top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-05-07

Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

7 years ago

★ 6.5k Ruby MIT

Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

https://nest.com/whats-happening/

7 years ago

The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)

https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/

7 years ago

Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop

https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/Flutter-io19.html

7 years ago

Open source collaborative text editors

https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/

7 years ago

What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/

7 years ago

Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long

https://www.simplethread.com/dear-client-heres-why-that-change-took-so-long/

7 years ago

Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild

https://wp.josh.com/2019/05/06/breaking-news-google-adwords-exploit-seen-in-the-wild-yikes/

7 years ago

Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica

https://mathics.github.io/

7 years ago

Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/05/01/researchers-identity-sleep-as-a-key-reason-why-personality-traits-predict-longevity

7 years ago

Pixel 3a

https://blog.google/products/pixel/io-pixel-3a/

7 years ago

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8?701f20000012hnlAAA#

7 years ago

To ORM or Not to ORM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/to-orm-or-not-to-orm/

7 years ago

JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

https://jsmpeg.com/

7 years ago

Smarter Training of Neural Networks

https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/smarter-training-neural-networks

7 years ago

Show HN: Full Help – Self-hosted help desk and knowledge base software

https://www.fullhelp.com/en?ref=hacker-news

7 years ago

Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

7 years ago

Networks of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/smarter-living/why-you-need-a-network-of-low-stakes-casual-friendships.html

7 years ago

How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/apple-store-locations-reviews-show-customer-service-in-decline

7 years ago

20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse

https://gizmodo.com/20-years-ago-microsoft-changed-how-we-mouse-forever-1834274151

7 years ago

Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/two-senators-say-a-5-billion-fine-isnt-enough-to-punish-facebook/

7 years ago

Being Glue

https://noidea.dog/glue

7 years ago

Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/kotlin-is-now-googles-preferred-language-for-android-app-development/

7 years ago

Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes

https://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_usa07.html

7 years ago

Show HN: 2M fully loaded concurrent WebSockets

https://oatpp.io/benchmark/websocket/2-million/

7 years ago

Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/googles-scalable-supercomputers-for-machine-learning-cloud-tpu-pods-are-now-publicly-available-in-beta

7 years ago

Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/lawsuits-att-verizon-t-mobile-sprint-broke-law-by-selling-location-data/

7 years ago

Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-experimental-device-electricity-coldness-universe.html

7 years ago

How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone

7 years ago

U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27795/the-air-force-just-shot-down-multiple-missiles-with-a-laser-destined-for-fighter-aircraft

7 years ago

Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/342130/Former_Fortnite_UX_lead_digs_into_ethical_game_design.php

7 years ago

Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.html

7 years ago

ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11

https://protonmail.com/blog/internet-explorer-support/

7 years ago

Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/05/07/detroits-led-streetlights-going-dark-after-few-years/3650465002/

7 years ago

Some AMD CPU's RDRAND might not return random data after a suspend/resume

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11810#issuecomment-489727505

7 years ago

★ 16.2k C GPL-2.0

Improving privacy and security on the web

https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-security-on-web.html

7 years ago

Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB

https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-time-series-data-and-timescaledb/6642/

7 years ago

Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings

https://investor.lyft.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lyft-announces-record-first-quarter-results

7 years ago

Czech Republic proposes the highest digital tax rate in Europe

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-03/the-czech-republic-s-new-digital-tax-is-the-right-approach

7 years ago

Distributed consensus revised

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/07/distributed-consensus-revised-part-i/

7 years ago

Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (2007) [pdf]

http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/RS/paper_rt07.pdf

7 years ago

Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-06/trump-could-cost-future-retirees-billions

7 years ago

WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks

https://paragonie.com/blog/2019/05/wordpress-5-2-mitigating-supply-chain-attacks-against-33-internet

7 years ago

Linux 5.1 Arrives

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-5-1-arrives/

7 years ago

Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns

https://zeltser.com/security-checklist-for-campaigns/

7 years ago

Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]

https://events.google.com/io/

7 years ago

GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/gm-cruise-raises-1-5b-at-a-19b-valuation-from-softbank-and-honda/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847882

7 years ago

Active freelancer banned on Upwork after video verification process

https://medium.com/@mihajlomilenovic/upwork-banned-after-3-years-and-50k-earned-for-being-unshaven-6b1450af2572

7 years ago

When time became regular and universal, it changed history

https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universal-it-changed-history

7 years ago

A tectonic plate may have peeled apart

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/tectonic-plate-peeled-apart-could-shrink-atlantic-ocean-geology/

7 years ago

The Myth of Convenience

https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/05/06/the-myth-of-convenience/

7 years ago

Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0zZqHOZq7M

7 years ago

Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier

https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/05/07/cray-amd-exascale-frontier-at-oak-ridge/

7 years ago

Performance of nnn vs. ls

https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/performance

7 years ago

★ 21.5k C BSD-2-Clause