top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-06

Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer

https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/

6 years ago

745 upvotes – 378 comments

Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains

https://www.leebutterman.com/2019/08/05/analyzing-hundreds-of-millions-of-ssl-connections.html

6 years ago

673 upvotes – 141 comments

42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1169877007045296128

6 years ago

552 upvotes – 237 comments

Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/src/modules/fancyzones/README.md

6 years ago

507 upvotes – 163 comments

Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28917427/ikea-hide-and-seek-glasgow-scotland/

6 years ago

464 upvotes – 191 comments

A Message about iOS Security

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/a-message-about-ios-security/

6 years ago

432 upvotes – 291 comments

Favorite Interview Questions

https://firstround.com/review/40-favorite-interview-questions-from-some-of-the-sharpest-folks-we-know/

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 128 comments

CSRF is really dead

https://scotthelme.co.uk/csrf-is-really-dead/

6 years ago

313 upvotes – 113 comments

Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week

https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard-stallman-spoke-at-microsoft-research-this-week/

6 years ago

297 upvotes – 164 comments

You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face

https://onezero.medium.com/you-can-now-tell-facebook-to-delete-its-internal-record-of-your-face-d1def7f992c1

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 165 comments

Sorry, we can't join your Slack

https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-09-03-sorry-we-cant-join-your-slack

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 156 comments

Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker?

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-doesnt-anyone-weep-for-docker/

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 239 comments

EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban

https://simpleflying.com/easa-737-max-test/

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 115 comments

There are no adults in the room

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/08/12/there-are-no-adults-in-the-room/

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 108 comments

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20896452

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 247 comments

Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/opinion/facebook-dating-app.html

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 140 comments

Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/how-tax-policy-gave-us-white-claw.html

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 164 comments

How a deadly fall revealed CIA secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 86 comments

India to Attempt Moon Landing at the Lunar South Pole Today

https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-2-moon-landing-webcast.html

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 158 comments

Mathematician Wins $3M Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'

https://www.livescience.com/breakthrough-prize-mathematics-2019-winners.html

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 54 comments

New Google and Facebook Inquiries

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/technology/attorney-generals-tech-antitrust-investigation.html

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 21 comments

The True Size Of

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU3MTkyODM.NDYxNDQ2Mw*MzQzMzc4NjE(MzE1NDI2OA~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)MA~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)Mg

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments

NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps

https://twitter.com/NYCTSubway/status/1166711446769676289

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 172 comments

Parallelism in Crystal

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.html

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 41 comments

An Apple Developer for 10 Years

https://qnoid.com/2019/09/06/Apple-Developer.html

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 91 comments

I Got More Data, My Model Is More Refined, but My Estimator Is Getting Worse [pdf]

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/timeseries06272012.pdf

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 17 comments

MLIR Primer: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore’s Law

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48035

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

At 97, lithium-ion battery pioneer says his work is not done

https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Podcast-97-lithium-ion-battery/97/i35

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair and Now Shark Skin

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ancient-turing-pattern-builds-feathers-hair-and-now-shark-skin-20190102/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

Origin Sells Out

https://www.filfre.net/2019/09/origin-sells-out/

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 61 comments

Feds Demand Apple and Google Hand over Names of 10k Users of a Gun Scope App

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/09/06/exclusive-feds-order-apple-and-google-to-hand-over-names-of-10000-users-of-a-gun-scope-app/#3dababa26135

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/09/07/why-americans-pay-more-for-lunch-than-britons-do

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 198 comments

Jeffrey Epstein’s Donations Create a Schism at M.I.T.’s Media Lab

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/business/media/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joichi-ito.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 114 comments

The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable with current technology

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09339

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 131 comments

Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Officials Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/health/third-death-vaping-related-disease.html

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 97 comments

Easy private certificate management for VMs on AWS, GCP, and Azure

https://smallstep.com/blog/embarrassingly-easy-certificates-on-aws-azure-gcp/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Shift to electric vehicles will radically change auto factories

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/09/05/shift-electric-vehicles-radically-change-auto-factories/2208961001/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 134 comments

A Tale of Two LEDs

http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2019/09/06/a-tale-of-two-leds/

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Watch India’s Chandrayaan-2 make its historic moon landing attempt

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/06/watch-chandrayaan-2-india-moon-landing/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 2 comments

New ways to make vertical farming stack up

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/08/29/new-ways-to-make-vertical-farming-stack-up

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

FermiNet: State of the art approx of molecular orbitals

https://twitter.com/pfau/status/1169981588412817409

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/in-the-fall-of-rome-good-news-for-america/596638/

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 125 comments

A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/ronald-fisher-a-bad-cup-of-tea-and-the-birth-of-modern-statistics

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments
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