top 50% 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)

https://www.greghendershott.com/2018/05/extramaze-llc-using-racket-postgresql-aws-but-no-ads-or-js.html

7 years ago

Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012)

https://www.troyhunt.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know/

7 years ago

CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

https://www.tonic.ai/blog/ccpa-will-hit-your-dev-team-harder-than-gdpr

7 years ago

Lombok makes Java cool again

https://bytes.grubhub.com/lombok-makes-java-cool-again-171102bdcc52

7 years ago

I lost my data trying to back it up

https://hamy.io/post/0010/how-i-lost-my-data-trying-to-back-it-up/

7 years ago

This is Your Brain Off Facebook - study offers glimpse of unplugging

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/health/facebook-psychology-health.html

7 years ago

Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/polar-vortex-weather-forecasting-good-now/581605/

7 years ago

Scott Alexander Reviews Thiel's Zero to One

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/31/book-review-zero-to-one/

7 years ago

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/02/cruel-and-unusual-punishment-2/

7 years ago

Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/google-for-consumers-will-shut-down-on-april-2nd/

7 years ago

Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=u7sRrC2Jpp4

7 years ago

How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9800-how_to_teach_programming_to_your_loved_ones

7 years ago

A proposed API for full-memory encryption

https://lwn.net/Articles/776688/

7 years ago

UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019

https://www.myuv.com/

7 years ago

Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47033704

7 years ago

Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

https://www.space.com/43173-earth-magnetic-field-flips-when.html

7 years ago

Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/business/locast-streaming-free-network-tv.html

7 years ago

Lidar Is a Crutch

https://lidarmag.com/2019/01/27/elon-musk-is-right-lidar-is-a-crutch/

7 years ago

Faster hash joiner with vectorized execution

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vectorized-hash-joiner/

7 years ago

Five Corrections to The New York Times

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/five-corrections-new-york-times

7 years ago

Pandas extension arrays

https://pandas-dev.github.io/pandas-blog/pandas-extension-arrays.html

7 years ago

A 500-Year-Long Science Experiment

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/500-year-long-science-experiment/581155/

7 years ago

Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare Game

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18140796/wake-word-algorithm-text-game-ai-artificial-intelligence

7 years ago

Ask HN: Why is it easier to get a raise with a new job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19046852

7 years ago

The Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-scripto-the-app-that-stephen-colbert-helped-build-became-a-fixture-of-late-night-comedy-news

7 years ago

Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/rigetti-launches-the-public-beta-of-its-quantum-cloud-services/

7 years ago

Opinion: A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/ai-bias-healthcare.html

7 years ago

Data Structures for coding interviews

https://www.interviewcake.com/article/java/data-structures-coding-interview

7 years ago