top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-10

Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-app/

7 years ago

Developers don't understand CORS

https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors

7 years ago

Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnos.nl%2Fartikel%2F2292889-google-medewerkers-luisteren-nederlandse-gesprekken-mee.html

7 years ago

PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4

http://mloduchowski.com/en/blog/raspberry-pi-4-b-pci-express/

7 years ago

Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

https://grh.am/2019/preserving-laptop-stickers-on-macbooks/

7 years ago

Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches

https://projectvesta.org/

7 years ago

Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

https://bradleytaunt.com/stop-crawling-google/

7 years ago

Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

https://soulver.app/

7 years ago

DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net

https://starcraft2.com/en-us/news/22933138

7 years ago

Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/google-privacy-policy.html

7 years ago

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecks

7 years ago

Python consumes a lot of memory – how to reduce the size of objects?

https://habr.com/en/post/458518/

7 years ago

Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-mitigation-co-benefits-1.5205552

7 years ago

The Slow Death of Hollywood

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-of-hollywood

7 years ago

Fast Way to Load Data into PostgreSQL Using Python

https://hakibenita.com/fast-load-data-python-postgresql

7 years ago

The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D

https://symphony.iohk.io/

7 years ago

Instagram influencer engagement hovers near all-time lows

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/instagram-influencer-engagement-hovers-near-all-time-lows-study-says/558331/

7 years ago

Moving the World to a 4 Day Workweek – An Interview with Aidan Harper

https://blog.30hourjobs.com/an-interview-with-aidan-harper-of-the-4-day-week-campaign/

7 years ago

Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

7 years ago

Living without the modern browser

https://an3223.github.io/Living-without-the-modern-browser/

7 years ago

Older Americans are alone half their waking hours, on average

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/03/on-average-older-adults-spend-over-half-their-waking-hours-alone/

7 years ago

Sqlite to Rest

https://github.com/olsonpm/sqlite-to-rest

7 years ago

★ 392 JavaScript

Data Science at The New York Times

https://blog.dominodatalab.com/data-science-at-the-new-york-times/

7 years ago

Catching use-after-move C++ bugs with Clang's consumed annotations

https://awesomekling.github.io/Catching-use-after-move-bugs-with-Clang-consumed-annotations/

7 years ago

Netlify Analytics

https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics

7 years ago

You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

https://twitter.com/ilikevests/status/1148991554624688128

7 years ago

Stripe's API was down

https://status.stripe.com/

7 years ago

Saudi airline cancels $6B Boeing order in favor of Airbus

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/saudi-airline-cancels-6b-boeing-order-favor-airbus-who-s-n1027441

7 years ago

British ISP Lobbyists Backtrack on Calling Mozilla a Villain for DNS-over-HTTPS

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/10/ispa_clears_mozilla/

7 years ago

Rust async-await status report 2

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/07/08/async-await-status-report-2/

7 years ago

Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/cockroaches-may-soon-be-unstoppable-thanks-fast-evolving-insecticide-resistance

7 years ago

Stripe's API was down again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20406667

7 years ago

Tell HN: I came up with an interesting way to do decentralized account recovery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404933

7 years ago

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Has ‘Serious Concerns’ with Facebook Libra Proposal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/fed-s-powell-has-serious-concerns-with-facebook-libra-proposal

7 years ago

Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-microsd-card-performance-comparison-2019

7 years ago

Companies outside the tech industry are spinning off internal software

https://www.wsj.com/articles/our-it-is-so-good-lets-sell-it-firms-say-11562664603?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-serverless-now-generally-available/

7 years ago

Rust, a Raspberry Pi and Addressable LEDs

https://blog.tomarrell.com/post/rust_and_leds

7 years ago

Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services

https://www.circl.lu/opendata/circl-ail-dataset-01/

7 years ago

Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction

http://news.mit.edu/2019/carbon-threshold-mass-extinction-0708

7 years ago

Nintendo Switch Lite: a smaller, cheaper Switch built for handheld play

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/10/20687801/nintendo-switch-lite-price-release-date-size-battery-life-motion-control-games

7 years ago

The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-messy-reality-of-personalized-learning

7 years ago

Scientists use camera with human-like vision to capture 5,400 FPS video

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/09/scientists-use-camera-with-human-like-vision-to-capture-5400-fps-video/

7 years ago

x86 API Hooking Demystified (2012)

http://jbremer.org/x86-api-hooking-demystified/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Cloosiv (YC S19) – Order ahead from local coffee shops

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403870

7 years ago

Ratification of the RISC-V Base ISA and Privileged Architecture Specifications

https://riscv.org/2019/07/risc-v-foundation-announces-ratification-of-the-risc-v-base-isa-and-privileged-architecture-specifications/

7 years ago

How to Debug (2010)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/199

7 years ago

The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon

https://prospect.org/article/biggest-abuser-forced-arbitration-amazon

7 years ago

Prenda Law porn-troll saga ends with prison for founder

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/prenda-law-porn-troll-saga-ends-with-prison-for-founder/

7 years ago

MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20181018IPR16524/plastic-oceans-meps-back-eu-ban-on-throwaway-plastics-by-2021

7 years ago

NASA Maps Surface Changes from California Quakes

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7448

7 years ago

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility-supports-serverless/

7 years ago