top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-31

Ask HN: How Do You Read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847508

7 years ago

TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files

https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils

7 years ago

★ 1.4k D BSL-1.0

I find journaling indispensable

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/journaling/

7 years ago

Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data

https://cuelang.org

7 years ago

Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusive/exclusive-messaging-app-telegram-moves-to-protect-identity-of-hong-kong-protesters-idUSKCN1VK2NI

7 years ago

The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers

https://github.com/ARMmbed/littlefs/blob/master/DESIGN.md

7 years ago

★ 6.6k C BSD-3-Clause

The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room

https://popula.com/2019/08/05/the-wisdom-of-never-leaving-your-hotel-room/

7 years ago

Why I like Clojure

http://sulami.github.io/posts/why-i-like-clojure/

7 years ago

XLOOKUP for Excel

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel-Blog/Announcing-XLOOKUP/ba-p/811376

7 years ago

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FCXCXigp7byv2dM8D/how-to-make-billions-of-dollars-reducing-loneliness

7 years ago

AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

https://status.aws.amazon.com/?date=2019-08-31

7 years ago

A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption

https://unixism.net/2019/08/a-managers-guide-to-kubernetes-adoption/

7 years ago

Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/symlinks

7 years ago

YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/technology/youtube-childrens-privacy-fine.html

7 years ago

Waypipe: GSoC Project Complete

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-August/040819.html

7 years ago

Hiring Is Broken?

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/07/27/hiring-is-broken-and-yours-is-too/

7 years ago

What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)

https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168

7 years ago

Alcohol Belts of Europe

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

7 years ago

Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1167463054709334017?s=12

7 years ago

The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-evidence-the-human-brain-can-create-structures-in-up-to-11-dimensions

7 years ago

Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image

https://github.com/cbassa/satellite_analysis/blob/master/nahid1_launch_failure_analysis.ipynb

7 years ago

★ 232 Jupyter Notebook GPL-3.0

Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)

https://publicintegrity.org/health/filthy-surgical-instruments-the-hidden-threat-in-americas-operating-rooms/

7 years ago

Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events

https://vector.dev/

7 years ago

A Simulated Enigma Machine

https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/enigma-machine

7 years ago

Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest

https://www.insider.com/hong-kong-police-fire-blue-dye-water-cannons-2019-8

7 years ago

Bad Customer Service Is Profitable

https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-is-customer-service-so-bad-because-its-profitable

7 years ago

You Are Not Your Code (2012)

http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code

7 years ago

Idaho artifacts show humans came to North America via a water route, not land

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/us/idaho-artifacts-coopers-ferry-trnd/index.html

7 years ago

DEA agents conduct surprise searches of Amtrak passengers

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/31/dea-amtrak-passenger-search-albuquerque/

7 years ago

Border agents are checking social media, but we still don’t know how closely

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/31/20837448/social-media-dhs-cbp-surveillance-us-border-ismail-ajjawi-harvard

7 years ago

Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS

https://tidbits.com/2019/06/25/apple-to-deprecate-scripting-languages-in-future-versions-of-macos/

7 years ago

I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product

https://www.starterstory.com/build-profitable-wordpress-plugin-from-scratch

7 years ago

What Is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?

https://blog.westerndigital.com/what-is-zoned-storage-initiative/

7 years ago

Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/science/archaeology-earth-anthropocene.html

7 years ago

Simple Python Package to Extract Deep Learning Features

https://chsasank.github.io/deep-learning-image-features.html

7 years ago

What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-29/what-if-silicon-valley-s-brilliant-jerks-are-just-regular-ones

7 years ago

Etcd 3.4

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/08/30/announcing-etcd-3-4/

7 years ago

Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_trump_tweets_sensitive_surveillance/eymf0w0/

7 years ago

Uber and Lyft don't have a right to exist

https://jalopnik.com/uber-and-lyft-dont-have-a-right-to-exist-1837680434/

7 years ago

A Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-city-size-transportation-urban-planning-history/597055/

7 years ago

Google is ramping up its efforts to replace SMS with RCS

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-android-rcs-messaging

7 years ago

Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843949

7 years ago

Libgphoto2 Controls Digital Cameras

http://www.gphoto.org/

7 years ago

Our team's troubles writing automated UI tests

https://medium.com/@steven.lemon182/our-teams-troubles-with-hand-written-automated-ui-tests-cb189cbbff90

7 years ago

Golden Ratio

https://www.melted.design/golden-ratio/

7 years ago