top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-14

France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency-france-german/france-and-germany-agree-to-block-facebooks-libra-idUSKCN1VY1XU

7 years ago

The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/09/the-u1-chip-in-the-iphone-11-is-the-beginning-of-an-ultra-wideband-revolution/

7 years ago

Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-turmoil-union-drive-historic-tech-industry.html

7 years ago

Show HN: RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs

https://remotemore.com/

7 years ago

Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps

https://playwarcraft3.com/en-gb/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971098

7 years ago

Little Alchemy 2

https://littlealchemy2.com/

7 years ago

Build a 6502 Computer

https://eater.net/6502

7 years ago

New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel

https://www.machinedesign.com/materials/new-lithium-battery-design-eliminates-costly-cobalt-and-nickel

7 years ago

Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation

https://onezero.medium.com/leak-of-microsoft-salaries-shows-fight-for-higher-compensation-3010c589b41e

7 years ago

Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/drone-strikes-spark-fires-at-saudi-oil-facilities-11568443375?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760478177/microsoft-president-democracy-is-at-stake-regulate-big-tech

7 years ago

Parallel GCC: a research project aiming to parallelize a real-world compiler

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ParallelGcc

7 years ago

China Seeks to Buy Control of Hong Kong Companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/china-seeks-to-buy-control-of-hong-kong-companies-reuters-says

7 years ago

Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil

https://www.dw.com/en/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-breed-in-brazil/a-50414340

7 years ago

Taking a year to explain computer things

https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/13/a-year-explaining-computer-things/

7 years ago

A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars

https://medium.com/@gajus/mistake-that-cost-thousands-kubernetes-gke-2212ea663e1f

7 years ago

The Terraform Plugin for the Dominos Pizza Provider

https://github.com/ndmckinley/terraform-provider-dominos

7 years ago

★ 1.1k Go MIT

Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN

https://dualuse.io/blog/curryfinger/

7 years ago

Tesla has applied for a patent for a new electromagnetic windshield-wiper system

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29025844/tesla-patent-windshield-wiper-blades/

7 years ago

Age Discrimination at Work

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/business/millennials-age-discrimination.html

7 years ago

Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty/

7 years ago

The Case for Doing Nothing

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/smarter-living/the-case-for-doing-nothing.html

7 years ago

Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/27/2019-18443/request-for-comments-on-patenting-artificial-intelligence-inventions

7 years ago

Box86, an x86 app player for ARM with native rendering performance

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86

7 years ago

★ 3.7k C MIT

Show HN: WhatFreeWords: Open-Source Geocoding for What3Words

https://whatfreewords.org/

7 years ago

Show HN: PyCParser, C parser and interpreter in Python

https://github.com/albertz/PyCParser/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

★ 363 Python BSD-2-Clause

New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b08290

7 years ago

Speeding up independent binary searches by interleaving them

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/09/14/speeding-up-independent-binary-searches-by-interleaving-them/

7 years ago

Notre-Dame’s Toxic Fallout

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/14/world/europe/notre-dame-fire-lead.html

7 years ago

Tutorial series for simulating NES Graphics (2018)

https://nesrocks.com/blog/nes-graphics/

7 years ago

Is chroot a security feature?

https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1975883

7 years ago

Chaosnet Network Protocol

https://lm-3.github.io/amber.html

7 years ago

Full tech report of UK 9th August power outage

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/ofgem-has-published-national-grid-electricity-system-operator-s-technical-report

7 years ago

Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49699429

7 years ago

Richard Stallman challenges 'misleading' coverage of his comments on Minsky

https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/14/2033212/richard-stallman-challenges-misleading-coverage-of-his-comments-on-marvin-minsky

7 years ago

OpenBSD Disabled DoH by Default in Firefox

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190911113856

7 years ago

Extreme Light Intensities Using Optically Curved Relativistic Plasma Mirrors

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.105001

7 years ago

Boko Haram Is Back and With Better Drones

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram.html

7 years ago