top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-17

Flightradar24 – how it works

https://habr.com/en/post/440596/

7 years ago

You probably don't need a single-page app

https://journal.plausible.io/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app

7 years ago

Going Solo, Successfully

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/going-solo-successfully

7 years ago

WireGuard for MacOS

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-February/003853.html

7 years ago

We Lost Our Ability to Mend

https://dieworkwear.com/post/182126040434/how-we-lost-our-ability-to-mend

7 years ago

LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/ld_preload/

7 years ago

Hexagonal Grids (2013)

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

7 years ago

An Honest Living

https://stevesalaita.com/an-honest-living/

7 years ago

On Being an Engineering Manager

https://nickmchardy.com/2019/02/on-being-an-engineering-manager.html

7 years ago

What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"

https://newfoodeconomy.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-reclassifed/

7 years ago

Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users

https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap

7 years ago

★ 55.1k Python GPL-3.0

The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

7 years ago

★ 217.7k MIT

Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125084106.htm

7 years ago

Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for Discrete GPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Memory-Regions-Local-Dev

7 years ago

Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/17/etsy-sellers-say-their-bank-ac.html

7 years ago

Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04738

7 years ago

Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang

https://www.ft.com/content/9ed9362e-31f7-11e9-bb0c-42459962a812

7 years ago

AWS Nitro System

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2019/02/aws-nitro-system/

7 years ago

Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/y-combinators-latest-batch-of-startups-is-too-big-for-one-demo-day-stage/

7 years ago

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/

7 years ago

Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position

https://leerob.io/blog/technical-recruiting-is-broken/

7 years ago

AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47267081

7 years ago

Warning: Debian stable kernel upgrade breaks most ARM SBC

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=922478

7 years ago

Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor

https://duo.com/labs/research/apple-t2-xpc

7 years ago

CSS Grid the Right Way

https://vgpena.github.io/using-css-grid-the-right-way/

7 years ago

The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

https://thewalrus.ca/the-rise-of-the-tech-savvy-parent/

7 years ago

Web page service workers bypass ad-blockers after Chrome 72 upgrade?

https://twitter.com/jviide/status/1096947294920949760

7 years ago

Tech tips for people who are going to die someday (2015)

https://medium.com/message/deathhacks-b767903b7c15

7 years ago

Dolphins apparently getting 'high' with the help of toxic puffer fish (2013)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2530664/High-not-dry-Dolphins-filmed-chewing-toxic-puffer-fish-enjoy-narcotic-like-effects.html

7 years ago