top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-24

Visual Information Theory (2015)

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/

7 years ago

Fast Software, the Best Software

https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

7 years ago

FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions

7 years ago

About the “Security Issue” on VLC

https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1153963312981389312

7 years ago

Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20519281

7 years ago

Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

https://onezero.medium.com/dont-put-your-work-email-on-your-personal-phone-ef7fef956c2f

7 years ago

Use plaintext email

https://useplaintext.email/

7 years ago

What If Consciousness Comes First?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/201907/what-if-consciousness-comes-first?

7 years ago

Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

https://fork.dev

7 years ago

How not to sign a JSON object

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to.html

7 years ago

Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store

https://arveknudsen.com/posts/practical-networked-applications-in-rust/module-1/

7 years ago

Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/07/teenager-can-walk-again-thanks-to-dutch-3d-printed-spinal-implant/

7 years ago

Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health/data-privacy-protection.html

7 years ago

Winnti: Hackers attacking the heart of German industry

http://br24.de/winnti/english

7 years ago

How we built the Waifu Vending Machine

https://waifulabs.com/blog/ax

7 years ago

Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year

https://notesonliberty.com/2019/04/16/mr-darcys-ten-thousand-a-year/

7 years ago

Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter

https://blog.containo.us/announcing-yaegi-263a1e2d070a

7 years ago

Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20514446

7 years ago

How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/magazine/the-era-of-people-like-you-is-over-how-turkey-purged-its-intellectuals.html

7 years ago

DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyregion/doordash-tip-policy.html

7 years ago

Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Core App

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-secret-research-warned-of-tipping-point-threat-to-core-app?pu=hackernewsotjyc7&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock&utm_content=facebook-secret-research

7 years ago

Link’s Awakening disassembly progress report – week 5

https://kemenaran.winosx.com/posts/links-awakening-disassembly-progress-report-week-5/

7 years ago

Why We Can’t Figure Out Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-out-why-infrastructure-is-so-expensive.html

7 years ago

Payroll startup Gusto raises $200M

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/smb-payroll-startup-gusto-raises-200m-series-d-plans-rd-expansion-to-nyc/

7 years ago

Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-years-human-brain-project-simulation-markram-ted-talk/594493/

7 years ago

SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/neo-nazi-swatters-target-dozens-of-journalists/

7 years ago

Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wireframes templates

https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups

7 years ago

★ 530 JavaScript MIT

Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/tesla-co-founder-and-cto-jb-straubel-stepping-down/

7 years ago

Show HN: A tool to convert Jupyter notebooks to beautiful blogs

https://github.com/hemanta212/blogger-cli

7 years ago

★ 415 Python MIT

Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.80) mobile-only monthly plan in India

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/netflix-launches-rs-199-2-8-mobile-only-monthly-plan-in-india/

7 years ago

Evolutionary gene loss may explain why only humans are prone to heart attack

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190723182255.htm

7 years ago

Tuna are spawning in marine protected areas

https://news.mit.edu/2019/tuna-spawn-marine-protected-sanctuaries-0724

7 years ago

Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-and-must-put-backdoors-in-encryption-ag-barr-says/

7 years ago

Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-keynote-address-international-conference-cyber

7 years ago

Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style (1993) [pdf]

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf

7 years ago

Tesla Q2 2019 Letter

https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/1e70a30c-20a7-48b3-a1f6-696a7c517959

7 years ago

Facebook revenue beats estimates; discloses antitrust probe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-results/facebook-discloses-antitrust-probe-revenue-beats-estimates-idUSKCN1UJ2U1

7 years ago

Every Cancer Patient Is One in a Billion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/every-cancer-patient-is-one-in-a-billion-11563835958?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets

https://blog.usepastel.com/post/33-beautiful-free-icon-sets

7 years ago

Fujifilm’s first surveillance camera can read a license plate from 1km away

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/24/20708236/fujifilm-sx800-security-camera-long-range-1000mm-focal-length-image-stabilization-heat-haze-fog

7 years ago

Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets

https://www.zdnet.com/article/siemens-contractor-pleads-guilty-to-planting-logic-bomb-in-company-spreadsheets/

7 years ago

EvilGnome: Rare Malware Spying on Linux Desktop Users

https://www.intezer.com/blog-evilgnome-rare-malware-spying-on-linux-desktop-users/

7 years ago

Boeing May Halt 737 Max Production

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/business/boeing-earnings-737-max.html

7 years ago

GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars to beyond 2019

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-cruise/gm-cruise-to-delay-commercial-deployment-of-self-driving-cars-beyond-2019-idUSKCN1UJ1NA

7 years ago

The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/opinion/doordash-tipping.html

7 years ago

How Banksy Authenticates His Work

https://reprage.com/post/how-banksy-authenticates-his-work

7 years ago

Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment

https://www.cyberscoop.com/teenage-hackers-police-britain-netherlands/

7 years ago

Picat – a logic-based multi-paradigm programming language

http://www.picat-lang.org

7 years ago

World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment Clears Milestone

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-experiment-clears-milestone/

7 years ago

Show HN: Minimal Twitter – drastically simplify and declutter the new Twitter UI

https://typefully.com/minimal-twitter

7 years ago

Mithril.js 2.0 Released

https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/releases/tag/v2.0.1

7 years ago

★ 14.5k JavaScript MIT

Rutger Hauer: Blade Runner actor dies aged 75

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49098435

7 years ago

Extending the Linux Kernel with Built-In Kernel Headers

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/extending-kernel-built-kernel-headers

7 years ago

The Clean Farming Revolution

http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-clean-farming-revolution/

7 years ago

Elasticsearch for Offensive Security (2018)

https://www.marcolancini.it/2018/blog-elk-for-nmap/

7 years ago

Forests and climate change: pine trees dying in France

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/07/24/la-secheresse-et-la-canicule-deciment-les-forets-francaises_5492869_3244.html

7 years ago

The Mutable Web

https://simulacrum.party/posts/the-mutable-web/

7 years ago

Why we are withdrawing the NHS Common User Interface

https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/transformation-blog/2019/why-we-are-withdrawing-the-nhs-common-user-interface

7 years ago

Too Unique to Hide

https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/individual-risk

7 years ago

Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget

https://canny.io/blog/free-saas-tools-for-budget/

7 years ago

As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/24/744541143/as-climate-changes-taxpayers-will-shoulder-larger-u-s-payouts-to-farmers

7 years ago

Panic – Nova Private Beta

https://panic.com/nova/

7 years ago

We built a SaaS company to make email better

https://gmelius.com/blog/email-collaboration/

7 years ago

Europe Heatwave: Records Tumble in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49100271

7 years ago