top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-20

The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

8 years ago

PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding

https://quariety.com/2018/07/20/peertube-the-decentralized-youtube-succeeds-in-crowdfunding/

8 years ago

The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720

8 years ago

Kanban for E-Mail

https://kanbanmail.app/

8 years ago

Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/upshot/nike-vaporfly-shoe-strava.html

8 years ago

Public.resource.org wins appeal on right to publish the law [pdf]

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/533D47AF883C8194852582CD0052B8D4/$file/17-7035.pdf

8 years ago

Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network

https://opnsec.com/2018/07/into-the-borg-ssrf-inside-google-production-network/

8 years ago

Classic Algorithms Implemented in JavaScript

https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms/blob/master/README.md

8 years ago

★ 195.8k JavaScript MIT

Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_woodworking_riving.htm

8 years ago

What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?

https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/what-tech-should-you-use-in-2018

8 years ago

A used voting machine from the 2016 election

https://twitter.com/AltUSPressSec/status/1019955719964160006

8 years ago

The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2018/07/20/wasm-future.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have

https://multinational.io/

8 years ago

Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/red-shell-game-tracking-gdpr

8 years ago

Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach

http://www.erica.biz/2018/cockroach/

8 years ago

Introducing the Python Language Server

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/07/18/introducing-the-python-language-server/

8 years ago

Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/advanced-cars/darpa-vehicle-technologies

8 years ago

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf

8 years ago

Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/20/waymos-autonomous-vehicles-are-driving-25000-miles-every-day/

8 years ago

Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmkdd/counterfeit-iphone-x-review-and-teardown

8 years ago

Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/darpa-wants-your-insect-scale-robots-for-a-micro-olympics

8 years ago

YC Startup School Library

https://www.startupschool.org/library

8 years ago

The Data Transfer Project

https://datatransferproject.dev/

8 years ago

A Mansion Filled with Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young

https://undark.org/article/wilo-evans-broad-band/

8 years ago

Where the Super-Rich Go to Buy Their Second Passport

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-buying-citizenship/

8 years ago

Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/07/20/civilization-vi-removes-red-shell/

8 years ago

Egypt sarcophagus: Mystery black tomb opened in Alexandria

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44893804

8 years ago

Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY labor board says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/uber-drivers-employees-for-unemployment-purposes-ny-labor-board-says/

8 years ago

Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/urine-not-chlorine-causes-red-eyes-pools-180955712/?no-ist

8 years ago

Command-line apps with Clojure and GraalVM: 300x better startup times

https://www.astrecipes.net/blog/2018/07/20/cmd-line-apps-with-clojure-and-graalvm/

8 years ago

Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/golang-announce/RVR0FzIKBsU/PAxl4-ZVCAAJ

8 years ago

Tariffs China imposes on every country

http://thesoundingline.com/the-tariffs-china-actually-imposes-on-every-country-including-the-us/

8 years ago

Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborations

https://code.fb.com/ai-research/facebook-ai-research-expands-with-new-academic-collaborations/

8 years ago

We need a new model for tech journalism

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/tech-journalism.php

8 years ago

As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/as-the-spacex-steamroller-surges-european-rocket-industry-vows-to-resist/

8 years ago

A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/tiny-village-in-vermont-was-the-perfect-spot-hide-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn

8 years ago

A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

https://blog.cotten.io/bitcoin-money-laundering-and-muellers-12-e2fa91097e12

8 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.27.2

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/20/Rust-1.27.2.html

8 years ago

New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/diagnostics/new-wearable-sensor-detects-stress-hormone-in-sweat

8 years ago

A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/

8 years ago

Open plan offices don’t live up to the hype, finds Harvard Business School study

https://www.fastcompany.com/90204593/heres-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-open-plan-offices

8 years ago

The sad state of RSS on the Mac

https://blog.notmyhostna.me/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac/

8 years ago

Netflix Makes a Statement in India with “Sacred Games”

https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/07/19/netflix-makes-a-statement-in-india-with-sacred-games

8 years ago

Apple fans returning new MacBook Pros with Core i9

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-fans-returning-macbook-pros-154205304.html

8 years ago

A Trillion Worlds

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-trillion-worlds/

8 years ago

Singapore personal data hack hits 1.5m

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44900507

8 years ago

Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/are-things-getting-better-or-worse

8 years ago

Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses

http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/

8 years ago

A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workweek-new-zealand.html

8 years ago

The Healing Buzz of “Drunk History”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/the-healing-buzz-of-drunk-history

8 years ago

Getting Started with DNS over HTTPS on Firefox

https://medium.com/@nykolas.z/getting-started-with-dns-over-https-on-firefox-e9b5fc865a43

8 years ago

Interview with Patrick Collison

http://growth.eladgil.com/book/chapter-5-organizational-structure-and-hypergrowth/you-cant-delegate-culture-an-interview-with-patrick-collison/

8 years ago

DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and confuse their customers

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-alternatives-privacy-duckduckgo-search-engine-browser-chrome-eu-fine-a8455321.html

8 years ago

How much does Netflix spend on Amazon AWS?

https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Netflix-spend-on-Amazon-AWS?share=1

8 years ago

No Man’s Sky developer Sean Murray: ‘It was as bad as things can get’

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/20/no-mans-sky-next-hello-games-sean-murray-harassment-interview

8 years ago

Ask HN: What should I do to prepare for a meeting about my annual raise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17576382

8 years ago

Shocks to military support and subsequent assassinations in Ancient Rome

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176518302532

8 years ago

DNS Zombies (2016)

https://blog.apnic.net/2016/04/04/dns-zombies/

8 years ago

Show HN: Musoq – Use SQL on various data sources

https://github.com/Puchaczov/Musoq

8 years ago

★ 503 C# MIT

Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API

https://amatino.io/

8 years ago

What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/technology/facebook-misinformation.html

8 years ago