top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-08

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

https://public-sans.digital.gov/

7 years ago

It seems that Google is forgetting the old web

http://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/

7 years ago

58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

https://jrl.ninja/etc/1

7 years ago

VPN – Very Precarious Narrative

https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html

7 years ago

US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-are-highly-taxed-when-you-count-health-premiums/

7 years ago

Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/08/facebook-are-morally-bankrupt-liars-says-new-zealands-privacy-commissioner

7 years ago

No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/secret-service-mar-a-lago/

7 years ago

Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-08/norway-is-walking-away-from-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-and-gas

7 years ago

A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-news-industry-research-says-no/

7 years ago

Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

http://blevesearch.com/

7 years ago

BASIC Computer Games

http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html

7 years ago

Zig 0.4.0 Released

https://ziglang.org/download/0.4.0/release-notes.html

7 years ago

Paint Is Colored Glue

https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?3820

7 years ago

Explaining Sex Rate Changes

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/explaining-sex-rate-changes.html

7 years ago

Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/aroma-ml-for-code-recommendation/

7 years ago

Notarizing Your App Before Distribution

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution?language=objc

7 years ago

Mathematics and Computation [pdf]

https://www.math.ias.edu/files/Website03-25-19.pdf

7 years ago

An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy

http://behindthequest.com/instagram-frauds-fake-influencers/

7 years ago

Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/declassified-u-2-spy-plane-photos-are-boon-aerial-archaeology

7 years ago

Turning the Puzzle Sideways: Sleep, Diet and the Brain-Gut Connection

http://cowboy.vc/blog/?p=158

7 years ago

Open Source Is Winning, and Now It's Time for People to Win Too

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-winning-and-now-its-time-people-win-too

7 years ago

Google Cloud Healthcare API

https://cloud.google.com/healthcare/

7 years ago

Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)

https://misfra.me/2017/12/12/apples-9-dollar-engineering-marvel-no-one-wants/

7 years ago

More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/more-jails-replace-in-person-visits-with-awful-video-chat-products/

7 years ago

A gentle introduction to symbolic execution

https://blog.monic.co/a-gentle-introduction-to-symbolic-execution/

7 years ago

Gimp 2.10.10 released

https://www.gimp.org/news/2019/04/07/gimp-2-10-10-released/

7 years ago

Request’s Past, Present and Future

https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

7 years ago

★ 25.5k JavaScript Apache-2.0

Unofficial new Berlin rapid transit route map

https://berlintransitmap.de/

7 years ago

On Startup Capital Efficiency

https://stevecheney.com/on-startup-capital-efficiency/

7 years ago

Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure

https://bytecellar.com/2019/04/07/lets-talk-about-capacitor-failure/

7 years ago

Linux Mint's Sobering Update: A Glimpse into the Personal Struggles Devs Face

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/08/linux-mint-sobering-update-developer-struggles-community/

7 years ago

In China, an App About Xi Is Impossible to Ignore – Even If You Try

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-study-the-great-nation-app.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Ddgr – search DuckDuckGo from your terminal

https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

7 years ago

★ 3.3k Python GPL-3.0

Our Stripe Billing implementation and the one webhook to rule them all

https://blog.checklyhq.com/our-stripe-billing-implementation-the-one-webhook-to-rule-them-all/

7 years ago

Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro

https://twobithistory.org/2019/03/31/bbc-micro.html

7 years ago

Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/08/how-bad-can-it-git-characterizing-secret-leakage-in-public-github-repositories/

7 years ago

Gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer's and other diseases

https://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-gum-disease-11029/

7 years ago

Why Rent Control Doesn't Work

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/

7 years ago

Linus: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Are “A Disease”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/linux-facebook-instagram-twitter-disease

7 years ago

SpaceVim v1.1.0 released

https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v1.1.0/

7 years ago

The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its tech secrets

https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/federal-officials-say-boston-companies-universities-are-potential-targets-chinese-espionage/article/3005150

7 years ago

Fortnite and the Good Life

https://tinyletter.com/lmsacasas/letters/the-convivial-society-no-15-fortnite-and-the-good-life

7 years ago

From Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/caucher-birkar-from-asylum-seeker-to-fields-medal-winner-at-cambridge-xrz5t7ktj

7 years ago

Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/08/researchers-warn-arctic-has-entered-unprecedented-state-threatens-global-climate

7 years ago

Show HN: RealtimeApp – Deploy a realtime app using serverless components

https://github.com/serverless-components/RealtimeApp

7 years ago

A Long Adventure: Repairing Ultra-Rare NTSC Amiga Ultima 6

https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1013

7 years ago

Building a PostgreSQL load tester

https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/building-a-postgresql-load-tester/

7 years ago

Y Combinator’s growth fund to back challenger bank Monzo

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/monzo-mystery-investor/

7 years ago

Why Drug Prices Keep Rising Despite Congress's Efforts

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-08/why-drug-prices-keep-rising-despite-congress-s-efforts

7 years ago

Search all Craigslist cities for a remote job

https://remotejobs.today/

7 years ago

The Physical Sacrifice of Thinking (2015)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105314565827

7 years ago

Chromium-based Edge preview builds

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/04/08/microsoft-edge-preview-builds-the-next-step-in-our-oss-journey/#StkMOeGHF90ywVZP.97

7 years ago

Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-exotic-patterns-of-synchronization-20190404/

7 years ago

Permanent Magnetic Materials Without Rare Earth Metals

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1295906

7 years ago

UK government proposes fine or block if website fails to tackle “online harms”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47826946

7 years ago