top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-04

Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/

7 years ago

1069 upvotes – 274 comments

Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

https://aerc-mail.org/

7 years ago

722 upvotes – 264 comments

Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-is-now-the-privacy-as-a-service-company/

7 years ago

706 upvotes – 468 comments

Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine

https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

7 years ago

633 upvotes – 94 comments

National Park Typeface

https://nationalparktypeface.com/

7 years ago

623 upvotes – 84 comments

How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)

https://medium.com/tech-product-and-life/how-i-made-200-000-when-i-was-16-years-old-304f0e87cfb6

7 years ago

611 upvotes – 217 comments

An update on last week's customer shutdown incident

https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-customer-shutdown-incident/

7 years ago

578 upvotes – 264 comments

If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190603/11293142321/if-big-tech-is-huge-antitrust-problem-why-are-we-ignoring-telecom.shtml

7 years ago

573 upvotes – 180 comments

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.html

7 years ago

546 upvotes – 244 comments

SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-87

7 years ago

545 upvotes – 331 comments

Relicensing CockroachDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/

7 years ago

487 upvotes – 282 comments

When it comes to privacy, default settings matter

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-privacy-default-settings-matter/

7 years ago

454 upvotes – 127 comments

Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ae/flying-v/

7 years ago

397 upvotes – 277 comments

An update on Sunday’s service disruption

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/an-update-on-sundays-service-disruption

7 years ago

379 upvotes – 208 comments

Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-investors-vote-to-fire-mark-zuckerberg-as-chairman-2019-6

7 years ago

333 upvotes – 270 comments

Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman

https://theweek.com/articles/844962/how-capitalism-killed-best-video-game-studios

7 years ago

327 upvotes – 285 comments

Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48445934

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 131 comments

What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”?

https://www.wired.com/story/what-does-amazons-choice-mean/

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 128 comments

Interview on ”Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way”

https://notamonadtutorial.com/interview-with-will-kurt-on-his-latest-book-bayesian-statistics-the-fun-way-63ce8aee32ed

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 52 comments

Vim/Neovim Arbitrary Code Execution via Modelines

https://github.com/numirias/security/blob/master/doc/2019-06-04_ace-vim-neovim.md

7 years ago

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218 upvotes – 104 comments

The Bloom Clock

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13064

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 43 comments

Meta-Learners – Learning how to learn

https://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2019/05/22/metalearners-learning-how-to-learn.html

7 years ago

213 upvotes – 8 comments

Building a lock free continuous ring buffer in Rust

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/lock-free-ring-buffer/

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple's Audacity

https://stratechery.com/2019/apples-audacity/

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 172 comments

Adafruit Founder Limor Fried: Open-Source Hardware Revolution [video]

https://www.tfir.io/2019/06/04/meet-adafruit-founder-limor-fried-open-source-hardware-revolution/

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 54 comments

Trump's Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students at Elite Schools

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/trump-s-next-trade-war-target-chinese-students-at-elite-schools

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 258 comments

GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages

https://github.blog/2019-06-03-github-package-registry-will-support-swift-packages/

7 years ago

169 upvotes – 33 comments

NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]

https://torguard.net/downloads/docs/Dkt.%206%20Amended%20Complaint.pdf

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 146 comments

Annotated Hacker News traffic since the beginning

https://twitter.com/yazijys/status/1135976760162553856

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 46 comments

With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/can-we-live-longer-but-stay-younger

7 years ago

149 upvotes – 233 comments

HN: The Good Parts (2017)

https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 35 comments

mTCP: A high-performance user-level TCP stack for multicore systems

https://shader.kaist.edu/mtcp/

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 60 comments

Concurrency in Python: CSP and Coroutines

https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/02/09/concurrency_with_python_csp_and_coroutines/

7 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

Firefox Follows Apple in Blocking Third-Party Cookies Online

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/firefox-follows-apple-in-blocking-third-party-cookies-online

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 26 comments

GM and Fiat Chrysler Unmasked as Tesla’s Source of Cash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/tesla-s-secret-source-of-cash-unmasked-as-gm-and-fiat-chrysler

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 132 comments

FBI alleges that DC Solar Scammed Berkshire Hathaway for Millions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/the-couple-who-feds-say-scammed-buffett-s-berkshire-hathaway

7 years ago

121 upvotes – 87 comments

Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/04/food-swamps-cvs-outsells-trader-joes-whole-foods-processed-shopping

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 122 comments

Solving Programming Puzzles Without Using Your Brain

https://doisinkidney.com/posts/2019-06-04-solving-puzzles-without-your-brain.html

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 17 comments

Brush your teeth – postpone Alzheimer's

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/tuob-byt060319.php

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 76 comments

France bans the publication of statistical information about judges’ decisions

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/06/04/france-bans-judge-analytics-5-years-in-prison-for-rule-breakers/

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 123 comments

Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine

https://www.apsx.com/APSX-PIM-Desktop-Injection-Molding-Machine-s/110.htm

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

Lo-fi hiphop beats mixed with live police scanners

http://www.the-vibe.in/san_francisco

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

Open-Sourcing Our Reactor Design, and the Future of Transatomic

http://www.transatomicpower.com/open-source/

7 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (2010)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20101201-00/?p=12153

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 86 comments

A baboon who acted as assistant to a disabled railway signalman in South Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(baboon)

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

http://www.ccnr.org/fatal_dose.html

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

HBO's Chernobyl may yet become the highest rated TV Show ever

https://kyso.io/KyleOS/imdb

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 85 comments
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