top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-27

Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side

7 years ago

1091 upvotes – 542 comments

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/

7 years ago

1075 upvotes – 834 comments

“The books will stop working.”

https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432

7 years ago

1044 upvotes – 439 comments

Reinventing Firefox for Android

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventing-firefox-for-android-a-preview/

7 years ago

721 upvotes – 387 comments

On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

https://daringfireball.net/2019/06/jony_ive_leaves_apple

7 years ago

529 upvotes – 251 comments

A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans

https://www.jordanmechner.com/prince-of-persia-30th-anniversary/

7 years ago

448 upvotes – 96 comments

Welcome to the Old Internet Again

http://theoldnet.com/

7 years ago

361 upvotes – 160 comments

The Simple Genius of Checklists

https://blog.nuclino.com/the-simple-genius-of-checklists-from-b-17-to-the-apollo-missions

7 years ago

323 upvotes – 87 comments

Using AWK and R to parse 25TB

https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r_to_parse_25tb/

7 years ago

312 upvotes – 104 comments

What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

http://simplebits.com/2019/06/25/dribbble.html

7 years ago

308 upvotes – 67 comments

Everything everywhere is securities fraud

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everything-everywhere-is-securities-fraud

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 96 comments

Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1528361

7 years ago

240 upvotes – 118 comments

How Bad Are Things? (2015)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/24/how-bad-are-things/

7 years ago

239 upvotes – 136 comments

How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-tried-to-stop-china-acquiring-world-class-chips-china-got-them-anyway-11561646798?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

234 upvotes – 195 comments

Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL

https://github.com/comntr/webext

7 years ago

★ 210 JavaScript
227 upvotes – 235 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

https://github.com/SumeetMoray/Nearby-Shops-End-User-Android-app

7 years ago

★ 18 Java
227 upvotes – 58 comments

Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/06/26/us/google-maps-detour-colorado-trnd/index.html

7 years ago

221 upvotes – 203 comments

The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone

https://david-smith.org/blog/2019/06/24/the-popularity-of-the-4-dot-7-inch-iphone/

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 244 comments

Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-col1-sikh-truckers-20190627-htmlstory.html

7 years ago

216 upvotes – 145 comments

What's the deal with square traces on PCBs?

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/26/whats-the-deal-with-square-traces-on-pcbs/

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 84 comments

The Programmers' Stone (2014)

https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html

7 years ago

203 upvotes – 34 comments

Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 142 comments

Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-yandex-exclusive-idUSKCN1TS2SX

7 years ago

188 upvotes – 94 comments

Why are the username and password on two different pages?

https://www.twilio.com/blog/why-username-and-password-on-two-different-pages

7 years ago

181 upvotes – 157 comments

How Chinese Food Fueled the Rise of California Punk

https://www.topic.com/how-chinese-food-fueled-the-rise-of-california-punk

7 years ago

176 upvotes – 52 comments

CUDA Grep

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15418-s12/www/competition/bkase.github.com/CUDA-grep/finalreport.html

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 77 comments

Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/06/electric-bus-china-grid-ev-charging-infrastructure-battery/591655/

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 192 comments

US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28669/navys-railgun-now-undergoing-tests-in-new-mexico-could-deploy-on-ship-in-northwest

7 years ago

156 upvotes – 265 comments

How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

https://www.quantamagazine.org/were-stuck-inside-the-universe-lee-smolin-has-an-idea-for-how-to-study-it-anyway-20190627/

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-leap-frogs-h-264-video-collaboration-with-real-time-av1-codec

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 55 comments

Robots 'to replace up to 20M factory jobs' by 2030

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48760799

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 129 comments

JSON Resume – 5th Birthday and New Features

https://jsonresume.org/blog/5th-birthday-new-features

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 56 comments

Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48477081

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 113 comments

Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

https://www.ifixit.com/News/hp-makes-the-modern-repairable-devices-you-might-have-forgotten-existed

7 years ago

133 upvotes – 70 comments

Snowden's talk at Bitcoin 2019 conference [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVN13ad3UUk

7 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio

https://www.wired.com/story/cypherpunks-bitcoin-ham-radio/

7 years ago

123 upvotes – 73 comments

IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015)

https://www.planetmainframe.com/2015/12/every-it-professional-should-work-in-a-mainframe-environment-at-some-point/

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 115 comments

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/?1561668811

7 years ago

116 upvotes – 8 comments

Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency, and So Do Its Partners

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/technology/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency.html

7 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/india-government-inhouse-chat-app-whatsapp/

7 years ago

110 upvotes – 68 comments

Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform

https://eng.lyft.com/lyft-marketing-automation-b43b7b7537cc

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

FreeDOS's Linux Roots

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/freedoss-linux-roots

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

Secure ShellFish – SSH and SFTP Storage for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-shellfish/id1336634154?ls=1

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 40 comments

'Today, Hong Kong; Tomorrow, Taiwan:' Resistance to China Spreads

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/Today-Hong-Kong-tomorrow-Taiwan-Resistance-to-China-spreads

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 28 comments

Supreme Court rules federal courts cannot invalidate partisan gerrymandering [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-422_9ol1.pdf

7 years ago

104 upvotes – 200 comments

Superhuman

https://a16z.com/2019/06/27/superhuman/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 111 comments

Why are pedestrian deaths increasing in the US?

http://cityobservatory.org/why-are-us-drivers-killing-so-many-pedestrians/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 132 comments
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