top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-04

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/firefox-66-to-block-automatically-playing-audible-video-and-audio/

7 years ago

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source

7 years ago

MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

https://hacker-tools.github.io/

7 years ago

“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/

7 years ago

Bye, Bye, Google

https://defn.io/2019/02/04/bye-bye-google/

7 years ago

Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/messaging-platform-provider-slack-says-it-s-filed-to-go-public

7 years ago

If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/04/689747637/if-youre-often-angry-or-irritable-you-may-be-depressed

7 years ago

MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator

https://mybrandnewlogo.com

7 years ago

A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers

https://triplebyte.com/blog/a-humility-training-exercise-for-technical-interviewers

7 years ago

Interactive 3D ASCII scenes

https://yeahpython.github.io/game/game.html

7 years ago

Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018)

https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/

7 years ago

Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/trust-busting-as-the-unsexy-answer-to-google-and-facebook/

7 years ago

Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

https://qz.com/1541380/the-cheapest-chinese-electric-cars-are-coming-to-the-us-and-europe/

7 years ago

Learning Rust via Advent of Code

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/learning-rust-via-advent-of-code/

7 years ago

Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking

7 years ago

The Art of PNG Glitch (2015)

http://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/

7 years ago

Matrix at FOSDEM 2019

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/02/04/matrix-at-fosdem-2019/

7 years ago

Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/tesla-to-buy-energy-storage-firm-maxwell-tech-at-4-75-shr-value

7 years ago

Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/31/mozilla-raises-concerns-over-facebooks-lack-of-transparency/

7 years ago

Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/economy/productivity-inequality-wages.html

7 years ago

Stylelint – A modern linter for CSS

https://stylelint.io/

7 years ago

TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning for the Web and Beyond

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05350

7 years ago

German town votes ‘No’ to street names

https://www.dw.com/en/german-town-votes-no-to-street-names/a-47345093

7 years ago

Browser diversity starts with us

http://www.zeldman.com/2018/12/07/browser-diversity-starts-with-us/

7 years ago

Hacker facing an 8-year jail term for exposing vulnerabilities in Magyar Telekom

https://cyware.com/news/hacker-uncovers-vulnerabilities-in-magyar-telekoms-network-gets-a-jail-term-of-8-years-56c4d478

7 years ago

Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices

https://github.com/istio/istio

7 years ago

★ 38.1k Go Apache-2.0

Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits

https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua

7 years ago

★ 3.1k Lua MIT

Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Professors Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-02/best-selling-trucks-use-tech-mit-says-ford-stole-from-professors

7 years ago

God Mode Unlocked – Hardware Backdoors in Via C3 CPUs (2018) [video]

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

7 years ago

Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=adc3b38

7 years ago

Huawei Sting Offers Rare Glimpse of the U.S. Targeting a Chinese Giant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-04/huawei-sting-offers-rare-glimpse-of-u-s-targeting-chinese-giant

7 years ago

SAT/SMT by Example [pdf]

https://yurichev.com/writings/SAT_SMT_by_example.pdf

7 years ago

Public APIs: A collective list of free APIs

https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis

7 years ago

★ 2.7k MIT

Glowing reviews tout counterfeit cash on the dark web

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-dark-web-counterfeiter-20190201-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

7 years ago

Is There a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/is-there-really-a-fourth-neutrino-out-there-in-the-universe-6fa8ff7f1e78

7 years ago

The infrastructural humiliation of America

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/03/the-infrastructural-humiliation-of-america/

7 years ago

Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game

https://linjat.snellman.net

7 years ago

Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018 [pdf]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s3805is/pdf/BILLS-115s3805is.pdf

7 years ago

Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/

7 years ago

Show HN: Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git

https://github.com/isacikgoz/gitin

7 years ago

★ 1.8k Go BSD-3-Clause

Leap Spins out of YC

https://blog.ycombinator.com/leap-spins-out-of-yc/

7 years ago

Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks

https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-react-hooks/

7 years ago

If Your Dreams Don't Serve You, Let Them Go

https://www.inflectionconf.com/blog/if-your-dreams-dont-serve-you-let-them-go

7 years ago

Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge (2017)

https://badge.reviews/10-rules-for-a-better-conference-name-badge/

7 years ago

Bringing black and white photos to life using Colourise.sg

https://blog.data.gov.sg/bringing-black-and-white-photos-to-life-using-colourise-sg-435ae5cc5036

7 years ago

Navigation Should Be Boring

https://allenpike.com/2019/navigation-should-be-boring

7 years ago

Python 3.8.0a1 is now available for testing

https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2019/02/python-380a1-is-now-available-for.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: What have you found the most useful interview question to be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076131

7 years ago

Attorneys General in Six States Are Now Investigating Facebook's Data Practices

https://gizmodo.com/report-attorneys-general-in-six-states-are-now-investi-1832294726

7 years ago

Show HN: Gita – a CLI tool to manage multiple Git repos

https://github.com/nosarthur/gita

7 years ago

★ 1.8k Python MIT