top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-15

Cloudflare S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519222176/d735023ds1.htm

7 years ago

Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

https://stripe.com/au/blog/negative-emissions-commitment

7 years ago

Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

https://heise.de/-4496138

7 years ago

The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=749135286

7 years ago

I feel like im talking to the borg

https://twitter.com/rulesObeyer/status/1161820065773182976

7 years ago

CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

https://cutiepi.io/index.html

7 years ago

I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

https://github.com/hoanhan101/ultimate-go

7 years ago

★ 14.9k Go Apache-2.0

AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20805676/engineer-ai-artificial-intelligence-startup-app-development-outsourcing-humans

7 years ago

I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is

https://towardsdatascience.com/i-wasnt-getting-hired-as-a-data-scientist-so-i-sought-data-on-who-is-c59afd7d56f5

7 years ago

People Simply Empty Out (1986)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out.html

7 years ago

Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices

https://digiday.com/retail/amazon-offered-vendors-amazons-choice-labels-return-ad-spending-lower-prices/

7 years ago

Rust 1.37.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/08/15/Rust-1.37.0.html

7 years ago

WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20806366/we-company-wework-ipo-adam-neumann

7 years ago

Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator

https://observablehq.com/@mourner/martin-real-time-rtin-terrain-mesh

7 years ago

New React DevTools

https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/08/15/new-react-devtools.html

7 years ago

Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/ge-shares-drop-after-madoff-whistleblower-harry-markopolos-raises-red-flags-on-its-accounting.html

7 years ago

CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/

7 years ago

The Order of the JSON

https://blog.almaer.com/the-order-of-the-json/

7 years ago

GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece of modern techno-insanity

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/20/ge_lightblulb_reset/

7 years ago

Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334448588_Hiring_is_Broken_What_Do_Developers_Say_About_Technical_Interviews

7 years ago

America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/14/americas-elderly-seem-more-screen-obsessed-than-the-young

7 years ago

Hedonometer

https://hedonometer.org/index.html

7 years ago

Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)

https://andreas-zeller.blogspot.com/2017/01/twelve-latex-packages-to-get-your-paper.html

7 years ago

Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval

https://www.choiceofgames.com/2019/08/google-warns-developers-that-all-new-apps-require-three-days-for-approval/

7 years ago

At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at-booming-toptal-no-stock-for-employees-or-investors?pu=hackernewstq0fow&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

7 years ago

Introduction to Svelte

https://daveceddia.com/svelte-intro/

7 years ago

Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’

https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/12/googles-rivals-opt-out-of-search-engine-auction-calling-it-unethical-and-anti-competitive

7 years ago

How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)

https://www.yegor256.com/2016/12/06/how-to-pay-programmers-less.html

7 years ago

Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02473-z

7 years ago

Moravec's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

7 years ago

Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde

https://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/adlam.html?ocid=lock

7 years ago

Understanding modern UEFI-based platform boot

https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html

7 years ago

Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/technology/personaltech/i-shared-my-phone-number-i-learned-i-shouldnt-have.html

7 years ago

Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-trigger-a-kernel-panic-to-diagnose-unresponsive-ec2-instances/

7 years ago

Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story

https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-an-instagram-story-8f498ab71a0c

7 years ago

Yoda conditions

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

7 years ago

Ask HN: Is there a project based book or course on Go for writing web APIs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20704993

7 years ago

Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/apple-seeks-to-shut-down-corellium-s-perfect-replicas-of-ios

7 years ago

Toptal suit against co-founder dismissed

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/29530665/TOPTAL,_LLC_v_BENESCHOTT

7 years ago

Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”

https://secalerts.co/article/student-hacks-school-software-and-finds-sql-injections-galore/5cf2e72f

7 years ago

Show HN: Homer – A Text Analyzer in Python

https://github.com/wyounas/homer

7 years ago

★ 635 Python MIT

Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Puts Users at Risk

https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Kasper-Spy-Kaspersky-Anti-Virus-puts-users-at-risk-4496138.html

7 years ago

YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem

https://onezero.medium.com/youtubes-lgbtq-problem-is-a-business-model-problem-2b3cb3754b64

7 years ago

Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707194

7 years ago

Facebook Transcription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/facebook-transcription-opt-in-says-nothing-about-human-listeners

7 years ago

Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20706104

7 years ago

The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/08/video-the-north-atlantic-ocean-current-may-be-slowing/

7 years ago

Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apples-us-job-footprint-grows-to-two-point-four-million/

7 years ago

House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457454-house-homeland-security-committee-subpoenas-8chan-owner

7 years ago

A scientist must go where the evidence leads

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-scientist-must-go-where-the-evidence-leads/

7 years ago