top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-29

Text Editing Hates You Too

https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/

6 years ago

Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164

6 years ago

Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet

https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/

6 years ago

WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/whatsapp-sues-israels-nso-for-allegedly-helping-spies-hack-phones-around-the-world-idUSKBN1X82BE

6 years ago

How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/10/20897212/what-is-untitled-goose-game-explained-nintendo-switch-pc-mac

6 years ago

Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/mass-cellphone-surveillance-experiment-in-spain.html

6 years ago

Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours

https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/26/everything-is-amazing-but-nothing-is-ours/

6 years ago

We're Incentivizing Bad Science

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/were-incentivizing-bad-science/

6 years ago

Goodbye, Flash

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/goodbye-flash.html

6 years ago

Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-29/internet-50th-anniversary-ucla-kleinrock

6 years ago

Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell

https://hellveticafont.com/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21389776

6 years ago

Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-forces-people-to-sign-in-to-view-public-profiles/

6 years ago

JavaScript Is C

https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2018/javascript-is-c.html

6 years ago

Remove default "terraform" partner_id

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/4747

6 years ago

★ 4.9k Go MPL-2.0

35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CZpFqvDQo

6 years ago

A GUI framework for C# console applications

https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework

6 years ago

★ 1.1k C# MIT

The iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera

https://blog.halide.cam/inside-the-iphone-11-camera-part-1-a-completely-new-camera-28ea5d091071

6 years ago

DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

6 years ago

Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language

https://www.junglecoder.com/blog/nim-early-report

6 years ago

Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15032/intel-2019-fab-update-10nm-hvm-7nm-on-track

6 years ago

Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1007296

6 years ago

XML is almost always misused

https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml

6 years ago

Million Song Dataset

http://millionsongdataset.com/

6 years ago

Rock climbing and the economics of innovation

http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=2388

6 years ago

'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/the-curtain-saving-birds-from-hitting-glass-windows/11638774

6 years ago

Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2019/10/28/evaluating-bazel-for-building-firefox-part-1/

6 years ago

$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-supposed-to-hurt-new-york-city-restaurants-but-both-revenue-and-employment-are-up-2019-10-28

6 years ago

Key Change

https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/10/26113/

6 years ago

Biology Is Eating the World

https://a16z.com/2019/10/28/biology-eating-world-a16z-manifesto/

6 years ago

A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd-microcode-bug-destroyed-my-weekend/

6 years ago

Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420

https://www.fastcompany.com/90423457/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-in-room-3420

6 years ago

New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-unremovable-xhelper-malware-has-infected-45000-android-devices/

6 years ago

A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)

https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-tmux/

6 years ago

CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies

https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew

6 years ago

★ 1.2k C GPL-2.0

View leaked secrets in Git live

https://shhgit.darkport.co.uk/

6 years ago

New Features in Vue 3

https://vueschool.io/articles/vuejs-tutorials/exciting-new-features-in-vue-3/

6 years ago

A 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/the-worlds-largest-3d-metal-printer-is-churning-out-rockets

6 years ago

Driverless cars are stuck in a jam

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/driverless-cars-are-stuck-in-a-jam

6 years ago

Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook

https://swish.swi-prolog.org/

6 years ago

Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down

https://dkthehuman.com/slowtube

6 years ago

Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories

https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6734

6 years ago

Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/health/crispr-genetics-antibiotic-resistance.html

6 years ago

Why open hardware needs open software

http://blog.snapeda.com/2019/10/28/an-interview-with-wayne-stambaugh-of-kicad/

6 years ago

Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/america-s-middle-class-is-getting-hooked-on-debt-with-100-rates

6 years ago

Cell and Molecular Biology Animated Textbooks

https://www.smart-biology.com

6 years ago

How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL'ed code”

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/147134/how-to-force-disgruntled-worker-not-to-publicly-disclose-gpled-code

6 years ago

The Mail from Budapest (1993)

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol2no4/html/v02i4a11p_0001.htm

6 years ago

iPadOS Discoverability Trouble

https://mondaynote.com/ipados-discoverability-trouble-488d2d40ee1

6 years ago

Recent advances in 3D content understanding

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/pushing-state-of-the-art-in-3d-content-understanding/

6 years ago

awesome-selfhosted – Free Software network services and web applications

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

6 years ago

★ 288.7k

The two-value syntax of the CSS Display property

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/the-two-value-syntax-of-the-css-display-property/

6 years ago

New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving

https://review.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship/2019/article/startups-forget-about-technology

6 years ago

The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html

6 years ago

Teens are spending nearly half their waking hours on screens

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-scary-lasting-effects-of-too-much-screen-time-on-children-2019-04-10

6 years ago