top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-20

Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

https://www.sublimemerge.com

8 years ago

People Like You More Than You Know

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/people-like-you-more-than-you-know/

8 years ago

On generative algorithms

https://inconvergent.net/generative/

8 years ago

The Making of Underrun – A WebGL Shooter in 13kb of JavaScript

https://phoboslab.org/log/2018/09/underrun-making-of

8 years ago

Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search

https://github.com/tensor8/hacking_slot_machines

8 years ago

Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/titans-of-mathematics-clash-over-epic-proof-of-abc-conjecture-20180920/

8 years ago

Becoming a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance

https://www.7pace.com/blog/become-a-better-programmer-skills-development

8 years ago

Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeEh5OUaDs

8 years ago

Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/alphabet-backs-gitlab-s-quest-to-surpass-microsoft-s-github

8 years ago

Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030355

8 years ago

Idle Until Urgent

https://philipwalton.com/articles/idle-until-urgent/

8 years ago

CLIP OS – France’s cybersecurity agency’s open source, secured operating system

https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/actualite/clip-os-open-source-secured-operating-system/

8 years ago

Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31600#note_96793407

8 years ago

New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45582610

8 years ago

Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations

http://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com/

8 years ago

Introducing the Librem Key

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-key/

8 years ago

We Now Know More About the Apparent Poisoning of the Pussy Riot Member

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/we-now-know-more-about-the-apparent-poisoning-of-the-pussy-riot-member-pyotr-verzilov/

8 years ago

Coursera Machine Learning MOOC by Andrew Ng – Python Programming Assignments

https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments

8 years ago

★ 5.5k Jupyter Notebook

Practical Deep Learning for Coders

http://course.fast.ai/

8 years ago

Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS

https://www.vapid.com

8 years ago

Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time Founders

https://medium.com/swlh/4-lessons-from-a-failed-startup-from-and-for-first-time-founders-c61913df3bb5

8 years ago

The Justice Dept's secret rules for targeting journalists with FISA court orders

https://freedom.press/news/revealed-justice-depts-secret-rules-targeting-journalists-fisa-court-orders/

8 years ago

558M-year-old fossils identified as oldest known animal

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/20/558m-year-old-fossils-identified-as-oldest-known-animal

8 years ago

Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]

https://sback.it/publications/icse2018seip.pdf

8 years ago

ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps

https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/

8 years ago

The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media

8 years ago

A Day in the Life of Americans

https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans/

8 years ago

Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/delta-to-start-scanning-faces-at-airport-check-in/

8 years ago

Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides

https://ipfs.io/ipns/Qmea45XwFtdwaCGAPLRMxFmoUP5YLnknc2WGCGQ3HnDP6f/post/dropbike/

8 years ago

Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/09/18/hands-on-with-linkerd-2.0/

8 years ago

A Ray-Box Intersection Algorithm and Efficient Dynamic Voxel Rendering

http://www.jcgt.org/published/0007/03/04/

8 years ago

Google’s revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/introducing-new-cloud-source-repositories

8 years ago

Xamarin Forms: it works

https://www.sharpnado.com/xamarin-forms-works/

8 years ago

Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-octopuses-mood-drug-ecstasy-reveal.html

8 years ago

China’s all-seeing surveillance network

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

8 years ago

Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi

https://www.mmtimes.com/news/ngar-min-swe-given-7-years-facebook-post.html

8 years ago

Carnegie Mellon Is Saving Old Software from Oblivion

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/carnegie-mellon-is-saving-old-software-from-oblivion

8 years ago

Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/

8 years ago

Flutter Release Preview 2

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/09/flutter-release-preview-2-pixel-perfect.html

8 years ago

The Private Blockchain Fallacy

https://berk.es/2018/09/19/the-private-blockchain-fallacy/

8 years ago

MariaDB acquires Clustrix

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/mariadb-acquires-clusterix/

8 years ago

How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html

8 years ago

A Breakthrough for U.S. Troops: Combat-Ready Pizza

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/army-pizza-mre-field-rations.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Solo, open source FIDO2 security key

https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo

8 years ago

★ 2.3k C

Early Decision

https://blog.ycombinator.com/early-decision/

8 years ago

Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/09/20/bitcoin-core-vulnerability-blockchain-ddos/

8 years ago

A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/a-new-antenna-using-single-atoms-could-usher-in-the-age-of-atomic-radio/

8 years ago

Steam Play Compatibility Reports

https://spcr.netlify.com/

8 years ago

Employers Choose Bonuses Over Raises

https://www.wsj.com/articles/benefit-gains-exceed-wage-growth-new-labor-data-shows-1537289455

8 years ago

China appears to be accelerating development of a super-heavy lift rocket

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/china-appears-to-be-accelerating-development-of-a-super-heavy-lift-rocket/

8 years ago

Meow Wolf’s Magic Kingdom

https://story.californiasunday.com/meow-wolf

8 years ago

Kidney Stones Are More Beautiful Than You Might Think

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/health/kidney-stones-geology.html

8 years ago

Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oaxacan-chile-pepper

8 years ago

GoPro Hero 7

https://shop.gopro.com/International/cameras/hero7-black/CHDHX-701-master.html

8 years ago

How to code a sine scroll on Amiga

http://www.stashofcode.com/how-to-code-a-sine-scroll-on-amiga-5/

8 years ago

A Soviet-era airport, once the height of luxury, faces demolition in Armenia

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6185497/Inside-Soviet-airport-height-luxury-faces-demolition-Armenia.html

8 years ago

Introducing Cloud Inference API

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-cloud-inference-api-uncover-insights-from-large-scale-typed-time-series-data

8 years ago

‘Robotic Skins’ turn everyday objects into robots

https://news.yale.edu/2018/09/19/robotic-skins-turn-everyday-objects-robots

8 years ago

After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside#

8 years ago

From Scratch: AI Balancing Act in 50 Lines of Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/from-scratch-ai-balancing-act-in-50-lines-of-python-7ea67ef717

8 years ago