top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-07-28

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know

8 years ago

iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Metal-Renderer

8 years ago

If you put chalk under a powerful microscope

https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1022534132415356928

8 years ago

Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code

https://sonic-pi.net/

8 years ago

Keep a Changelog

https://keepachangelog.com

8 years ago

Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world

http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/this-man-says-the-mind-has-no-depths

8 years ago

Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them

https://citizen428.net/10-common-git-problems-and-how-to-fix-them-e8d809299f08

8 years ago

Administrative Purgatory

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/07/28/administrative-purgatory/

8 years ago

The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere

https://quartzy.qz.com/1342058/the-most-relaxing-vacation-you-can-take-is-going-nowhere-at-all/

8 years ago

A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]

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

8 years ago

Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/

8 years ago

Secure Boot and the 2018 MacBook Pro

http://michaellynn.github.io/2018/07/27/booting-secure/

8 years ago

Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dads-pass-more-genetics-their-sperm-180969760/?no-ist

8 years ago

Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/jedi-10-billion-department-of-defense-bidding/

8 years ago

Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/microfilm-lasts-half-a-millennium/565643/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-uk-police-london-trial-data-human-rights-legal-action-met-a8466876.html

8 years ago

MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

https://www.maptiler.com

8 years ago

The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

http://secretlifeofsynthesizers.com/the-strange-heart-of-the-roland-tr-808/

8 years ago

An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014)

http://blog.systemed.net/post/10

8 years ago

Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion

https://pldi18.sigplan.org/event/pldi-2018-papers-ry-fast-float-to-string-conversion

8 years ago

Collection of quotes on interesting notations and how they affect thought

https://github.com/hypotext/notation

8 years ago

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WebReplay – Time Travel Debugging for Firefox

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay

8 years ago

A MeToo Reckoning in China’s Workplace Amid Wave of Accusations

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/world/asia/china-metoo.html

8 years ago

‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong

8 years ago

The death of Don Draper?

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2018/07/death-don-draper

8 years ago

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed

8 years ago

Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011)

https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2011/03/tuple-spaces-or-good-ideas-dont-always-win.html

8 years ago

The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

8 years ago

Vulnerability in Hangouts Chat: how Electron makes open redirect great again

https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/07/vulnerability-in-hangouts-chat-aka-how.html

8 years ago

QuickMockup

https://jdittrich.github.io/quickMockup/

8 years ago

Replacing Linux with a Database System

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/23/replacing-linux-with-a-database-system/

8 years ago

How Sellers Trick Amazon to Boost Sales

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sellers-trick-amazon-to-boost-sales-1532750493

8 years ago

Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/the-instagram-forums-where-teens-go-to-debate-big-issues/566153/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Does Software Understand Complexity?

https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/does-software-understand-complexity

8 years ago

A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html

8 years ago

My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (2014)

https://www.parallella.org/2014/06/03/my-name-is-brian-and-i-build-supercomputers-in-my-spare-time/

8 years ago

A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells

https://gizmodo.com/the-scutoid-is-geometrys-newest-shape-and-it-could-be-1827924643

8 years ago

2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey [pdf]

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/About-Deloitte/gx-2018-millennial-survey-report.pdf

8 years ago