top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-18

Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

https://decrypt.co/7502/facebook-libra-coin-cryptocurrency-launch-calibra

7 years ago

1176 upvotes – 1296 comments

Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development

https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/

7 years ago

872 upvotes – 293 comments

Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/06/two-potentially-life-friendly-planets-found-12-light-years-away-teegardens-star/

7 years ago

612 upvotes – 371 comments

How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser

https://prophitt.me/articles/nefarious-linkedin

7 years ago

510 upvotes – 149 comments

$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/1-billion-investment-bay-area-housing/

7 years ago

469 upvotes – 530 comments

Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/france-calls-for-central-bank-review-of-facebook-cryptocurrency

7 years ago

409 upvotes – 132 comments

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

https://superthinking.com/

7 years ago

400 upvotes – 89 comments

Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/

7 years ago

★ 3.8k Common Lisp MIT
396 upvotes – 136 comments

Transforming a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18682633/simone-giertz-tesla-model-3-pickup-truck-youtube-diy

7 years ago

387 upvotes – 176 comments

The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/the-worst-morale-boosting-gesture-ive-experienced/

7 years ago

371 upvotes – 339 comments

Google Calendar Is Down

https://calendar.google.com/

7 years ago

363 upvotes – 177 comments

Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl

7 years ago

★ 1.7k Erlang EPL-1.0
309 upvotes – 100 comments

Go Creeping In

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/06/12/Go-Creeping-In

7 years ago

298 upvotes – 308 comments

Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-permafrost/scientists-amazed-as-canadian-permafrost-thaws-70-years-early-idUSKCN1TJ1XN

7 years ago

285 upvotes – 237 comments

Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

https://www.petertissen.de/?p=77

7 years ago

279 upvotes – 117 comments

Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze

https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-housing-rent-cap/berlin-approves-5-year-rent-freeze-in-german-capital-idUSS8N20O06F

7 years ago

276 upvotes – 574 comments

Simple techniques to optimise Go programs

https://stephen.sh/posts/quick-go-performance-improvements

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 83 comments

Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-patches-firefox-zero-day-abused-in-the-wild/

7 years ago

255 upvotes – 104 comments

Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

https://www.theatlantic.com/article/591868/

7 years ago

251 upvotes – 118 comments

Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/job/california/f-22-avionics-systems-engineer-senior/694/8842471

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 317 comments

Use Coq in Your Browser: The Js Coq Theorem Prover Online

https://jscoq.github.io/

7 years ago

220 upvotes – 41 comments

How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?

https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/06/17/blog-post

7 years ago

220 upvotes – 74 comments

Envoy Mobile

https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-envoy-mobile-5c2067d9ade0

7 years ago

218 upvotes – 33 comments

India is drying up

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/india-is-drying-up-fast/789376.html

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 204 comments

Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48668791

7 years ago

213 upvotes – 222 comments

Boeing employee: I would not put my family on a Max plane

https://mynorthwest.com/1421554/boeing-employee-max-plane/?

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 122 comments

Libra White Paper

https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 132 comments

New York state lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/greenhouse-gases-ny.html

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20212622

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 53 comments

Generalized Algebraic Data Types: A Primer

https://sketch.sh/s/yH0MJiujNSiofDWOU85loX/

7 years ago

182 upvotes – 30 comments

In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/business/japan-work-overtime-tv-show.html

7 years ago

173 upvotes – 179 comments

China’s 'Thought Transformation' Camps [video]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-48667221/inside-china-s-thought-transformation-camps

7 years ago

172 upvotes – 186 comments

End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf]

https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer19/lecture_notes/DRAFT___Probabilistic_Programming_for_End_Users.pdf

7 years ago

167 upvotes – 15 comments

DPAPI security flaw in Windows 10

https://www.passcape.com/index.php?setLang=2&section=blog&cmd=details&id=38

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215483

7 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/writing-a-book-47688825695e

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 81 comments

i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/i386-architecture-will-be-dropped-starting-with-eoan-ubuntu-19-10/11263

7 years ago

130 upvotes – 111 comments

Adventure Games and Eigenvalues (2017)

http://www.evanmiller.org/adventure-games-and-eigenvalues.html

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

Dialog – A domain-specific language for creating works of interactive fiction

http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/index.php

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 14 comments

Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-nuclear-bunker-fire-20190617-story.html

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 100 comments

Amazon expands its air cargo fleet

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/amazon-expands-air-cargo-fleet-with-15-more-planes-will-have-70-planes-by-2021/

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 116 comments

Beijing's US Treasury holdings dip

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-sells-dollars-and-buys-gold-as-tensions-rise

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 103 comments

Turbinia – An Uninvited Guest (2014)

http://drewgrant.info/Pages/Turbinia.htm

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Varanasi: India's city where people come to die

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190617-indias-city-where-people-come-to-die

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 63 comments

Web Single Sign-On, the SAML 2.0 perspective

https://blog.theodo.com/2019/06/web-single-sign-on-the-saml-2-0-perspective/

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript

https://medium.com/tech-quizlet/now-or-never-migrating-300k-loc-from-flow-to-typescript-at-quizlet-d3bae5830a1

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 83 comments

Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google

https://tapmydata.com/how-to-quit-google/

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth-past-future

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 148 comments

Calibra – Digital Wallet for Libra

https://calibra.com/

7 years ago

100 upvotes – 89 comments

Galton Board

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

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Libra Core

https://github.com/libra/libra

7 years ago

★ 16.6k Rust Apache-2.0
94 upvotes – 50 comments

First Amendment doesn’t apply to private operator running public-access channels

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18682099/supreme-court-ruling-first-amendment-social-media-public-forum

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 39 comments

Announcing Timescale Cloud

https://blog.timescale.com/timescale-cloud-first-fully-managed-time-series-database-service-runs-on-aws-gcp-azure/

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Backpage.com’s Vicious Battle with the Feds

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-backpage-vicious-battle-feds/

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 39 comments

Linux and FreeBSD: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities

https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md

7 years ago

★ 745
83 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: How would you teach teens to code in 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210641

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 86 comments

Facebook will make the money now

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-18/facebook-will-make-the-money-now

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 77 comments
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