top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-20

Lesser Known Coding Fonts

https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/

6 years ago

The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

https://www.thegrove3d.com/releases/the-grove-release-8/

6 years ago

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302412

6 years ago

38 People are looking at this post right now

https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201

6 years ago

Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/22338.html

6 years ago

Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/20/facebook-isnt-free-speech-its-algorithmic-amplification-optimized-for-outrage/

6 years ago

Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company

https://www.perell.com/blog/boeing-737-max

6 years ago

Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0

https://www.evilsocket.net/2019/10/19/Weaponizing-and-Gamifying-AI-for-WiFi-Hacking-Presenting-Pwnagotchi-1-0-0/#.Xas1JEBAewV.reddit

6 years ago

FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices

https://twitter.com/cglyer/status/1182413194360508419

6 years ago

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plastics-pollution/

6 years ago

What should have been an IMG element became this

https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/1185604806901207045

6 years ago

Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA

https://www.thanassis.space/myowncpu.html

6 years ago

Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/are-we-cusp-next-dot-com-bubble/600232/

6 years ago

Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307888

6 years ago

A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/

6 years ago

Dr Sarah E. Hill: ‘A blind spot about how the pill influences women’s brains’

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/19/dr-sarah-e-hill-how-pill-influences-womens-brains

6 years ago

Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

https://srlabs.de/bites/smart-spies/

6 years ago

A Forty Year Career

https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

6 years ago

Client-side web programming in Haskell: A retrospective

https://chrisdone.com/posts/clientside-programming-haskell/

6 years ago

Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/presentations/2019-03-git-internals-rewrite/#/

6 years ago

Yes, Estimate Software Projects

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/yes-you-should-estimate/

6 years ago

Software projects written in Haskell

https://serokell.io/blog/top-software-written-in-haskell

6 years ago

From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job

https://thehustle.co/how-one-man-went-from-a-life-prison-sentence-to-a-100k-engineering-job/

6 years ago

Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool

https://easyigloo.org

6 years ago

The FBI Lost Our Son

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-lost-our-son-11570806358?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

Internet Exchange Map

https://www.internetexchangemap.com/

6 years ago

F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification

https://github.com/mrLSD/riscv-fs

6 years ago

★ 289 F# MIT

Attempting to Use GNU Guix

https://zge.us.to/guix.html

6 years ago

Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/10/17/taiwan-managed-to-build-high-speed-rail-why-cant-we-connecting-california-joe-mathews/4013735002/

6 years ago

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363/

6 years ago

Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planets/planetary-autopsies-indicate-worlds-like-earth-common-in-the-cosmos-idUSKBN1WW2M7

6 years ago

OpenAI's blog post about "solving the Rubik's cube" and what they actually did

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1185679169360809984

6 years ago

Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality

https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.html

6 years ago

Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound

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

6 years ago

Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/tech/

6 years ago

The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2019/10/big-interception-flaw-us-uk-cloud-act-agreement

6 years ago

Creativity is bad for UI design (2018)

https://uxengineer.com/good-ux-boring-ui/

6 years ago

The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source (2015)

http://blog.fogus.me/2015/11/04/the-100101-method-my-approach-to-open-source/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with depression?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21301633

6 years ago

Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

http://orbis.stanford.edu/

6 years ago

When Introverts Act Like Extraverts (and Vice Versa)

https://www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/when-introverts-act-like-extraverts-and-vice-versa/

6 years ago

Where do all the censored developers go?

https://danielpocock.com/where-do-censored-developers-go/

6 years ago

Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch 2 Years Before Deadly Crash

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771451904/boeing-pilots-detected-737-max-flight-control-glitch-two-years-before-deadly-cra

6 years ago