top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-21

Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/personaltech/firefox-chrome-browser-privacy.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

https://whydoiprocrastinate.com/

8 years ago

I discovered a browser bug

https://jakearchibald.com/2018/i-discovered-a-browser-bug/

8 years ago

States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/states-can-require-internet-tax-collection-supreme-court-rules-jiomtl5c

8 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.27

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/06/21/Rust-1.27.html

8 years ago

Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/technology/intel-ceo-resigns-consensual-relationship.html

8 years ago

AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neutrality Law

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180620/12174040079/att-successfully-derails-californias-tough-new-net-neutrality-law.shtml

8 years ago

Koko, a gorilla who could do sign language, has died at 46

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/21/famous-gorilla-koko-sign-language-died-age-46-7648488/

8 years ago

“It’s Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/06/19/forgive/

8 years ago

The most expensive four words in the English language: “This time is different”

https://blog.dshr.org/2018/06/the-four-most-expensive-words-in.html?

8 years ago

YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/?updated

8 years ago

Future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/campaigns/outrage/outrage-future-generations-will-laugh-in-horror-and-derision-at-the-folly-of-facadism/10026645.article

8 years ago

Nintendo and Microsoft team up to promote cross-play, while Sony remains silent

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17488530/nintendo-switch-microsoft-xbox-minecraft-cross-play-marketing-sony

8 years ago

Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/creator-hamburger-robot/

8 years ago

Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory

https://zenmagnets.com/public-releases/6-2018-6-years-of-battle-ends-in-victory/

8 years ago

Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d82991a8688ad128b46db1b42d5d84396487a508/kernel/rseq.c

8 years ago

★ 231k C

The US startup is disappearing

https://qz.com/1309824/the-us-startup-company-is-disappearing-and-thats-bad-for-the-economy/

8 years ago

Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of 8 TB NF1 SSDs with PCIe 4 Interface

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13003/samsung-kicks-off-mass-production-of-8-tb-nf1-ssds-with-pcie-4-interface

8 years ago

China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/china-just-handed-the-world-a-111-million-ton-trash-problem

8 years ago

V8 release v6.8

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/06/v8-release-68.html

8 years ago

Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca was unable to identify company owners

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44553932

8 years ago

Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it

https://nanxiao.me/en/learn-new-technology-through-writing-a-tutorial-about-it/

8 years ago

Ask HN: How can I become more eloquent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17363395

8 years ago

First physiological test for autism proves high accuracy in second trial

https://news.rpi.edu/content/2018/06/19/success-blood-test-autism-affirmed

8 years ago

Generalized data structure synthesis

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/21/generalized-data-structure-synthesis/

8 years ago

Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/21/621908340/researchers-find-herpes-viruses-in-brains-marked-by-alzheimers-disease

8 years ago

Is There a Smarter Path to Artificial Intelligence? Some Experts Hope So

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/deep-learning-artificial-intelligence.html

8 years ago

Elchemy – write type safe Elixir using Elm-like syntax

https://wende.github.io/elchemy/

8 years ago

Gracefully Scaling to 10k PostgreSQL Connections for $35/mo, Part Two

https://articles.fti.bi/postgres-10k-connections-factom-bitcoin-raffle

8 years ago

Atom 1.28

http://blog.atom.io/2018/06/21/atom-1-28.html

8 years ago

Electron 3.0.0-beta.1 – Chrome 66 and Node 10

https://electronjs.org/releases#3.0.0-beta.1

8 years ago

CS230: Deep Learning – Project Reports and Posters, Spring 2018

http://cs230.stanford.edu/proj-spring-2018.html

8 years ago

How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/06/23/how-to-stop-the-decline-of-public-transport-in-rich-countries

8 years ago

Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4182662-nvidia-appears-gpu-inventory-problem

8 years ago

How to Pay Remote Employees

https://www.fredperrotta.com/pay-remote-employees/

8 years ago

Tell HN: We're bringing back the “Work at a Startup” event on Saturday July 28

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367707

8 years ago

Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/line1-jumping-gene/563354/?single_page=true

8 years ago

The Meaninglessness of the Stock Market Index in a Digital World

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/the-meaningless-of-the-stock-market-index-in-a-digital-world/563345/

8 years ago

In a world of digital nomads, we will all be made homeless

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/digital-nomad-homeless-tech-work

8 years ago

Jsonnet – A data templating language

https://jsonnet.org/

8 years ago

Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/06/19/improved-javascript-webassembly-performance-edgehtml-17/

8 years ago

Reverse Shell from an OpenVPN Configuration File

https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/reverse-shell-from-an-openvpn-configuration-file-73fd8b1d38da

8 years ago

Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crystals in the Pancreas

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.8b00047

8 years ago

Putting the brakes on metastatic cancer

https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/news/2018/june/putting-the-brakes-on-metastatic-cancer

8 years ago

FPGAs in Data Centers

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3231573

8 years ago

Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364217

8 years ago

My Teenage Video Game Obsession Wasn't 'Gaming Disorder'

https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/20/who-formally-classifies-video-game-addic

8 years ago

You Can’t Hide from the Corporate Cops

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-21/you-can-t-hide-from-the-corporate-cops

8 years ago

Using Deep Learning to Help Pathologists Find Tumors

http://research.baidu.com/Blog/index-view?id=104

8 years ago

Tether releases law firm report attesting to $2.55 billion USD reserves

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-cryptocurrencies-tether/cryptocurrency-firm-tether-releases-law-firm-report-attesting-to-u-s-dollar-reserves-idUKKBN1JG1SB

8 years ago

A Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-quantum-computers-will-ever-be-able-to-solve-20180621/?href=

8 years ago

The Current State of Java Value Types

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/06/JavaValuesJun18

8 years ago

Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/exclusive-neanderthal-minibrains-grown-dish

8 years ago

Interplanetary telemetry compression

http://blog.klaehn.org/2018/06/10/efficient-telemetry-storage-on-ipfs/

8 years ago