top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-13

Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

https://www.quora.com/Why-can-t-a-bot-tick-the-Im-not-a-robot-box/answer/Oliver-Emberton?share=1

7 years ago

SQL: One of the most valuable skills

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/02/12/sql-most-valuable-skill/

7 years ago

Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/science/mars-opportunity-rover-dead.html

7 years ago

Whitespace killed an enterprise app

https://uxdesign.cc/how-white-space-killed-an-enterprise-app-and-why-data-density-matters-b3afad6a5f2a

7 years ago

The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/13/the-impossible-tech-behind-spacexs-new-engine/

7 years ago

FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/429867-fcc-threatens-carriers-with-regulatory-intervention-on-robocalls

7 years ago

Earnest Capital is live

https://earnestcapital.com/is-earnest-capital-live-yet/

7 years ago

The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

7 years ago

Leon: An open-source personal assistant

https://github.com/leon-ai/leon

7 years ago

★ 17.1k TypeScript MIT

Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

https://deskgap.com/

7 years ago

Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too

7 years ago

How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

https://www.recode.net/2019/2/12/18222558/kara-swisher-jack-dorsey-twitter-interview-conversation-karajack-livetweet

7 years ago

Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

https://osandamalith.com/2019/02/11/linux-reverse-engineering-ctfs-for-beginners/

7 years ago

The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maier/TheoryBook/TRD.html

7 years ago

Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes

https://itep.org/amazon-in-its-prime-doubles-profits-pays-0-in-federal-income-taxes/

7 years ago

Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton

https://ericu.github.io/CellCulTuring/

7 years ago

Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/storage-algorithms

7 years ago

Handling 1M websocket connections in Go

https://github.com/eranyanay/1m-go-websockets

7 years ago

★ 5.9k Go AGPL-3.0

A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete

https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete

7 years ago

Making a Menger sponge in stained glass

http://joshmillard.com/sgmenger/

7 years ago

Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/google-and-ibm-still-trying-desperately-to-move-cloud-market-share-needle/

7 years ago

Security.txt (2017)

https://securitytxt.org

7 years ago

Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/what-the-crow-knows/580726/

7 years ago

Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19149509

7 years ago

Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

7 years ago

Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof

https://www.dmnews.com/data/data-management/data-privacy/article/21047138/dont-be-stupid-3-lessons-from-googles-geographical-gdpr-goof

7 years ago

BuzzFeed Journalists Vote to Unionize in Wake of Layoffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/buzzfeed-journalists-said-to-vote-to-unionize-in-wake-of-layoffs

7 years ago

Fast Perfect Hashing

http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2019/02/12/fast-perfect-hashing/

7 years ago

Red Team's SIEM

https://github.com/outflanknl/RedELK

7 years ago

★ 2.6k Python BSD-3-Clause

UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/13/uk_counter_terror_act_royal_assent/

7 years ago

Ask HN: How to get better in advanced SQL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19150561

7 years ago

Memcached – Caching Beyond RAM: Riding the Cliff

https://memcached.org/blog/nvm-multidisk/

7 years ago

Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery

http://www.terrapattern.com/

7 years ago

Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon-sink-or-source-1.5011490

7 years ago

Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/ex-top-apple-lawyer-levoff-accused-by-sec-of-insider-trading

7 years ago

Tell HN: Node.js koa-router package transferred to unknown user

https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/issues/77#issuecomment-463356844

7 years ago

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You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-10-arm-raspberry-pi-3-installer,38604.html

7 years ago

Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/13/nasa-makes-final-attempt-to-communicate-with-mars-rover-opportunity

7 years ago

NIST Reveals 26 Algorithms Advancing to the Post-Quantum Crypto ‘Semifinals’

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/01/nist-reveals-26-algorithms-advancing-post-quantum-crypto-semifinals

7 years ago

Reddit Transparency Report 2018

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/transparency-report-2018

7 years ago

The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (2009)

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

7 years ago

Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (2012)

https://njwildberger.com/2012/10/13/the-problem-of-rigour-in-modern-mathematics/

7 years ago

AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform: Call It Mirrorworld

https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/

7 years ago

Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson

https://gigaom.com/2019/01/17/quantum-computing-capabilities-and-limits-an-interview-with-scott-aaronson/

7 years ago

The Alter Bible

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/279344/robert-alter-bible

7 years ago

Toyotas and Chevys Are Holding Up Better Than Most Luxury Brands

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/toyotas-and-chevys-are-holding-up-better-than-most-luxury-brands

7 years ago

Architecture for a JavaScript to C compiler

https://timr.co/architecture-for-a-js-to-c-compiler

7 years ago

We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought

http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/its-the-end-of-the-gene-as-we-know-it

7 years ago

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa Arrested for Cyber Libel

https://www.rappler.com/nation/223411-maria-ressa-arrested-for-cyber-libel-february-2019

7 years ago

Google will spend $13B on U.S. real estate in 2019

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/google-will-spend-13-billion-on-real-estate-moves-in-2019.html

7 years ago

Why Do the Northern and Southern Lights Differ?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-the-northern-and-southern-lights-differ/

7 years ago

The Miracle of Applied Mathematics (2001) [pdf]

http://www.colyvan.com/papers/miracle.pdf

7 years ago

Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/silicon-valley-is-using-trade-secrets-to-hide-its-race-problem

7 years ago

Xinjiang: Ex-Blackwater chief's security firm linked to China training centre

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47089665

7 years ago

How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers (2015)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/11visa-listy.html

7 years ago