top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-08-20

Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910

8 years ago

★ 4.5k Markdown Apache-2.0

Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff

https://github.com/sinclairtarget/um

8 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby MIT

Minecraft Global Warming

https://github.com/nsporillo/GlobalWarming

8 years ago

★ 471 Java LGPL-3.0

Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/20/636845604/beer-drinking-water-and-fish-tiny-plastic-is-everywhere

8 years ago

Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features

8 years ago

Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/telling-truth-about-defects-technology-should-never-ever-ever-be-illegal-ever

8 years ago

What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?

https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html

8 years ago

Bing.com now runs on .NET Core

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/20/bing-com-runs-on-net-core-2-1/

8 years ago

Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace

https://litepaper.com/resources/intro-to-augur

8 years ago

More Americans report near-constant cannabis use

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/americas-invisible-pot-addicts/567886/?single_page=true

8 years ago

New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/time-change-story

8 years ago

Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies

https://backyourstack.com/

8 years ago

Just Read the Book Already

https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/reader-come-home-by-maryanne-wolf-reviewed.html

8 years ago

Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time

https://flatpak.org/press/2018-08-20-flatpak-1.0/

8 years ago

Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be

8 years ago

A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned

https://theoutline.com/post/5807/the-million-dollar-brownstone-that-no-one-owned

8 years ago

Huawei Caught Faking Smartphone Photo with a DSLR

https://petapixel.com/2018/08/20/huawei-caught-faking-smartphone-photos-with-a-dslr-again/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805256

8 years ago

Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/cisco-cited-for-bias-against-us-workers

8 years ago

Intel firmware now unredistributable by OS vendors

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906158

8 years ago

Parallel Programming with Python

https://chryswoods.com/parallel_python/index.html

8 years ago

Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804371

8 years ago

OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress

https://openai.com/five/

8 years ago

Why HP Fell

https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-2-why-hp-fell-621c42238479

8 years ago

Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?

http://cloudingmine.com/idempotence-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-care/

8 years ago

SEC Charges Rothenberg Ventures in Fraudulent Scheme

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-160

8 years ago

Malaysia Resists China’s Investments, Fearing ‘Colonialism’

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/world/asia/china-malaysia.html

8 years ago

The Billionaires and The Guru: How an Indian Family Burned Through $2B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-16/billionaires-and-the-guru-how-an-indian-family-lost-2-billion

8 years ago

Go Memory Management

https://povilasv.me/go-memory-management/

8 years ago

In horrific detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-customs-officers-invasive-body-searches-20180819-story.html

8 years ago

Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/regreening-niger-how-magical-gaos-transformed-land

8 years ago

Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45247499

8 years ago

Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-brain.html

8 years ago

Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/apple-is-said-to-plan-revamped-low-cost-macs-to-reignite-sales

8 years ago

Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/08/liftoff.html

8 years ago

Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/did-google-violate-users-privacy-when-it-secretly-kept-location-data/

8 years ago

Venezuela devalues the bolivar by 95% and pegs it to ‘oil-linked’ cryptocurrency

https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-devalues-bolivar-and-pegs-it-to-cryptocurrency-2018-8

8 years ago

OpenStreetMap for the dyslexic

http://www.osm4dys.org/

8 years ago

Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked

https://www.fastcompany.com/90219582/this-company-hired-anyone-who-applied-now-its-starting-a-movement

8 years ago

After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/after-60-years-i-95-is-complete

8 years ago

Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved

http://investvine.com/vietnam-going-solar-nuclear-power-plants-shelved/

8 years ago

Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/technology/uber-self-driving-cars.html

8 years ago

Who needs democracy when you have data?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democracy-when-you-have-data/

8 years ago

Ask HN: Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17800321

8 years ago

'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Coerced-into-tipping-How-apps-are-changing-the-13164536.php

8 years ago

Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office politics

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/18/distributed-teams-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-officeless-politics/

8 years ago

Things People Eventually Learn About JavaScript Projects

https://blog.usejournal.com/10-things-you-will-eventually-learn-about-javascript-projects-efd7646b958a

8 years ago

Apple Pulls Gambling Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-pulls-25-000-apps-from-china-app-store-following-state-media-criticism-1534731049

8 years ago

PepsiCo Is Acquiring SodaStream for $3.2B

http://fortune.com/2018/08/20/pepsico-sodastream-acquisition/

8 years ago

20 Questions: A Strategy Guide (2010)

https://zephauerbach.com/2010/12/28/20-questions-a-strategy-guide/

8 years ago

Most Americans Continue to Have Privacy and Security Concerns, Survey Finds

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2018/most-americans-continue-have-privacy-and-security-concerns-ntia-survey-finds

8 years ago