top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-28

FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/

7 years ago

A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet

https://blog.ycombinator.com/a-standard-and-clean-series-a-term-sheet/

7 years ago

Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016569

7 years ago

Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19021719

7 years ago

The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/01/25/

7 years ago

Show HN: X-spreadsheet – A JavaScript canvas spreadsheet for web

https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet

7 years ago

★ 14.6k JavaScript MIT

Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/dropbox-snares-hellosign-for-230m-gets-workflow-and-esignature/

7 years ago

Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging

https://os.phil-opp.com/advanced-paging/

7 years ago

U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-28/u-s-planning-to-announce-criminal-charges-related-to-huawei-jrgrda0q

7 years ago

64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-january-27-2019-1.4989313/64-and-unemployed-one-man-s-struggle-to-be-taken-seriously-as-a-job-applicant-1.4991626

7 years ago

The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/04/the-personal-toll-of-whistle-blowing

7 years ago

C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival

https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/01/27/modules-doa.html

7 years ago

Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient

https://fs.blog/2019/01/getting-ahead-inefficient/

7 years ago

I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018)

https://labs.detectify.com/2018/01/12/how-i-exploited-acme-tls-sni-01-issuing-lets-encrypt-ssl-certs-for-any-domain-using-shared-hosting/

7 years ago

Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk

https://blog.tindie.com/2019/01/megadesk-controller-ikea-bekant-standing-desk/

7 years ago

Foxconn Expands Operations in India, Vietnam Amid Trade Tensions

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/hon-hai-expands-operations-in-india-vietnam-amid-trade-tensions#gs.pXdcbNaX

7 years ago

Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711

http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2019/01/15/meeting-sloane/

7 years ago

BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/buzzfeed-employees-demand-it-pay-out-earned-pto-to-all-laid-off-u-s-staffers/

7 years ago

From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017)

https://blog.devcolor.org/career-journey-part-1-3bdddf1f87a

7 years ago

Hacking PostgreSQL [pdf]

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2018/sessions/session/2058/slides/96/hackingpg-present.pdf

7 years ago

Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)

https://www.outsideonline.com/2229791/why-are-most-endurance-athletes-rich/

7 years ago

New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-3-on-sale-now-from-25/

7 years ago

The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSUserbaseShiftRisk

7 years ago

Quiche – An implementation of the QUIC transport protocol in Rust

https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche

7 years ago

★ 11.4k Rust BSD-2-Clause

Money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/27/cz-edwards.html

7 years ago

Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, secures $17M in funding

https://kite.com/blog/launching-line-of-code-completions-going-cloudless-and-17-million-in-funding

7 years ago

Ask HN: What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016869

7 years ago

The “.ro” Gold Rush (2018)

http://viorel.me/2018/the-dot-ro-gold-rush/

7 years ago

ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser

https://github.com/gruns/ImmortalDB

7 years ago

★ 3k JavaScript MIT

A novel approach to onboarding

https://blog.hiri.com/a-novel-approach-to-onboarding-4a6c952a3e62

7 years ago

Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy's 'practically perfect' food

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190127-italys-practically-perfect-food

7 years ago

The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/health/microbiome-brain-behavior-dementia.html

7 years ago

Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps

https://www.rayshader.com/

7 years ago

Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-28/facebook-watch-struggles-to-deliver-hits-or-advertisers

7 years ago

Ask HN: Do you enjoy working in a coworking space?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016316

7 years ago

When FP? And When OOP? (2013)

http://raganwald.com/2013/04/08/functional-vs-OOP.html

7 years ago

GDPR complaint claims Google and IAB ad category lists leak intimate data

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/google-and-iab-ad-category-lists-show-massive-leakage-of-highly-intimate-data-gdpr-complaint-claims/

7 years ago

RIOT: Operating System for the Internet of Things

http://riot-os.org/

7 years ago

TSMC Nanke 14 Factory Production Interruption Could Affect NVIDIA and Others

https://www.hardocp.com/news/2019/01/28/tsmc_nanke_14_factory_production_interruption_could_affect_nvidia_others

7 years ago

Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

7 years ago

Loop, a new zero-waste platform that may change how we shop

https://www.fastcompany.com/90296956/a-coalition-of-giant-brands-is-about-to-change-how-we-shop-forever-with-a-new-zero-waste-platform

7 years ago

Israel airport security stole my laptop

https://twitter.com/theAlexLavin/status/1089036484735262720

7 years ago

A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

https://www.quantamagazine.org/been-kim-is-building-a-translator-for-artificial-intelligence-20190110/

7 years ago

The Buzzfeed Lesson

https://stratechery.com/2019/the-buzzfeed-lesson/

7 years ago

Apache Flink

https://github.com/apache/flink

7 years ago

★ 25.9k Java Apache-2.0

The CADR Microprocessor

https://lm-3.github.io/cadr.html

7 years ago

A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-china-made.html

7 years ago

The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997)

http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html

7 years ago

World's oldest periodic table chart found in St. Andrews

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/worlds-oldest-periodic-table-chart-found-in-st-andrews/

7 years ago

Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like

https://acoachcalledlife.com/bandersnatch-film-dpdr/

7 years ago

Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-snap-messages-exclusive/exclusive-snapchat-weighs-what-was-once-unthinkable-permanent-snaps-idUSKCN1PM2D0

7 years ago

The Fleecing of Millennials

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/opinion/buttigieg-2020-millennials.html

7 years ago

Julia v1.1 Release Notes

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.1.0/NEWS.md

7 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT

Let’s Create a Speech Synthesizer in C++17 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcymn3RGkF4

7 years ago

Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/world/asia/singapore-brutalist-buildings.html

7 years ago

The subscription-pocalypse

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/the-subscription-pocalypse-is-about-to-hit/

7 years ago

Iran to Launch State-Backed Cryptocurrency to Counter SWIFT and US Regulations

https://www.btcwires.com/c-buzz/iran-to-launch-state-backed-cryptocurrency-to-counter-swift-and-us-regulations/

7 years ago

Student cracks theologian's baffling religious code

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-47028244

7 years ago

Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

https://github.com/kevinschaich/mintable

7 years ago

★ 1.6k TypeScript MIT

REST and GraphQL really aren't that different

https://github.com/tylerbuchea/graphqless

7 years ago

★ 287 JavaScript

Achieving super low latency for critical real world internet applications (2018)

https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?achieving-super-low-latency-for-critical-real-world-internet-applications

7 years ago