new-io/

8 years ago

An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Programs

https://lifehacker.com/your-amazon-order-might-lock-you-out-of-trusted-travele-1821964978

8 years ago

Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42736764

8 years ago

U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-nuclear/u-s-tests-nuclear-power-system-to-sustain-astronauts-on-mars-idUSKBN1F72T8

8 years ago

Going Global with Your Startup

http://blog.ycombinator.com/going-global-with-your-startup/

8 years ago

Homebrew 1.5.0

https://brew.sh/2018/01/19/homebrew-1.5.0/

8 years ago

Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

http://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-employees-reveal-why-stores-are-facing-a-crisis-of-food-shortages-2018-1

8 years ago

Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece

https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/01/19/atari-tempest-dave-theurers-masterpiece/

8 years ago

The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/16/why-does-it-cost-32093-just-to-give-birth-in-america

8 years ago

Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/19/meltdown-status-2/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16187939

8 years ago

The radical idea of a world without jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs

8 years ago

Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html

8 years ago

Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/nyregion/driving-manhattan-congestion-traffic.html

8 years ago

However improbable: The story of a processor bug

https://blog.cloudflare.com/however-improbable-the-story-of-a-processor-bug/

8 years ago

I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the US in Over a Century

https://petapixel.com/2018/01/11/built-first-natural-light-wet-plate-studio-us-century/

8 years ago

Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9237-reverse_engineering_fpgas

8 years ago

What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

https://www.chronicle.com/article/whats-so-dangerous-about/242256

8 years ago

Shitcoin vs. buttcoin: a dummies guide to cryptocurrency manipulation

http://counterthink.com/Shtcoin-Buttcoin.asp

8 years ago

The cost of games

https://www.raphkoster.com/2018/01/17/the-cost-of-games/

8 years ago

How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-secure-developer/ep-14-how-slack-stays-secure-during-hyper-growth/

8 years ago

Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-lookout-uncover-new-malware-espionage-campaign-infecting-thousands-around

8 years ago

Chat app for use when your battery is less than 5%

http://diewithme.online

8 years ago

Want to use my wifi? (2013)

https://thejh.net/written-stuff/want-to-use-my-wifi?

8 years ago

How to see a memory

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00107-4

8 years ago

“The Problem Child of Seasonal Flu”: Beware This Winter’s Virus

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ldquo-the-problem-child-of-seasonal-flu-rdquo-beware-this-winter-rsquo-s-virus/

8 years ago

GoPro has discontinued its developer program

https://developer.gopro.com

8 years ago

JEP 325: Switch Expressions

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/325

8 years ago

Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)

https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum

8 years ago

Show HN: Bootrino.com – Netboot Run-From-RAM OS's on AWS, Google and Digital Ocean

https://www.bootrino.com

8 years ago

QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat

8 years ago

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The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n02/gavin-francis/the-untreatable

8 years ago

The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/hans-jonatan-iceland-genome-reconstructed/550667/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles

https://maxwellito.github.io/triangulart/

8 years ago

Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/19/your-monthly-amazon-prime-membership-fees-are-about-to-increase/

8 years ago

Oculus Start: Technical and Financial Resources for Beginning VR Developers

https://developer.oculus.com/oculus-start/

8 years ago

The De Bruijn-Newman constant is non-negative

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/the-de-bruijn-newman-constant-is-non-negativ/

8 years ago

US regulators charge three Bitcoin operators with fraud

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/19/cftc-charges-three-cryptocurrency-operators/

8 years ago

Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-some-people-more-creative-than-others/

8 years ago

The Tether Conundrum: a look into a suspicious cryptocurrency

https://tonyarcieri.com/the-tether-conundrum

8 years ago