top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-20

ColorBox by Lyft Design

https://www.colorbox.io

7 years ago

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/03/What-ORMs-have-taught-me-just-learn-SQL/

7 years ago

Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

7 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript GPL-3.0

Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks

https://paulcavallaro.com/blog/common-systems-programming-optimizations-tricks/

7 years ago

Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python [pdf]

https://lectures.quantecon.org/_downloads/pdf/py/Quantitative%20Economics%20with%20Python.pdf

7 years ago

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

https://ourworldindata.org/talent-is-everywhere-opportunity-is-not

7 years ago

Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/data-privacy-fbi.html

7 years ago

Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/20/google-is-investing-3-3b-to-build-clean-data-centers-in-europe/

7 years ago

NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers

7 years ago

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3000-32-core-cpu-is-more-bad-news-for-intel/

7 years ago

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

7 years ago

★ 17k Rust Apache-2.0

Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024941

7 years ago

Ristretto: A High Performance, Concurrent, Memory-Bound Go Cache

https://blog.dgraph.io/post/introducing-ristretto-high-perf-go-cache/

7 years ago

Anxious tech workers are going to therapy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/silicon-valley-therapy-anxiety.html

7 years ago

Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29671031

7 years ago

Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/air-travel-emissions.html

7 years ago

When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

https://www.vogue.com/article/parentings-new-frontier-no-smartphones

7 years ago

Free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875362/100000-fake-ai-photos-stock-photography-royalty-free

7 years ago

The BeagleBone AI is Available

https://beagleboard.org/blog/2019-09-19-beaglebone-ai-available

7 years ago

Remind HN: Put contact info in your profile if you'd like to be contacted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21027730

7 years ago

Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/ex-facebook-engineer-patrick-shyu-makes-fun-of-company-on-youtube.html

7 years ago

A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages

http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/this-simple-structure-unites-all-human-languages

7 years ago

Rent control will make housing shortages worse?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/21/rent-control-will-make-housing-shortages-worse

7 years ago

Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

7 years ago

★ 27.6k Python

The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (2015)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/12/21/power-law-projects/

7 years ago

Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store

https://extensionmonitor.com/blog/breaking-down-the-chrome-web-store-part-1

7 years ago

Statement Regarding Repurchase Operations

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_190920

7 years ago

Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-arctic-methane/

7 years ago

A ‘Grass-Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded By Its Biggest Rivals

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-grassroots-campaign-to-take-down-amazon-is-funded-by-amazons-biggest-rivals-11568989838?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Volkswagen unveils the ID.3, its first affordable long-range electric car

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/9/20857217/volkswagen-vw-id3-electric-price-specs-mile-range-frankfurt-motor-show-2019

7 years ago

Tell HN: Stripe brought my business to a dead stop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21030633

7 years ago

U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than by burning coal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/plunging-offshore-wind-costs-could-soon-end-u-k-subsidies

7 years ago

NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger Resigned

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/npm-inc-announces-leadership-change-300922517.html?tc=eml_cleartime

7 years ago

EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution designed from scratch for containers

https://easyos.org

7 years ago

TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14666/tsmc-3nm-euv-development-progress-going-well-early-customers-engaged

7 years ago

French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games

https://www.vg247.com/2019/09/20/steam-users-right-to-sell-games-french-court-valve-ruling/

7 years ago

Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/gdpr-email-tracking.html

7 years ago

Breaking Pills

https://blog.plover.com/math/breaking-pills.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024041

7 years ago

Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy

https://www.ft.com/content/b9bb4e54-dbc1-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17

7 years ago

Belgian police forced to stop using facial recognition (Dutch)

https://www.hln.be/nieuws/binnenland/federale-politie-moet-gezichtsherkenning-op-zaventem-stopzetten-project-is-in-strijd-met-wet~aeaa5daa/

7 years ago

The brain may actively forget during REM sleep

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-may-actively-forget-during-dream-sleep

7 years ago

Books Won't Die

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/17/books-wont-die/

7 years ago

A Chinese social credit song

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/be-as-good-as-your-word-the-chinese-social-credit-song-is-here/

7 years ago

Show HN: cq – Query CSVs using SQL

https://github.com/jolmg/cq

7 years ago

★ 167 Shell GPL-3.0

State employees authorized courthouse 'penetration,' records show

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/09/18/iowa-courts-dallas-county-courthouse-coalfire-contract-judicial-branch-test-security-ia-crime-arrest/2356047001/

7 years ago

Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-global-justice/kevin-p-donovan-emma-park-perpetual-debt-silicon-savannah

7 years ago

Ask HN: Best ways to spend money towards climate efforts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024358

7 years ago

Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars by InSight

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/mars-insight-feels-mysterious-magnetic-pulsations-at-midnight/

7 years ago

French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law

https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/19/20874384/french-court-steam-valve-used-games-eu-law

7 years ago

Facebook Says It Has Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/facebook-data-privacy-suspension.html

7 years ago

Gatekeeper – Policy Controller for Kubernetes

https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper

7 years ago

★ 4.2k Go Apache-2.0

Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/19/climate-capitalists-have-serious-money-in-climate-friendly-investments

7 years ago