top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-05-01

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/

8 years ago

You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?

https://twitter.com/rombulow/status/990684453734203392

8 years ago

Facebook announces Clear History feature

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104899855107881

8 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967543

8 years ago

Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video

https://snr.stanford.edu

8 years ago

Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635

8 years ago

C Is Not a Low-Level Language

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

8 years ago

Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/173476365679/medium-tries-to-prevent-people-reading-deleted

8 years ago

Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web

https://www.blog.google/topics/developers/introducing-app-more-secure-home-apps-web/

8 years ago

Facebook is launching a dating feature

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/facebook-is-launching-a-dating-app.html

8 years ago

TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

https://tic.computer/

8 years ago

I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

https://dogsnog.blog/2018/04/30/i-switched-from-iphone-to-android-1-week-report/

8 years ago

Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/01/606588504/americans-are-a-lonely-lot-and-young-people-bear-the-heaviest-burden

8 years ago

A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/

8 years ago

A puzzle that tiles infinitely across both sides, based on the Klein Bottle

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=7613

8 years ago

California Supreme Court Transforms the Test for Who Is an Employee

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/calif-supreme-court-changes-test-for-who-is-an-employee

8 years ago

YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-43956001

8 years ago

Oculus Go

https://www.oculus.com/go/

8 years ago

Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611012/computer-scientists-have-found-the-longest-straight-line-you-could-sail-without-hitting/

8 years ago

How to send local files to Chromecast with Python

https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html

8 years ago

The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control

http://www.interdb.jp/pg/pgsql05.html

8 years ago

Against Facebook

https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/

8 years ago

It’s COBOL all the way down

https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-way-down/

8 years ago

To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years

http://www.sfexaminer.com/solve-affordability-crisis-bay-area-housing-stock-must-grow-50-percent-20-years/

8 years ago

Painting made out of CSS rules

http://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-francine/

8 years ago

Linux RNG flaws

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1559

8 years ago

Towards λ-calculus

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=lambdacode_inside_min

8 years ago

Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-https/

8 years ago

Void Linux project leader has disappeared

https://www.voidlinux.eu/news/2018/05/serious-issues.html

8 years ago

Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0501-vs-vector-borne.html

8 years ago

The Story of ISPC: Intel SPMD Program Compiler

http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html

8 years ago

EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180501085140.htm

8 years ago

Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/

8 years ago

What's in those mysterious cabinets?

https://blog.plover.com/2018/05/01/#highway-stuff

8 years ago

KRust: A Formal Executable Semantics of Rust

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10806

8 years ago

Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web

https://bowild.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/rubys-rack-push-decoupling-the-real-time-web-application-from-the-web/

8 years ago

Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/kubernetes-state-of-stateful-apps/

8 years ago

Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects

https://blog.cmog.org/2018/04/25/photographing-glass-lighting-techniques-for-transparent-glass-objects/

8 years ago

Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/subway.html

8 years ago

Operator Framework: Building Apps on Kubernetes

https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operator-framework

8 years ago

2018 reform of EU data protection rules

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/justice-and-fundamental-rights/data-protection/2018-reform-eu-data-protection-rules_en

8 years ago

Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (1996)

http://discovermagazine.com/1996/apr/aninvisiblefire739

8 years ago

Customer takes Bell to court and wins

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-customer-wins-court-battle-over-contract-1.4635118

8 years ago

Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/particle-physics-resurrects-alexander-graham-bells-voice

8 years ago

Making art with SSH key randomart

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ssh-randomart-how-does-it-work-art

8 years ago

Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16970995

8 years ago

Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-digital-vigilantes-who-hack-back

8 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)

https://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html

8 years ago

Apple deleted a job listing that hints at plans to cut Qualcomm and Intel chips

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-deleted-job-listing-shows-plans-design-5g-modem-2018-4

8 years ago

PragProg removes access to forums due to SESTA

https://forums.pragprog.com/fosta-sesta

8 years ago

The Peter Principle Isn't Just Real, It's Costly

http://www.nber.org/digest/may18/w24343.shtml

8 years ago

Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967544

8 years ago