top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-06

Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410

8 years ago

1572 upvotes – 876 comments

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

8 years ago

788 upvotes – 115 comments

Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

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

8 years ago

717 upvotes – 51 comments

GIMP receives a $100K donation

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/08/30/handshake-gnome-donation/

8 years ago

631 upvotes – 301 comments

Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/06/whole-foods-workers-seek-to-unionize-says-amazon-is-exploiting-our-dedication/

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 391 comments

Python in Visual Studio Code

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/09/05/python-in-visual-studio-code-august-2018-release/

8 years ago

340 upvotes – 195 comments

Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/05/facebook-senate-hearing-sheryl-sandberg/

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 151 comments

Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-06/don-t-steal-money-from-day-traders-before-they-lose-it

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 249 comments

You can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html

8 years ago

292 upvotes – 107 comments

India court legalises gay sex in landmark ruling

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45429664

8 years ago

289 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: Py-spy – A new sampling profiler for Python programs

https://github.com/benfred/py-spy

8 years ago

★ 15.1k Rust MIT
286 upvotes – 43 comments

A rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery

https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-won-the-lottery-14-times

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 84 comments

Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be

http://tholman.com/smelvetica/

8 years ago

280 upvotes – 93 comments

Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives

http://adit.io/posts/2018-02-18-Introduction-To-Calculus-With-Derivatives.html

8 years ago

266 upvotes – 65 comments

Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/06/world/europe/genoa-italy-bridge.html

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 125 comments

The Servers Are Burning

https://logicmag.io/05-the-servers-are-burning/

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 154 comments

On Redis master-slave terminology

http://antirez.com/news/122

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 95 comments

PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/09/06/pagerduty-funding-billion-dollar-valuation/#68e79889411d

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 106 comments

The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses

https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 89 comments

Tor Browser 8.0 released

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 23 comments

British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3M award for pulsar work

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/06/jocelyn-bell-burnell-british-astrophysicist-overlooked-by-nobels-3m-award-pulsars

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files

https://bitmidi.com/

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 80 comments

Google can track surfing habits without need for HTTP cookies

https://youbroketheinternet.org/trackedanyway

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 63 comments

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 13 comments

WireMock

http://wiremock.org/

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/?no-ist

8 years ago

163 upvotes – 99 comments

Who Were the Mamluks?

https://www.historytoday.com/james-waterson/who-were-mamluks

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 116 comments

We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?

https://aeon.co/essays/its-hard-to-know-why-music-gives-pleasure-is-that-the-point

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 174 comments

How Spam Filtering Works: From SPF to DKIM to Blacklists

https://deliciousbrains.com/how-spam-filters-works/?__s=b7opgxc3bpupssi4tgau

8 years ago

143 upvotes – 64 comments

Making Music: When Simple Probabilities Outperform Deep Learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/making-music-when-simple-probabilities-outperform-deep-learning-75f4ee1b8e69?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWTJVNU1HUXdPVEJtWkdaaCIsInQiOiJSZ1lpUFE3bG94c3Z3Z3R4bExLdmNTaDlHTllCbGxPNG8yNXMrZ1NSZDZpcGNwNE8rU2tPcGJaUGFwQjlyVXRsSFZaSnBPWEE1NzJFU2xWNHZkZkhHd2J6YWp5d3pCXC9QMjd3Qzhsb0hmUHQzWjllVGxaQVFXcUFGYTRLWXoyaW4ifQ%3D%3D

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 44 comments

Brute Force Incognito Browsing

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/09/06/

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

A Long Peek into Reinforcement Learning

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2018/02/19/a-long-peek-into-reinforcement-learning.html

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 7 comments

What drives IPv6 deployment?

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2018-05/ipv6-2018.html

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 96 comments

New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, Automatic Dirt Disposal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/new-roomba-i7-features-persistent-maps-room-cleaning

8 years ago

132 upvotes – 116 comments

Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel [pdf]

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/fuzz-slides.pdf

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 4 comments

Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-jones-and-infowars/

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 135 comments

Why work has failed us: Because no one can afford to retire anymore

https://www.fastcompany.com/90227154/why-work-has-failed-us-because-no-one-can-afford-to-retire-anymore

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 140 comments

Groq, a Stealthy Startup Founded by Google’s TPU Team, Is Raising $60M

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/groq-a-stealthy-startup-founded-by-googles-tpu-team-is-raising-60m/

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Interactive Calculus via LaTeX

https://ximera.osu.edu/mooculus

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

How to make your first sales hire – a guide for SaaS startups

https://www.entrepidpartners.com/sales-hiring-guide

8 years ago

110 upvotes – 23 comments

Unpatched routers being used to build vast proxy army, spy on networks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/unpatched-routers-being-used-to-build-vast-proxy-army-spy-on-networks/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheryl-sandberg-leans-into-a-gale-of-bad-news-at-facebook-1536085230

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 86 comments

Paint.net 4.1 is now available

https://blog.getpaint.net/2018/09/05/paint-net-4-1-is-now-available/

8 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-large-solar-farms-sahara-vegetation.html

8 years ago

102 upvotes – 111 comments

REPL + Debugger = REPLugger: a pleasant and scalable live code editor

https://tinyletter.com/Flowsheets/letters/repl-debugger-replugger-a-pleasant-and-scalable-live-code-editor

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting

http://nautil.us/issue/64/the-unseen/the-ethics-of-consciousness-hunting

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Material Design 2.0 in React Native with React Native Paper

https://callstack.github.io/react-native-paper

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Lehigh research team to investigate a “Google for research data”

https://www.lehigh.edu/engineering/news/faculty/2018/20180820-davison-heflin-jia-dataset-search-engine-nsf-award.html

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

How to write a parser in Go

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-how-to-write-a-parser-in-go/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45434753

8 years ago

83 upvotes – 127 comments
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