top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-17

WeWTF

https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

7 years ago

Tech Interview Handbook

https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/

7 years ago

Start Your Own ISP

https://startyourownisp.com/

7 years ago

The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild

http://japanesecomplete.com/777

7 years ago

Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

https://saag.pashi.com/#hn

7 years ago

Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/clojurescript-pixel-game-engine-with-blender-live-reloading

7 years ago

Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome

https://www.pulltech.net/article/1566007822-Google-plans-to-deprecate-FTP-URL-support-in-Chrome

7 years ago

Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp

https://makezine.com/2019/08/16/hacking-the-sonos-ikea-symfonisk-into-a-high-quality-speaker-amp/

7 years ago

Alone in the Dark

https://www.filfre.net/2019/08/alone-in-the-dark/

7 years ago

Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2019/08/why-software-architects-must-be-involved-in-the-earliest-systems-engineering-activities.html

7 years ago

The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-first-solar-road-has-turned-out-to-be-a-disappointing-failure

7 years ago

Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code

https://github.com/videogamepreservation

7 years ago

NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/climate/hottest-july-noaa.html

7 years ago

Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix

https://github.com/google/nixery

7 years ago

★ 1.9k Go Apache-2.0

São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secrets-sao-paulo-uncovered-outdoor-advertising-ban/

7 years ago

Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)

http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

7 years ago

Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail

https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914

7 years ago

GNU Parallel 2018

https://zenodo.org/record/1146014

7 years ago

Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/google-chrome/212361/microsoft-has-first-major-impact-on-chrome

7 years ago

You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds

https://www.studyfinds.org/new-to-investing-you-may-be-better-off-picking-stocks-at-random-study-finds/

7 years ago

Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/08/how-dissidents-are-using-shortwave-radio-broadcast-news-china/158950/

7 years ago

WeWork’s 17th employee: I was not offered options

https://twitter.com/tristajaye/status/1162471350851817472

7 years ago

Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/business/wells-fargo-overdraft-fees.html

7 years ago

Siri, Privacy, and Trust

https://daringfireball.net/2019/08/siri_privacy_trust

7 years ago

Effortless Elixir Releases and Deployment

http://alchemist.camp/articles/elixir-releases-deployment-render

7 years ago

Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs

https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/post/towards-readable-clis/

7 years ago

Free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking

http://sixteenmillimeter.com

7 years ago

Armoured Commander: The WWII Tank Commander Roguelike

https://www.armouredcommander.com/blog/armoured-commander-i/

7 years ago

U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/u-s-treasury-to-do-market-outreach-again-on-ultra-long-bonds-jzejo2qu

7 years ago

With friends like these

http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/08/with-friends-like-these.html

7 years ago

'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish

7 years ago

Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-amd-epyc-based-azure-virtual-machines/

7 years ago

Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it annihilated itself

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/across-the-universe-a-star-exploded-so-violently-that-it-completely-annihilated-itself

7 years ago

The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random

https://onezero.medium.com/the-league-of-entropy-is-making-randomness-truly-random-522f22ce93ce

7 years ago

Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-08-14-%E2%80%9C-nemo-effect%E2%80%9D-untrue-animal-movies-promote-awareness-not-harm-say-researchers

7 years ago

Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-distri/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724959

7 years ago

It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bjsoeh/it_is_perfectly_ok_to_only_code_at_work_you_can/

7 years ago