top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-25

Perfectly Cropped

https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/

6 years ago

Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/dod-jedi-contract.html

6 years ago

My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?

https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8

6 years ago

قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/

6 years ago

Gmail marking email from me as spam

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08806.html

6 years ago

An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/10/21/illustrated-guide-to-oauth-and-oidc

6 years ago

Who Killed the Scrollbar?

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq

6 years ago

Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalization-trade-paul-krugman-china/

6 years ago

Reflections on My Career at Microsoft

https://medium.com/@docjamesw/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36

6 years ago

Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query

https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb

6 years ago

★ 23.1k TypeScript Apache-2.0

Don Valentine has died

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/remembering-don-valentine/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357921

6 years ago

Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1187791335345930240

6 years ago

Panopticlick

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

6 years ago

Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/india-tech-startups-fundraise/

6 years ago

Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization

https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/python-opengl/#python-opengl-for-scientific-visualization

6 years ago

We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/europe-border-control-ai-lie-detector/

6 years ago

Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties

https://popula.com/2019/01/29/saving-the-planet-with-co2/

6 years ago

Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50180781

6 years ago

Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams

https://www.sciencealert.com/ant-roads-are-practically-immune-to-traffic-jams-even-when-it-gets-crowded

6 years ago

Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/17/h-1b-uber-snatches-up-more-foreign-worker-visas-as-it-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees/

6 years ago

Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure

https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere/

6 years ago

Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done

https://www.focusmate.com/

6 years ago

Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-scientists-fractal-patterns-quantum-material.html

6 years ago

Applying BERT models to Search

https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/

6 years ago

Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/fair-the-softbank-backed-car-subscription-startup-lays-off-40-of-staff-sacks-cfo/

6 years ago

New Hampshire Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kp8j/lawmaker-kills-repair-bill-because-cellphones-are-throwaways

6 years ago

Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance

https://www.sicpers.info/2019/10/zen-and-the-art-of-software-maintenance/

6 years ago

Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550619876633

6 years ago

Why EdDSA held up better than ECDSA against Minerva

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20191024-eddsa.html

6 years ago

A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)

https://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr/

6 years ago

Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/learning-to-smell-using-deep-learning.html

6 years ago

The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/08/the-kindle-is-fine-it-couldve-been-much-better-than-that/

6 years ago

Australia’s Darling River is running dry

https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thirst-turns-to-anger-as-australias-mighty-river-runs-dry

6 years ago

Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros

https://github.com/seungwonpark/kudeki-chain/

6 years ago

★ 92 Python

Mir Books

https://mirtitles.org/

6 years ago

Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming

https://ispc.github.io/

6 years ago

Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5

https://mnml.gg/

6 years ago

Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703

6 years ago

Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-columbus-letters-stolen-from-vatican-libraries-around-the-world-60-minutes-2019-10-20/

6 years ago

Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/citation/wc991103.htm

6 years ago

Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot

6 years ago

★ 234 JavaScript MIT

Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356203

6 years ago

Back from the Blender Conference

https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/back-from-the-blender-conference-2019/

6 years ago

Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2019-10-25-beating-c-with-futhark-on-gpu.html

6 years ago

Double Slit Experiment No Mystery

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/double-slit-experiment-no-mystery/

6 years ago

Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/042

6 years ago

Airbnb in the Himalayas

https://veridici.com/how-airbnb-is-silently-changing-himalayan-villages/

6 years ago

Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging

https://pernos.co/

6 years ago

PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk

https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/25/forecasts-indicate-potential-for-historic-wind-event-this-weekend-approximately-850000-customers-notified-that-they-may-be-impacted-beginning-saturday-evening/

6 years ago

Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat

https://github.com/Speedi13/ROP-COMPILER

6 years ago

★ 558 C++

Non-Green Plants (2013)

https://plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/how-do-non-green-plants-work/

6 years ago

Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners

http://brainio.com

6 years ago

Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)

https://drivemag.com/news/dagen-h-the-day-sweden-switched-from-driving-on-the-left-to-the-right

6 years ago

Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/24/sea-urchins-california-oregon-population

6 years ago

Offshore wind to become a $1T industry

https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/october/offshore-wind-to-become-a-1-trillion-industry.html

6 years ago

Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Is Getting Worse

https://reason.com/2019/10/24/wisconsins-massive-foxconn-boondoggle-is-getting-worse/

6 years ago

Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)

http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html

6 years ago

Show HN: A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)

https://xmake.io/#/

6 years ago

New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry

https://thedriven.io/2019/10/23/new-2mw-electric-vehicle-chargers-could-revolutionise-mining-industry/

6 years ago

Auto-brewery syndrome: probably an under-diagnosed medical condition

https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000325

6 years ago

A day in the life of a Danish forensic pathologist

https://www.information.dk/mofo/no-desire-to-open-up-this-mans-skull-do-it-because-to

6 years ago

Teen designs Hong Kong-inspired shoe only to have it dropped from Vans contest

https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/Vans-step-on-Toronto-teens-freedom-of-expression

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are some B.S. tricks management pulls on naive developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354968

6 years ago

Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force

https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2019Z20386&did=2019D42637

6 years ago

Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)

http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/alien-lambda-calculus/

6 years ago

South-Pointing Chariot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot

6 years ago

Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/tiktok-lamakers-national-security-threat/

6 years ago

HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

6 years ago