top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-29

Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-megapack-utility-scale-energy-storage

7 years ago

Uber Lays Off 400

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/technology/uber-job-cuts.html

7 years ago

Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/capital-one-data-systems-breached-by-seattle-woman-u-s-says

7 years ago

The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

https://theconversation.com/heatwave-think-its-hot-in-europe-the-human-body-is-already-close-to-thermal-limits-elsewhere-121003

7 years ago

YouTube faces creator backlash

https://www.axios.com/youtube-faces-creator-backlash-30b7e425-ec93-4f02-aec3-6f418e009b56.html

7 years ago

Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-smartphone-final-specs-announced/

7 years ago

Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556336

7 years ago

Data Engineering Cookbook

https://github.com/andkret/Cookbook

7 years ago

★ 15k Python Apache-2.0

India tiger census shows rapid population growth

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49148174

7 years ago

Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf]

https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/lambdainc_ord.pdf

7 years ago

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2019/07/29/browser-extensions.html

7 years ago

Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

https://www.privacycompany.eu/en/new-dpia-on-microsoft-office-and-windows-software-still-privacy-risks-remaining-short-blog/

7 years ago

Slack was down

https://status.slack.com/2019-07/b31a6510b8caabcc

7 years ago

GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-countries/

7 years ago

Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-lie-detector-tests-cant-be-trusted-180972724/

7 years ago

Go Contracts – Draft Design

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft-contracts.md

7 years ago

Work on production line of Boeing 737 Max ‘not adequately funded’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49142761

7 years ago

How SAML 2.0 Authentication Works

https://gravitational.com/blog/how-saml-authentication-works/

7 years ago

The Internet's Old Guard

https://reading.supply/post/432f6903-c7cd-4cb0-a894-c09155a8ca8b

7 years ago

The Invention of Money

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money

7 years ago

OpenPDF 1.3.0

https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/releases/tag/1.3.0

7 years ago

★ 4.2k Java

The art of interrupting software engineers

https://content.pivotal.io/product-managers/the-art-of-interrupting-software-engineers

7 years ago

Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/25/1907571116

7 years ago

Some things that might help you make better software (2016)

https://www.drmaciver.com/2016/10/some-things-that-might-help-you-write-better-software/

7 years ago

B-threads: programming in a way that allows for easier changes

https://medium.com/@lmatteis/b-threads-programming-in-a-way-that-allows-for-easier-changes-5d95b9fb6928

7 years ago

A tiny language called Z (2013)

https://chrisdone.com/posts/z/

7 years ago

Bethesda removing mandatory login from Doom re-releases after fan backlash

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/347550/Bethesda_removing_mandatory_login_from_Doom_rereleases_after_fan_backlash.php

7 years ago

Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)

http://www.ultratechnology.com/levels.htm

7 years ago

The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/the-elite-club-that-rules-the-diamond-world-is-starting-to-crack

7 years ago

The Washington Post's bestseller lists have been wrong

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/07/26/editors-note/

7 years ago

Trump proposes forcing hospitals to disclose discount rates with insurers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-proposes-forcing-hospitals-to-disclose-discount-rates-negotiated-with-insurers-11564431303?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?

https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/west-virginia-blockchain-voting-voatz.html

7 years ago

Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019

https://www.treasury.gov.au/consultation/c2019-t395788

7 years ago

Taleb is wrong about IQ

http://www.jsmp.dk/posts/2019-06-16-talebiq/

7 years ago

Liftbridge: Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

https://github.com/liftbridge-io/liftbridge

7 years ago

★ 2.7k Go Apache-2.0

Lahja – A generic event bus implementation written in Python

https://github.com/ethereum/lahja

7 years ago

★ 394 Python MIT

The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-28/the-lithium-mine-buildup-is-outpacing-the-electric-car-boom

7 years ago

Postgres tips for the average and power user

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/07/17/postgres-tips-for-average-and-power-user/

7 years ago

Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0325-z

7 years ago

More Older Couples Stay Together Because They Live Apart

https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-older-couples-stay-together-because-they-live-apart-11564311602?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

How I Side Project

https://dotink.co/posts/how-i-side-project/

7 years ago

Ohio passes energy bill that bails out nuclear and coal plants, guts renewables

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/27/8910804/ohio-gop-nuclear-coal-plants-renewables-efficiency-hb6

7 years ago

How we send 22k emails every hour

https://www.jitbit.com/news/email-architecture/

7 years ago

The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/opinion/affordable-housing-zoning-golden-girls.html

7 years ago

The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)

https://logicmag.io/failure/the-undertakers-of-silicon-valley/

7 years ago

Improved seam carving with forward energy

https://avikdas.com/2019/07/29/improved-seam-carving-with-forward-energy.html

7 years ago

Beijing Presses Hong Kong Government to Quell Unrest

https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-presses-hong-kong-government-to-quell-unrest-11564404626?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Banding in Games: A Noisy Rant [pdf]

http://loopit.dk/banding_in_games.pdf

7 years ago

Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)

https://chrisdone.com/posts/emacs-users-are-like-igor/

7 years ago

Mystery of Chedworth's 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/22/mystery-of-chedworth-1800-year-old-roman-glass-shard-solved

7 years ago

A Wisconsin lawmaker who's paralyzed isn't allowed to participate in meetings

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/29/leaders-wont-let-lawmaker-who-uses-wheelchair-phone-into-meetings/1830851001/

7 years ago

No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/how-saudi-arabia-makes-dissidents-disappear

7 years ago