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

Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cbsa-boarder-security-search-phone-travellers-openmedia-1.5119017

7 years ago

Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/

7 years ago

Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-warning-light.html

7 years ago

Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/04/biomarker-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-identified.html

7 years ago

UX clichés

https://uxdesign.cc/a-comprehensive-and-honest-list-of-ux-clich%C3%A9s-96e2a08fb2e9?source=collection_home---4------2---------------------

7 years ago

Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki

https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-and-tricks-for-spaced-repetition-anki

7 years ago

I Made a Deal in a Bike Race

https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a22551004/i-made-a-deal-in-a-bike-race/

7 years ago

The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (2015)

https://alexdanco.com/2015/12/17/taylor-swift-ios-and-the-access-economy-why-the-normal-distribution-is-vanishing/

7 years ago

Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/improving-support-for-adult-content-on-mastodon/

7 years ago

An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deep-sleep-how-an-amateur-porn-film-set-off-a-massive-federal-witch-hunt

7 years ago

Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/key-fobs-north-olmsted-ohio.html

7 years ago

Map Shows Millions of Acres of Lost Amazon Rainforest

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/three-million-acres-brazil-rainforest-lost/

7 years ago

Network offloading in OpenWrt (2018) [pdf]

https://openwrtsummit.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/hauke-mehrtens.pdf

7 years ago

I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python

https://medium.com/@jcpeters/how-i-got-control-of-my-spending-with-a-couple-no-code-services-and-only-100-lines-of-python-code-36c8ac75f670

7 years ago

DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”

https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-proposes-the-do-not-track-act-of-2019-316258

7 years ago

The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (1997) [pdf]

http://www-users.mat.umk.pl/~adwid/materialy/doc/church.pdf

7 years ago

The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/frankly-we-do-give-damn-relationship-between-profanity-honesty

7 years ago

CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems

http://www.clipsrules.net/

7 years ago

Start Binge-Reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-you-should-start-binge-reading-right-now.html

7 years ago

Tor Browser disabled NoScript, but can't update

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2019-May/045116.html

7 years ago

Scopes – Retargetable programming language and infrastructure

https://bitbucket.org/duangle/scopes/wiki/Home

7 years ago

How to Understand Systems

https://neilkakkar.com/understanding-systems.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: How common is it to work on projects with no testing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19834777

7 years ago

Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (2016)

https://grist.org/living/mushroom-burial-suit-turns-dead-bodies-into-clean-compost/

7 years ago

Flashrom – flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM and expansion cards

https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom

7 years ago

What No One Is Reporting About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/

7 years ago

Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay

https://github.com/eBay/beam

7 years ago

★ 1.6k Go Apache-2.0

Reform capitalism or face revolution

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-milken-conference-ray-dalio-20190502-story.html

7 years ago

DNSCrypt – how expired certificates became a thing of the past

https://00f.net/2019/05/04/fixing-expired-certificates/

7 years ago

Saving a Million People from a Cyclone

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/world/asia/cyclone-fani-india-evacuations.html

7 years ago

SirixDB – An Evolutionary, Temporal NoSQL Storage System

https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix

7 years ago

★ 1.1k Java BSD-3-Clause

After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (2014)

https://feld.com/archives/2014/06/first-big-success-whats-next.html

7 years ago

400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands

https://www.apnews.com/fac7326cd5dc4a89bf11599638100da4

7 years ago

US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO

https://www.thedrive.com/news/27824/us-ride-share-drivers-ready-for-massive-countrywide-strike-ahead-of-uber-ipo

7 years ago

How to slice your code into continuations

https://dpiponi.github.io/cont.html

7 years ago

The FDA fails to adequately screen or monitor products

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/medical-devices.html

7 years ago

What Uber Left Behind in Asia

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-02/what-uber-left-behind-in-asia

7 years ago