top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-10

Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

https://grumpy.website/post/0RzW4elEN

7 years ago

1343 upvotes – 483 comments

Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/salesforce-is-buying-data-visualization-company-tableau-for-15-7b-in-all-stock-deal/

7 years ago

950 upvotes – 376 comments

US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/the-us-governments-database-of-traveler-photos-has-been

7 years ago

825 upvotes – 198 comments

Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications

https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/by4ipr/android_now_forces_apps_to_include_proprietary/

7 years ago

665 upvotes – 271 comments

Always Own Your Platform

http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/

7 years ago

463 upvotes – 211 comments

From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/10/04/from-design-patterns-to-category-theory/

7 years ago

411 upvotes – 46 comments

GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility

https://grapheneos.org/#

7 years ago

366 upvotes – 179 comments

Couple wins millions using lottery loophole

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/top-stories/couple-wins-millions-using-lottery-loophole/ar-AACEewY

7 years ago

362 upvotes – 183 comments

Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)

https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 189 comments

Micro Frontends

https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html

7 years ago

307 upvotes – 139 comments

Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/06/10/mozilla-will-reportedly-launch-a-paid-version-of-firefox-this-fall/

7 years ago

298 upvotes – 191 comments

Apple Is Listening

https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 367 comments

NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media

https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nyt-google-media.php

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 118 comments

New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer

https://www.snmmi.org/NewsPublications/NewsDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=31744

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 72 comments

Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)

https://two-wrongs.com/why-you-should-buy-into-the-emacs-platform

7 years ago

247 upvotes – 133 comments

The End of Political Cartoons at The New York Times

https://www.chappatte.com/en/the-end-of-political-cartoons-at-the-new-york-times/

7 years ago

234 upvotes – 183 comments

Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee

https://www.amazon.com/iss/credit/creditbuilder?pr=conplcc

7 years ago

224 upvotes – 283 comments

Medicine needs to embrace open source

https://www.zdnet.com/article/medicine-needs-to-embrace-open-source/

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 53 comments

Nannou: Creative Coding Toolkit for Rust

https://nannou.cc/

7 years ago

213 upvotes – 30 comments

VLC 3.0.7 and security

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2019/VLC-3.0.7-and-security

7 years ago

196 upvotes – 69 comments

CBP says traveler photos and license plate images stolen in data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/cbp-data-breach/

7 years ago

194 upvotes – 8 comments

Curated List of Open-Source Typefaces

https://beautifulwebtype.com/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 24 comments

Raytheon, United Technologies Merger Will Create A New Aerospace Giant

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/731225619/raytheon-and-united-technologies-merge-to-create-a-new-aerospace-giant

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 107 comments

“Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and other advice for data journalists

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/hadley-wickham-your-default-position-should-be-skepticism-and-other-advice-for-data-journalists

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 28 comments

Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016)

https://www.metalevel.at/sudoku/

7 years ago

179 upvotes – 73 comments

Unicode programming, with examples in C

https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-05-23-unicode-icu.html

7 years ago

175 upvotes – 58 comments

World's largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01810-6

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 59 comments

The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS

http://web.alsa.org/site/PageNavigator/pr_060419.html

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 53 comments

The Mathematical Hacker (2012)

https://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html

7 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

Small guide to making nice tables [pdf]

https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/markusp/teaching/guides/guide-tables.pdf

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 43 comments

How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Cloud Storage Service

https://jarv.is/notes/how-to-backup-linux-server/

7 years ago

164 upvotes – 86 comments

Sleep tweaks boost night owls' wellbeing

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48558309

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 157 comments

AV1 codec ecosystem update

https://www.singhkays.com/blog/av1-ecosystem-update-may-2019/

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 66 comments

How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47B Company?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/wework-adam-neumann.html

7 years ago

157 upvotes – 206 comments

Kill Instant Messaging

https://dpc.pw/kill-instant-messaging

7 years ago

151 upvotes – 151 comments

Let's make them pay for using our personal data

http://amortizedcost.net/make-them-pay-for-personal-data/

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 117 comments

Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)

http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2015/01/14/procedural-content-generation-creating-a-universe/

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

An American Black Site

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2019/06/04/force-feeding-american-prison-supermax-mohammad-salameh/

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

Philly Wisper

https://phillywisper.net/

7 years ago

137 upvotes – 94 comments

BeGoneAds – A Python script that blocks ads by installing common hosts files

https://github.com/anned20/begoneads

7 years ago

★ 310 Python MIT
129 upvotes – 92 comments

Hacking My Mother’s Phone to Save Her Memories

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/hacking-phone-privacy.html

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

It's Cold in the Information Age

https://natalian.org/2019/01/07/Winter/

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 118 comments

Malloc Never Fails (2012)

https://scvalex.net/posts/6/

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 156 comments

NASA ‘Snoopy’ lunar module likely found 50 years after being jettisoned

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/nasa-snoopy-lunar-module-likely-found-50-years-after-being-jettisoned-into-space/

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

As Tech Goliaths Face a Reckoning, Small Businesses Say They Finally Feel Heard

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/technology/big-tech-antitrust-scrutiny.html

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 62 comments

A mentalist’s guide to being happy

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190605-a-mentalists-guide-to-being-happy

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 46 comments

Automagica: Open-Source Robotic Process Automation

https://github.com/oakwoodai/automagica

7 years ago

★ 3k Python
113 upvotes – 22 comments

Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Alchemist

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

Towards Reproducible Research with PyTorch Hub

https://pytorch.org/blog/towards-reproducible-research-with-pytorch-hub/

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments

G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-japan-tax/g20-agrees-to-push-ahead-with-digital-tax-communique-idUSKCN1T903D

7 years ago

103 upvotes – 81 comments

Common Lisp: The Untold Story (2012)

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Tesla boom lifts Norway's electric car sales to record market share

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-autos-idUSKCN1RD2BB

7 years ago

99 upvotes – 52 comments

Boeing Knew the AOA Disagree Alert on the 737 Max Didn’t Work

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/06/boeing-angle-of-attack-disagree-alert/

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/business/media/google-news-industry-antitrust.html

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

From Docker Container to Bootable Linux Disk Image

https://micromind.me/en/posts/from-docker-container-to-bootable-linux-disk-image/

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 20 comments

U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter

https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-2408760609.html

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)

https://www.indy100.com/article/music-goosebumps-some-people-science-research-emotions-psychology-study-harvard-7926781

7 years ago

90 upvotes – 66 comments

Only 13% of UK adults trust big tech firms with handling anonymized NHS data

https://techerati.com/news-hub/only-13-of-uk-adults-trust-tech-firms-with-anonymized-nhs-data/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Tech and Antitrust

https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-antitrust/

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

The technology industry is rife with bottlenecks

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/06/06/the-technology-industry-is-rife-with-bottlenecks

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Some network structures are more defensible than others

https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-some-platforms-thrive-and-others-dont

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 3 comments

RISC-V Bitmanip Extension [pdf]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip/master/bitmanip-0.90.pdf

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

Special report: Profiting from prison

https://www.axios.com/profiting-prison-c2bd43b2-4b2f-44ee-8f23-c6c9a14c1aaa.html

7 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments
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