top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-03

Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption

7 years ago

SQL queries don't start with SELECT

https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/03/sql-queries-don-t-start-with-select/

7 years ago

Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/apple_hong_kong/

7 years ago

Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-KCSAN-Sanitizer

7 years ago

Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple

https://openid.net/2019/09/30/apple-successfully-implements-openid-connect-with-sign-in-with-apple/

7 years ago

Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/open-letter-governments-us-uk-and-australia-facebook-all-out-attack-encryption

7 years ago

EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-eff-wins-access-license-plate-reader-data-study-how-law-enforcement-uses

7 years ago

Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21144228

7 years ago

PostgreSQL 12

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html

7 years ago

Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china/samsung-ends-mobile-phone-production-in-china-idUSKBN1WH0LR

7 years ago

Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor

https://crontab.guru/

7 years ago

An Update to Our Community and an Apology

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334248/an-update-to-our-community-and-an-apology

7 years ago

A Gentle Introduction to Bayes’ Theorem for Machine Learning

https://machinelearningmastery.com/bayes-theorem-for-machine-learning/

7 years ago

Auto-Antonyms

http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html

7 years ago

Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

https://www.fastcompany.com/90412231/year-after-khashoggi-murder-investors-embrace-saudi-arabia

7 years ago

Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153175

7 years ago

What Is Good About Haskell?

https://doisinkidney.com/posts/2019-10-02-what-is-good-about-haskell.html

7 years ago

A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02934-5

7 years ago

China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/china-laying-tracks-for-1000km-h-maglev-trains/

7 years ago

Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses

https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/reconfiguring-the-american-household/

7 years ago

Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression

https://scale-heaven.com/

7 years ago

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

https://numinous.productions/ttft/

7 years ago

Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49918889

7 years ago

What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

https://80000hours.org/2019/10/anonymous-advice-careers/

7 years ago

United Kingdom Budget Visualization

https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2016

7 years ago

Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (2016)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2903468

7 years ago

France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-plan

7 years ago

Why some software developers hate Agile

https://www.objectstyle.com/agile/why-developers-hate-agile

7 years ago

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for facial recognition

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-targeted-homeless-people-for-pixel-4-facial-recognition

7 years ago

Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out

https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/update-approaching-ipv4-run-out

7 years ago

Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/why-do-companies-with-huge-resources-still-have-terrible-moderation/

7 years ago

Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/kitty-hawk-reveals-its-secret-project-heaviside/

7 years ago

Karatsuba Algorithm

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

7 years ago

UK Government Selects OpenAPI v3

https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2019/10/02/improve-csvs-and-api-descriptions-with-these-open-standards-board-recommendations/

7 years ago

Lua 5.4.0 beta

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2019-10/msg00003.html

7 years ago

An Update on Plugin Security

https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

7 years ago

After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues fertility clinic

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/father-of-at-least-17-kids-sues-fertility-clinic-says-he-agreed-to-only-5/

7 years ago

Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-police-take-down-hornets-nest-of-ddos-botnets/

7 years ago

Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax

https://github.com/nanochess/tinyasm/

7 years ago

★ 206 Assembly BSD-2-Clause

Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on Stack Exchange

https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-overflow-inc-sinat-chinam-and-the-goat-for-azazel

7 years ago

Cryptocurrency Startup School

https://events.a16z.com/cryptostartupschool/

7 years ago

Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast

https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/

7 years ago

New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-cars-pedestrian-safety-features-fail-in-deadliest-situations-study-finds-11570075260?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life

http://kommunalka.colgate.edu/index.cfm

7 years ago

Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems

https://keithp.com/blogs/picolibc/

7 years ago

Show HN: I am a high school student and I did research on 3D adversarial attacks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06062

7 years ago

Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death

https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/less-6-hours-sleep-night-linked-increased-risk-early-death/

7 years ago

New ‘infrared vision’ technique can help with cancer immunotherapy

https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2019/10/03/infrared-vision-immunotherapy/

7 years ago

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html

7 years ago

Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications

https://hibbard.eu/node-gui/

7 years ago

Show HN: CyberWeb – Building a Web Browser from Scratch on Windows 2000 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RhW4njFimw

7 years ago

Amazon Plans $800M Data Center in Argentina

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/amazon-web-services-poised-to-build-a-data-center-in-argentina

7 years ago