top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-24

Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574

8 years ago

Anatomy of a Killing

https://twitter.com/bbcafrica/status/1044186344153583616

8 years ago

Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-case-study-on-the-example-of-chrome-browser-change/

8 years ago

Self-solving Rubik's Cube

https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/

8 years ago

Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1044265646739996673

8 years ago

Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/194353/police-forcing-me-to-install-jingwang-spyware-app-how-to-minimize-impact

8 years ago

Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

https://blog.ideasynthesis.com/2018/09/24/Disable-Google-Chrome-Sign-In-and-Sync/

8 years ago

Killing processes that don't want to die

https://lwn.net/Articles/754980/

8 years ago

YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features

https://www.yubico.com/2018/09/introducing-the-yubikey-5-series-with-new-nfc-and-fido2-passwordless-features/

8 years ago

If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq5EQBFLEC8

8 years ago

Police that collect more in fees and fines are less effective at solving crime

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/09/24/want-your-police-department-to-collect-more-fines-it-will-solve-fewer-crimes/

8 years ago

Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA and compression

https://github.com/brannondorsey/chattervox

8 years ago

★ 778 TypeScript

Myst at 25: How it changed gaming, created addicts, and made enemies

https://www.fastcompany.com/90240345/myst-at-25-how-it-changed-gaming-created-addicts-and-made-enemies

8 years ago

Australia pushes for spyware on phones

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/companies/spyware-on-phone-fears-as-dutton-pushes-new-security-laws-20180924-p505oc.html

8 years ago

MacOS 10.14 Mojave Reviewed

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1334615

8 years ago

How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013)

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/195.php

8 years ago

Nerve implant 'restores consciousness' to man in vegetative state (2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/25/nerve-implant-restores-consciousness-to-man-in-vegetative-state

8 years ago

When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?

https://daily.jstor.org/when-do-we-have-empathy-for-the-mentally-ill/

8 years ago

SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/9/24/17895332/siriusxm-pandora-acquisition-music-streaming

8 years ago

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/

8 years ago

Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Severance

https://kotaku.com/telltale-employees-left-stunned-by-company-closure-no-1829272139

8 years ago

Eagle.js: A hackable slideshow framework built with Vue.js

https://github.com/zulko/eagle.js/

8 years ago

★ 4k JavaScript ISC

Creating a bash completion script

https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-completion-tutorial

8 years ago

Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”

https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/

8 years ago

App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes

http://www.eod.com/blog/2018/09/rejected/

8 years ago

Show HN: Podflix – Like Netflix for Podcasts

https://podflix.app

8 years ago

How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (2015)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/upshot/how-some-men-fake-an-80-hour-workweek-and-why-it-matters.html

8 years ago

PostGIS 2.5.0 released

http://postgis.net/2018/09/23/postgis-2.5.0/

8 years ago

SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora

http://blog.pandora.com/us/siriusxm-to-acquire-pandora-creating-worlds-largest-audio-entertainment-company/

8 years ago

The Sound of Pixels

http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/

8 years ago

Linux – The beginning of the end?

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-beginning-of-the-end.html

8 years ago

Dmesg under the hood

https://ops.tips/blog/dmesg-under-the-hood/

8 years ago

Pypeline: A Python library for creating concurrent data pipelines

https://github.com/cgarciae/pypeln

8 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT

Mr. Rogers vs. the Superheroes

https://longreads.com/2018/09/19/mr-rogers-vs-the-superheroes/

8 years ago

Crafting Interpreters: Strings

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/strings.html

8 years ago

Slack Acquires Astro

https://slackhq.com/slack-acquires-astro-to-help-email-and-channels-work-together

8 years ago

On Go, Portability, and System Interfaces (2015)

http://garrett.damore.org/2015/09/on-go-portability-and-system-interfaces.html?m=1

8 years ago

“The Riemann Hypothesis” by Michael Atiyah – Preprint

https://www.cnbeta.com/articles/tech/771037.htm

8 years ago

ITER Tokamak: First Plasma Through High-Fusion-Gain Deuterium-Tritium Operation

https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3121

8 years ago

Show HN: Mastering Modular JavaScript

https://github.com/mjavascript/mastering-modular-javascript

8 years ago

★ 3.9k HTML

Neuromodulation of spinal networks enables stepping after complete paraplegia

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0175-7

8 years ago

IRS: Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage [pdf]

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2018reports/201820065fr.pdf

8 years ago

Android Studio 3.2

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/09/android-studio-32.html

8 years ago

On holy wars, and a plea for peace

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/23/212

8 years ago