top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-19

B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens

http://b612-font.com

7 years ago

25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning

https://dev.to/dechamp/25-years-of-coding-and-im-just-beginning-442n

7 years ago

Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945658

7 years ago

EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190118/11062441423/eu-cancels-final-negotiations-eu-copyright-directive-as-it-becomes-clear-there-isnt-enough-support.shtml

7 years ago

Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2

http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt

7 years ago

MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced

https://www.midi.org/articles-old/the-midi-manufacturers-association-mma-and-the-association-of-music-electronics-industry-amei-announce-midi-2-0tm-prototyping

7 years ago

Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7X2LL/A/iphone-se-128gb-space-gray-unlocked

7 years ago

Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/influencing-mainstream-software-applying-programming-language-research-ideas-to-transform-spreadsheets/?OCID=msr_blog_PLspreadsheets_popl_highlights

7 years ago

Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/ibm_government_lying_claims/

7 years ago

I Nearly Lost All of My Data

https://kevq.uk/i-nearly-lost-all-of-my-data/

7 years ago

HandBrake 1.2.0 Released

https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=42

7 years ago

Who is horse_js?

https://whoishorsejs.com/

7 years ago

Vitamin B1 deficiency at the heart of an environmental mystery

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/42/10532

7 years ago

Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019

https://zendev.com/2019/01/15/frontend-development-topics-to-learn-in-2019.html

7 years ago

Zkeme80 – A Forth-Based OS for the TI-84+ Calculator

https://github.com/siraben/zkeme80

7 years ago

★ 250 Scheme MIT

Darkstar: A Xerox Star Emulator

https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/19/introducing-darkstar-a-xerox-star-emulator/

7 years ago

How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too

http://larrysanger.org/2019/01/how-and-why-i-transitioned-to-linux-how-you-can-too/

7 years ago

After 25 Years Studying Innovation, Here Is What I Have Learned

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/after-40-years-studying-innovation-here-what-i-have-christensen/

7 years ago

The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-18/europe-s-most-important-river-is-running-dry

7 years ago

Remotely compromise devices by using bugs in Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi

https://embedi.org/blog/remotely-compromise-devices-by-using-bugs-in-marvell-avastar-wi-fi-from-zero-knowledge-to-zero-click-rce/

7 years ago

Michael Dell Gets $12B Richer with Break from Public Eye

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/michael-dell-gets-12-billion-richer-with-break-from-public-eye

7 years ago

Hacking of artificial intelligence is an emerging security crisis

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-hacking-machine-learning-adversarial

7 years ago

GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]

https://octave.org/octave.pdf

7 years ago

Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/books/review/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism.html

7 years ago

I was mistaken for a call girl

https://drugstoreculture.com/the-night-i-was-mistaken-for-a-call-girl/

7 years ago

NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moon Titan

https://www.space.com/43010-dragonfly-mission-would-put-a-drone-on-titan.html

7 years ago

MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming

https://makecode.com/blog/arcade/01-18-2019

7 years ago

Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/pixelbook-and-nami-chromebooks-the-first-to-get-linux-gpu-acceleration-in-project-crostini/

7 years ago

Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from articles

https://www.bu.edu/research/articles/native-advertising-in-fake-news-era/

7 years ago

People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-account-rental-ad-laundering-scam

7 years ago

Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go

https://taskfile.org/

7 years ago

Show HN: C++ Editor for Teaching How to Code

http://emun.ro/workspace

7 years ago

OCaml bindings for PyTorch

https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch

7 years ago

★ 442 OCaml Apache-2.0

Windows 10 refutes the idea that the Linux kernel is what defines GNU/Linux

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1086495599782969344

7 years ago

Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18948427

7 years ago

Purism announces PureOS Store

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announces-pureos-store/

7 years ago

A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/12/popl19-vale.pdf

7 years ago

Open-sourcing bioinstruments

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/open-sourcing-bioinstruments/

7 years ago

VLC developers refuse to consider updates over HTTPS

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21737

7 years ago

Learn about Neural Networks and Backpropagation

https://towardsdatascience.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-neural-networks-and-backpropagation-machine-learning-made-easy-e5285bc2be3a

7 years ago

Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn

7 years ago

Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015)

https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/

7 years ago

Show HN: Pipelines – Language for scripting parrallel pipelines with Python

https://github.com/calebwin/pipelines

7 years ago

★ 374 Nim MIT