top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-17

Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over

https://newsroom.mastercard.com/2019/01/16/free-trials-without-the-hassle/

7 years ago

Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals

https://github.com/schollz/howmanypeoplearearound

7 years ago

★ 7k Python MIT

Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool

https://dbeaver.io/

7 years ago

Rust 1.32 released

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html

7 years ago

Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

https://medium.com/s/story/nothing-can-stop-google-duckduckgo-is-trying-anyway-718eb7391423

7 years ago

DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains

https://dnsflagday.net

7 years ago

Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/technology/microsoft-affordable-housing-seattle.html

7 years ago

The creeping IT apocalypse

https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/01/16/cloud-irregular-the-creeping-it-apocalypse/

7 years ago

Let’s talk about open-source sustainability

https://github.blog/2019-01-17-lets-talk-about-open-source-sustainability

7 years ago

Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email

https://blog.chaddickerson.com/2019/01/09/replacing-facebook/

7 years ago

HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL

https://www.heidisql.com/

7 years ago

Professional programming resources

https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming

7 years ago

★ 50.7k Python MIT

Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-is-buying-fossils-smartwatch-tech-for-40-million/

7 years ago

Federal HTTPS domains that'll expire soon because of US government shutdown

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/federal-https-domains-expire-government-shutdown/

7 years ago

Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/lego-collecting-delivers-huge-and-uncorrelated-market-returns

7 years ago

ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/01/17/scylla-open-source-3-0-overview/

7 years ago

Screen time: how much is too much?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00137-6

7 years ago

Hiring Is Broken

https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-broken-bb8f3a48d324

7 years ago

Adding new DNA letters makes novel proteins possible

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/19/adding-new-dna-letters-make-novel-proteins-possible

7 years ago

Preparing for Prison (2016)

https://prisonuk.blogspot.com/2016/03/preparing-for-prison.html

7 years ago

Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming

https://www.raylib.com/

7 years ago

AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/17/amd-versus-nvidia-radeon-vii-7-nanometer/

7 years ago

A bot for Starcraft in Rust, C or any other language

https://habr.com/en/post/436254/

7 years ago

What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?

https://daily.jstor.org/whats-causing-the-rise-of-hoarding-disorder/

7 years ago

Ask HN: IT Directors and VP's – how do you manage your time and projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18931641

7 years ago

Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS

https://libspectrum.io

7 years ago

Oklahoma Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/rsync-oklahoma-securities-commission

7 years ago

Show HN: Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/tree/master/community/tools/json2graphql

7 years ago

★ 31.9k TypeScript Apache-2.0

How to write a rootkit without really trying

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/01/17/how-to-write-a-rootkit-without-really-trying/

7 years ago

TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/01/17/tsa-says-financial-stress-shutdown-is-forcing-growing-number-officers-stay-home/

7 years ago

Roger McNamee is really sad about Facebook

http://time.com/5505441/mark-zuckerberg-mentor-facebook-downfall/

7 years ago

True Story of the 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America

https://www.businessinsider.com/japans-eighties-america-buying-spree-2014-9#so-in-september-1985-the-g-5-countries-signed-the-plaza-accord-the-non-american-ones-pledged-more-liberal-trade-policies-to-try-to-close-it-7

7 years ago

Zero to $1B: Lessons Scaling a Startup

https://medium.com/@swaaanson/zero-to-1b-8-lessons-scaling-a-startup-f9a4b631de61

7 years ago

A new free-software forge: sr.ht

https://lwn.net/Articles/775963/

7 years ago

FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/fbi-can-neither-confirm-nor-deny-it-monitors-your-social-media

7 years ago

UN General Assembly adopts record number of resolutions on internet governance

https://www.apc.org/en/node/35253

7 years ago

Facebook manager quit after being 'harassed' over views on diversity

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/17/facebook-manager-quits-after-being-harassed-over-views-on-diversity.html

7 years ago

The War to Sell Mattresses Is an Internet Nightmare (2017)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars

7 years ago

Strangeness of Black Holes

http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/the-strangeness-of-black-holes

7 years ago

Coinbase Acqui-Hires Blockspring

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/coinbase-acquihires-san-francisco-startup-blockspring/

7 years ago

Show HN: Shots AI – Turn designs into code with one click

https://www.shots.ai

7 years ago

Exploiting Chrome V8: Krautflare

https://www.jaybosamiya.com/blog/2019/01/02/krautflare/

7 years ago