top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-03-13

Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/

7 years ago

Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/google-has-quietly-added-duckduckgo-as-a-search-engine-option-for-chrome-users-in-60-markets/

7 years ago

Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop

https://www.troyhunt.com/these-cookie-warning-shenanigans-have-got-to-stop/

7 years ago

Give Me Back My Monolith

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/13/give-me-back-my-monolith/

7 years ago

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics

https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/13/18263905/dwarf-fortress-steam-graphics-workshop

7 years ago

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/technology/facebook-data-subpoenas.html

7 years ago

U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-bans-boeing-737-max-8-after-ethiopian-airline-lion-air-crashes-2019-3

7 years ago

Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/03/13/facebook-instagram-go-down-across-united-states-apparent-outage/3151883002/

7 years ago

Online activists are silencing us, scientists say

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/

7 years ago

Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker

https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/02/alpine-linux-docker-infrastructure/

7 years ago

Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp

7 years ago

JIT-Less V8

https://v8.dev/blog/jitless

7 years ago

Gmail is having an outage

https://outage.report/gmail#2019-03-13

7 years ago

Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/iodide-an-experimental-tool-for-scientific-communicatiodide-for-scientific-communication-exploration-on-the-web/

7 years ago

Sublime Text 3.2 Released

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-point-2

7 years ago

Why is no one signing their emails?

https://arp242.net/weblog/signing-emails.html

7 years ago

A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/godaddy-apple-and-google-goof-results-in-1-million-misissued-certificates/

7 years ago

US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47548083

7 years ago

How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust

https://tech.channable.com/posts/2019-03-13-how-we-made-haskell-search-strings-as-fast-as-rust.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19375624

7 years ago

Android Q Beta

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-android-q-beta.html

7 years ago

Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/garneau-boeing-ethiopia-crash-1.5054234

7 years ago

Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/google-hardware-makes-cuts-to-laptop-and-tablet-development-cancels-products/

7 years ago

Show HN: Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events

https://stuff.li

7 years ago

Open Source Needs Open Source Companies

http://blog.jessitron.com/2019/03/open-source-needs-open-source-companies.html

7 years ago

Why I rewrote the mesh generator of Dust3D from Rust to C++

https://blogs.dust3d.org/2019/03/13/why-i-rewrote-the-mesh-generator-of-dust3d-from-rust-to-cplusplus/

7 years ago

Death metal music inspires joy not violence

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47543875

7 years ago

Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

7 years ago

Lessons learned: writing really long fiction

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html

7 years ago

Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol

https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-consensus-protocol-423409aad32e

7 years ago

Indico – Open source tool for event organization, archival and collaboration

https://getindico.io

7 years ago

Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-tells-cells-what-they-are-20190313/

7 years ago

Erlang OTP 21.3

http://www.erlang.org/news/127

7 years ago

Why to normalize Unicode strings

https://withblue.ink/2019/03/11/why-you-need-to-normalize-unicode-strings.html

7 years ago

Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10057

7 years ago

College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/college-cheating-scandal-an-admissions-officer-speaks-out.html

7 years ago

Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/the-founder#episode-player

7 years ago

Children for Sale, 1948

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/4-children-sale-1948/

7 years ago

Why the Amazon River Can't Be Crossed by Bridge (2018)

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-the-amazon-river-cant-be-crossed-by-bridge

7 years ago

New in Chrome 73

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/03/nic73

7 years ago

Extracting Bitlocker Keys from a TPM

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing

7 years ago

Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19383941

7 years ago

Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/7/rewarding-neglect-and-punishing-investment-in-struggling-neighborhoods

7 years ago

Physicists reverse time using quantum computer

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-physicists-reverse-quantum.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Graph Processing with Postgres and GraphBLAS

https://github.com/michelp/pggraphblas

7 years ago

★ 403 C Apache-2.0

Show HN: Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine

https://tinkersynth.com/slopes

7 years ago

Buckminster Fuller on technology and useless jobs

http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/buckminster-fuller-on-technology-and-useless-jobs.html

7 years ago

Beginner's Guide to Attention Mechanisms and Memory Networks

https://skymind.ai/wiki/attention-mechanism-memory-network

7 years ago

Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO (2018)

https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/spotify-trying-to-lockin-users/

7 years ago