top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-22

Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

https://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-all-of-our-games-look-like-crap.html

7 years ago

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-system/

7 years ago

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

7 years ago

Some Obscure C Features

https://multun.net/obscure-c-features.html

7 years ago

VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/22/vmware-acquires-carbon-black-for-2-1b-and-pivotal-for-2-7-billion/

7 years ago

Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44024

7 years ago

CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

7 years ago

Productivity and the Workweek (2000)

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/misc/worktime/

7 years ago

How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers

https://parenting.nytimes.com/health/fatherhood-mens-bodies

7 years ago

The Most Dangerous Writing App

https://maebert.github.io/themostdangerouswritingapp/#/

7 years ago

The Many Possibilities of iMessage File Vulnerability

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-many-possibilities-of-cve-2019-8646.html?m=1

7 years ago

A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OG5jyRGhLg

7 years ago

Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/building-a-more-private-web/

7 years ago

How to Start with Machine Learning

https://www.blog.duomly.com/how-to-start-with-machine-learning/

7 years ago

Why Clojure?

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html

7 years ago

Starbucks, monetary superpower

https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/08/starbucks-monetary-superpower.html

7 years ago

Using TypeScript with React

https://simonknott.de/articles/Using-TypeScript-with-React.html

7 years ago

Stand Out as a Speaker

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6455/834.full

7 years ago

A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495618559_311854.html

7 years ago

Levenshtein Distance

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

7 years ago

Making containers safer

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/796700/9bc9daa32a8fe499/

7 years ago

Things to Know About GNU Readline

https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html

7 years ago

OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too

https://medium.com/@vanya_cohen/opengpt-2-we-replicated-gpt-2-because-you-can-too-45e34e6d36dc

7 years ago

MoviePass database exposes 161M records

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/moviepass-database-exposes-161-million-records/

7 years ago

Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/22/oracle-directors-give-blessing-to-shareholder-lawsuit-against-larry-ellison-and-safra-catz/

7 years ago

Nonplanar Printing

https://tams.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/research/3d-printing/nonplanar_printing/index.php

7 years ago

Dignity

https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2019/08/22/chris-arnades-book-dignity/

7 years ago

Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/upmem-puts-cpus-inside-memory-to-allow-applications-to-run-20-times-faster/

7 years ago

Show HN: Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work

https://scarf.sh

7 years ago

The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines

7 years ago

We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months

https://www.starterstory.com/planning-diary

7 years ago

Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/yes-im-feeling-bad-about-climate-change-lets-discuss/

7 years ago

Geocities Archive

https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/search.aspx?qry=guitar&checked=image

7 years ago

Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/netflix-hulu-cable.html

7 years ago

Why Finland leads the world in flexible work

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190807-why-finland-leads-the-world-in-flexible-work

7 years ago

GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

https://www.githubstatus.com/?date=22082019

7 years ago

Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10k Verdicts in Denmark

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/world/europe/denmark-cellphone-data-courts.html

7 years ago

After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6401227?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en

7 years ago

Caviar was a free bar snack

https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?3917

7 years ago

The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/

7 years ago

India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/technology/india-electric-vehicle-rickshaw.html

7 years ago

Yuan falls to 11-year low

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDCNH:CUR

7 years ago

Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/bernie-sanders-climate-change.html

7 years ago

Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-does-the-army-own-dinosaurs

7 years ago

Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/leaked-documents-show-brazil-bolsonaro-has-grave-plans-for-amazon-rainforest/

7 years ago

A DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49394758

7 years ago

Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf]

https://orienteering.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Map-Design.pdf

7 years ago

Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra

https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/16114

7 years ago

Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-marmelada

7 years ago

Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

https://blog.dominodatalab.com/deep-learning-illustrated-building-natural-language-processing-models/

7 years ago

Apple's petition against RED

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/apples-petition-against-red-could-have-serious-consequences-for-hollywood

7 years ago

A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites

https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-08-21-magnetorquers-an-overview-of-magnetic-torquer-products-available-on-the-global-marketplace-for-space.html

7 years ago

Brazil's President Blames NGOs for Amazon Fires

https://latinamericareports.com/bolsonaro-blames-ngos-for-amazon-fires/2940/

7 years ago

DEF CON 2019 – CTF Retrospective

https://dttw.tech/posts/SJ40_7MNS

7 years ago

The New Treasures of Pompeii

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-treasures-pompeii-180972829/

7 years ago

A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/chunk-trinitite-reminds-sheer-devastating-power-atomic-bomb-180972848/

7 years ago

The Y Combinator

https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html

7 years ago

Crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02472-0

7 years ago

World of Warcraft Classic Relase

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/wowclassic

7 years ago

Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output

https://github.com/soheilpro/pgcmd

7 years ago

★ 115 JavaScript MIT