top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-19

Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa

7 years ago

A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)

https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/

7 years ago

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

https://youglish.com/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20225118

7 years ago

We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected

https://veed.io/blog/rejected-from-yc/

7 years ago

Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM/

7 years ago

★ 13.9k Shell

Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/06/19/google-to-reimplement-curl-in-libcrurl/

7 years ago

Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c20aed/facebook_just_picked_rust_to_implement_their_new/erhsz9q/

7 years ago

Math.Round opens the browser print dialog

https://github.com/dotnet/try/issues/290

7 years ago

★ 3k TypeScript MIT

Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday

https://internetvin.com/futureland-alpha/

7 years ago

Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/06/things-we-lost-in-the-flood-mmo-indie-game.html

7 years ago

Elegant Error Handling with the JavaScript “Either” Monad

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/elegant-error-handling-with-the-js-either-monad/

7 years ago

Differentiation for Hackers

https://github.com/MikeInnes/diff-zoo

7 years ago

★ 776 Julia MIT

Linode GPU Instances

https://blog.linode.com/2019/06/19/introducing-linode-gpu-instances/

7 years ago

Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits

https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2019/06/13/colleges-improve-websites-they-subjects-lawsuits/1302352001/

7 years ago

Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

https://people.debian.org/~mafm/posts/2019/20190617_debian-gnulinux-riscv64-port-in-mid-2019/

7 years ago

This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

http://voidnull.sdf.org/

7 years ago

YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates kids' privacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/19/facing-federal-investigation-youtube-is-considering-broad-changes-childrens-content/

7 years ago

Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600k

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/florida-riviera-beach-hacking-ransom.html

7 years ago

Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ethereum-gateway/

7 years ago

Corsica's 'fox cat': On the trail of what may be a new species

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-corsica-cat-fox-trail-species.html

7 years ago

ECMO pumps blood out of the body, oxygenates it and returns it to the body

https://khn.org/news/miracle-machine-makes-heroic-rescues-and-leaves-patients-in-limbo/

7 years ago

Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-hot-efficiency-solar-desalination.html

7 years ago

The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX

https://cyclingtips.com/2019/06/what-happened-to-speedx/

7 years ago

YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to remaster iconic music videos

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/06/youtube-music-and-universal-music-group.html

7 years ago

Hacking websites via third-party JavaScript libraries

https://dmsec.io/hacking-thousands-of-websites-via-third-party-javascript-libraries/

7 years ago

How to Do Distributed Locking (2016)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

7 years ago

Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/06/19/kubernetes-1-15-release-announcement/

7 years ago

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/06/19/nines-are-not-enough/

7 years ago

Professional Decline Comes Sooner Than People Think

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/

7 years ago

RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

https://www.watoday.com.au/business/the-economy/no-one-died-behind-the-typo-on-the-new-50-note-20190618-p51yqg.html

7 years ago

This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist

http://thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com/

7 years ago

Facebook urged to pause Libra crypto-currency project

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48688359

7 years ago

Where Has the Magic Gone?

https://arnavdhamija.com/2019/06/19/where-has-the-magic-gone/

7 years ago

The C standard library function atexit is broken

https://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/weblog/2019/atexit_is_broken.html

7 years ago

Scaleway's data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/19/underground_datacentre/

7 years ago

Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning

http://jonathanstray.com/extracting-campaign-finance-data-from-gnarly-pdfs-using-deep-learning

7 years ago

US Steel is idling plants, despite tariffs designed to save them

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/business/us-steel-cutback/index.html

7 years ago

Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/18/uk/boaty-mcboatface-first-mission-scli-gbr-scn-intl/index.html

7 years ago

The case of Chinese LinkedIn spy recruitment [pdf]

https://www.fiia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/bp267_geostrategically_motivated_co-option_of_social-media.pdf

7 years ago

Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/style/slack-replace-email-ipo-listing.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: I want to get a Bachelor's in CS online. What are some good programs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20225203

7 years ago

Qt 5.13 Released

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/06/19/qt-5-13-released/

7 years ago

In defence of the wolf

https://theconversation.com/in-defence-of-the-wolf-this-big-bad-animal-is-more-prey-than-predator-118946

7 years ago

FreeBSD project turns 26 years old

http://freebsdfoundation.org/national-freebsd-day

7 years ago

Ancient DNA Illuminates Pastoralism’s Rise in Africa

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pastoralism-ancient-dna-africa/

7 years ago

A Raspberry Pi VAX Cluster (2012)

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-raspberry-pi-vax-cluster

7 years ago

Sarah Stewart Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-revealed-missing-link-between-viruses-and-cancer-180972427/

7 years ago

DNS Cookies – Identify Related Network Flows

http://dnscookie.com

7 years ago

Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features

https://www.teslabot.ai/

7 years ago

Bone music: the Soviet bootleg records pressed on x-rays (2015)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/bone-music-soviet-bootleg-records-pressed-on-xrays

7 years ago

Alpine 3.10 Released

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.10.0-released.html

7 years ago

Intelligent Machinery (1948) [pdf]

https://weightagnostic.github.io/papers/turing1948.pdf

7 years ago

He Says He Invented Bitcoin and Is Suing Those Who Doubt Him

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/who-invented-bitcoin-a-series-of-court-cases-could-shed-light

7 years ago