top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-02-28

UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly

7 years ago

$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now

https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now

7 years ago

Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/02/28/sharing-our-common-voices-mozilla-releases-the-largest-to-date-public-domain-transcribed-voice-dataset/

7 years ago

Redesigning GitHub Repository Page

http://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/

7 years ago

YouTube bans comments on all videos of children

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47408969

7 years ago

Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-component-in-rust/

7 years ago

Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

https://liberapay.com/

7 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19274941

7 years ago

Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source

https://pagedraw.io/

7 years ago

Formally Specifying UIs (2018)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/formally-specifying-uis/

7 years ago

Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable

https://unintendedconsequenc.es/uyghurs-xinjiang-onward-to-the-inevitable/

7 years ago

Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/facebook-vs-patreon/

7 years ago

Heat Pumps Work Miracles

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/06/heat-pumps-work-miracles/

7 years ago

Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

https://expensive.chat

7 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.33.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/02/28/Rust-1.33.0.html

7 years ago

America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s

https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/america-s-cities-are-running-on-software-from-the-80s

7 years ago

How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal

https://www.lucasfcosta.com/2019/02/10/terminal-guide-2019.html

7 years ago

Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions

https://joecmarshall.com/posts/job-description-red-flags/

7 years ago

C Macro Magic

http://sagartewari01.com/c-macro-magic/

7 years ago

From Alex’s Family

https://alex.blog/2019/02/27/from-alexs-family/

7 years ago

Gomacro: Interactive Go interpreter and debugger with generics and macros

https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro#gomacro---interactive-go-interpreter-and-debugger-with-generics-and-macros

7 years ago

★ 2.2k Go MPL-2.0

GrapesJS – Free and Open Source Web Builder Framework

https://grapesjs.com/

7 years ago

The hard part in becoming a command line wizard

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/18/command-line-wizard/

7 years ago

Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGY3uBHVVr4

7 years ago

2FA on the command line

https://www.sendthemtomir.com/blog/cli-2-factor-authentication

7 years ago

Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?

https://cyclingtips.com/2019/02/did-strava-copy-its-mobile-route-builder-from-another-app/

7 years ago

A Camera Lens Made from an Iceberg

https://www.mathieustern.com/blog/2018/10/22/l437fjpq58g619vlkm6t1iwhk8s6dr

7 years ago

Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your WiFi passwords, stored in the clear

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/29/fiat-lux.html

7 years ago

Sub-Acute Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02791072.2019.1580804

7 years ago

Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs

https://branchfree.org/2019/02/28/paper-hyperscan-a-fast-multi-pattern-regex-matcher-for-modern-cpus/

7 years ago

This Is Silicon Valley

https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-silicon-valley-3c4583d6e7c2

7 years ago

A Death Sentence for a Life of Service

https://livingotherwise.com/2019/01/22/death-sentence-life-service/

7 years ago

500M-year-old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-million-year-old-worm-superhighway-canada.html

7 years ago

Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

https://hackernoon.com/programming-books-you-wish-you-read-earlier-1066ce29cd9d

7 years ago

Bitbucket Pipes

https://bitbucket.org/blog/meet-bitbucket-pipes-30-ways-to-automate-your-ci-cd-pipeline

7 years ago

Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)

https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/01/why-portlands-public-toilets-succeeded-where-others-failed/1020/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Successful projects that weren't received well on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270689

7 years ago

Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past performance, not resumes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19273409

7 years ago

Quilc: An optimizing quantum compiler written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/rigetti/quilc

7 years ago

★ 491 Common Lisp Apache-2.0

Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insight-idUSKCN1G8060

7 years ago