top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-09

VLC 3.0 release

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html

8 years ago

Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/

8 years ago

Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/

8 years ago

Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-service-outage-at-3-4m-ccu

8 years ago

Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?

https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

8 years ago

Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/human-eggs-grown-lab-fertility-breakthrough-first-time-ivf-development-scientists-edinburgh-a8201001.html

8 years ago

Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

https://medium.com/tableplus/modern-native-tool-for-relational-database-79efc35b647d

8 years ago

Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning

https://www.wired.com/story/greedy-brittle-opaque-and-shallow-the-downsides-to-deep-learning/

8 years ago

“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always

8 years ago

Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen

http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/02/09/facebooks-desperate-smoke-screen/

8 years ago

Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-02-09/kpti-kaiser-meltdown-performance.html

8 years ago

GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse

https://donatstudios.com/GithubsTotalSecurityFacepalm

8 years ago

QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification

https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/

8 years ago

“The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292229/

8 years ago

What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/

8 years ago

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/9/16994318/samsung-galaxy-s9-headphone-jack-dex-pad-photo-leak

8 years ago

JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp

http://tromey.com/blog/?p=982

8 years ago

Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02700

8 years ago

How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)

https://www.si.com/vault/2009/03/23/105789480/how-and-why-athletes-go-broke

8 years ago

Financial Times journo's private messages quoted to her at China visa renewal

https://twitter.com/YuanfenYang/status/962002259407089664

8 years ago

A Sleeping Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name

https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/consumer-electronics/gadgets/beyond-the-super-bowl-a-sleeping-alexa-can-listen-for-more-than-just-her-name

8 years ago

Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown

http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2018/01/anatomy-of-a-ceph-meltdown.html

8 years ago

PostgreSQL 10.2 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1829/

8 years ago

Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning

https://deepmind.com/blog/impala-scalable-distributed-deeprl-dmlab-30/

8 years ago

Creating a Linux Desktop App with Ruby

https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby

8 years ago

Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications

http://blog.skylight.io/announcing-the-skylight-for-open-source-program/

8 years ago

IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur

https://shitcoin.com/iota-cannot-be-used-for-iot-loss-of-funds-may-occur-e45b1ed9dd6b?ho1

8 years ago

OpenBoard – An interactive whiteboard for schools and universities

http://openboard.ch/index.en.html

8 years ago

A short tale of a read overflow

http://antirez.com/news/117

8 years ago

How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/xw5yd7/how-iphone-iboot-source-code-leaked-on-github

8 years ago

Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5M

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/oxford-comma-maine.html

8 years ago

Researchers giving psilocybin to religious leaders (2017)

https://qz.com/879285/psilocybin-drug-trials-psychedelics-such-as-acid-lsd-might-not-only-make-us-more-spiritual-and-religious-they-make-us-healthier-too/

8 years ago

Facebooks crawls every page recorded by its tracking pixel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16339088

8 years ago

Closing out an incredible week in Rust

http://aturon.github.io/2018/02/09/amazing-week/

8 years ago

Tesla Roadster has been officially logged as a celestial object by NASA

https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/961611437796937728

8 years ago

Google fined in India for search bias

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/google-fined-in-india-for-search-bias-207314

8 years ago

Show HN: Automatic detection of non-colorblind safe colors

https://www.vis4.net/blog/2018/02/automate-colorblind-checking/

8 years ago

The fanciest shopping center in America is expanding

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-08/this-mall-is-only-for-the-rich-and-it-s-doing-fine

8 years ago

Learning Go as a Node.js Developer

https://nemethgergely.com/learning-go-as-a-nodejs-developer/

8 years ago

For first time a dedicated conversation on cryptocurrency in US congress

https://coingape.com/hodl-in-us-senate-thanks-to-cftc-chairman-christopher-giancarlo/

8 years ago

Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

8 years ago