top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-09

I Can’t Stop Winning

https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

7 years ago

Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68

https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/camera-microphone-require-https-in-firefox-68/

7 years ago

IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future

7 years ago

Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502

https://tinyletter.com/jamesbowman/letters/i-have-found-an-excellent-programmer-named-steve-wozniac

7 years ago

Firefox 68.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0/releasenotes/

7 years ago

Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/car-crashes-arent-always-unavoidable/592447/

7 years ago

Ross Perot Has Died

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/billionaire-and-former-presidential-candidate-ross-perot-is-dead-at-89.html

7 years ago

A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles

https://twitter.com/modacitylife/status/1147119109672448002

7 years ago

Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20688113/zoom-apple-mac-patch-vulnerability-emergency-fix-web-server-remove

7 years ago

New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

https://www.fast.ai/2019/07/08/fastai-nlp/

7 years ago

France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airlines-tax-idUSKCN1U412B

7 years ago

Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/apple-macbook-air-macbook-pro-updates/

7 years ago

What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-if-life-did-not-originate-on-earth

7 years ago

Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate

7 years ago

★ 8.2k JavaScript GPL-3.0

Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48908726

7 years ago

When Can I Reuse This Calendar?

https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/

7 years ago

Racket Is an Acceptable Python

https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/

7 years ago

It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy

https://invincible.substack.com/p/its-never-too-late-to-be-successful

7 years ago

How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms

https://medium.com/darklang/how-dark-deploys-code-in-50ms-771c6dd60671

7 years ago

If Sapiens were a blog post

https://neilkakkar.com/sapiens.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390247

7 years ago

Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/raspberry-pi-4-uses-incorrect-usb-c-design-wont-work-with-some-chargers/

7 years ago

Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190704191425.htm

7 years ago

Australia's anti-encryption laws used to bypass journalist protections: expert

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/08/australias-anti-encryption-laws-being-used-to-bypass-journalist-protections-expert-says

7 years ago

Intention to fine Marriott more than £99M under GDPR for data breach

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/statement-intention-to-fine-marriott-international-inc-more-than-99-million-under-gdpr-for-data-breach/

7 years ago

Zoom is reinstalling itself after a minute of being uninstalled [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AL28s9An5k

7 years ago

California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/report-california-earthquakes-disrupted-hf-propagation-on-west-coast

7 years ago

How I Taught My Kid to Read

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/phonics-not-whole-word-best-teaching-reading/591127/

7 years ago

Interpretable Machine Learning

https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/

7 years ago

Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV

https://blog.google/products/chromecast/prime-video-chromecast-android-tv-youtube-fire-tv/

7 years ago

Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2019/06/29/rsync-guis-power-control-design-and-decisions/

7 years ago

Database as Filesystem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc

7 years ago

C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-03/the-british-banking-dynasty-that-s-even-older-than-the-rothschilds

7 years ago

A list of Amazon’s businesses and subsidiaries

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/these-are-all-the-businesses-you-never-knew-were-owned-by

7 years ago

Webpack Doesn't Work on Monday (On Windows)

https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962

7 years ago

★ 2.6k JavaScript MIT

Brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept

https://neurosciencenews.com/concept-comprehension-14296/

7 years ago

Data Still Dominates

https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/06/30/data_still_dominates.html

7 years ago

Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook

https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/

7 years ago

New antibiotics effective against resistant bacteria in mice

https://presse.inserm.fr/en/new-antibiotics-developed-by-inserm-and-universite-de-rennes-1/35666/

7 years ago

Nuclear material worth $72M seized in a car in Turkey

https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/07/nuclear-weapon-material-worth-72m-seized-in-a-car-in-turkey/

7 years ago

There’s more than one way to write an IP address

https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-address/

7 years ago

Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GTn8p4GxT9gJ:https://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/3078458/the-worst-move-from-microsoft-in-30-years-mpn-changes-spark-uproar

7 years ago

Americans Shocked to Find Their Rights Literally Vanish at U.S. Airports

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americans-rights-are-literally-vanishing-at-the-airport/

7 years ago

Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst

https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/06/fast-radio-burst.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

https://minimaxir.com/apps/gpt2-mtg/

7 years ago

Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust

https://github.com/mitnk/cicada

7 years ago

★ 1k Rust MIT

Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG

https://decrypt.co/7795/investigators-tether-loaned-usdt-to-investors-illegally-traded-in-new-york-ran-an-unregistered-securities-offering

7 years ago

The challenges of teaching software engineering

https://www.sicpers.info/2019/07/the-challenges-of-teaching-software-engineering/

7 years ago

South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48914418

7 years ago

U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record again

https://www.noaa.gov/news/us-has-its-wettest-12-months-on-record-again

7 years ago

Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes

https://www.lundbeckfonden.com/en/ants-give-away-the-secrets-of-human-brain-processes/#

7 years ago

Cat Colors

https://www.catster.com/cats-101/different-cat-colors

7 years ago

When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-venmo-cash-app-twitter-crowdfund-money-20190602-story.html

7 years ago

FreeBSD 11.3

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.3R/announce.html

7 years ago

The forgotten joy of soap

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/the-forgotten-joy-of-soap/

7 years ago

Google Acquires Elastifile

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/expanding-our-enterprise-file-storage-offerings-to-simplify-the-management-and-scaling-of-data

7 years ago

BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS

https://support.bluejeans.com/s/article/BlueJeans-Detector-Service

7 years ago

Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/trump-cant-block-you-on-twitter-appeals-court-affirms/

7 years ago

Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop

https://peterwang512.github.io/FALdetector/

7 years ago