top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-04-13

South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/south-korea-recycling-food-waste/

7 years ago

VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers

https://www.fossmint.com/vscodium-clone-of-visual-studio-code-for-linux/

7 years ago

Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html

7 years ago

JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)

https://arp242.net/weblog/json_as_configuration_files-_please_dont

7 years ago

Web Developer's Guide to DNS

https://rjzaworski.com/2019/04/the-web-developers-guide-to-dns

7 years ago

The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-indictment-of-julian-assange-is-a-threat-to-journalism

7 years ago

Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange, Arrested in Ecuador

https://nypost.com/2019/04/12/software-engineer-close-to-julian-assange-arrested-while-trying-to-leave-ecuador/

7 years ago

Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-tatsuya-takahashi/

7 years ago

Construction has kept rent in Chongqing, China to $75 a month

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/asia/chongqing-china-employment-ford-youth.html

7 years ago

Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers

https://onezero.medium.com/the-app-privacy-crisis-apple-and-google-need-to-fix-now-4e3590f2fc52?sk=12d73f8b09e058d3ab8f5a4b02cf8619

7 years ago

How to organize a study group, book club, online group or event

http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2019/3/27/you-should-organize-a-study-groupbook-clubonline-groupevent-tips-on-how-to-do-it

7 years ago

Emissions fall in Madrid city center thanks to new traffic restrictions

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/14/inenglish/1552556189_425975.html

7 years ago

I miss Facebook

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/i-miss-facebook-and-im-not-ashamed-to-admit-it.html

7 years ago

Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/business/media/hollywood-writers-agents-fire.html

7 years ago

Vladimir Komarov went on a space suicide mission to save his best friend, Yuri

https://twitter.com/DMOberhaus/status/1116939111368097792

7 years ago

Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/what-to-spend-your-tax-refund-on-how-about-the-doctor

7 years ago

The Guide to Writing Online

https://www.perell.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-online

7 years ago

Canada’s legal pot is going well

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-politics-marijuana/canadas-trudeau-isnt-talking-about-it-but-legal-pot-is-going-well-idUSKCN1RO1ZT

7 years ago

Infrastructure as Code, Part One

https://crate.io/a/infrastructure-as-code-part-one/

7 years ago

Norway aviation firm orders 60 all-electric airplanes, drops operation costs 80%

https://electrek.co/2019/04/11/norway-60-electric-airplanes/

7 years ago

Why I Switched from Visual Studio Code to JetBrains WebStorm

https://www.mokkapps.de/blog/why-i-switched-from-vscode-to-webstorm/

7 years ago

Firefox banning noisy video from autoplaying

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/firefox-to-block-noisy-autoplaying-video-in-next-release/

7 years ago

Configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting

https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js

7 years ago

★ 12.4k JavaScript MIT

Hackers publish data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/12/police-data-hack/

7 years ago

Apple censors song about Tiananmen Square protests

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/12/18305087/congress-apple-criticism-china-communist-tiananmen-pro-democracy

7 years ago

Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-deems-russia-a-pioneer-in-gps-spoofing-attacks/

7 years ago

Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware

https://www.berkeleyopenarms.org

7 years ago

Understanding zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples

https://blog.goodaudience.com/understanding-zero-knowledge-proofs-through-simple-examples-df673f796d99

7 years ago

Giistr – Search, filter and help on GitHub issues

https://giistr.com

7 years ago

Fucking Color Picker

https://www.tonymccoy.me/projects/fcp/

7 years ago

Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take pictures of a black hole

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/13/18308652/katie-bouman-black-hole-science-internet

7 years ago

Cross-Browser NoScript Hits the Chrome Store

https://hackademix.net/2019/04/12/cross-browser-noscript-hits-the-chrome-store/

7 years ago

Compiling Dynamic Languages (2013) [pdf]

http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/6620/pdf/imm6620.pdf

7 years ago

The Myths of Enlightenment

http://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/marta-figlerowicz-myths-enlightenment

7 years ago

March Temperatures in Alaska: 20 Degrees Hotter Than Usual

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/climate/alaska-abnormally-hot-march.html

7 years ago

Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/opinion/sunday/facebook-privacy-parenting.html

7 years ago

The US govt’s indictment of Julian Assange poses grave threats to press freedom

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indictment-of-julian-assange-poses-grave-threats-to-press-freedoms/

7 years ago

Jumia is not an African startup

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1117092692423512064.html

7 years ago

C to Delphi converter (2018)

https://github.com/WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi

7 years ago

★ 283 Pascal MIT

Please be more careful when interpreting the Stack Overflow Developer Survey

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/382731

7 years ago

How many holes does a straw have? [video]

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

7 years ago