top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-15

Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/dont-get-clever-with-login-forms/

7 years ago

1124 upvotes – 506 comments

My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2RQNP84fBclI0

7 years ago

810 upvotes – 496 comments

Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine

https://digital.com/about/altavista/

7 years ago

553 upvotes – 315 comments

First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902140041.html

7 years ago

371 upvotes – 208 comments

Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

https://www.chromestory.com/2019/02/chrome-scroll-to-text/

7 years ago

361 upvotes – 319 comments

Why Google needed to build a graph serving system

https://blog.dgraph.io/post/why-google-needed-graph-serving-system/

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 90 comments

Modern Alternatives to PGP

https://blog.gtank.cc/modern-alternatives-to-pgp/

7 years ago

313 upvotes – 247 comments

The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-lonely-life-of-a-yacht-influencer

7 years ago

267 upvotes – 263 comments

Sample cloud-native application with microservices

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 127 comments

Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paymentprocessors-fees/visa-mastercard-mull-increasing-fees-for-processing-transactions-wsj-idUSKCN1Q41ME

7 years ago

225 upvotes – 342 comments

Adblockers Performance Study

https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html

7 years ago

212 upvotes – 121 comments

Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-15/uber-results-show-revenue-growth-slows-amid-persistent-losses

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 278 comments

Scientists call for ban on lethal, autonomous robots

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/science/article-scientists-call-for-ban-on-lethal-autonomous-robots/

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 197 comments

Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 69 comments

An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-museum/

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 31 comments

Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/why_static/index.html

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 219 comments

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-canada/alphabet-unit-seeks-share-of-property-taxes-for-toronto-smart-city-idUSKCN1Q423Z

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 128 comments

The complicated business of funding open source software development

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 29 comments

C# 8: Switch expressions

https://alexatnet.com/cs8-switch-statement/

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 120 comments

Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes

https://github.com/autonomy/talos

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 42 comments

Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/twitter-direct-messages/

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 64 comments

Intern at a YC Company

https://blog.ycombinator.com/intern-at-a-yc-company-2019/

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 142 comments

Sexy prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_prime

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/aqix0z/vpnsecure_moves_company_from_australia_to_hong/

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

China's housing glut casts pall over the economy

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/China-s-housing-glut-casts-pall-over-the-economy

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 79 comments

Did New York Lose Anything with Amazon’s Rejection? It’s Complicated

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/14/did-new-york-lose-anything-with-amazons-rejection-its-complicated/

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 268 comments

Facebook's security team tracks posts, location for 'BOLO' threat list

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html

7 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

TinySeed applications close today

https://tinyseed.com/apply

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Coding Intentionally in Bash Grains

https://exercism.io/blog/coding-intentionally-in-bash-grains

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in Cobol

https://github.com/lauryndbrown/Cisp

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/climate/switzerland-glaciers-climate-change.html

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 67 comments

My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/02/my-wife-and-i-didnt-tell-our-children-about-her-cancer/582709/

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 62 comments

A Lost Monument to Industry and Traditional Urbanism

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/a-lost-monument-to-industry-and-traditional-urbanism/

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Dopamine framework: Fast prototyping of reinforcement learning algorithms (2018)

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducing-new-framework-for-flexible.html

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

DConf 2019 in London

https://dconf.org/2019/index.html

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

3264 conics tangent to five conics

https://www.juliahomotopycontinuation.org/3264/

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 4 comments

IIR filters can be evaluated in parallel

https://raphlinus.github.io/audio/2019/02/14/parallel-iir.html

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Serial art thief arrested again

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/serial-art-thief-stephane-breitwieser-arrested-again

7 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

When Gravity Breaks Down

http://nautil.us/blog/when-gravity-breaks-down

7 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

The Communal Mind

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind

7 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

A 13-year-old girl reportedly makes over $1,000 a day creating ASMR videos

https://www.businessinsider.com/mackenna-kelly-asmr-children-videos-2019-2

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 77 comments
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