top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-19

Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

https://simpleanalytics.io

8 years ago

Build Impossible Programs

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/18/build-impossible-programs/

8 years ago

Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18021782

8 years ago

Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/a-public-relations-nightmare-ticketmaster-recruits-pros-for-secret-scalper-program-1.4828535

8 years ago

How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial

https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial

8 years ago

★ 30.3k C BSD-3-Clause

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?

https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

8 years ago

iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52390368/array-state-will-be-cached-in-ios-12-safari-is-bug-or-feature/52392901

8 years ago

GitLab raises $100M from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1B valuation

https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/19/gitlab-raises-100-million-from-iconiq-gv-and-khosla-at-1-1-billion-valuation/

8 years ago

Javascript: call functions without using parentheses

https://michelenasti.com/2018/09/19/Javascript-chiamare-funzioni-senza-usare-parentesi-(what!).html

8 years ago

Putting This Blog on IPFS

https://ipfs.io/ipns/Qme48wyZ7LaF9gC5693DZyJBtehgaFhaKycESroemD5fNX/post/putting_this_blog_on_ipfs/

8 years ago

Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)

https://a16z.com/2014/02/06/why-i-did-not-go-to-jail/

8 years ago

LLVM 7.0.0 released

http://releases.llvm.org/7.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

8 years ago

How the octopus got its smarts

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/how-the-octopus-got-its-smarts

8 years ago

Next.js 7

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-7

8 years ago

How to Tell Us a Secret

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/reader-center/confidential-tip-line.html

8 years ago

Mics that record in 3D ambisonics are the next big thing

http://cdm.link/2018/09/3d-ambisonic-microphones/

8 years ago

Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/senate-passes-copyright-bill-to-end-140-year-protection-for-old-songs/

8 years ago

Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3062910/lenovo-companies-working-in-china-may-have-to-install-local-backdoors

8 years ago

FanDuel not honoring bet that would have paid over $82,000 due to line error

http://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/24726426/fanduel-not-honoring-bet-paid-more-82000-due-line-error

8 years ago

Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support (2014)

https://arjunsreedharan.org/post/99370248137/kernel-201-lets-write-a-kernel-with-keyboard

8 years ago

Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/quantum-observers-with-knowledge-of-quantum-mechanics-break-reality/

8 years ago

A Cat Meme Photographer from a Century Ago

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/09/10/culture/art/cat-meme-photographer-century-ago.html

8 years ago

Pause/unpause any X11 application

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/freebsd-desktop-part-16-configuration-pause-any-application/

8 years ago

The Kit Programming Language

https://www.kitlang.org/

8 years ago

Briar and Bramble: A Vision for Decentralized Infrastructure

https://dymaxion.org/essays/briarvision.html

8 years ago

Want more policies based on evidence?

http://review.chicagobooth.edu/accounting/2018/article/want-more-policies-based-evidence

8 years ago

Constraint Solver (2015)

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/constraints/

8 years ago

First release candidate for TimescaleDB 1.0

https://blog.timescale.com/announcing-1-0-enterprise-ready-time-series-database-sql-open-source-400b4342dfa0

8 years ago

Windows file may be storing passwords and emails

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-file-may-be-secretly-hoarding-your-passwords-and-emails/#

8 years ago

Protecting user identity against Silhouette

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2018/twitter_silhouette.html

8 years ago

Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/08/linknyc-free-wifi-kiosks/

8 years ago

Death by Database

https://ovid.github.io/articles/death-by-database.html

8 years ago

RPKI – The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing

https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/

8 years ago

JavaFX 11 is released

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2018-September/022475.html

8 years ago

A Machine Learning cheatsheet focusing on the most popular algorithms

https://github.com/remicnrd/ml_cheatsheet

8 years ago

★ 1.4k

Ranch Nation

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/dining/ranch-dressing-history.html

8 years ago

CrimsonDB: A Self-Designing Key-Value Store

http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/projects/crimsondb/

8 years ago

China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4B citizens

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278

8 years ago

Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg

https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-newegg/

8 years ago

Privateer Holdings Hits the Jackpot with $12B Tilray Stake

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/thiel-backed-fund-hits-jackpot-with-12-billion-tilray-stake

8 years ago

Sourcegraph Master Plan

https://about.sourcegraph.com/plan

8 years ago

You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C (2016)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/05/30/

8 years ago

Alane: Using Aluminum Hydride as Fuel

http://ardica.com/fuel/

8 years ago