top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-08

Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs/

7 years ago

I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

https://github.com/TrillCyborg/onefraction

7 years ago

iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you

https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/08/ios-13-location-permissions/

7 years ago

New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/business/economy/age-discrimination-jobs-hiring.html

7 years ago

WeChat and the Surveillance State

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48552907

7 years ago

Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48190

7 years ago

The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/

7 years ago

Huawei Accused of Technology Theft

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898429/huawei-accused-of-technology-theft

7 years ago

It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/2-davos-experts-says-it-s-time-to-switch-to-a-four-day-working-week/

7 years ago

For Men Who Hate Talking on the Phone, Games Keep Friendships Alive

https://kotaku.com/for-men-who-hate-talking-on-the-phone-games-keep-frien-1835277944

7 years ago

Write HTML Like It's 1999

https://bradleytaunt.com/2019/06/08/html-like-1999/

7 years ago

Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

https://apnews.com/ff973c5c769c4d1d872255f04c6c1f11

7 years ago

USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-usa-lags-eu-brazil-china.html

7 years ago

Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter at Meduza, has been arrested in Moscow

https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev/status/1137088350500925440

7 years ago

Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of subscription startups

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/style/rent-subscription-clothing-furniture.html

7 years ago

Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gut-bacteria-may-change-way-many-drugs-work-body

7 years ago

I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself

https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/how-im-saving-for-my-parents-retirement.html

7 years ago

The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28409/the-mysterious-and-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-aircraft-may-fly-soon

7 years ago

Plaid Deletes GitHub Issue Exposing Imitation of Bank Login UIs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20133806

7 years ago

Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be

https://github.com/duke7553/files-uwp

7 years ago

★ 43.1k C# MIT

Grover – A State-of-the-Art Defense Against Neural Fake News

https://grover.allenai.org/

7 years ago

Generate new repositories with repository templates

https://github.blog/2019-06-06-generate-new-repositories-with-repository-templates/

7 years ago

Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/06/introducing-google-research-football.html

7 years ago

How Anne Wojcicki’s 23andMe Will Mine Its Giant DNA Database

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2019/06/06/23andme-dna-test-anne-wojcicki-prevention-plans-drug-development/

7 years ago

Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light

http://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-chip-light-computing-faster-0605

7 years ago

Skiptracing: Reversing Spotify.app

https://medium.com/@lerner98/skiptracing-reversing-spotify-app-3a6df367287d

7 years ago

Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

7 years ago

Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my

https://github.com/nixpulvis/lalrpop-lambda/blob/master/src/encode/numerals.rs

7 years ago

★ 85 Rust MIT

GPT2, Counting Consciousness and the Curious Hacker

https://medium.com/@NPCollapse/gpt2-counting-consciousness-and-the-curious-hacker-323c6639a3a8

7 years ago

PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app

https://practicejs.com/

7 years ago

The human body is a mosaic of different genomes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01780-9

7 years ago

The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-radioinstigator-a-150-signals-intelligence-platform-consisting-of-a-raspberry-pi-rpitx-2-4-ghz-crazyradio-and-an-rtl-sdr/

7 years ago

Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030

7 years ago

Nature invented play long before it invented us

http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/why-it-pays-to-play-around

7 years ago

America's rural radio stations are vanishing

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/06/radio-silence-how-the-disappearance-of-rural-stations-takes-americas-soul-with-them

7 years ago

Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/magazine/mike-gravel-teens-twitter-presidential-campaign.html

7 years ago

ColorKitty: Find palettes from pictures

https://colorkitty.com/

7 years ago

To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created an Inedible Sandwich

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich

7 years ago

Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/glue-traps-1.5149294

7 years ago

To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2M birds

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-virulent-newcastle-disease-outbreak-in-southern-california-20190607-story.html

7 years ago

Singapore abolishes school exam rankings (2018)

https://citinewsroom.com/2018/10/singapore-abolishes-school-exam-rankings-says-learning-is-not-competition/

7 years ago

Dan Ingalls PARC Talk on Sanskrit and OCR (1980) [video]

https://vimeo.com/4714623

7 years ago

Unwittingly obfuscating the fact that you're not doing AI

https://breakitdownto.earth/2019/06/06/Obfuscating_a_lack_of_AI.html

7 years ago

TV meteorologist objected to management’s ‘code red’ orders

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/06/07/tv-meteorologist-objected-managements-code-red-orders-on-air-apology-he-might-be-out-job/

7 years ago