top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-28

Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer

https://harry.garrood.me/blog/malicious-code-in-purescript-npm-installer/

7 years ago

How I use the good parts of AWS

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1154516910265884672

7 years ago

Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-recycling-landfills

7 years ago

A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-13/the-black-hole-engulfing-the-world-s-bond-markets-quicktake

7 years ago

Burnout

https://johnnyrodgers.is/burnout

7 years ago

Surprisingly popular

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

7 years ago

Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

https://tldr.hackeryogi.com/

7 years ago

Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html

7 years ago

Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest

https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-forgotten-rainforest/

7 years ago

Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568

7 years ago

Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns Dies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/science/chaser-border-collie-dies.html

7 years ago

RISC Is Unscalable

https://blackhole12.com/blog/risc-is-fundamentally-unscalable/

7 years ago

One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a single viral hit

https://theoutline.com/post/7709/meet-the-man-who-has-spent-the-past-years-making-over-19000-videos-of-himself-feeding-cats

7 years ago

Comparisons in C++20

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2019/07/28/comparisons-cpp20/

7 years ago

In Praise of Walking

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/28/its-a-superpower-how-walking-makes-us-healthier-happier-and-brainier

7 years ago

Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

https://henrikwarne.com/2019/07/27/book-review-designing-data-intensive-applications/

7 years ago

Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/misunderstanding-dunning-kruger/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Best Lisp for software development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20546906

7 years ago

Show HN: Memorize Terminal Commands

https://www.memorize-terminal-commands.com/

7 years ago

Problems with the CSS background-image property

https://nystudio107.com/blog/the-css-background-image-property-as-an-anti-pattern

7 years ago

Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/survival/

7 years ago

Survival in chessland [pdf]

http://tom7.org/chess/survival.pdf

7 years ago

Senior Citizens Struggle with Suicide as Loneliness and Isolation Set In

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/27/745017374/isolated-and-struggling-many-seniors-are-turning-to-suicide

7 years ago

Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019

https://blog.coinbase.com/incident-post-mortem-june-25-26-2019-1d08c1657cbc

7 years ago

On Writing a C++ Book

https://lospi.net/c/c++/programming/developing/software/2019/07/28/cpp-crash-course.html

7 years ago

Gödel's Ontological Proof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_ontological_proof

7 years ago

US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples

https://redbus2us.com/us-visa-forms-ds-160-260-has-social-media-questions-now-samples/

7 years ago

Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad...

https://mondaynote.com/apple-no-macintosh-forks-but-the-ipad-78894ddfadfb

7 years ago

PyPy JIT for 64-bit ARM

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/07/pypy-jit-for-aarch64.html

7 years ago

Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write (2018)

https://mondaynote.com/bezos-a-ceo-who-can-write-2f368ee36599

7 years ago

What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections

https://medium.com/open-glam/the-great-wave-what-hokusais-masterpiece-tells-us-about-museums-copyright-and-online-da0f25bd4ed2

7 years ago

MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency

https://www.coindesk.com/mit-fellow-accuses-facebook-of-lifting-his-ideas-for-libra-cryptocurrency

7 years ago

Make meaning your vocational goal

https://hbr.org/2019/07/why-you-should-stop-trying-to-be-happy-at-work

7 years ago

A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security

https://www.airoav.com/mitm-voicefive/

7 years ago

Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket

https://www.cnet.com/news/sonys-mini-air-conditioner-can-fit-in-your-pocket/

7 years ago

In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/world/americas/brazil-deforestation-amazon-bolsonaro.html

7 years ago

Engineers Don't Solve Problems (2018)

https://logicmag.io/failure/engineers-dont-solve-problems/

7 years ago

What Is Gaussian Curvature?

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2019/curvature/

7 years ago

The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-forgotten-solution-superdeterminism.html

7 years ago

Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of students ahead of fall semester

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-defunds-scholarships-thousands-university-students-ahead-fall-semester-n1035231

7 years ago

The Dark Ages of AI (1985) [pdf]

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2a85/7e042331c53b856b3ad5018454f72d798790.pdf

7 years ago

Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line

https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff

7 years ago

★ 473 Shell MIT