top 50% 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

Unison File Synchronizer

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

7 years ago

A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/06/climate/world-water-stress.html

7 years ago

Social share buttons that don't allow the social sites to track your users

https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

7 years ago

★ 672 JavaScript

US Appeals Court Voids Google Cookie Privacy Settlement That Paid Users Nothing

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-cookies/u-s-appeals-court-voids-google-cookie-privacy-settlement-that-paid-users-nothing-idUSKCN1UW23R

7 years ago

China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-india-exclusive/exclusive-china-warns-india-of-reverse-sanctions-if-huawei-is-blocked-sources-idUSKCN1UW1FF

7 years ago

Being basic as a virtue

https://nadiaeghbal.com/basic

7 years ago

Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?

https://www.nature.com/news/hospital-checklists-are-meant-to-save-lives-so-why-do-they-often-fail-1.18057

7 years ago

Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/swiss-post-suspends-drone-delivery-service-after-second-crash

7 years ago

History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |

https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/aqcesg/history_of_the_broken_vertical_bar_being_the_form/

7 years ago

Finnair Flight 915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnair_Flight_915

7 years ago

10 Years SeL4: Still the Best, Still Getting Better

https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/10-years-sel4-still-the-best-still-getting-better/

7 years ago

Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds

http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Casting-Glass-from-3D-Printed-Molds

7 years ago

Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/einstein-and-hilberts-race-to-generalize-relativity-6885f44e3cbe

7 years ago

How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch

https://xorro-p2p.github.io/

7 years ago

Documentation – Your Secret Weapon

https://www.anup.io/2019/08/05/documentation-your-secret-weapon/

7 years ago

A Commercial Path to Fusion

https://physicsworld.com/a/a-commercial-path-to-fusion/

7 years ago

Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/private-internet-access-users-can-now-resolve-internet-names-with-the-handshake-naming-system-hns/

7 years ago

Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/silent-windows-update-patched-side-channel-that-leaked-data-from-intel-cpus/

7 years ago

Glymphatic system clears toxins in the brain during sleep (2013)

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/3956/to-sleep-perchance-to-clean.aspx

7 years ago

Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html

7 years ago

Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing

https://maesure.com/

7 years ago

Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627137

7 years ago

Open list of GDPR fines so far

https://github.com/lknik/gdpr/blob/master/fines/README.md

7 years ago

★ 95

Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621224

7 years ago

N. Korea Took in $2B in Cyberattacks to Fund Weapons Program: U.N. Report

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-cyber-un/north-korea-took-2-billion-in-cyberattacks-to-fund-weapons-program-u-n-report-idUSKCN1UV1ZX

7 years ago

Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k years ago: hypothesis

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-recursive-language-modern-simultaneously-years.html

7 years ago

Intel 10nm Chip Gets Mixed Reviews

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334991

7 years ago

Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky

7 years ago

★ 3k Swift MIT

Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza

https://logicmag.io/bodies/tarek-loubani-on-3d-printing-in-gaza/

7 years ago

Computer Stupidities (2013)

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

7 years ago

Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/elon-musk-says-driverless-cars-dont-need-lidar-experts-arent-so-sure/

7 years ago

Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil ecosystem

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44988-5

7 years ago

Hostile Architecture

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

7 years ago

Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/05/monzo-urges-480000-customers-to-change-their-pin-numbers

7 years ago

First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (2004)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1016991

7 years ago

Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/aug/05/suburb-in-the-sky-how-jakartans-built-an-entire-village-on-top-of-a-mall

7 years ago

Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem

https://www.fifthdomain.com/dod/2019/08/05/darpa-wants-help-cracking-the-election-security-problem/

7 years ago

Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail transcripts and Chrome Extension texting

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/02/google-voice-is-killing-sms-voicemail-transcripts-and-texting-from-its-chrome-extension/

7 years ago

Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via Helicopter Catching

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-announces-reusability-plans-for-electron-rocket/

7 years ago