top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-14

Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/create-3d-games-friends-no-experience-required/

7 years ago

Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)

http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/23/flow-is-the-opiate-of-the-medicore-advice-on-getting-better-from-an-accomplished-piano-player/

7 years ago

My Personal Journey from MIT to GPL

https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GPL.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/enviro-plus

7 years ago

Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles

https://github.com/ottomatica/slim

7 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript Apache-2.0

Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html

7 years ago

Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/psychologist-explains-why-people-confess-crimes-they-didn-t-commit

7 years ago

Luna – A WYSIWYG language for data processing

https://www.luna-lang.org/

7 years ago

I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/c017up/i_got_asked_leetcode_questions_for_a_devops/

7 years ago

Observable’s Not JavaScript

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javascript

7 years ago

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

7 years ago

Magnesium and major depression (2011)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507265/

7 years ago

The NYC subway system runs on OS/2

https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/

7 years ago

8chan served with search warrant [pdf]

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.626722/gov.uscourts.casd.626722.1.0.pdf

7 years ago

How to Remember

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/how-to-remember-anything-you-really-want-to-remember-backed-by-science.html

7 years ago

Chromium and the Browser Monoculture Problem

https://dev.to/kenbellows/chromium-and-the-browser-monoculture-problem-420n

7 years ago

YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/youtube-algorithm.html

7 years ago

An 85-year-old tech entrepreneur who made her staff millionaires

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/business/the-85-year-old-tech-entrepreneur-who-made-her-staff-millionaires/ar-AACSD1h?li=BBoPWjQ

7 years ago

Anxiety: An Interactive Story

https://ncase.me/anxiety-demo/

7 years ago

Formatting floating point numbers

http://www.zverovich.net/2019/02/11/formatting-floating-point-numbers.html

7 years ago

Show HN: GitHub Repository Card for Every Web Site

https://github.com/nwtgck/gh-card

7 years ago

★ 1.3k TypeScript MIT

LaTeX Workflow on iPad

https://supertachyon.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/37/

7 years ago

Common Lisp: Numbers

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/numbers.html

7 years ago

Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US

https://gijn.org/2019/06/14/document-of-the-day-how-ukrainian-billionaires-allegedly-laundered-money-in-the-us/

7 years ago

Principles of Chaos Engineering (2018)

http://principlesofchaos.org

7 years ago

OCaml 4.08

https://inbox.ocaml.org/caml-list/[email protected]/

7 years ago

Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/leonardo-da-vinci-viola-organista/

7 years ago

What “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-kurt-vonneguts-slaughterhouse-five-tells-us-now

7 years ago

“Amazon’s Choice” is determined by an algorithm and not always reliable

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazons-choice-bad-products

7 years ago

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-new-cryptocurrency-gets-big-backers-11560463312?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Sleep trackers can make insomnia worse

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/health/sleep-tracker-insomnia-orthosomnia.html

7 years ago

A Race of Two Compilers: GraalVM JIT versus HotSpot JIT C2 [video]

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

7 years ago

Map of the World's Nuclear Power Plants

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-the-worlds-nuclear-power-plants

7 years ago

Hong Kong’s Clout as a Global Financial Center Clouded by Uncertainty

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kongs-clout-as-a-global-financial-center-clouded-by-uncertainty-11560504645

7 years ago

A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change

https://www.quantamagazine.org/amie-wilkinsons-only-constant-is-change-20190613/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Twitter account stolen by presumed vulnerability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186293

7 years ago

Many-valued logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-valued_logic

7 years ago

JavaScript Is the CO2 of the Web [audio]

https://changelog.com/jsparty/80

7 years ago

Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow

https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/06/15/drones-piloted-by-climate-change-activists-target-heathrow

7 years ago

Building Sentry, a service to process native crash reports and minidumps

https://blog.sentry.io/2019/06/13/building-a-sentry-symbolicator

7 years ago

Inside the Windows Messaging System (1993)

http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/inside-the-windows-messaging-system/184408943

7 years ago

Fuller House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (2016)

https://elie.net/blog/security/fuller-house-exposing-high-end-poker-cheating-devices/

7 years ago

Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications

https://www.quantamagazine.org/do-brains-operate-at-a-tipping-point-new-clues-and-complications-20190610/

7 years ago

AI Habitat, an advanced simulation platform for embodied AI research

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-ai-habitat-an-simulation-platform-for-embodied-ai-research/

7 years ago

Bald Eagle Filmed Swimming

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732843218/bald-eagle-caught-elegantly-swimming

7 years ago

R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC Basic Is Now Open Source

http://cowlark.com/2019-06-14-bbcbasic-opensource/

7 years ago

The Ruin of Britain

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/06/gildas.html

7 years ago

Lucet – A Sandboxing WebAssembly Compiler

https://github.com/fastly/lucet

7 years ago

★ 4k Rust Apache-2.0

The Ruby Style Guide

https://rubystyle.guide

7 years ago

Show HN: Parse no-protocol URL, no-domain URI and email addresses etc from text

https://github.com/Andrew-Kang-G/pattern-dreamer

7 years ago

★ 356 TypeScript MIT

A new business in small satellites orbiting the Earth

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/06/15/a-new-business-in-small-satellites-orbiting-the-earth

7 years ago

The Truth About Tonkin (2008)

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin

7 years ago

Ask HN: Do you program in Basic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182043

7 years ago

‘None of this happened the way you think it did’

https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.10/communities-none-of-this-happened-the-way-you-think-it-did-cremated-remains

7 years ago

Recycling clothing gathers steam

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2019/0613/Why-this-company-wants-your-old-underwear

7 years ago

Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7423

7 years ago

Truth: A Love Story

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/07/dna-testing-schreiber

7 years ago

AdTech Sucks: This Time It's Personal IDs

https://lockwood.dev/advertising/2019/06/14/adtech-sucks-this-time-its-personal-ids.html

7 years ago