top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-05

“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

7 years ago

Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google

7 years ago

Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust

https://docs.rs/actix-web/1.0.0/actix_web

7 years ago

Firefox Monitor

https://monitor.firefox.com/scan

7 years ago

I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2

7 years ago

Why aren’t more companies remote-first?

https://upside.fm/the-future-of-work-is-here-so-why-arent-more-companies-remote-first/

7 years ago

macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_10_15_beta_release_notes#3318257

7 years ago

The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved (2018)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/The-cutting-edge-of-cutting-How-Japanese-scissors-have-evolved2

7 years ago

CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/06/css-grid-level-2-subgrid-is-coming-to-firefox/

7 years ago

How does Apple privately find offline devices?

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/06/05/how-does-apple-privately-find-your-offline-devices/

7 years ago

GnuCash: Open-source double-entry accounting software

https://www.gnucash.org/

7 years ago

GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

https://twitter.com/jasonrohrer/status/1136092621149880320

7 years ago

Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initialization

https://prdeving.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/how-to-write-a-game-engine-in-pure-c-part-2-the-graphic-initialization/

7 years ago

Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48522729

7 years ago

On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10220

7 years ago

YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-extremist-videos.html

7 years ago

Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic

https://github.com/github/semantic/blob/master/docs/why-haskell.md

7 years ago

★ 9k Haskell

The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap

https://tedium.co/2019/06/04/used-workstation-computer-buying-strategy/

7 years ago

Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers

https://secarch.dev/posts/plausible-deniability-and-gaslighting-in-fighting-ad-blockers/

7 years ago

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan

https://github.com/rmcelreath/statrethinking_winter2019

7 years ago

★ 2k

Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-leaps-long-assumed-to-be-instantaneous-take-time-20190605/

7 years ago

Languages of India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

7 years ago

Show HN: Translate English to SQL

https://github.com/paulfitz/mlsql

7 years ago

★ 918 Python

Rethinking Visual Programming with Go

https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/

7 years ago

RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

7 years ago

Sealed Rust: A plan to bring Rust to safety critical software domains

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/

7 years ago

Protecting Sleep in the Hospital, for Both Patients and Doctors

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/well/mind/sleep-hospital-patients-doctors-fatigue.html

7 years ago

Ebola cases pass 2k as crisis escalates

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01735-0

7 years ago

Carnival Cruise Lines Hit with $20M Penalty for Environmental Crimes

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729622653/carnival-cruise-lines-hit-with-20-million-penalty-for-environmental-crimes

7 years ago

US International Students Lose Internships Because of Outdated Work Policies

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/06/princeton-opt-joint-letter

7 years ago

Controversial U.S. bill would lift Supreme Court ban on patenting human genes

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/controversial-us-bill-would-lift-supreme-court-ban-patenting-human-genes

7 years ago

PSPTool Is a Swiss Army Knife for the Firmware of the AMD Secure Processor

https://github.com/cwerling/psptool

7 years ago

★ 688 Python GPL-3.0

OpenBSD Recent Security Innovations

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190605110020

7 years ago

Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html

7 years ago

There are now more people over sixty-four than children younger than five

https://ourworldindata.org/population-aged-65-outnumber-children

7 years ago

Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN

https://arc.io/

7 years ago

Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/upshot/student-debt-big-culprit-graduate-school.html

7 years ago

Amazon Unveils Futuristic Helicopter-Plane Hybrid Drone for Deliveries

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-05/amazon-poised-to-test-chopper-plane-mashup-for-drone-deliveries

7 years ago

The Perpetual Diamond: Contrast Reversal Along Edges Create Appearance of Motion

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669518815708

7 years ago

The Euthanasia That Wasn’t

https://www.politico.eu/article/noa-pothoven-euthanasia-that-wasnt-suicide-mental-illness-anorexia/

7 years ago

Why It Is Important That Software Projects Fail (2008)

http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/ImportantThatSoftwareFails.html

7 years ago

Taiwan bucks world trend to be No. 1 in semiconductor equipment spending

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2019/06/05/2003716336

7 years ago

Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/roundup-cancer-risk-is-only-one-danger-to-humans-animals

7 years ago

Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, try

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/32437-try-builtin.md

7 years ago

★ 3.4k HTML BSD-3-Clause

Cat Declawing Is Banned by New York State Lawmakers

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/nyregion/cats-declawing-law-ban.html

7 years ago

The DevOps Phenomenon: An executive crash course

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3338532

7 years ago

Show HN: 3D multiplayer space shooter made with Three.js

https://urk-3d-multi-space-game.herokuapp.com

7 years ago

Distributed Locks Are Dead; Long Live Distributed Locks

https://hazelcast.com/blog/long-live-distributed-locks/

7 years ago

Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natural, Cross-Skill Conversations

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/9615b190-9c95-452c-b04d-0a29f6a96dd1/amazon-unveils-novel-alexa-dialog-modeling-for-natural-cross-skill-conversations

7 years ago

Using machine learning to estimate lost demand in a fulfillment chain

https://tech.instacart.com/modeling-the-unseen-6a51c9a02430?gi=2b1c2c2c8646

7 years ago

When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/why-teens-try-airdrop-you-memes-concerts/591064/

7 years ago

Apple makes zsh default shell on macOS

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050

7 years ago

Too Many People Want to Travel

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/crowds-tourists-are-ruining-popular-destinations/590767/

7 years ago

The Science Behind Why Some Are Shy

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190604-the-science-behind-why-some-of-us-are-shy

7 years ago

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html

7 years ago

The Forecaster: The Man Who Decided D-Day

https://blog.usejournal.com/the-weatherman-the-man-who-decided-d-day-d0eb5cad3f7e?sk=c7f5ab95b53b2761e5c8d4f460aa82a3

7 years ago

Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell (2017)

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/08/25/writing-a-formally-verified-porn-browser-in-coq.html

7 years ago

Julia Summer of Einsum

https://nextjournal.com/under-Peter/julia-summer-of-einsum

7 years ago

Peloton Confidentially Files Statement for Proposed IPO

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/peloton-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-for-proposed-initial-public-offering-300862485.html

7 years ago

FBI Records: Bigfoot (1976)

https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot/bigfoot-part-01-of-01/view

7 years ago

NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows

https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/News-Stories/Article-View/Article/1865726/nsa-cybersecurity-advisory-patch-remote-desktop-services-on-legacy-versions-of/

7 years ago

Show HN: Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018)

http://www.secretgeek.net/codes

7 years ago

Kedro: open-source library for production-ready machine learning code

https://medium.com/@QuantumBlack/introducing-kedro-the-open-source-library-for-production-ready-machine-learning-code-d1c6d26ce2cf

7 years ago