top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-07

Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/

7 years ago

Sign In with Apple [video]

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/706/

7 years ago

People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

https://opensociet.org/2019/05/26/people-with-greater-intellectual-humility-have-superior-general-knowledge/

7 years ago

Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

https://github.com/jsfiddle/jsfiddle-issues/issues/1417

7 years ago

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Open Source Electronics Lab for $30

https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador

7 years ago

★ 1.1k C++

Day of the Tentacle

https://www.filfre.net/2019/06/day-of-the-tentacle/

7 years ago

I left the ad industry because of data tracking

https://www.fastcompany.com/90359992/an-ad-tech-pioneer-on-where-our-data-economy-went-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it

7 years ago

Python in the Windows 10 May update

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/

7 years ago

The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1137120829005750272

7 years ago

Plotty Bird: flappy bird on the HP7440A pen plotter

https://twitter.com/WAptekar/status/1133558364213063680

7 years ago

AdTech Sucks

https://lockwood.dev/advertising/2019/06/07/adtech-sucks.html

7 years ago

SoftBank could bring down the house?

https://capitalistexploits.at/hold-my-beer/

7 years ago

Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683M

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730638739/barnes-noble-set-to-be-sold-to-elliott-management-for-about-683-million

7 years ago

Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/facebook-libra-launch/

7 years ago

Nasa to Open International Space Station to Tourists

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48560874

7 years ago

“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)

http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-becomes-sex-organs-of-machine-world.html

7 years ago

IBM and the Holocaust (2017)

http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/

7 years ago

Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/07/google-walkout-organizer-claire-stapleton-resigns

7 years ago

A mysterious crystal that melts at two different temperatures

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20190606a/full/

7 years ago

Putin’s Media Struggle to Deal with HBO’s Chernobyl

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/04/putins-media-struggle-to-deal-with-hbos-chernobyl-a65866

7 years ago

Endless Sky: GPL Licensed Escape Velocity Successor

https://endless-sky.github.io/

7 years ago

Ara: A 1 GHz+ Scalable and Energy-Efficient RISC-V Vector Processor

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00478

7 years ago

Firefox Personal Data Promise

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-data-privacy-promise/

7 years ago

Microsoft deletes face recognition database

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48555149

7 years ago

Writing Hello World in Web Assembly (2017)

https://wa9ace.net/2017/04/20/hello-world-web-assembly.html

7 years ago

Google reportedly arguing cutting Huawei off from Android threatens US security

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/7/18656163/google-huawei-android-security-ban-claims

7 years ago

Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-subtitles-are-getting-ridiculously-long-what-is-going-on/2019/06/04/3150bcc8-86c3-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html

7 years ago

Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/americans-may-be-ingesting-thousands-microplastics-every-year-180972370/

7 years ago

Statement Regarding FedEx’s Relationship with Amazon

http://investors.fedex.com/news-and-events/investor-news/news-release-details/2019/Statement-Regarding-FedEx-Corporations-Relationship-with-Amazoncom-Inc-/default.aspx

7 years ago

Large European routing leak sends traffic through China Telecom

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/07/large-european-routing-leak-sends-traffic-through-china-telecom/

7 years ago

U.S. Cities Strain to Fight Hackers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cities-strain-to-fight-hackers-11559899800

7 years ago

Hack the Box – Pentesting Labs for Free

https://www.hackthebox.eu

7 years ago

Ask HN: Server-side web apps – is the database still a bottleneck?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20123659

7 years ago

Language, trees, and geometry in neural networks

https://pair-code.github.io/interpretability/bert-tree/

7 years ago

Search the Full Text of Nonprofit Tax Records for Free

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/new-search-full-text-of-3-million-nonprofit-tax-records-for-free

7 years ago

The Superrich Endanger Democracy

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-05/kapitalismus-demokratie-ungleichheit-globalisierung-english/komplettansicht

7 years ago

Langton's Ant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant

7 years ago

Identity Is Dead

https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/identity-dead

7 years ago

Amazon’s Ring Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in Its Advertisements

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pajm5z/amazon-home-surveillance-company-ring-law-enforcement-advertisements

7 years ago

Tensorflow 2.0 Beta 0

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta0

7 years ago

★ 194.9k C++ Apache-2.0

Let's Clarify Some Misunderstandings Around Sign in with Apple

https://aaronparecki.com/2019/06/04/23/sign-in-with-apple-mi...

7 years ago

Mosuo Women

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

7 years ago

Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/give-your-password-or-go-jail-police-push-legal-boundaries-n1014266

7 years ago

Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire in California history

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mendocino-complex-cause-california-fire-20190606-story.html

7 years ago

Underwater Drones Nearly Triple Data from the Ocean Floor

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/underwater-drones-nearly-triple-data-from-the-ocean-floor

7 years ago

Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11137

7 years ago

Uber’s Operating and Marketing Chiefs Step Down in Leadership Shakeup

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/uber-operating-marketing-chiefs-step-down-in-leadership-shakeup-jwmiwpn8

7 years ago

What’s Coming in Go 1.13 [slides]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRo5urog_B76BcnQbIo7I391MZUKFj7l3gku6hypJ-WK1KCFw40A7BiM6NOVsqD17sA9jS7GyzCfnN4/pub?slide=id.g550f852d27_228_0

7 years ago

A Product Designer Who Made Mid-Century America Look Clean and Stylish

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/meet-product-designer-who-made-mid-century-america-look-clean-and-stylish-180972270/

7 years ago

Analysis of whether IMDB ratings suffer recency bias

https://kyso.io/KyleOS/movies

7 years ago

Current State of Python Packaging

https://stefanoborini.com/current-status-of-python-packaging/

7 years ago

Why Not Rewrite It in Rust? (2016)

https://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR

7 years ago