top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-02-12

Let’s talk about usernames

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames/

8 years ago

German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-idUSKBN1FW1FI?il=0

8 years ago

Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year

https://www.recode.net/2018/2/12/16998750/facebooks-teen-users-decline-instagram-snap-emarketer

8 years ago

Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

http://www.argmin.net/2018/01/25/optics/

8 years ago

The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/06/01/the-long-slow-decline-of-bittorrent/

8 years ago

Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-unilever-ads-google-facebook-20180212-story.html

8 years ago

Appropriate Uses for SQLite

https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

8 years ago

Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/picture-single-atom-wins-science-photo-contest/

8 years ago

My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)

https://jmkorhonen.net/2018/01/12/my-professional-opinion-as-a-blockchain-researcher-i-dont-see-the-point/

8 years ago

How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/how-apple-plans-to-root-out-bugs-revamp-iphone-software

8 years ago

Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18517#issuecomment-365099814

8 years ago

★ 133.6k Go BSD-3-Clause

Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)

https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/

8 years ago

Hidden work when launching a SaaS

https://workshop.kwoosh.com/post/the-hidden-work-when-launching-a-saas.html

8 years ago

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-core-20180212-story.html

8 years ago

ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)

https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/128-bit-storage:-are-you-high

8 years ago

Cloud TPUs in Beta

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/Cloud-TPU-machine-learning-accelerators-now-available-in-beta.html

8 years ago

The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/16/baby-advice-books-industry-attachment-parenting

8 years ago

Advantages of monolithic version control

http://danluu.com/monorepo/

8 years ago

Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2018/02/12/speeding-up-ruby-with-shared-strings.html

8 years ago

Inspector – A drop-anywhere C++ REPL

https://github.com/inspector-repl/inspector

8 years ago

★ 849 C++ MIT

Equifax under pressure after data breach update

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43033202

8 years ago

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (2016)

http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/

8 years ago

Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-laying-off-corporate-employees-in-rare-cutback/

8 years ago

The Tripartite Identity Pattern (2008)

http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/10/the-tripartite-identity-pattern/

8 years ago

I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month

https://dnote.io/blog/writing-everything-i-learn-coding-for-a-month/

8 years ago

Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

8 years ago

FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/fcc-report-finds-almost-no-broadband-competition-at-100mbps-speeds/?amp=1

8 years ago

Show HN: Turn your GitHub Gist into a live dashboard

https://github.com/kantord/just-dashboard

8 years ago

★ 1.5k TypeScript MIT

Sweden tried to drop Assange extradition in 2013

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-to-drop-assange-extradition-in-2013-cps-emails-show?CMP=soc_568

8 years ago

Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review

https://www.anandtech.com/print/12425/marrying-vega-and-zen-the-amd-ryzen-5-2400g-review

8 years ago

Who is the longest-serving programmer?

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/who-most-durable-programmer

8 years ago

Breaking Textbook RSA Used to Protect the Privacy of Millions of Users

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03367

8 years ago

1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pictures-london-east-end-1960s-color

8 years ago

LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC

https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/llvms-garbage-collection-facilities-and-sbcl-s-generational-gc-a13eedfb1b31

8 years ago

The Meta-Problem of Consciousness [pdf]

https://philpapers.org/archive/CHATMO-32.pdf

8 years ago

Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years–and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix It All

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell

8 years ago

Zombie Processes Are Eating Your Memory

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/zombie-processes-are-eating-your-memory/

8 years ago

Launch HN: Haiku (YC W18) – Build and Design Cross-Platform UIs and Animations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360995

8 years ago

Background removal with deep learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/background-removal-with-deep-learning-c4f2104b3157

8 years ago

Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/instacart-has-raised-another-200m-at-a-4-2b-valuation/

8 years ago

Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Chinese-local-governments-rush-to-admit-fake-data

8 years ago

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rakhine-events/

8 years ago

Haskell developer experience in NixOS

http://www.kuznero.com/posts/nixos/haskell-devexp-in-nixos.html

8 years ago

London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-43027472

8 years ago

Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course

http://cs10.org/sp18/

8 years ago

Fish that walk on seafloor use same neurons and genes as land vertebrates

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/science/skate-walking-fish-evolution.html

8 years ago

GitLab Pages Security Issue Notification

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/02/05/gitlab-pages-custom-domain-validation/

8 years ago

C++ implementation of the Jupyter kernel protocol

https://github.com/QuantStack/xeus

8 years ago

★ 959 C++ BSD-3-Clause

Adventures in Autorouting (2017)

https://wp.josh.com/2017/10/23/adventures-in-autorouting/

8 years ago

Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US

http://fox59.com/2018/02/08/san-francisco-to-open-nations-first-heroin-injection-sites/

8 years ago

Can Eurostar Compete with Airlines on Speed and Price?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/02/can-this-european-high-speed-train-compete-with-airlines/553061/

8 years ago

Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7wwtqy/apple_homepod_the_audiophile_perspective/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16357368

8 years ago