top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-11

QuickJS JavaScript Engine

https://bellard.org/quickjs/

7 years ago

Twitter was down

https://status.twitterstat.us

7 years ago

Shopify and the Power of Platforms

https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platforms/

7 years ago

No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02156-9

7 years ago

My First Fifteen Compilers

https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/07/09/my-first-fifteen-compilers/

7 years ago

How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-made-8-000-per-month-podcasting-and-why-you-probably-dont-want-to-855966a557aa

7 years ago

France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48947922

7 years ago

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/national/science-health/japans-hayabusa2-probe-makes-second-touchdown-distant-asteroid/

7 years ago

Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-malicious-apps-infect-million-android.html

7 years ago

Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting

https://wordsandbuttons.online/lexical_differential_highlighting_instead_of_syntax_highlighting.html

7 years ago

AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208975-ai-made-from-a-sheet-of-glass-can-recognise-numbers-just-by-looking/

7 years ago

Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/hardware/apple-starts-shipping-india-made-iphones-to-european-markets/articleshow/70166859.cms

7 years ago

Data scientists shouldn't use Upwork

https://www.racketracer.com/2019/07/11/why-data-scientists-should-never-use-upwork/

7 years ago

Show HN: Inlets 2.0 – expose your local endpoints to the Internet

https://inlets.dev

7 years ago

Thaddeus Kosciusko

https://angrystaffofficer.com/2019/07/09/thaddeus-kosciusko-the-polish-engineer-you-never-heard-of-who-saved-america/

7 years ago

Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android

https://github.com/facebook/hermes

7 years ago

★ 11k JavaScript MIT

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply

7 years ago

Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-disables-walkie-talkie-app-due-to-vulnerability-that-could-allow-iphone-eavesdropping/

7 years ago

210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia

https://www.latimes.com/science/oldest-modern-human-skull-in-eurasia-story.html

7 years ago

Linux Observability with BPF

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/linux-observability-with-bpf/

7 years ago

In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

https://lithub.com/in-cairo-the-garbage-collector-knows-everything/

7 years ago

When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Your-Pa-word-doesn-t-matter/ba-p/731984

7 years ago

13-Year-Old Scientist's Research Shows Hand Dryers Can Hurt Kids' Ears

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739783918/hand-dryers-harm-childrens-hearing-canadian-study-shows

7 years ago

Infinite work is less work

http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/07/infinite-work-is-less-work.html

7 years ago

QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones

https://labs.p1sec.com/2019/07/09/presenting-qcsuper-a-tool-for-capturing-your-2g-3g-4g-air-traffic-on-qualcomm-based-phones/

7 years ago

Guix Workflow Language

https://www.guixwl.org/

7 years ago

Unemployed Fishing

https://www.drakemag.com/back-issues/2019/summer/2032-unemployed-fishing.html

7 years ago

Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-stirs-suspicions-by-adding-telemetry-files-to-security-only-update/

7 years ago

Tiles to Curves: Fun with Voronoi Graphs

https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/tiles-to-curves-fun-with-voronoi-graphs-part-1-r5150/

7 years ago

Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings

https://techerati.com/news-hub/google-admits-listening-to-some-smart-speaker-recordings/

7 years ago

Steam Labs

https://store.steampowered.com/labs

7 years ago

Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

https://github.com/luksamuk/powerlisp

7 years ago

★ 190 Common Lisp MIT

Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site

http://www.petesqbsite.com/index.php

7 years ago

Launch HN: Stacks (YC S14) – The first SEC-qualified crypto token offering

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413420

7 years ago

Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/maker-faire-now-make-community/

7 years ago

Plant trees while you search the web

https://info.ecosia.org/what

7 years ago

WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/

7 years ago

Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

https://blog.cloudkernels.net/posts/rpi4-64bit-virt/

7 years ago

How we built a serverless architecture with AWS

https://www.hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-serverless-architecture-with-aws/

7 years ago

Show HN: I made an interactive hex calculator in ncurses

https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise

7 years ago

★ 714 C GPL-3.0

Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job

https://jeremyaboyd.micro.blog/2019/07/09/jeremy-i-think.html

7 years ago

'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/06/05/the-restaurant-of-order-mistakes-employs-waiters-with-dementia/

7 years ago

Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415371

7 years ago

FUSE performance improvements with eBPF [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-bijlani.pdf

7 years ago

Visualize team email network with new MIT tool

https://openteam.info/

7 years ago

Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet

https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/arpanet-part-3-the-subnet/

7 years ago

We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

7 years ago

Zelda speedrunners are attacking the memory allocator

https://twitter.com/Gankro/status/1148361355130527748

7 years ago

Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort

https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l2408

7 years ago

Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/technology/amazon-workers-retraining-automation.html

7 years ago

German submarine U-1206

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206

7 years ago