top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-05

Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

https://www.nsa.gov/ghidra

7 years ago

Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir

https://stressgrid.com/blog/100k_cps_with_elixir/

7 years ago

How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all

https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-glasses-lenscrafters-luxottica-monopoly-20190305-story.html

7 years ago

The Troika Laundromat

https://www.occrp.org/en/troikalaundromat/

7 years ago

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

https://introtcs.org

7 years ago

A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card

https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604

7 years ago

Debian Buster will only be 54% reproducible, while we could be at 90%

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/03/msg00017.html

7 years ago

Studying the demise of historic civilisations

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse

7 years ago

FaunaDB 2.5.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/faunadb-2.5.4

7 years ago

A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/04/the-backyard-mechanic-who-taking-tesla/Sv1l8q2sxpQvTFMp13VFwM/story.html

7 years ago

Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-india-idUSKCN1QL22C

7 years ago

Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS

https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm

7 years ago

Oxide: A Formal Semantics for Rust

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00982

7 years ago

Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017)

https://boren.blog/2017/01/26/autistic-burnout-the-cost-of-coping-and-passing/

7 years ago

Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39482342

7 years ago

From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-simcity-inspired-urban-planners-20190305-story.html

7 years ago

A surprisingly arcane little Unix shell pipeline example

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShellPipelineIndeterminate

7 years ago

The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theory-of-intelligence/

7 years ago

Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry

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

7 years ago

Why American Construction Costs Are So High

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-costs-are-so-high-work-in-progress/

7 years ago

Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists

https://ifixit.org/blog/13979/apples-2018-macbook-pros-attempt-to-solve-flexgate-without-admitting-it-exists/

7 years ago

The Growth Stacks of 2019

https://segment.com/blog/the-growth-stacks-of-2019/

7 years ago

Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-gpipe-open-source-library.html

7 years ago

Best of Machine Learning

http://bestofml.com/

7 years ago

Transform ML models into native code with zero dependencies

https://github.com/BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

7 years ago

★ 2.9k Python MIT

Sinclair ZX Spectrum Prototype

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/51620/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-Prototype/

7 years ago

The sad state of font rendering on Linux

https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

7 years ago

Some young people are buying houses with friends

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46895770

7 years ago

PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/

7 years ago

Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/05/spoiler_intel_flaw/

7 years ago

Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action

7 years ago

Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered Retinal Nanoantennae

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30101-1#%20

7 years ago

Common Lisp Koans

https://github.com/google/lisp-koans

7 years ago

★ 3.1k Common Lisp Apache-2.0

Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/dirty-money-scandal-widens-with-reports-on-nordea-and-lithuania

7 years ago

Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

7 years ago

★ 10.8k C++ Unlicense

A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices

https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-battery-prices/?sf99535078=1

7 years ago

Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters

https://nicepage.com/doc/article/20348/web-design-3-0-when-your-web-design-really-matters

7 years ago

Mozilla fears DarkMatter ‘misuse’ of browser for hacking

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-usa-spying-darkmatter/firefox-maker-fears-darkmatter-misuse-of-browser-for-hacking-idINKCN1QL28T

7 years ago

Lambda Cube

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

7 years ago

Google Coral Edge TPU

https://coral.withgoogle.com/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19312584

7 years ago

Rare new kind of twins: boy and girl are semi-identical

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/semi-identical-twins-1.5036783

7 years ago

Bare Metal STM32 Programming and a Quadcopters Awakening

https://timakro.de/blog/bare-metal-stm32-programming/

7 years ago

Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library

https://blog.scrapinghub.com/spidermon-scrapy-spider-monitoring

7 years ago

Show HN: Deep Work Hours

https://pomodoro-80211.firebaseapp.com/

7 years ago

A Japanese Love Hotel

https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2019/japanese-love-hotels-toko-sekiguchi/

7 years ago

Neural MMO – A Multiagent Game Environment

https://blog.openai.com/neural-mmo/

7 years ago

Websites using SSAI (server side ad injection)

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/1905

7 years ago

★ 5.6k Adblock Filter List GPL-3.0

Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html

7 years ago

Vulcanizer: A Library for Operating Elasticsearch

https://githubengineering.com/vulcanizer-a-library-for-elasticsearch/

7 years ago

DigitalOcean Marketplace

https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-digitalocean-marketplace/

7 years ago

Show HN: tor_ssh.sh – One command to enable SSH access via Tor

https://gitlab.com/grownetics/devops/blob/master/tor_ssh.sh

7 years ago

Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html

7 years ago

Sleep helps to repair damaged DNA in neurons, scientists find

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/05/sleep-helps-to-repair-damaged-dna-in-neurons-scientists-find

7 years ago

Sound waves transport a small amount of mass, according to theory

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/23

7 years ago

Node.js Logging Made Right

https://itnext.io/nodejs-logging-made-right-117a19e8b4ce

7 years ago

Sikorsky’s autonomous helicopter tech is ready for takeoff

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2019/3/5/18250996/sikorsky-autonomous-helicopter-flying-taxi-lockheed

7 years ago

What Was the Happiest Day on the Internet This Decade?

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/3/5/18249733/happiest-day-internet-history-ranking

7 years ago

Why is the wedding industry so hard to disrupt?

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/1/18246428/wedtech-wedding-startups-zola-the-knot

7 years ago