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

First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-fpi

8 years ago

Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chromebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944311

8 years ago

Build a better Bookshelf

https://huytd.github.io/build-a-better-bookshelf.html

8 years ago

A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/08/how-a-shampoo-bottle-is-saving-young-lives

8 years ago

Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber

http://chrishacken.com/starting-an-internet-service-provider-part-2-deploying-fiber/

8 years ago

D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs

https://github.com/erikbrinkman/d3-dag

8 years ago

★ 1.5k TypeScript MIT

Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud

https://github.com/KonstantinSchubert/zero

8 years ago

★ 773 Python

What Is Systems Programming, Really?

http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/

8 years ago

I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/survived-warsaw-ghetto-wartime-lessons-extremism-europe

8 years ago

Isochronous Curves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautochrone_curve

8 years ago

Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/09/645629133/infectious-theory-of-alzheimers-disease-draws-fresh-interest

8 years ago

Ask HN: How to transition from academic programming to software engineering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944306

8 years ago

Mistakes C/C++ Devs make writing Go

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-5-mistakes-c-c-devs-make-writing-go

8 years ago

Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/companies-worry-more-about-access-to-software-developers-than-capital.html

8 years ago

How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system

https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html

8 years ago

To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.html

8 years ago

NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/even-after-nsa-metadata-program-revised-kavanaugh-argued-in-favor-of-it/

8 years ago

The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pypy.html

8 years ago

Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal

https://github.com/p-gen/smenu

8 years ago

★ 2.4k C MPL-2.0

Clojure is cool

http://ahungry.com/blog/2018-09-09-Clojure-is-Cool.html

8 years ago

Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers

https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/77178

8 years ago

Mirror life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life

8 years ago

YouTube stars heading for burnout

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/youtube-stars-burnout-fun-bleak-stressed

8 years ago

Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show (1980) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365kJOsFd3w

8 years ago

A map showing the steepness of streets (2013)

http://www.tobyeglesfield.com/a-map-showing-the-steepness-of-streets/

8 years ago

Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history

https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/09/additional-mac-app-store-apps-caught-stealing-and-uploading-browser-history/

8 years ago

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)

https://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html

8 years ago

GNU nano 3.0 released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-nano/2018-09/msg00000.html

8 years ago

Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale

https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/going-fast-and-cheap-how-we-made-anna-autoscale/

8 years ago

Show HN: Prod – Blocks addictive websites until you've finished your to-do list

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prod-%E2%80%94-the-thoughtful-to/cpelgckpifnonijeenjbaglajimalpcl

8 years ago

EU copyright must protect access to knowledge and the commons

https://creativecommons.org/2018/09/07/its-now-or-never-eu-copyright-must-protect-access-to-knowledge-and-the-commons/

8 years ago

Reazon – miniKanren for Emacs

https://github.com/nickdrozd/reazon

8 years ago

★ 116 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0

Lisp for the Web (2008)

https://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm

8 years ago

UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/09/uk-worst-selling-map-empty-landscape-ordnance-survey-os440-glen-cassley

8 years ago

Entrepreneur raises millions of bugs to tackle food waste problem (2017)

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1066448.shtml

8 years ago

Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate ties in major journals

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/health/jose-baselga-cancer-memorial-sloan-kettering.html

8 years ago

Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2034230/

8 years ago

Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 2)

https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/what-goes-wrong-2.html

8 years ago