top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-04

Google’s GDPR Workaround

https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/

7 years ago

In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/firefox-browser-cookie-blocking-default

7 years ago

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second

7 years ago

A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/

7 years ago

Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3025641/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-announce-formal-withdrawal

7 years ago

Google, YouTube to Pay $170M Penalty over Collecting Kids' Personal Info

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757441886/google-youtube-to-pay-170-million-penalty-over-collecting-kids-personal-info

7 years ago

Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research

https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/09/04/hopkins-launches-psychedelic-center/

7 years ago

Regex Crossword

https://regexcrossword.com/

7 years ago

Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/crystalline-nets-harvest-water-desert-air-turn-carbon-dioxide-liquid-fuel

7 years ago

Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/michael-burry-explains-why-index-funds-are-like-subprime-cdos

7 years ago

Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times

https://www.zdnet.com/article/upcoming-firefox-update-will-decrease-power-usage-on-macos-by-up-to-three-times/

7 years ago

TypeScript vs. ReasonML

https://blog.dubenko.dev/typescript-vs-reason/

7 years ago

How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48859333

7 years ago

Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/static-typescript/

7 years ago

Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49578500

7 years ago

Rust in Large Organizations

https://gist.github.com/rylev/0e3c3895dcb40b6a1c1cf8c427c01b5e

7 years ago

What Is a Tech Company?

https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/

7 years ago

Creating a Magical Videobooth for a Wedding

https://www.jamesporter.me/2019/08/30/wedding-videobooth.html

7 years ago

WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-ceo-gives-back-millions-from-we-trademark-after-criticism-2019-9

7 years ago

Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/science/sally-floyd-dead.html

7 years ago

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-accused-of-secretly-feeding-personal-data-to-advertisers-1.4007629

7 years ago

The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131514001869

7 years ago

The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)

https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-the-more-you-use-facebook-the-worse-you-feel

7 years ago

Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (2009)

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg39091.html

7 years ago

Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed

https://www.twitter.com/PragmaticAndy/status/1168916144121634818

7 years ago

When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-into-the-wilderness/597217/

7 years ago

Whatever happened to Six Sigma?

https://qz.com/work/1635960/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma/

7 years ago

Camera sales are falling sharply

https://om.co/2019/09/03/camera-sales-are-falling-sharply/

7 years ago

Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-30/drone-bubble-bursts-wiping-out-startups-and-hammering-vc-firms

7 years ago

Warning: Implicit Backdoor

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/warning-implicit-backdoor

7 years ago

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)

https://norvig.com/sudoku.html

7 years ago

DRM Broke Its Promise

https://locusmag.com/2019/09/cory-doctorow-drm-broke-its-promise/

7 years ago

Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead

https://blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introduction-and-challenges-ahead

7 years ago

Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police

https://qz.com/1700205/real-time-maps-warn-hong-kong-protesters-of-poliec/

7 years ago

Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix

https://grsecurity.net/teardown_of_a_failed_linux_lts_spectre_fix.php

7 years ago

CircleCI Security Incident

https://support.circleci.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034852194-Security-Incident-on-8-31-2019-Details-and-FAQs-

7 years ago

Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-04/tesla-autopilot-is-found-partly-to-blame-for-2018-freeway-crash

7 years ago

How U.S. Banks Took Over the World

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-u-s-banks-took-over-the-world-11567589403?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/debugging-webassembly-outside-of-the-browser/

7 years ago

Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends

https://qz.com/1696522/chinese-supporters-of-hong-kong-protests-face-doxxing/

7 years ago

Dear Search Guard Users

https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users

7 years ago

Maesh, a Lightweight and Simpler Service Mesh

https://blog.containo.us/announcing-maesh-a-lightweight-and-simpler-service-mesh-made-by-the-traefik-team-cb866edc6f29

7 years ago

YC Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues

https://blog.ycombinator.com/office-hours-for-startups-tackling-climate-issues/

7 years ago

A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/a-2019-guide-for-automatic-speech-recognition-f1e1129a141c

7 years ago

Neutralizing Tear Gas

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a28904691/how-tear-gas-works/

7 years ago

The Legal Gray Zone of Marijuana at Airports

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-baffling-legal-gray-zone-of-marijuana-at-the-airport-11567589405?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-amazons-shipping-empire-is-challenging-ups-and-fedex-11567071003?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Show HN: fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics

https://github.com/ucla-vision/xivo

7 years ago

★ 890 C++

Report says Apple to release new ‘iPhone SE’ with 4.7-inch display in 2020

https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/04/cheaper-smaller-iphone-spring/?__twitter_impression=true

7 years ago

Kleroterion

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

7 years ago

Metaphysics and JavaScript

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PUvpXMBEDS45rd0wHu6tF3j_8wmGC6cOLtOw2hzU-mw/preview?slide=id.p

7 years ago

Man jailed for criticizing court system

https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/macomb-county/grieving-dad-jailed-for-repeatedly-criticizing-court-system-in-macomb-county

7 years ago