top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-01-31

Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate

7 years ago

Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/facebook-unsealed-documents-whales-mobile-games

7 years ago

U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-changes-visa-process-for-high-skilled-workers-11548879868

7 years ago

Interactive SICP

https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/

7 years ago

Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies

https://find.xyz/map/product-management-search-engine

7 years ago

The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spying-raven-specialreport-idUKKCN1PO1A6

7 years ago

Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)

https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c

7 years ago

Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-sanctions-eu/germany-france-britain-to-launch-mechanism-for-trade-with-iran-idUSKCN1PP0K3

7 years ago

Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/apple-facebook-campus-permissions-revoked-teens-access-data-iphone-app

7 years ago

Ask HN: Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048108

7 years ago

Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-cloud-firestore-general-availability-and-updates/

7 years ago

A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/a-gold-standard-study-finds-deleting-facebook-is-great-for-your-mental-health/

7 years ago

How many .com domain names are unused?

https://singaporedatacompany.com/blog/how-many-domain-names-are-unused

7 years ago

Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html

7 years ago

Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

https://www.gq.com/story/cal-newport-digital-minimalism

7 years ago

Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City

https://mwi.usma.edu/stealing-enemys-urban-advantage-battle-sadr-city/

7 years ago

Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzvxv/criminals-hackers-ss7-uk-banks-metro-bank

7 years ago

A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-shipped-sidewinder-missile-by-mail-moscow-21673

7 years ago

Racket v7.2

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-v7-2.html

7 years ago

Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carstairs-westview-co-op-grocery-car-key-fob-1.4999558

7 years ago