top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-12

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

7 years ago

Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine

7 years ago

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the fastest processor on Geekbench

https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-vs-intels-18-core-i9/

7 years ago

The new Dropbox

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox

7 years ago

To be great, be good repeatably

https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/

7 years ago

The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source

https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919

7 years ago

Green threads explained in 200 lines of Rust

https://cfsamson.gitbook.io/green-threads-explained-in-200-lines-of-rust/

7 years ago

Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/cybercrime/radiohead-sells-recordings-to-public-after-creep-hacker-threatens-to-leak-them/

7 years ago

Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-protest-debate-postponed-on-extradition-bill-as-crowds-swell-in-opposition-11560309637

7 years ago

Kubernetes Failure Stories

https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories

7 years ago

★ 6.2k HTML

Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/why-i-dont-like-go.html

7 years ago

Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-imei-track-runaways-2019-5

7 years ago

Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/06/google-photos-drive-sync-stopping.html

7 years ago

Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks to standalone web applications

https://blog.jupyter.org/and-voil%C3%A0-f6a2c08a4a93

7 years ago

Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/no-charges-for-personal-drug-possession-seattles-bold-gamble-to-bring-peace-after-the-war-on-drugs/2019/06/11/69a7bb46-7285-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html

7 years ago

Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.

https://www.govtech.com/policy/Maine-Governor-Signs-Strictest-Internet-Protections-in-the-US.html

7 years ago

Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/technically_the_earth_does_not_orbit_the_sun.html

7 years ago

When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved

https://hbr.org/2019/06/when-employees-are-using-software-that-it-hasnt-approved

7 years ago

On Dat

https://www.kickscondor.com/on-dat

7 years ago

Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/technology/online-dark-web-drug-markets.html

7 years ago

Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-worries-emails-could-show-zuckerberg-knew-of-questionable-privacy-practices-11560353829?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Privacy Policies Are an Incomprehensible Disaster

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/12/opinion/facebook-google-privacy-policies.html

7 years ago

Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back control using open software

https://home.cern/news/news/computing/microsoft-alternatives-project-malt

7 years ago

HK's extradition law: Not just HK people have reason to fear Chinese “justice”

http://www.jeromecohen.net/jerrys-blog/hong-kongs-extradition-law

7 years ago

Writers Are More Prolific When They Cluster

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/06/british-irish-writers-london-clustering-dickens-woolf/590884/

7 years ago

PingCAP Talent Plan: Courses on writing distributed systems in Go and Rust

https://github.com/pingcap/talent-plan

7 years ago

★ 10.8k Rust

As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/business/hong-kong-china-protests-business.html

7 years ago

I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8

7 years ago

Researchers use lasers to detect and destroy tumor cells in melanoma patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/laser-destroys-cancer-cells-circulating-in-the-blood

7 years ago

The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/12/the-pentagon-is-battling-the-clock-to-fix-serious-unreported-f-35-problems/

7 years ago

Google Researcher Publishes Windows 10 Zero-Day Security Vulnerability

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/12/warning-windows-10-crypto-vulnerability-outed-by-google-researcher-before-microsoft-can-fix-it/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20161841

7 years ago

How to build something that lasts 10k years

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190611-how-to-build-something-that-lasts-10000-years

7 years ago

Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7

https://jepsen.io/analyses/tidb-2.1.7

7 years ago

Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (1983)

https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032

7 years ago

Weight-Agnostic Neural Networks

https://weightagnostic.github.io

7 years ago

Show HN: A LaTeX-based resume building app

http://www.expresscv.co

7 years ago

An Infinitely Large Napkin

http://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html

7 years ago

Bird Acquires Scoot

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/bird-confirms-acquisition-of-scoot/

7 years ago

Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/12/earliest-known-signs-of-cannabis-smoking-unearthed-in-china

7 years ago

De-Googling My Life

https://nrempel.com/de-googling-my-life/

7 years ago

Significant Pattern Mining for Time Series

https://christian.bock.ml/posts/significant_shapelets/

7 years ago

DJI RoboMaster S1

https://www.dji.com/robomaster-s1

7 years ago

A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18520783/harvard-economics-chetty

7 years ago

African Vernacular Architecture Database (2015)

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/09/african-vernacular-architecture-database.html

7 years ago

Benefits of talking to strangers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48459940

7 years ago

Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development

https://blog.apollographql.com/apollo-raises-22-million-to-simplify-app-development-ee30502c81b3

7 years ago

How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/06/08/how-the-pursuit-of-leisure-drives-internet-use

7 years ago

Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt

http://www.riedlanna.com/cognitivesciencemap.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app

https://lannister.capital

7 years ago

Entropic – A Federated Package Manager for JavaScript

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1135060936216272896

7 years ago

For two hours, a large chunk of EU mobile traffic was rerouted through China

https://www.zdnet.com/article/for-two-hours-a-large-chunk-of-european-mobile-traffic-was-rerouted-through-china/

7 years ago

We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-pollution-has-shoved-the-climate-backward-at-least-12-million-years-harvard-scientist-says/

7 years ago

CP/Mish: open-source sort-of-CP/M distribution

http://cowlark.com/cpmish/

7 years ago

F-35 hit with damning reports as Pentagon eyes full rate production

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28488/f-35-hit-with-cluster-bomb-of-damning-reports-as-dod-eyes-full-rate-production

7 years ago

The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/race-become-beyond-meat-fish-080036449.html

7 years ago

Africa needs more data centers

https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/06/12/africas-internet-telecommunications-cloud/

7 years ago

High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements

http://energyskeptic.com/2019/high-tech-cannot-last-rare-earth-metals/

7 years ago

Creating a Collaborative Editor

https://www.pierrehedkvist.com/posts/1-creating-a-collaborative-editor

7 years ago

Project Galileo: five years of protecting the vulnerable online

https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-galileo-fifth-anniversary/?a

7 years ago

The U.S. is still using many pesticides that are banned in other countries

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/united-states-pesticides-banned-other-countries

7 years ago