top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-01

New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/google-manipulates-users-into-constant-tracking

7 years ago

One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/family-tree-dna-fbi-investigative-genealogy-privacy

7 years ago

EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-japan-create-worlds-biggest-free-trade-zone/a-47319521

7 years ago

A small notebook for a system administrator

https://habr.com/en/post/437912/

7 years ago

Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

https://github.com/tyroprogrammer/learn-react-app

7 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript MIT

Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

https://paperswithcode.com/sota

7 years ago

AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income

https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/infrastructure-and-platform/aws-drives-more-than-half-of-amazons-operating-income/d/d-id/749196

7 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055166

7 years ago

Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS

https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLite

7 years ago

★ 7.7k C++ Apache-2.0

Makefiles – Best Practices

https://danyspin97.org/blog/makefiles-best-practices/

7 years ago

Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201

7 years ago

In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/france-comic-books-angouleme.html

7 years ago

EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust-banks/eu-charges-eight-banks-over-euro-government-bond-trading-cartel-idUSKCN1PP1UA

7 years ago

Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps

https://medium.com/@firt/google-play-store-now-open-for-progressive-web-apps-ec6f3c6ff3cc

7 years ago

New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People

https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2019/new_technology_uses_lasers_to_transmit_audible_mes/

7 years ago

Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-resurgence-under-satya-nadella-11549022422

7 years ago

My First Year as a Solo Developer

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-1/

7 years ago

Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/

7 years ago

Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Negotiations

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190130/10141941498/canadas-bell-tried-to-have-vpns-banned-during-nafta-negotiations.shtml

7 years ago

What we've learned about hiring engineering managers

https://circleci.com/blog/what-we-ve-learned-about-hiring-engineering-managers/

7 years ago

Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/

7 years ago

Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/huge-cavity-in-antarctic-glacier-signals-rapid-decay

7 years ago

Forget everything you know about 3D printing – the ‘replicator’ is here

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07798-9

7 years ago

Dear web developers: set the font color, too

https://www.luu.io/posts/web-devs-font-color

7 years ago

Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away

https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-saudi-website-men-control-women-stop-escape-2019-1

7 years ago

Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park

https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/01/millardball-vehicles.html

7 years ago

Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/01/finding-kafkas-throughput-limit-in-dropbox-infrastructure/

7 years ago

Einsum Is All You Need – Einstein Summation in Deep Learning (2018)

https://rockt.github.io/2018/04/30/einsum

7 years ago

How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley

https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-negotiated-a-software-engineer-offer-in-silicon-valley-f11590f5c656

7 years ago

Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/ubers-transit-offering-just-went-live-in-denver/

7 years ago

McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting Staff

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/mcclatchy-follows-buzzfeed-vice-and-others-in-cutting-staff-11070151

7 years ago

Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2019/01/31/oracles-newest-audit-tactic-focusing-on-java/#fc0556854960

7 years ago

Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How?

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/am1hi0/a_created_a_fake_account_and_facebook_still/

7 years ago

Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy

https://machinelearningmastery.com/applied-machine-learning-is-a-meritocracy/

7 years ago

Interview with Ted Nelson

https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson

7 years ago

Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld

https://www.filfre.net/2019/02/life-off-the-grid-part-2-playing-ultima-underworld/

7 years ago

The rise of alternative milks

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/29/white-gold-the-unstoppable-rise-of-alternative-milks-oat-soy-rice-coconut-plant

7 years ago

I scraped all of Fandango's movie listings

https://readypipe.com/blog/fandango-ticket-prices/

7 years ago

Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/snopes-pulls-out-of-its-fact-checking-partnership-with-facebook/

7 years ago

Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images

https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/18348/How-Do-You-Count-Every-Solar-Panel-in-the-US-Machine-Learning-and-a-Billion-Satellite-Images.aspx

7 years ago

Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vice-media-reorganize-lay-10-percent-staff-1181785

7 years ago

More bad news for controversial 20-year-old claim of dark matter detection

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/more-bad-news-for-controversial-20-year-old-claim-of-dark-matter-detection/

7 years ago

Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (2015)

https://www.jwatch.org/na39054/2015/09/17/phenylephrine-no-more-effective-placebo-nasal-congestion

7 years ago

One Man's Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/690071045/one-mans-quest-to-prove-vermont-has-terrible-cell-service

7 years ago

The Death of a Dreamer

https://quillette.com/2019/01/30/the-death-of-a-dreamer/

7 years ago

The IPO of Virgin Trains U.S.A.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-01/two-billionaires-want-to-restore-the-glory-of-u-s-railroads

7 years ago

It’s Time to Ditch Google Analytics

https://www.fastcompany.com/90300072/its-time-to-ditch-google-analytics

7 years ago

GNOME Shell and Mutter

https://feaneron.com/2019/01/31/gnome-shell-and-mutter-better-faster-cleaner/

7 years ago