top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-20

Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi

https://potatofrom.space/post/viasat-airline-free-wifi-stunnel/

6 years ago

374 upvotes – 231 comments

I work in an Amazon warehouse in West Sacramento

https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 261 comments

Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-fsb-contractor-expose-tor-deanonymization-project/

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 118 comments

Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-19/tinder-bypasses-google-play-joining-revolt-against-app-store-fee

6 years ago

333 upvotes – 239 comments

Let's talk about peeing in space

https://twitter.com/MaryRobinette/status/1152277166996017152

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 56 comments

Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/15/intel-prepares-to-graft-googles-bfloat16-onto-processors/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 131 comments

Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts

https://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1151849118790246402

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 103 comments

Amazon deforestation: Brazil's Bolsonaro dismisses data as 'lies'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49052360

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 132 comments

Understanding Docker Container Escapes

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/19/understanding-docker-container-escapes/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 48 comments

What senior engineers do: fix knowledge holes

http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3232

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 110 comments

Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ieverything_i_knowi_42_hours_of_visionary_buckminster_fuller_lectures_1975.html

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 28 comments

Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at F-Droid

https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2019/reproducibility-fdroid/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 49 comments

Inferno Operating System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 97 comments

Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29074/skunk-works-exotic-fusion-reactor-program-moves-forward-with-larger-more-powerful-design

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 122 comments

Windows 10 Debloat Script

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 182 comments

Flakes – Proposed mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

Oregon passed sweeping housing crisis laws

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-19/oregon-lessons-california-housing-crisis

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 263 comments

Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander

http://cowlark.com/2019-07-20-cowgol-agc/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 16 comments

The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework [pdf]

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 60 comments

Dead Simple VPN

https://balaskas.gr/blog/2019/07/20/a-dead-simple-vpn/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 68 comments

Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/click-farms-internet-china-154440209.html

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 132 comments

Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/health/opioids-trial-addiction-drugstores.html

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 39 comments

After man says dog dewormer cured his cancer, researchers look into treatment

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/after-edmond-man-says-dog-dewormer-cured-his-cancer-researchers/article_00691b72-a223-51a5-aec0-e743faf1eed4.html

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 75 comments

Imba – Create complex web apps with ease

http://imba.io/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers (2018)

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 106 comments

The Story of Metal Gear Solid’s English Translation

https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/18/20696081/metal-gear-solid-translation-japanese-english-jeremy-blaustein

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 39 comments

The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-mathematical-nomad-paul-erd%C5%91s-3163b70a2863

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650M Settlement for Data Breach

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/equifax-data-breach-settlement.html

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 106 comments

Managing a Secure JSON Web Token Implementation

https://cursorblog.com/managing-a-secure-json-web-token-implementation/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

https://medium.com/hackernoon/announcing-quark-a-software-sketchbook-for-your-projects-2f53553415b

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

Many Americans who live paycheck to paycheck blame debt

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-cant-handle-a-400-unexpected-expense.html

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 297 comments

Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Language Arguments (2018)

https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12186

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Running the numbers on an insane scheme to save Antarctic ice

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/running-the-numbers-on-an-insane-scheme-to-save-antarctic-ice/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 34 comments

ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSOnLinuxARCShrinkage

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

How Capitalism Changed American Literature

https://www.publicbooks.org/how-capitalism-changed-american-literature/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Frontier: ORNL's 2021 exascale supercomputer will run on AMD CPUs and GPUs

https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Models of Generics and Metaprogramming: Go, Rust, Swift, D and More

http://thume.ca/2019/07/14/a-tour-of-metaprogramming-models-for-generics/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a Decade

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/wall-street-s-trading-desks-face-worst-first-half-in-a-decade

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments

Reddit AMA: I'm a Former Amazon Fulfillment Center Employee

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cfglde/im_a_former_amazon_fulfillment_center_employee_ama/

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 83 comments

Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf]

https://github.com/devinmcgloin/theory/blob/master/worrydream/Minsky%20-%20Why%20programming%20is%20a%20good%20medium%20for%20expressing%20poorly%20understood%20and%20sloppily-formulated%20ideas.pdf

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Where the Bodies Are Buried

https://www.texasobserver.org/where-the-bodies-are-buried/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

New NASA Images Show Location of the Lunar Library

https://medium.com/@novaspivack/there-is-now-a-30-million-page-backup-of-planet-earth-on-the-moon-d0504458aca1

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 48 comments

Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dCjz5mgQdiv57wWGz/ingredients-for-creating-disruptive-research-teams

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

It's all Greek to me: Thoughts on code readability and aesthetics

https://avraam.dev/posts/greek-to-me/

6 years ago

67 upvotes – 60 comments
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