top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-08

Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/

7 years ago

799 upvotes – 931 comments

New pill can deliver insulin

http://news.mit.edu/2019/pill-deliver-insulin-orally-0207

7 years ago

564 upvotes – 249 comments

Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

https://twitter.com/wolfiechristl/status/1071473931784212480

7 years ago

550 upvotes – 356 comments

FindChips – Get instant insight into any electronic component

https://www.findchips.com/

7 years ago

455 upvotes – 75 comments

Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage

https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy/

7 years ago

435 upvotes – 181 comments

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-blackmail.html

7 years ago

433 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

https://githistory.xyz/

7 years ago

407 upvotes – 76 comments

Moving from Go to PHP Again

https://dannyvankooten.com/from-go-back-to-php-again/

7 years ago

404 upvotes – 360 comments

Building a RISC-V PC

https://abopen.com/news/building-a-risc-v-pc/

7 years ago

345 upvotes – 99 comments

I scanned Austria

https://blog.haschek.at/2019/i-scanned-austria.html

7 years ago

326 upvotes – 67 comments

How does one appear in the Google News carousel?

https://char.gd/blog/2019/google-news-is-broken

7 years ago

321 upvotes – 156 comments

Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114037

7 years ago

308 upvotes – 114 comments

Rant – An all-purpose procedural text engine

https://github.com/TheBerkin/rant

7 years ago

302 upvotes – 33 comments

Orca – Live Programming Environment

https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 58 comments

So you want to be a wizard

https://jvns.ca/blog/so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard/

7 years ago

282 upvotes – 43 comments

Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00492-4

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 131 comments

Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-patch/apple-to-contribute-to-u-s-teens-education-for-spotting-facetime-bug-idUSKCN1PW2E0

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 131 comments

Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books

http://herman.asia/how-i-choose-nonfiction-books

7 years ago

251 upvotes – 195 comments

Effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy in Elimination of HPV in Mexican Women [pdf]

https://twin.sci-hub.tw/6319/73863883d6bd8895505fcc8581dfc0e0/maldonadoalvarado2017.pdf

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 48 comments

Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blog/2019/february/downgrade-attack-on-tls-1.3-and-vulnerabilities-in-major-tls-libraries/

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 67 comments

Biography of Christopher “moot” Poole: The Hacker Known as “4chan”

https://www.256kilobytes.com/content/show/4319/biography-of-christopher-moot-poole-who-is-this-4chan

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 200 comments

Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers & libdivide

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the-divisor-is-a-constant-beating-compilers-and-libdivide/

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 32 comments

Nginx quick reference

https://github.com/trimstray/nginx-quick-reference

7 years ago

172 upvotes – 19 comments

London pushes to take Saudis off EU dirty money blacklist

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-saudi-moneylaundering/london-pushes-to-take-saudis-off-eu-dirty-money-blacklist-sources-idUSKCN1PX13V

7 years ago

166 upvotes – 112 comments

Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders NY headquarters site, two officials say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/facing-opposition-amazon-reconsiders-ny-headquarters-site-two-officials-say/2019/02/08/451ffc52-2a19-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 200 comments

Teenager builds his own Lego prosthetic arms

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-08/lego-prosthetic-arm-made-by-man-missing-limb/10792598

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness (2016)

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/18/4900.full

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Nevod is easier and faster than RegExp

https://nevod.nezaboodka.com/#playground

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 80 comments

How to fight the surveillance economy

https://medium.com/@vvecsei/fighting-the-surveillance-economy-a-practical-guide-for-individuals-and-companies-cb9719fe1098

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 67 comments

I stopped using Intercom

https://blog.gingerlime.com/2019/why-i-stopped-using-intercom/

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 62 comments

Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English101.pdf

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 114 comments

Nearly 60,000 Data Breaches Reported Since the Launch of GDPR

https://amatas.com/news/view/nearly-60-000-data-breaches-reported-since-the-launch-of-gdpr

7 years ago

147 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: How do you get over the initial fear of learning something hard or new?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19113628

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

We Also Failed to Build a Billion Dollar Company

https://medium.com/@jimgreer/we-also-failed-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b7a2aab742cf

7 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

That photo of Colossus

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/wrens-meet-70-years

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

Could Get Millions to Turn Factory into Condos, Is Not Selling

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/nyregion/etna-tool-die-noho-real-estate.html

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 161 comments

Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47169549

7 years ago

128 upvotes – 333 comments

Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-abusive-apps-machine-learning

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 91 comments

Jupyter switches to C++ kernel and widgets

https://blog.jupyter.org/a-new-python-kernel-for-jupyter-fcdf211e30a8

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 15 comments

The Peculiar Power of Plane Mechanic Simulator

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/02/08/the-flare-path-plane-mechanic-simulator-review/

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 26 comments

Sprint sues AT&T over its fake 5G branding

https://engadget.com/2019/02/08/att-5g-sprint-lawsuit

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

How Craig Barton wishes he’d taught maths

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/how-craig-barton-wishes-hed-taught-maths/#more-6435

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 64 comments

Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/artificial-intelligence-study-human-genome-finds-unknown-human-ancestor-species-180971436/

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07951

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Displaying Japanese and English Text on the Web

http://www.nobadmemories.com/blog/2017/04/better-together-displaying-japanese-and-english-text-on-the-web/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly

https://zkwasm.kobi.one

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Internet Explorer anymore

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/8/18216767/microsoft-internet-explorer-warning-compatibility-solution

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 73 comments
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