top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-09-12

California bans private prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/12/california-private-prison-ban-immigration-ice

6 years ago

1952 upvotes – 597 comments

Ask HN: Are you ok?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951444

6 years ago

857 upvotes – 864 comments

Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

https://www.caniemail.com/

6 years ago

666 upvotes – 196 comments

A lighter V8

https://v8.dev/blog/v8-lite

6 years ago

471 upvotes – 188 comments

Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house-spying-devices-1491351

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 315 comments

The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/fr/articles/btc-deep-learning-clojure-haskell

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 141 comments

Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49677843

6 years ago

305 upvotes – 194 comments

Ban kids from loot box gambling in games

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49661870

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 309 comments

WebGPU and WSL in Safari

https://webkit.org/blog/9528/webgpu-and-wsl-in-safari/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 181 comments

The Rise of the Electric Scooter

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-rise-of-the-electric-scooter/

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 326 comments

French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport

https://www.france24.com/en/20190831-france-dunkirk-free-transportation-bus-success-climate-cities

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 204 comments

Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/worms-fail-to-thrive-in-soil-containing-microplastics-study

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 96 comments

Attempto Controlled English

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

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 60 comments

Building a Better Go Linker

http://golang.org/s/better-linker

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 99 comments

Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning

https://nanonets.com/blog/attention-ocr-for-text-recogntion/

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 69 comments

Dissatisfied with Docker

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2019/09/dissatisfied-with-docker.html

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 223 comments

End Software Patents (2007)

http://endsoftpatents.org/

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 198 comments

The exponential function is a miracle

https://blog.plover.com/math/exponential.html

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 180 comments

Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2019/09/11/anduril-a-startup-from-oculus-founder-palmerluckey.html

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 349 comments

Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar

https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/scrollbars/

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 151 comments
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