top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-12

Ebola Is Now Curable

https://www.wired.com/story/ebola-is-now-curable-heres-how-the-new-treatments-work/

7 years ago

NULL license plate not such a bright idea

https://knrs.iheart.com/content/2019-08-12-clever-vanity-license-plate-backfires-on-man-winds-up-with-tons-of-tickets/

7 years ago

Python Is Eating the World

https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/

7 years ago

Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordpress-owner-11565640000?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?

https://examine.com/nutrition/google-update-july-2019/

7 years ago

The Horror of Microsoft Teams

https://medium.com/@joshuamkite/the-horror-of-microsoft-teams-c18360712361

7 years ago

Anxiety Looks Different in Men

http://wsj.com/articles/anxiety-looks-different-in-men-11564494352?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Xfce 4.14

https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000

7 years ago

One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm

https://www.routefifty.com/tech-data/2019/08/boston-school-bus-routes/159113/

7 years ago

Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men

https://neurosciencenews.com/social-exclusion-extremism-14691/

7 years ago

I quit my job today to make video games full time

https://imgur.com/gallery/CVq5bO8

7 years ago

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963)

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20674745

7 years ago

GNU Radio 3.8

https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2019-08-10-gnu-radio-v3-8-0-0-release/

7 years ago

Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-12/tourism-is-overwhelming-the-world-s-top-destinations

7 years ago

Minify Your SVGs

https://victorzhou.com/blog/minify-svgs/

7 years ago

A Bloomberg reporter’s account of trying to get back his name and credit rating

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/i-lost-my-identity-to-a-fraudster-and-it-took-six-years-to-clean-up-the-mess

7 years ago

Spying on HTTPS

https://textslashplain.com/2019/08/11/spying-on-https/

7 years ago

Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/plane-debris-falls-from-sky-boeing-787-rome-norwegian-isola-sacra-a9054216.html

7 years ago

The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-hypersane-are-among-us-if-only-we-are-prepared-to-look

7 years ago

Poetry: Dependency Management for Python

https://poetry.eustace.io/

7 years ago

Monads as a Programming Pattern

https://samgrayson.me/2019-08-06-monads-as-a-programming-pattern/

7 years ago

Why we're saying no to Google

https://blog.ecosia.org/google-android-choice-screen-auction-eu-ecosia/

7 years ago

Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/big-money-starts-to-dump-stocks-that-pose-climate-risks

7 years ago

Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/31/why-does-infrastructure-cost-so-much

7 years ago

Home 3D metal printing: first results

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/metal-3d-printing-first-results.html

7 years ago

Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html

7 years ago

Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/rotten-apple-right-to-repair-roundup.html

7 years ago

Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera

https://research.checkpoint.com/say-cheese-ransomware-ing-a-dslr-camera/

7 years ago

Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1474188-20190812.htm

7 years ago

Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead

https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-really-really-dead/

7 years ago

Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/detroit-hives-honeybees_n_5a6cfc9ee4b0ddb658c7019c

7 years ago

Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits

https://dmarby.se/blog/lorem-picsum/

7 years ago

Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-where-will-garage-orphans-charge-electric-cars-if-they-have-to-park/

7 years ago

Colombia fines Uber more than $629k for obstructing regulatory visit

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-colombia/colombia-fines-uber-more-than-629000-for-obstructing-regulatory-visit-idUSKCN1V21RO

7 years ago

Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++

https://root.cern.ch/

7 years ago

GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-volkswagen-say-goodbye-to-hybrid-vehicles-11565602200?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/08/opencensus-web-unlocking-full-end-to.html

7 years ago

Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/science/amelia-earhart-search-robert-ballard.html

7 years ago

How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29353/how-the-pentagon-comes-up-with-all-those-secret-project-nicknames-and-crazy-code-words

7 years ago

Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript

https://github.com/ian13456/mc.js

7 years ago

Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/reporting-state-climate-2018

7 years ago

NEC shows ‘flying car’ hovering steadily for minute

https://www.apnews.com/2d4ce8955bc04032928afdf97ed42818

7 years ago

“Angels” that aren’t actually angels, and the problems that poses

https://blog.ycombinator.com/angels-angels-and-vcs/

7 years ago

Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-translate-interpret/

7 years ago

Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/russian-says-small-nuclear-reactor-blew-up-in-deadly-accident

7 years ago

Compact TLS 1.3

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-ctls-02

7 years ago

Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20675965

7 years ago

On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/noam-chomsky-interview/

7 years ago

20th anniversary of José Bové’s 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France

https://twitter.com/obrien/status/1160852592840368128

7 years ago

Launch HN: Embrace (YC S19) – Spot and fix bugs in mobile apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20677403

7 years ago

SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/sec-investigating-data-leak-at-first-american-financial-corp/

7 years ago

Cathay Pacific faces crackdown as Hong Kong protests hit business

https://www.ft.com/content/6afd54d0-bbe9-11e9-b350-db00d509634e

7 years ago

Using AR to help build a complex brick wall

https://www.archdaily.com/908618/this-is-how-a-complex-brick-wall-is-built-using-augmented-reality

7 years ago