top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-25

Learning Synths

https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

7 years ago

How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit

https://medium.com/@yohahnko/how-i-got-my-3500-camera-kit-stolen-on-kitsplit-for-70-4530d0062e60

7 years ago

How Discount Brokerages Make Money

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-money/

7 years ago

Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-order-would-give-consumers-more-information-on-health-care-prices-11561384725?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

What's Salesforce?

https://tryretool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/

7 years ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator

https://fsi.microsoftstudios.com/

7 years ago

The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I.

https://gen.medium.com/the-bs-industrial-complex-of-phony-a-i-44bf1c0c60f8

7 years ago

The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive

https://prospect.org/article/insulin-racket

7 years ago

Rich Felker of musl libc comments on Google's LLVM libc proposal

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-June/133308.html

7 years ago

GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

http://www.enforcementtracker.com/

7 years ago

I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/063525ef84

7 years ago

How Id built Wolfenstein 3D using Commander Keen tech

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/344672/How_id_built_Wolfenstein_3D_using_Commander_Keen_tech.php

7 years ago

Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding

https://elemental.medium.com/lyme-disease-cases-are-exploding-and-its-only-going-to-get-worse-5d3c3a2de5c5

7 years ago

Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game

https://stratechery.com/2019/facebook-libra-and-the-long-game/

7 years ago

Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

https://jlongster.com/secret-of-good-electron-apps

7 years ago

Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for billions of years (2016)

https://www.disclose.tv/these-5d-glass-discs-store-360-tb-of-data-for-138-billion-years-370041

7 years ago

G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/g20-nations-triple-coal-power-subsidies-climate-crisis

7 years ago

Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/ajit-pais-ex-advisor-gets-five-years-in-prison-for-lying-to-investors/

7 years ago

San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-25/juul-ban-in-san-francisco-is-expected-to-be-passed

7 years ago

BTrDB: Berkeley Tree Database

http://btrdb.io/

7 years ago

Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/

7 years ago

Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/24/hackers-cell-networks-call-records-theft/

7 years ago

FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-fedex-usa/fedex-sues-u-s-government-over-impossible-task-of-policing-exports-to-china-idUSKCN1TO047

7 years ago

How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes

http://saccade.com/blog/2019/06/how-to-make-apples-mac-pro-holes/

7 years ago

5nm vs. 3nm

https://semiengineering.com/5nm-vs-3nm/

7 years ago

At Japan’s cliffs, he's walked more than 600 people back from the edge (2018)

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-suicide-20180222-story.html

7 years ago

‘Dark patterns’ are steering many internet users into making bad decisions

https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-dark-patterns-consumer-consent-20190625-story.html

7 years ago

Toys ‘R’ Us, Back from the Dead, Will Open U.S. Stores in 2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/toys-r-us-back-from-the-dead-will-open-u-s-stores-in-2019

7 years ago

Debugging Your Startup

https://www.atrium.co/blog/debugging-your-startup/

7 years ago

Using Mechanical Turk to hide a surgeon's domestic violence charge

https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1143583269730082816

7 years ago

YouTube should give users a way of knowing if a video has been altered

https://spencerdailey.com/2019/06/24/youtube-should-give-users-a-way-of-knowing-if-a-video-has-been-altered-after-its-been-posted-a-no-brainer-consideration-in-2019/

7 years ago

AI Models Predict Breast Cancer with Radiologist-Level Accuracy

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/06/ai-models-radiologist-level-accuracy/

7 years ago

Two-thirds of American employees regret their college degrees

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-thirds-of-american-employees-regret-their-college-degrees/

7 years ago

Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276070

7 years ago

Ask HN: US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20270969

7 years ago

Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts

http://ajroach42.com/floppycasts-1-44mb-podcasts/

7 years ago

Y Combinator invests in Monzo through its Continuity Fund

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/24/monzo-doubles-valuation-to-2point5-billion-with-y-combinator-led-funding.html

7 years ago

The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/the-perverse-logic-of-gofundme-health-care

7 years ago

U.S. Tech Companies Sidestep a Ban, to Keep Selling to Huawei

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/technology/huawei-trump-ban-technology.html

7 years ago

AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-vpc-traffic-mirroring/

7 years ago

Bottle: A Bitcoin SV Browser

https://bottle.bitdb.network/

7 years ago

Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/snagging-parking-spaces-with-mask-r-cnn-and-python-955f2231c400

7 years ago

How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-courts-secrecy-judges/

7 years ago