top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-12

This person does not exist

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

7 years ago

872 upvotes – 236 comments

Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586

7 years ago

517 upvotes – 315 comments

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/08/reading-in-the-age-of-constant-distraction/

7 years ago

488 upvotes – 170 comments

1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth

http://www.1-9-9-1.com/

7 years ago

409 upvotes – 67 comments

Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/vim-is-saving-me-hours-of-work-when-writing-books-and-courses

7 years ago

378 upvotes – 275 comments

Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/activision-blizzard-lays-off-775-people-after-record-results-in-2018/

7 years ago

365 upvotes – 335 comments

Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js

https://alexanderperrin.com.au/triangles/ballooning/

7 years ago

307 upvotes – 56 comments

Principled GraphQL

http://www.principledgraphql.com

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 83 comments

Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-11/two-large-chinese-borrowers-are-said-to-miss-bond-payments

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 129 comments

Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/

7 years ago

274 upvotes – 283 comments

Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)

http://www.steverrobbins.com/articles/skype-serious-privacy-breach/

7 years ago

266 upvotes – 129 comments

The memory safety problem isn't bad coders

https://medium.com/@sgrif/no-the-problem-isnt-bad-coders-ed4347810270

7 years ago

250 upvotes – 220 comments

CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

https://remysharp.com/2019/02/12/cern-day-1

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 36 comments

Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2019-02-01.html

7 years ago

237 upvotes – 177 comments

The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/the-colgan-air-crash-helped-keep-90-million-flights-safe

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 159 comments

A tiny Swiss company thinks it can help stop climate change

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/magazine/climeworks-business-climate-change.html

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 187 comments

California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project: governor

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-governor-rail/california-will-not-complete-77-billion-high-speed-rail-project-governor-idUSKCN1Q12II

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 384 comments

Google warns about two iOS zero-days 'exploited in the wild'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-warns-about-two-ios-zero-days-exploited-in-the-wild/

7 years ago

189 upvotes – 79 comments

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-creates-a-timeline-of-the-past-20190212/

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 23 comments

Wondering about the link between intelligence and meaning

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning/

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 153 comments

Ludwig, a code-free deep learning toolbox

https://eng.uber.com/introducing-ludwig/

7 years ago

177 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

https://www.serverhunter.com

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 88 comments

Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)

https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/neural-networks-are-essentially-polynomial-regression/

7 years ago

173 upvotes – 75 comments

Incremental Learning – A continuous learning approach (2018)

https://kishorepv.github.io/The-value-of-Incremental_learning/

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 21 comments

McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (2005)

http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/10/11/amb-operator/

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 42 comments

Drivers claim Uber won’t pay fees to launch forced arbitration cases

https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-uber/forced-into-arbitration-12500-drivers-claim-uber-wont-pay-fees-to-launch-cases-idUSKBN1O52C6

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 98 comments

Volt: Fast native desktop client for Slack and Skype

https://volt.ws

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering

https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 50 comments

Go 1.12 Release Candidate 1 is released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/r0R2jijOjBo/Egi-Q4uWGQAJ

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 56 comments

The State of Python Packaging

https://www.bernat.tech/pep-517-and-python-packaging/

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 42 comments

‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/02/413236/virtual-pharmacology-advance-tackles-universe-unknown-drugs

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 27 comments

Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content, UK government report

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/google-facebook-apple-news-should-be-regulated-uk-government-report.html

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 98 comments

El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/nyregion/el-chapo-trial.html

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 83 comments

CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers (2015)

https://accu.org/index.php/journals/2185

7 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

Rust’s standard library was vulnerable for years and nobody noticed

https://medium.com/@shnatsel/how-rusts-standard-library-was-vulnerable-for-years-and-nobody-noticed-aebf0503c3d6

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Blockchain and Trust

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_and_.html

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 107 comments

“Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/catastrophic-hack-on-email-provider-destroys-almost-two-decades-of-data/

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 71 comments

My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

https://medium.com/s/meghan-daum/my-life-at-47-is-back-to-what-it-was-like-at-27-eb7a071b3598

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 47 comments

Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HTML5-Golang-Desktop-Apps

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 47 comments

Amazon, GM in talks to invest in electric pickup truck maker Rivian: sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rivian-electric-amazon-com-gm-exclusi/amazon-gm-in-talks-to-invest-in-electric-pickup-truck-maker-rivian-sources-idUSKCN1Q12PV

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 94 comments

Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/apple-porn-gambling-apps/

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 103 comments

Cache tables

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/cache-tables/

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 12 comments

Design Without Color First

https://medium.com/devsdesign/4-reasons-why-you-should-design-without-color-first-c0e38180f689

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple makes billions from Google Search each year

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-makes-billions-google-search-goldman-sachs-report-2019-2

7 years ago

101 upvotes – 103 comments

Flight to China turned back after airline forgets to remove Taiwan reference

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110525974/air-nz-plane-forced-to-turn-around-after-airline-forgot-to-remove-reference-to-taiwan

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 100 comments

Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

An Update on Android Things

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-on-android-things.html

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Free Messaging App for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and More

https://meetfranz.com/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 78 comments

Researchers use Intel SGX to put malware beyond the reach of antivirus software

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/researchers-use-intel-sgx-to-put-malware-beyond-the-reach-of-antivirus-software/

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Everything is broken (2014)

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Cultural Course Correcting: Black Rock City 2019

https://journal.burningman.org/2019/02/philosophical-center/tenprinciples/cultural-course-correcting/

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

The U.S. Is Getting Closer to a Recession, Data Show

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-u-s-is-in-the-late-stages-of-expansion-data-show-51549642305?mod=bol-social-fb

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 74 comments

Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time

https://longreads.com/2019/02/11/atlantic-city-is-really-going-down-this-time/

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

IE is a 'compatibility solution', to be used selectively, warns Microsoft exec

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-security-chief-ie-is-not-a-browser-so-stop-using-it-as-your-default/

7 years ago

75 upvotes – 84 comments

Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education (2011) [pdf]

https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/gifted/rethinking-giftedness.pdf

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 72 comments

CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-crispr-machines-that-can-wipe-out-entire-species/

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 117 comments

A.I. Shows Promise as a Physician Assistant

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/health/artificial-intelligence-medical-diagnosis.html

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Esketamine Drug For Depression Treatment Nears FDA Approval

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/first-big-depression-advance-since-prozac-nears-fda-approval

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 72 comments

Mapping Motor Vehicle Collisions in New York City

https://toddwschneider.com/posts/nyc-motor-vehicle-collisions-map/

7 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Mark Zuckerberg's Writing Style Erodes Our Trust in Facebook

https://slab.com/blog/zuckerberg-writing-trust/

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

GitHub Classroom and Travis CI Improved Students’ Grades

https://github.blog/2019-02-12-how-github-classroom-and-travis-ci-improved-students-grades/

7 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lufthansa-sues-passenger-scli-intl/index.html

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 112 comments

Microbiome interactions shape host fitness

https://nextjournal.com/csi/microbiome-interactions-shape-host-fitness/article

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

3 years later, IntelliJ is still unusably slow on macOS with a 4K display

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JRE-526

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 63 comments
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