top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-15

DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js/

7 years ago

Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal

7 years ago

Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/world/europe/brexit-vote-theresa-may.html

7 years ago

35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp

https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt

7 years ago

Pink Trombone

https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

7 years ago

An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys

https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/

7 years ago

California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/science/monarch-butterfly-california.html

7 years ago

DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF

7 years ago

Security Checklist

https://securitycheckli.st/

7 years ago

President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill

https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/president-signs-government-wide-open-data-bill/

7 years ago

Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2019/1/14/pwn2own-vancouver-2019-tesla-vmware-microsoft-and-more

7 years ago

Show HN: Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language

https://web.archive.org/web/20190116003031/https://plainfreelancecontract.com/

7 years ago

Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30448878

7 years ago

Insect collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems

7 years ago

Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/ahead-of-ipo-airbnb-achieves-profitability-for-second-year-in-a-row/

7 years ago

China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526

7 years ago

Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer

https://github.com/foundationdb/fdb-record-layer

7 years ago

★ 662 Java Apache-2.0

EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can

7 years ago

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/

7 years ago

Field notes: London, England (2018)

https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-london-england

7 years ago

More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind

https://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/article/more-data-is-not-better-and-machine-learning-is-a-grind-just-ask-amazon

7 years ago

Some Lisp books (2012)

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/25/some-lisp-books-and-then-some/

7 years ago

Avoiding a transit of the United States

https://wikitravel.org/en/Avoiding_a_transit_of_the_United_States

7 years ago

Performance Tuning for .NET Core

https://reubenbond.github.io/posts/dotnet-perf-tuning

7 years ago

Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/smarter-living/train-your-brain-like-a-memory-champion.html

7 years ago

Xapiand: A fast, simple, modern search and storage engine

https://kronuz.io/Xapiand/

7 years ago

Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)

https://security.ias.edu/deep-packet-inspection-dead-and-heres-why

7 years ago

What software will you trust when you get senile?

https://www.lifepim.com/blog/5856_What_software_will_you_trust_when_you_get_senile

7 years ago

Bash scripting cheatsheet

https://devhints.io/bash

7 years ago

Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/776327/e0cf49b9b9976c5a/

7 years ago

U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/u-s-now-says-all-online-gambling-illegal-not-just-sports-bets

7 years ago

C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced

http://www.retro-commodore.eu/2019/01/15/c64-vic20-c128-psu-open-sourced/

7 years ago

Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/snap-cfo-tim-stone-is-resigning/

7 years ago

New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/a7bb4a16-c86b-4019-b3f9-b0d663b87d30/new-method-for-compressing-neural-networks-better-preserves-accuracy#

7 years ago

Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/canary-analysis-lessons-learned-and-best-practices-from-google-and-waze

7 years ago

On Infrastructure at Scale: A Cascading Failure of Distributed Systems

https://medium.com/@daniel.p.woods/on-infrastructure-at-scale-a-cascading-failure-of-distributed-systems-7cff2a3cd2df

7 years ago

Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News

https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/doing-more-to-support-local-news

7 years ago

Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming

https://icecast.org/

7 years ago

‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-review-the-new-big-brother-11547509779

7 years ago

Climate Concerns Are Pushing Oil Majors to Look Beyond Fossil Fuels

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-concerns-are-pushing-oil-majors-to-look-beyond-fossil-fuels/

7 years ago

Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter

https://unubo.com/views

7 years ago

A Founder's Farewell

https://urbit.org/posts/essays/a-founders-farewell/

7 years ago

OpenEdge – Extend cloud computing, data and service to edge devices

https://github.com/baidu/openedge

7 years ago

★ 1.9k Go Apache-2.0

Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF

https://www.selectsoftwarereviews.com/blog/2018/12/31/the-intrinsic-value-of-a-saas-business-a-20-year-dcf

7 years ago

Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (2014)

https://yashalevine.com/articles/tor-spooks

7 years ago

C++ : if constexpr isn't broken

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2019/01/15/if-constexpr-isnt-broken/

7 years ago