top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-06-22

Twitter ‘smytes’ customers

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/

8 years ago

Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/605007387/supreme-court-rules-police-need-warrant-to-get-location-information-from-cell-to

8 years ago

Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-macbook-and-macbook-pro/

8 years ago

IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

https://irc.com

8 years ago

Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js

https://github.com/creativetimofficial/material-dashboard

8 years ago

★ 11.8k TypeScript MIT

Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts

8 years ago

One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-is-vanilla-grown

8 years ago

Personalisation Is Asymmetric Psychological Warfare

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/personalisation-is-asymmetric-psychological-warfare/

8 years ago

Gravity – An embeddable programming language

http://gravity-lang.org

8 years ago

Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-chips-theft.html

8 years ago

I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money

https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/how-do-celebrities-spend-their-money.html

8 years ago

Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition tech to law enforcement

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/393583-amazon-employees-protest-sale-of-facial-recognition-tech-to-law

8 years ago

Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05517-y

8 years ago

Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust

https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon

8 years ago

★ 3.3k Rust MIT

Performance patches in Go 1.11

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tpeJZFObkeick4CF-mx0L3CeCgvT15B96aJeRpxEPcE/edit?usp=sharing

8 years ago

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979) [audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI

8 years ago

Secrets of Resilience: Lessons from adults who overcame difficult childhoods

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secrets-of-resilience-1510329202

8 years ago

Break down of a C64 demo effect

http://nurpax.github.io/posts/2018-06-07-c64-filled-sinewave.html

8 years ago

How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/books/review/selfie-will-storr.html

8 years ago

Rust 2018: an early preview

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-2018-an-early-preview/7776

8 years ago

MtGox: Announcement of Commencement of Civil Rehabilitation Proceedings [pdf]

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20180622_announcement_en.pdf

8 years ago

Show HN: I trained a neural network to write Kanji

http://otoro.net/kanji-rnn

8 years ago

Techniques for vertical storytelling

https://www.webtoons.com/en/tiptoon/lozolz/webtoon-editing-tips/viewer?title_no=1268&episode_no=24

8 years ago

Sniper – An efficient multi-scale object detection algorithm

https://github.com/mahyarnajibi/SNIPER

8 years ago

★ 2.6k Python

YouTube introduces channel memberships, merchandise and premieres

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/youtube-introduces-channel-memberships-merchandise-and-premieres/

8 years ago

Understanding contravariance

https://typeclasses.com/contravariance

8 years ago

New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/us/politics/charges-cia-breach-vault-7.html

8 years ago

Arizona Uber crash driver was 'watching TV'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44574290

8 years ago

Using the Chrome OS Graphics Stack on Intel-Based Linux Desktops

https://01.org/blogs/joone/2018/using-chrome-os-graphics-stack-intel-based-linux-desktops

8 years ago

Seximal: A better way to count [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0

8 years ago

How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy

https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/how-to-use-slack-and-not-go-crazy/

8 years ago

Carlo Rovelli on the ‘greatest remaining mystery’: The nature of time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-physicist-explains-the-greatest-remaining-mystery-the-nature-of-time/2018/06/22/ff6f84ae-3840-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

8 years ago

Unequal Cofounders

http://blog.eladgil.com/2017/08/unequal-cofounders.html

8 years ago

America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/america-s-millennials-are-waking-up-to-a-grim-financial-future

8 years ago

Postmates Wins New York Ruling Finding Couriers Not Employees

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/postmates-wins-new-york-ruling-finding-couriers-not-employees

8 years ago

The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/562556/cleveland-balloonfest/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Neanderthal vs. ND4J – Native Performance, Java and CPU

https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/Neanderthal-vs-ND4J-vol1

8 years ago

On the Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3163781

8 years ago

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Muscles Way into $130M Military Contract

http://fortune.com/2018/06/22/spacex-falcon-heavy-military-launch-contract/

8 years ago

Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)

https://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt

8 years ago

Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back?

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/washington-post-twitter-apology.php

8 years ago

A Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/the-reputation-laundering-firm-that-ruined-its-own-reputation

8 years ago

The myth of revealed preference for suburbs

http://cityobservatory.org/the-myth-of-revealed-preference-for-suburbs/

8 years ago