top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-15

To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-google-s-monopoly-on-search-make-its-index-public

7 years ago

Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-foundation-with-1-2-million-epic-megagrant/

7 years ago

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

7 years ago

Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557

7 years ago

Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-10000-on-the-tesla-bug-bounty-program/

7 years ago

Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/i-team-florida-dmv-sells-your-personal-information-to-private-companies-marketing-firms

7 years ago

Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48990482

7 years ago

How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?

https://people.kernel.org/bleung/how-many-kinds-of-usb-c-to-usb-c-cables-are-there

7 years ago

Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete

https://medium.com/@balidani/cities-skylines-is-turing-complete-e5ccf75d1c3a

7 years ago

Let's Build a Compiler

https://generalproblem.net/lets_build_a_compiler/01-starting-out/

7 years ago

Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the-world/

7 years ago

Ownership and Borrowing in D

https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in-d/

7 years ago

Elements of Programming

http://elementsofprogramming.com/

7 years ago

New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

https://www.imore.com/new-2019-macbook-air-features-slower-ssd-2018-model

7 years ago

BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-07-15/bpf-performance-tools-book.html

7 years ago

Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-max-ordered-by-ryanair-undergoes-name-change

7 years ago

SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-crew-dragon-explosion-titanium-fire/

7 years ago

Defunctionalize the Continuation

http://www.pathsensitive.com/2019/07/the-best-refactoring-youve-never-heard.html

7 years ago

'My son spent £3,160 in one game'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48925623

7 years ago

EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

https://www.zdnet.com/article/european-gps-satellites-have-been-down-for-four-days-in-mysterious-outage/

7 years ago

Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apollo-11-had-a-hidden-hero-software-11563153001?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools due to privacy risks

https://thenextweb.com/privacy/2019/07/15/german-schools-ban-microsoft-office-365-amid-privacy-concerns/

7 years ago

I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads

https://blog.floydhub.com/web-scraping-with-python/

7 years ago

Mac Open Web

https://macopenweb.com/

7 years ago

Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donating-canned-goods-to-food-banks

7 years ago

Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer

https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa

7 years ago

★ 698 Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0

Avoid Artificial Stupidity

https://www.mapflat.com/blog/artificial-stupidity/

7 years ago

IndieAuth – A federated login protocol using one's own domain name

https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth

7 years ago

Autocompletion with Deep Learning

https://tabnine.com/blog/deep

7 years ago

We can't get enough of audiobooks

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/13/listen-up-rise-of-audiobooks-steven-poole

7 years ago

Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/294213-how-google-legally-profits-from-massive-fraud-on-its-platform

7 years ago

China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/china-s-rising-tech-scene-threatens-u-s-brain-drain-n1029256

7 years ago

MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/mit-ai-tool-can-predict-breast-cancer-up-to-5-years-early-works-equally-well-for-white-and-black-patients/

7 years ago

German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools due to privacy risks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germany-threatens-to-break-up-with-microsoft-office-again/

7 years ago

Show HN: ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page

https://importdoc.com/

7 years ago

Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services

https://bigboy.us/other/aws/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Dataform (YC W18) – Build Reliable SQL Data Pipelines as a Team

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20441736

7 years ago

Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

https://news.mit.edu/2019/artificial-fiber-muscles-0711

7 years ago

Show HN: Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform

https://github.com/intrinsiclabs/osgood

7 years ago

★ 643 Rust MIT

Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf]

https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp19-rddkmstz.pdf

7 years ago

U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/11/china-surveillance-google-ibm-semptian/

7 years ago

Why I'm Leaving Medium

https://praxis.fortelabs.co/why-im-leaving-medium/

7 years ago

Baumol Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

7 years ago

The Lyttle Lytton Contest

http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html

7 years ago

What if you couldn’t program with loops?

http://www.mikealche.com/software-development/what-if-you-couldnt-program-with-loops

7 years ago