top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-01

Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-worth-of-works-just-fell-into-the-public-domain/

7 years ago

Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/

7 years ago

New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/31/science/new-horizons-ultima-thule-flyby.html

7 years ago

Learning KVM – implement your own kernel

https://david942j.blogspot.com/2018/10/note-learning-kvm-implement-your-own.html

7 years ago

The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years

https://www.macworld.com/article/3327502/macs/mac-indy-apps-thrived-for-more-than-25-years.html

7 years ago

Pathfinding for Tower Defense

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/tower-defense/

7 years ago

Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/netflix-patriot-act-with-hasan-minhaj-saudi-arabia_us_5c2b8947e4b0407e9085ad5d?m=false&ec_carp=2448675307665736902

7 years ago

Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281628009_Flat_Design_vs_Traditional_Design_Comparative_Experimental_Study

7 years ago

Drawing is the best videogame

https://thecreativeindependent.com/weekends/drawing-is-the-best-videogame-by-jeffrey-alan-scudder

7 years ago

Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/why-we-sleep-and-why-we-often-cant

7 years ago

A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because of glaciers

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/12/part-earths-crust-went-missing-glaciers-may-be-why-geology/

7 years ago

Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and agent written in Go

https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin

7 years ago

★ 5.5k Go GPL-3.0

The Chinese scientist who allegedly created CRISPR babies is being detained

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/29/chinese-scientist-who-allegedly-created-the-first-genetically-engineered-babies-is-being-detained/

7 years ago

Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)

https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

7 years ago

The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/technology/artificial-intelligence-export-restrictions.html

7 years ago

It’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-oulipo-of-the-1980s-why-its-time-to-reappraise-the-humble-choose-your-own-adventure-book

7 years ago

Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You (2017)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-reports/

7 years ago

The Tsetlin Machine outperforms neural networks

https://cair.uia.no/milestones-and-discoveries/the-tsetlin-machine-outperforms-neural-networks/

7 years ago

A list of useful books for game AI programming (2014)

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/aibooks.html

7 years ago

Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page

https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-640-is-now-showing-a-bookingcom-ad-in-the-new-tab-page/

7 years ago