top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-05-09

We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

https://blog.niteo.co/paypal-ban-after-12-years/

7 years ago

We Can Do Better Than SQL

https://edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql

7 years ago

Open source firmware is important for security

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/why-open-source-firmware-is-important-for-security/

7 years ago

Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-plan-the-rest-of-the-story/

7 years ago

Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/

7 years ago

All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-chromebooks-will-also-be-linux-laptops-going-forward/

7 years ago

Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html

7 years ago

Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/

7 years ago

For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/this-little-device-relieves-a-cpu-from-its-garbage-collection-duties

7 years ago

Blue Moon

http://blueorigin.com/blue-moon

7 years ago

Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?

https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harder-than-3d-graphics/

7 years ago

United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/united-nations-expert-arrested-in-tunisia-for-using-an-rtl-sdr/

7 years ago

It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/

7 years ago

The Beauty of Calculus [video]

https://frankeprogram.yale.edu/event/steven-strogatz-lecture-april-26-2019

7 years ago

Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site

https://twitter.com/berkcgoksel/status/1125727590440931329

7 years ago

PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1939/

7 years ago

When Engineers Become Whistleblowers

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/

7 years ago

TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning

https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-graphics-computer-graphics-meets-deep-learning-c8e3877b7668

7 years ago

Google launches new “portal” HTML element

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-launches-portals-a-new-web-page-navigation-system-for-chrome/

7 years ago

How to Do Nothing (2017)

https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb

7 years ago