top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-15

I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

https://twitter.com/Timcammm/status/1183782929614409729

6 years ago

Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/

6 years ago

Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication

https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/03/06/Want-to-improve-your-relationships-Try-Nonviolent-Communication-1

6 years ago

Meetup.com alternatives

https://phacks.dev/meetup-com-alternatives

6 years ago

OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites

https://micahflee.com/2019/10/new-version-of-onionshare-makes-it-easy-for-anyone-to-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites/

6 years ago

California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am

https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/

6 years ago

Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/blizzard-cancels-overwatch-event-as-it-tries-to-contain-backlash

6 years ago

Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-inspector/

6 years ago

Firefox Privacy How-To Guide

https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/

6 years ago

Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/twitter-world-leaders-break-rules/

6 years ago

DuckDuckGo Search Improvements

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-improvements/

6 years ago

Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/algolia-finds-110m-from-accel-and-salesforce-for-its-search-as-a-service-used-by-slack-twitch-and-8k-others/

6 years ago

.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/130

6 years ago

★ 1.3k CC-BY-4.0

Ionic React

https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/

6 years ago

My Vision of D’s Future

https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/

6 years ago

Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50054044

6 years ago

How we hit our $30k ARR milestone

https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/how-we-hit-our-30k-annual-recurring-revenue-milestone

6 years ago

Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elite-m-b-a-programs-report-steep-drop-in-applications-11571130001?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers

https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/switzerland-vs-silicon-valley

6 years ago

Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report

6 years ago

Rustup 1.20.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/10/15/Rustup-1.20.0.html

6 years ago

Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3

https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/10/msg00043.html

6 years ago

Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191004/19564743128/city-baltimore-blew-off-76000-ransomware-demand-only-to-find-out-bunch-data-had-never-been-backed-up.shtml

6 years ago

Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html

6 years ago

Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand

https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/

6 years ago

By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year

https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/

6 years ago

Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions

https://news.codecademy.com/bjarne-stroustrup-interview/

6 years ago

Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sears-hasnt-fared-better-after-bankruptcy-as-another-100-stores-will-soon-close-11570959000?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach

https://5g.systemsapproach.org/index.html

6 years ago

Face-recognition technology is the new norm

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/facial-recognition-police.html

6 years ago

Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-artifacts-pulled-edge-norways-melting-glaciers-180967949/

6 years ago

YouTube Regrets

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/

6 years ago

The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18n=true&guccounter=1

6 years ago

DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/doh-dot-dnssec.html

6 years ago

Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport

http://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-flight/

6 years ago

Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor

6 years ago

Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere

https://assist.app/hn

6 years ago

Docker Hub Registry is down

https://status.docker.com/

6 years ago

What the Hell Was Modernism?

https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jerry-saltz-new-moma-modernism.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem

https://tspvis.com

6 years ago

ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria

https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/dhmqzm/abc_news_is_trying_to_pass_gun_range_videos_as/

6 years ago

OpenVMS: state of the x86 port

http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html

6 years ago

Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue

https://beamjobs.com/blog/14-mistakes-our-startup-made

6 years ago

My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming

https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/my-2019-mathematics-a-to-z-linear-programming/

6 years ago

Google Announces Nest WiFi

https://blog.google/products/google-nest/nest-wifi/

6 years ago

Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/oct/15/zombie-debt-benefits-overpayment-poverty

6 years ago

Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator

https://github.com/salesforce/policy_sentry

6 years ago

★ 2.1k Python MIT

A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/a-detailed-look-at-ubuntus-new-experimental-zfs-installer/

6 years ago

Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball

https://www.ploopy.co

6 years ago

Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-keep-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere/

6 years ago

You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services

https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/15/20828843/studio-ghibli-movies-miyazaki-streaming-netflix-disney-plus

6 years ago

Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013)

https://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-of-plain-text-tables/

6 years ago

$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home

https://www.wsj.com/articles/so-you-make-100-000-it-still-might-not-be-enough-to-buy-a-home-11571149819?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/14/colleges-quietly-rank-prospective-students-based-their-personal-data/

6 years ago

Google Announces Pixel 4

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4

6 years ago

CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root

https://sensorstechforum.com/cve-2019-14287-sudo-bug/

6 years ago

Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate, censorship – survey

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/10/blizzard-hong-kong-protest-hearthstone-blind-app.html

6 years ago

Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/perception-of-musical-pitch-varies-across-cultures

6 years ago

America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-pistachios-from.html

6 years ago