top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-09-26

Programming Idioms

https://www.programming-idioms.org

7 years ago

DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/doordash-data-breach/

7 years ago

The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

https://lithub.com/the-octopus-an-alien-among-us/

7 years ago

Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/match-com-lawsuit-ftc.html

7 years ago

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)

https://sivers.org/zipit

7 years ago

GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge

https://github.blog/2019-09-26-introducing-the-codesearchnet-challenge/

7 years ago

Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/intro-to-personal-automation-apd690170742/ios

7 years ago

New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/new-federal-rules-limit-police-searches-family-tree-dna-databases

7 years ago

Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/interview-with-the-guy-who-tried-to-frame-me-for-heroin-possession/

7 years ago

Tesla Software Version 10.0

https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-software-version-10-0?redirect=no

7 years ago

HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future

https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-future/

7 years ago

Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server

7 years ago

★ 4.4k Go

How Apple Kills Indie Developers

https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/issues/695

7 years ago

★ 7.3k Swift MIT

No, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from booting

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/no-it-wasnt-a-virus-it-was-chrome-that-stopped-macs-from-booting/

7 years ago

What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090v1

7 years ago

Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/gatsby-raises-15m-series-a-for-its-modern-web-development-platform/

7 years ago

Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/25/20883619/uber-special-investigations-crimes-police-rape-report-safety

7 years ago

Web Development Simplified with Svelte

https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/july-2019-web-dev-simplified-with-svelte

7 years ago

How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers

https://startupandrew.com/posts/how-firebase-interviewed-software-engineers/

7 years ago

New Mac Pro Tech Specs

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

7 years ago

Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

https://twitter.com/koenrh/status/1176523837866946561

7 years ago

Open offices are a dead end

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/wework-adam-neumann.html

7 years ago

Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02790-3

7 years ago

At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/technology/ai-computer-expense.html

7 years ago

Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S1eZYeHFDS

7 years ago

Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type

https://dave.cheney.net/2019/09/24/be-wary-of-functions-which-take-several-parameters-of-the-same-type

7 years ago

Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators

https://decrypt.co/9637/telegram-slips-past-regulators-busy-trashing-libra

7 years ago

How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth – in pictures

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02793-0

7 years ago

Public Opinion in Authoritarian States

http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/09/public-opinion-in-authoritarian-states.html?m=1

7 years ago

Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies

https://medium.com/@gokulrajaram/self-serve-first-the-overlooked-but-essential-paradigm-underlying-great-software-companies-45a67dbec4c4

7 years ago

Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13

https://blog.timac.org/2019/0926-state-of-swift-ios13/

7 years ago

How the U.S. Hacked ISIS

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/763545811/how-the-u-s-hacked-isis

7 years ago

The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-forbes-30-under-30-hustle?pu=hackernews7r16e7&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

7 years ago

At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/technology/government-disinformation-cyber-troops.html

7 years ago

Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/facebook-hides-likes/

7 years ago

On the Utility of Phoenix LiveView

https://jclem.net/posts/on-the-utility-of-phoenix-liveview

7 years ago

Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms

https://pvigier.github.io/2019/05/06/commit-graph-drawing-algorithms.html

7 years ago

SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-scores-fall-as-more-students-take-the-test-11569297660?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/06/26/designing-far-memory-data-structures/

7 years ago

Nim's author on v1 launch: Personal words about version 1

https://nim-lang.org/araq/v1.html

7 years ago

Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language

http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/consciousness-doesnt-depend-on-language

7 years ago

Twitter launches its ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/twitter-launches-its-controversial-hide-replies-feature-in-the-u-s-and-japan/

7 years ago

Understanding Disk Usage in Linux

https://ownyourbits.com/2018/05/02/understanding-disk-usage-in-linux/

7 years ago

AltStore: Alternative iOS app store that doesn't require a jailbreak

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/26/altstore-alternative-ios-app-store/

7 years ago

Sample Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Analog Circuit Design

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/09/26/circuits/

7 years ago

An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/an-html-attribute-potentially-worth-4-4m-to-chipotle/

7 years ago

Aardvark – Real-time graphics and visualization in F#

https://github.com/aardvark-platform/aardvark.docs/wiki

7 years ago

★ 106 F# MIT

‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2019/09/25/fleeceware-apps-overcharge-users-for-basic-app-functionality/

7 years ago

WeWork Cleans House, Looks to Trim Staff Close to Ex-CEO, Sell Private Jet

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-cleans-house-looks-to-trim-staff-close-to-ex-ceo-sell-private-jet-11569531640?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

Games Economists Play

https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-games-economists-play

7 years ago

How to buy clothes that are built to last

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/sustainable-clothing.html

7 years ago

Deep Learning with Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems

https://practicalai.me/blog/deep-learning-with-ehr-systems

7 years ago

Accelerationism

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

7 years ago

Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind

http://nautil.us/issue/76/language/language-is-the-scaffold-of-the-mind

7 years ago

New ES2019 JavaScript features

https://blog.logrocket.com/new-es2019-javascript-features-every-developer-should-be-excited-about/

7 years ago

Tesla’s Neural Processor In The FSD Chip

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2707/inside-teslas-neural-processor-in-the-fsd-chip/

7 years ago

NASA and ESA are going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614330/were-going-to-slam-a-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid-to-try-to-deflect-it

7 years ago

Demystifying Poetic Meter

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/24/you-too-can-have-a-viral-tweet-like-mine-demystifying-poetic-meter/

7 years ago

U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture

https://bostonreview.net/law-justice/joseph-margulies-us-judges-admit-enhanced-interrogation-torture

7 years ago

Rust 1.38.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/09/26/Rust-1.38.0.html

7 years ago

Registering to vote can allow re-identification of your anonymized data

https://medium.com/swlh/the-privacy-cost-of-voting-1907d0c9c6df

7 years ago