top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-27

Adblocking: How about Nah?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

7 years ago

Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer

https://medium.com/@chrisgaul/tokyo-subways-humble-duct-tape-typographer-a8c84bb6b99b

7 years ago

Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/27/health/doug-lindsay-invented-surgery-trnd/index.html

7 years ago

The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/business/boeing-737-max-faa.html

7 years ago

Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190724103702.htm

7 years ago

Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/siri-records-fights-doctors-appointments-and-sex-and-contractors-hear-it/

7 years ago

Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty”

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/26/soak-em.html

7 years ago

Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-07-drones-days-photovoltaic.html

7 years ago

Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DGPDEC/paper.pdf

7 years ago

Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/08/why-we-don-t-use-galileo-s-last-name.html

7 years ago

What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/swimming-happiness.html

7 years ago

OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project

https://openbittorrent.com/

7 years ago

Perils of Constructors

https://matklad.github.io/2019/07/16/perils-of-constructors.html

7 years ago

Facebook Is Dying

https://medium.com/crypto-oracle/facebook-is-dying-libra-wont-save-it-wall-street-is-clueless-47243c17f107

7 years ago

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html

7 years ago

Purescript-native can now target Golang

https://discourse.purescript.org/t/purescript-native-can-now-target-golang/878

7 years ago

Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR

https://airmail.news/issues/2019-7-27/should-the-rich-be-allowed-to-buy-the-best-genes

7 years ago

A chat room inside the browser console

https://console.chat/

7 years ago

Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow

https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/07/27/goodbye-docker-purging-is-such-sweet-sorrow/

7 years ago

Mango leaves: Indian scientists' solution to a $2.5T global shipping problem

https://qz.com/india/1673557/indian-scientists-use-mango-leaf-to-prevent-ships-from-rusting/

7 years ago

Latest 737 Max Fault That Alarmed Test Pilots Rooted in Software

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-27/latest-737-max-fault-that-alarmed-test-pilots-rooted-in-software

7 years ago

Open source all-iron battery for renewable energy storage

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067219300318?via%3Dihub

7 years ago

Facebook and Google Algorithms Are Secret, but Australia Plans to Change That

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-and-google-algorithms-are-secretbut-australia-plans-to-change-that-11564134106?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money

https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/

7 years ago

Lightning video adapters feature Apple Secure Boot, run Darwin kernel

https://twitter.com/nyan_satan/status/1155148789977636864

7 years ago

Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/8/238344-scaling-static-analyses-at-facebook/

7 years ago

The arm’s-length flats of Tokyo [video]

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190718-the-arms-length-flats-of-tokyo

7 years ago

The Death of the Mom and Pop E-Store

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-e-store/

7 years ago

Has the Time Come for City-Run Public Banks?

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/07/public-banks-local-financing-community-california-ab-857/593104/

7 years ago

Crazy LORA ranges today

http://rent-a-pilot.nl/archives/190

7 years ago

Raspberry Pi Model Railway Automation

https://phwallen.github.io/smrc/

7 years ago

Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-streaming-now-supports-websockets/

7 years ago

Hell Is Other Internet People

https://thebaffler.com/latest/hell-is-other-internet-people-thaddeus-johns

7 years ago

OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon

http://www.openbgpd.org/

7 years ago

Fax machines can be hacked to breach a network, using only its number (2018)

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/fax-machines-can-be-hacked-breach-network-using-only-its-number

7 years ago

“Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london

7 years ago

Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental)

https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/docs/rootless.md

7 years ago

★ 71.5k Go Apache-2.0

Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks That Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone [pdf]

https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/Kwong-HDDphone-IEEE-SP-2019.pdf

7 years ago

MathFiction: Alex Recommends

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/readinglists.php

7 years ago

The Farm Automation Breakthrough

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimvinoski/2019/05/06/the-farm-automation-breakthrough-bringing-the-high-tech-west-coast-and-rural-rust-belt-together/

7 years ago

GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restricted. Please support us

https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us

7 years ago

★ 11.7k JavaScript

How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/07/26/how-fast-can-a-bufferedreader-read-lines-in-java/

7 years ago

How to Bypass “Slider Captcha”

https://medium.com/@filipvitas/how-to-bypass-slider-captcha-with-js-and-puppeteer-cd5e28105e3c

7 years ago

The Mathematics of Text Structure

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03478

7 years ago

Coreboot 4.10

https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2019/07/22/announcing-coreboot-4-10/

7 years ago

Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of Climate Risks

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/climate/moodys-ratings-climate-change-data.html

7 years ago

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to military-industrial complex

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2602/a-history-sheds-light-on-venture-capital-s-ties-to-the-military-industrial-complex-22006

7 years ago

Antikythera Mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

7 years ago

The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/stealing-from-self-checkout/550940/

7 years ago

SMT Solvers in Software Security (2012)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot12/workshop-program/presentation/vanegue

7 years ago

In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-life-or-death-crisis-humility-is-everything-11564133402?mod=rsswn

7 years ago