top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-21

Programming Fonts – Test Drive

http://app.programmingfonts.org/

7 years ago

Bed that saved me from the Taliban

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-46882917

7 years ago

On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

https://www.gwern.net/zeo/CO2

7 years ago

Why does APT not use HTTPS?

https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/

7 years ago

H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it

7 years ago

Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961793

7 years ago

$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corporate-debt-risks-20190120-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

7 years ago

Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?

https://thinkfaster.co/2019/01/are-we-in-the-middle-of-a-giant-programming-bubble/

7 years ago

Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013)

http://bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

7 years ago

CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google

https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-financial-penalty-50-million-euros-against-google-llc

7 years ago

Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/letter-response-jan-17-article-new-york-times

7 years ago

Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/

7 years ago

If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/opinion/5g-cybersecurity-china.html

7 years ago

NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst

7 years ago

★ 31.9k Python

A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

https://thesystemsthinker.com/a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking/

7 years ago

Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/tech/billion-oyster-project/index.html

7 years ago

Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust

https://github.com/djc/quinn/releases/tag/0.2.0

7 years ago

★ 5k Rust Apache-2.0

Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems

https://genode.org/about/index

7 years ago

An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989)

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/an-introduction-to-ray-tracing-is-now-free-for-download/

7 years ago

Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop

https://www.didierboelens.com/2019/01/futures---isolates---event-loop/

7 years ago

Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human intelligence

https://www.grayscott.com/seriouswonder-//ray-kurzweil-ai-is-still-on-course-to-outpace-human-intelligence

7 years ago

John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html

7 years ago

Best Display for Programming? (2017)

https://hackernoon.com/the-best-display-for-programming-8aad0be4227d

7 years ago

We DMCA-ed our own game because it got hijacked by publisher

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/ai80zd/we_dmcaed_our_own_game_last_week_because_it_got/

7 years ago

Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me

https://ehudreiter.com/2019/01/21/google-lies-about-me/

7 years ago

Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1086000837615382529

7 years ago

When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFnV6EM-wzY

7 years ago

Binder – Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks

https://mybinder.org/

7 years ago

Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/climate/greenland-ice.html

7 years ago

Every new web app at PayPal starts with TypeScript

https://medium.com/paypal-engineering/why-every-new-web-app-at-paypal-starts-with-typescript-9d1acc07c839

7 years ago

JavaScript iterator patterns

https://loige.co/javascript-iterator-patterns

7 years ago

Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/hemingways-world-war-i-savior-is-anonymous-no-more/2019/01/18/d3dbbb32-0ea0-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html

7 years ago

Schumpeter on Strategy

http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

7 years ago

Insulin Wars: How insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors patients

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/opinion/cost-insurance-diabetes-insulin.html

7 years ago

Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-04/saudis-faces-cheap-oil-social-liberalization-climate-change

7 years ago

Volume Rendering with WebGL

https://www.willusher.io/webgl/2019/01/13/volume-rendering-with-webgl

7 years ago

World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report

7 years ago