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

Dotfile madness

https://0x46.net/thoughts/2019/02/01/dotfile-madness/

7 years ago

Sex censorship killed the internet we love

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta/

7 years ago

A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

7 years ago

★ 22k Rust MIT

Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them

https://justinribeiro.com/chronicle/2019/01/31/tiny-pwas-and-why-i-keep-building-them/

7 years ago

More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-01/google-talent-advantage-erodes-as-more-workers-doubt-ceo-vision

7 years ago

What Impossible Meant to Feynman

http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/what-impossible-meant-to-feynman

7 years ago

Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay

https://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2019/01/insurance-company-says-notpetya-is-an-act-of-war-refuses-to-pay.html

7 years ago

A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLALpD004Gk

7 years ago

What’s Wrong with the Raspberry Pi

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/

7 years ago

Homebrew 2.0.0 released

https://brew.sh/2019/02/02/homebrew-2.0.0/

7 years ago

I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken

https://twitter.com/pugson/status/1091699189166174208

7 years ago

Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' YouTube accounts

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/moderation-at-scale.html

7 years ago

McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/business/purdue-pharma-mckinsey-oxycontin-opiods.html

7 years ago

If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving?

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/1/30/18196549/san-francisco-everyone-leaving-first-person-migration-california

7 years ago

The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified

https://itnext.io/the-cloud-skills-shortage-and-the-unemployed-army-of-the-certified-bd405784cef1

7 years ago

Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13924/intel-to-discontinue-itanium-9700-kittson-processor-the-last-itaniums

7 years ago

$190M missing after crypto exchange Quadriga CEO dies

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/streetwise/article-quadriga-cant-access-190-million-following-ceos-death-court/

7 years ago

Openwrt 18.06.2 released

https://openwrt.org/releases/18.06/notes-18.06.2

7 years ago

Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/01/world-internet-usage-index-philippines-10-hours-a-day

7 years ago

Be Careful about 23andMe’s Health Test

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/01/opinion/23andme-cancer-dna-test-brca.html

7 years ago

Helping to Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Worst Two Weeks

https://blog.cloudflare.com/helping-to-build-cloudflare-part-2/

7 years ago

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (2009)

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html

7 years ago

China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned enterprises

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/china-unveils-draft-law-to-allow-fully-foreign-owned-enterprises/article26129186.ece

7 years ago

Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace

https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-01-31-full-system-dynamic-tracing-on-linux-using-ebpf-and-bpftrace.html

7 years ago

I'm not 54. I'm 22 with 32 years experience

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-54-22-32-years-experience-louis-loizou/

7 years ago

Aztec Political Thought (2013)

http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/aztec-political-thought.html

7 years ago

Visual Quantum Physics

http://www.visualquantumphysics.org/

7 years ago

Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/opinion/artificial-intelligence-surveillance.html

7 years ago

New security flaw impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G telephony protocols

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-security-flaw-impacts-5g-4g-and-3g-telephony-protocols/

7 years ago

Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro [video]

https://petapixel.com/2019/01/29/apples-new-ipad-pro-ads-were-shot-and-made-entirely-on-the-ipad-pro/

7 years ago

Deep Dive into Math Behind Deep Networks

https://towardsdatascience.com/https-medium-com-piotr-skalski92-deep-dive-into-deep-networks-math-17660bc376ba

7 years ago

Cargo's next few years

https://www.ncameron.org/blog/cargos-next-few-years/

7 years ago

AdaCore Joins the RISC-V Foundation to Provide C and Ada Compilation Support

https://www.adacore.com/press/adacore-joins-the-risc-v-foundation

7 years ago

A Kenyan Engineer Who Created Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech

https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/culture/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-gloves-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech

7 years ago

Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text

https://mermaidjs.github.io/mermaid-live-editor

7 years ago

Why Is PayPal So Successful Yet They Treat Merchants Like Crap?

https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1524/why-is-paypal-so-successful-yet-they-treat-merchan.html

7 years ago

Digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them

https://qz.com/1525661/your-digital-identity-has-three-layers-and-you-can-only-protect-one-of-them/

7 years ago

Solar Farms Shine a Ray of Hope on Bees and Butterflies

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-farms-shine-a-ray-of-hope-on-bees-and-butterflies/

7 years ago

The Zipper Rule on German Roads

https://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/german-roads-are-smarter-than-yours/60839

7 years ago

Limiting JavaScript?

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-31-putting-some-limits-on-javascript/

7 years ago

One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/31/us/public-defender-case-loads.html

7 years ago

RenTech Created the Ultimate, Tax-Free IRA Account for Employees

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-01/rentech-created-the-ultimate-tax-free-ira-account-for-employees

7 years ago

The plight of Japan's hikikomori

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190129-the-plight-of-japans-modern-hermits

7 years ago

The Takedown That Put Carlos Ghosn in Jail

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-31/inside-the-takedown-of-renault-nissan-chairman-carlos-ghosn

7 years ago

How transportation can transform a city – Seattle's double decker tunnel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/a-look-at-how-transportation-can-transform-a-city/2019/01/31/da8418de-0ec4-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html

7 years ago

JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/01/matt-salinger-jd-the-catcher-in-the-rye

7 years ago

Glossary of Stand Up Comedy Terms

https://stand-upcomedy.com/glossary-of-stand-up-comedy-terms/

7 years ago