top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-02

Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/02/hong-kong-protestors-using-mesh-messaging-app-china-cant-block-usage-up-3685/#382a2076135a

7 years ago

Tired of Stack Overflow

https://arp242.net/stackoverflow.html

7 years ago

Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account

https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/

7 years ago

Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530042/

7 years ago

Building Interactive SSH Applications

https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/02/Interactive-SSH-programs.html

7 years ago

The Secret History of Dune

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/

7 years ago

The more you learn, the faster you can learn

http://pranay.gp/how-to-learn-things-at-1000x-the-speed

7 years ago

NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived

https://thegradient.pub/nlps-clever-hans-moment-has-arrived/

7 years ago

South African authorities admit to mass surveillance

https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/09/02/south-africa-mass-surveillance-spying-undersea-fiber-cables/

7 years ago

Show HN: Face Generator

http://xn--5ca.cc/jack-of-diamonds/#Faces

7 years ago

A guide to Oauth2

https://milapneupane.com.np/2019/09/02/a-complete-guide-to-oauth2-protocol/

7 years ago

Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/43770

7 years ago

★ 15.2k Ruby BSD-2-Clause

Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dual-amd-epyc-7742-vs-quad-intel-xeon-platinum-8180m,40288.html

7 years ago

An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++

https://blog.conan.io/2019/09/02/Deterministic-builds-with-C-C++.html

7 years ago

Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/bugatti-has-broken-300mph-barrier

7 years ago

Timeline for Logic, λ-Calculus, and Programming Language Theory (2012) [pdf]

http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15/Timeline.pages.pdf

7 years ago

Entropic Gravity

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

7 years ago

Open Forensic Science in R

https://sctyner.github.io/OpenForSciR/

7 years ago

Curl Cookbook

https://catonmat.net/cookbooks/curl

7 years ago

Fridge Condenser Fans – Old and New [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO5UjO0ZmUQ

7 years ago

SpaceX Refused to Move Satellite at Risk of Collision with a European Satellite

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/02/spacex-refused-to-move-a-starlink-satellite-at-risk-of-collision-with-a-european-satellite/#43eec9541f62

7 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857887

7 years ago

The Crash of United Flight 232 (2017)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a10478/the-final-flight-of-united-232-16755928/

7 years ago

Good Code Design from Linux

https://leandromoreira.com.br/2019/08/02/linux-ffmpeg-source-internals-a-good-software-design/

7 years ago

Generating natural-sounding synthetic speech using brain activity

https://humanbioscience.org/2019/04/new-brain-machine-interface-can-generate-natural-sounding-synthetic-speech-using-brain-activity.html

7 years ago

Dark Patterns

https://www.darkpatterns.org/

7 years ago

Dead Malls

http://deadmalls.com/

7 years ago

Investigators who know you’ve faked your death

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/inside-the-world-of-investigators-who-know-youve-faked-your-death

7 years ago

Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert's “Dune” (2004-2017)

https://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising

https://workoutbff.com/

7 years ago

How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran

https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-how-a-secret-dutch-mole-aided-the-us-israeli-stuxnet-cyber-attack-on-iran-160026018.html

7 years ago

Activists release code to generate free public transportation tickets in U.K

https://reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/cyefu5/activists_release_code_to_generate_free_public/

7 years ago

Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nushu-chinese-script-women

7 years ago

Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07695

7 years ago

Firefox Nightly on Mac OS decreases power usage by 3x

https://mobile.twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240

7 years ago

Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/31/flight-risk-can-we-take-the-carbon-out-of-air-travel

7 years ago

Reference Capabilities for Safe Parallel Array Programming

https://programming-journal.org/2020/4/1/

7 years ago

Dumbdown – A Tree Language that compiles to HTML

https://treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20dumbdown

7 years ago

Paul Graham on Startups, Innovation, and Creativity (2009) [audio]

http://www.econtalk.org/graham-on-start-ups-innovation-and-creativity/

7 years ago

Mat Dan: 'I became an accidental celebrity 6,000 miles from home'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49466721

7 years ago

Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack Image on OVH Public Cloud

https://www.fralix.fr/posts/create_freebsd-current_openstack_image_on_ovh_public_cloud/

7 years ago

Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mark-twains-quest-bring-affordable-watches-masses-180972813/

7 years ago

The Price of Self-Delusion

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/08/27/the-price-of-self-delusion/

7 years ago

The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-eponymous-mr-ponzi

7 years ago

The Urban Planning Behind America’s Weirdest McDonald’s

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/the-urban-planning-behind-americas-weirdest-mcdonalds/

7 years ago

The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/02/754316710/meet-the-man-who-guards-americas-ketchup

7 years ago

Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850k malware infections

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/01/police-botnet-takedown-infections/

7 years ago

A list of the top recipients on Patreon shows an obsession with the ordinary

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-29/patreon-s-top-50-list-values-the-ordinary-over-the-transcendent

7 years ago