top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-01-30

Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/

7 years ago

1516 upvotes – 588 comments

Ending our Medium integration

https://write.as/blog/ending-our-medium-integration

7 years ago

936 upvotes – 367 comments

Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

7 years ago

735 upvotes – 310 comments

Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/

7 years ago

640 upvotes – 258 comments

Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch

7 years ago

559 upvotes – 174 comments

Statistics Done Wrong

https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com

7 years ago

547 upvotes – 54 comments

'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-karma/

7 years ago

423 upvotes – 224 comments

Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08416

7 years ago

419 upvotes – 71 comments

Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing

https://thepointsguy.com/news/boeing-787-suffers-rare-dual-engine-failure-on-landing/

7 years ago

406 upvotes – 350 comments

Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/

7 years ago

385 upvotes – 95 comments

Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)

https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/

7 years ago

362 upvotes – 173 comments

Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019

https://stjepang.github.io/2019/01/29/lock-free-rust-crossbeam-in-2019.html

7 years ago

322 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031711

7 years ago

319 upvotes – 324 comments

Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/facebook-earnings-q4-2018/

7 years ago

293 upvotes – 211 comments

A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss

https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-excerpt/

7 years ago

291 upvotes – 66 comments

8bit Workshop

https://8bitworkshop.com/

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 32 comments

Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown

7 years ago

261 upvotes – 218 comments

Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/business/foxconn-wisconsin-manufacturing.html

7 years ago

230 upvotes – 224 comments

India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/state-bank-india-data-leak/

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 67 comments

Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 65 comments

Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.9.0-released.html

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 90 comments

Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/prison-voice-prints-databases-securus/

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 100 comments

How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)

https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/how_i_ended_up_writing_my_own_kernel

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 17 comments

A Primer on Type Systems

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/users/chappell/public_html/class/2018_spr/cs331/docs/types_primer.html

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 31 comments

New tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression

https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-cambridg

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 64 comments

Simulating blobs of fluid

https://peeke.nl/simulating-blobs-of-fluid

7 years ago

178 upvotes – 25 comments

The Space Shuttle’s Military Threat

https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/181657051514/my-favorite-part-about-the-economically-dubious

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 81 comments

Amazon has forced attrition rates (someone has to go every year)

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/al2p6q/7_months_into_fang_company_want_out/efad55p/

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 146 comments

Gödel's Theorem

http://bactra.org/notebooks/godels-theorem.html

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 95 comments

Everything You Need to Know About SVG

https://css-tricks.com/lodge/svg/

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 33 comments

Scripting in Common Lisp

https://ebzzry.io/en/script-lisp/

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 38 comments

'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190128125314.htm

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 51 comments

Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++

https://tylerayoung.com/2019/01/29/benchmarks-of-cache-friendly-data-structures-in-c/

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/review/roger-mcnamee-zucked.html

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 123 comments

Launch HN: DevFlight (YC W19) – Helping open-source maintainers make money

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19037467

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 60 comments

Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194028

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 137 comments

Exclusive Design

https://exclusive-design.vasilis.nl/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Tesla Q4 2018 Earnings Letter

http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/0b913415-467d-4c0d-be4c-9225c2cb0ae0

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 96 comments

Tor's Open Research Topics (2018)

https://blog.torproject.org/tors-open-research-topics-2018-edition

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 10 comments

'Fuck ethics. Money is everything' FB employees react to scandal on gossip app

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-react-teen-spying-app-blind/#X5hGityLeaqd

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/29/magazine/china-globalization-kazakhstan.html

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

Intel Open Image Denoise: High-Performance Denoising Library for Ray Tracing

https://openimagedenoise.github.io/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/01/30/what-is-the-space-overhead-of-base64-encoding/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-insurers-can-evaluate-your-social-media-useif-they-can-prove-why-its-needed-11548856802

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 88 comments

On Concurrency in Go HTTP Servers

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/on-concurrency-in-go-http-servers/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

http://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/reconstruction.html

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

The first synthetic element

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00236-4

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike

https://github.com/hughpyle/ASR33/blob/master/asciiart/README.md

7 years ago

★ 193 Python MIT
77 upvotes – 16 comments

Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-sigma-derby

7 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments
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