top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-06

Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)

https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/

7 years ago

Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut

7 years ago

New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-neighbors-build-cheaper-way-to-connect-to-web-11565100000?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1

7 years ago

A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera

http://blog.robertelder.org/recording-660-fps-on-raspberry-pi-camera/

7 years ago

Toni Morrison Has Died

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-laureate-toni-morrison-has-died-11565099219?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

https://zecoda.com/

7 years ago

AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-area-att-employees-bribed-install-phone-unlocking-malware-company-network-authorities-say/

7 years ago

FFmpeg 4.2

http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr4.2

7 years ago

How to get your first ten customers (2013)

http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made

7 years ago

Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains

https://arend-lang.github.io/

7 years ago

Health insurance companies are useless

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-05/health-insurance-useless

7 years ago

Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14711/toshiba-introduces-new-tiny-nvme-ssd-form-factor

7 years ago

Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-hit-by-apples-crackdown-on-messaging-feature?pu=hackernews8g0mjb&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

7 years ago

Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e3e/millions-of-books-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain-you-can-download-them-free

7 years ago

Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/

7 years ago

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/

7 years ago

It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project

https://ottofeller.com/blog/how-to-conduct-research-and-successfully-launch-a-product

7 years ago

Focus on the high-expectation customer

https://uxdesign.cc/stop-designing-products-for-random-people-4734423cbfe6

7 years ago

Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time

https://seashells.io/

7 years ago