top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-12-21

Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm628988.htm

7 years ago

AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-to-begin-upgrading-existing-lte-phones-to-5g-e

7 years ago

Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library

https://code.fb.com/ai-research/wav2letter/

7 years ago

Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discord-raises-150m-surpassing-2b-valuation/

7 years ago

Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/21/indian-government-to-intercept-monitor-and-decrypt-citizens-computers/

7 years ago

Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)

https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/

7 years ago

How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG

https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games

7 years ago

Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160882873380870

7 years ago

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python

http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html

7 years ago

Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqVNuYol6o

7 years ago

Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake

https://gizmodo.com/viral-video-of-glitter-bomb-for-package-thieves-exposed-1831254130

7 years ago

Evaluation of five password managers

https://medium.com/@QuantopianCyber/head-to-head-evaluation-of-five-password-managers-8faa4851c767

7 years ago

Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-work-fourdayweek/burnout-stress-lead-more-companies-to-try-a-four-day-work-week-idUSKBN1OG0GY

7 years ago

Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V

https://drewdevault.com/2018/12/20/Porting-Alpine-Linux-to-RISC-V.html

7 years ago

An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7994/an-amoeba-based-computer-calculated-approximate-solutions-to-a-very-hard-math-problem

7 years ago

At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-exposure/

7 years ago

Electron 4.0.0

https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-4-0

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to shadow a CEO?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733535

7 years ago

Advocating for privacy in Australia

https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabill-australia/

7 years ago

FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch

https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1OJ2WT

7 years ago