top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-08

Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289/

6 years ago

'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/08/we-good-now-china-south-park-creators-issue-mock-apology-after-show-reportedly-censored

6 years ago

Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled

6 years ago

N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier

https://n8n.io/

6 years ago

Habits of Expert Software Designers

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/

6 years ago

The China Cultural Clash

https://stratechery.com/2019/the-china-cultural-clash/

6 years ago

99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script

https://bitbucket.org/BitPusher16/dotfiles/raw/49a01d929dcaebcca68bbb1859b4ac1aea93b073/refs/git/git_examples.sh

6 years ago

After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywaq3g/after-a-south-park-censorship-episode-china-deleted-the-entire-show-from-the-web

6 years ago

NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nba-china-revenue-business-sponsors

6 years ago

D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched

https://threatpost.com/d-link-home-routers-unpatched/148941/

6 years ago

Dark mode in a website with CSS

https://tombrow.com/dark-mode-website-css

6 years ago

Personal information and ads on Twitter

https://help.twitter.com/en/information-and-ads

6 years ago

U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-exclusive/u-s-expands-blacklist-to-include-chinas-top-ai-startups-ahead-of-trade-talks-idUSKBN1WM25M

6 years ago

Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm

https://skerritt.blog/timsort-the-fastest-sorting-algorithm-youve-never-heard-of/

6 years ago

Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API

https://nagix.github.io/mini-tokyo-3d/

6 years ago

macOS 10.15 Vista

https://tyler.io/macos-10-15-vista/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21189801

6 years ago

Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whos-a-whistleblower-gonna-trust-ask-christopher-wylie-about-the-guardian-and-cambridge-analytica

6 years ago

Why you should have a side project

https://erickhun.com/posts/why-you-should-have-a-side-project/

6 years ago

What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?

https://justpaste.it/39hat

6 years ago

Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-08/firefighting-foam-leaves-toxic-legacy-california-water

6 years ago

Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

6 years ago

Starving cancer by cutting off its favorite foods

https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starving-cancer-cutting-its-favorite-foods-glucose-and-glutamine-14314

6 years ago

Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn

http://dtm.carnegiescience.edu/news/twenty-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn

6 years ago

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/

6 years ago

C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing

https://www.bfilipek.com/2019/10/cppecosystem.html

6 years ago

PyPy's New JSON Parser

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser.html

6 years ago

Clojure 1.11 planning

https://insideclojure.org/2019/10/06/journal/

6 years ago

Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability

https://vicki.substack.com/p/logs-were-our-lifeblood-now-theyre

6 years ago

Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/9254/blizzard-has-removed-blitzchung-from-grandmasters-and-banned-him-from-competing-in-hearthstone-following-his-on-stream-hong-kong-protest

6 years ago

US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/social-media-use-could-change-for-americans-after-chinas-nba-shutdown.html

6 years ago

SRE as a Lifestyle Choice

https://medium.com/@bellmar/sre-as-a-lifestyle-choice-de9f5a82d73d

6 years ago

How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites

https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/episode-4-leif-singer/

6 years ago

Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-7-0-version-history-and-beyond/

6 years ago

All paid targeting options available on social media platforms

https://www.notion.so/Targeting-Explorer-7e283ffd84d242abbbfce67476878d0f

6 years ago

PG&E could shut off power across Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/10/07/pge-could-shut-off-power-across-bay-area-wednesday-and-thursday

6 years ago

How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?

https://earth.stanford.edu/news/how-much-does-air-pollution-cost-us#gs.8d3bpb

6 years ago

Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-florida-felons-insight/restoring-felon-voting-rights-a-mess-in-battleground-florida-idUSKBN1WM0YV

6 years ago

James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement

https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement

6 years ago

A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name

https://theoutline.com/post/7907/a-good-place-the-fake-town-where-everybody-knows-your-name

6 years ago

Seam Carving

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

6 years ago

Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON

https://github.com/ldn-softdev/jtc

6 years ago

★ 509 C++ MIT

Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?

https://twitter.com/benmarrow/status/1180140772387168256

6 years ago

Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you build applications that require zero maintenance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192885

6 years ago

Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources

https://devurls.com/

6 years ago

Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2019/10/08/digital-minister-orders-cafes-restaurants-to-collect-customers-wifi-data/

6 years ago

Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

https://erikbern.com/2019/09/12/misc-unsolicited-career-advice.html

6 years ago