top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-05

Stripe CLI

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-cli

6 years ago

706 upvotes – 144 comments

Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/libra.html

6 years ago

631 upvotes – 349 comments

Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/robinhood-has-a-glitch-that-gives-traders-infinite-leverage

6 years ago

583 upvotes – 324 comments

Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake

https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/31/backcountry-com-sues-anyone-who-uses-its-namesake-is-it-bullying-or-just-business/

6 years ago

492 upvotes – 350 comments

TypeScript 3.7

http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-7.html

6 years ago

415 upvotes – 162 comments

Free Online Courses from Top Universities

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

6 years ago

392 upvotes – 46 comments

The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP

https://www.winhistory.de/more/386/updatem.htm

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 250 comments

When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)

https://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-george-soros-broke/

6 years ago

325 upvotes – 259 comments

How to Buy Drugs

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n21/misha-glenny/how-to-buy-drugs

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 250 comments

What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2y7n6jw5d0

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 61 comments

Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/now-googlers-are-protesting-company-s-cloud-deals-with-big-oil

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 378 comments

C++ 20: The Core Language

https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/c-20-the-core-language

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 272 comments

OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 158 comments

T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta

https://thehustle.co/11052019-deutsche-telekom-lemonade-color-rights/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 153 comments

OpenSSH's Support for U2F/Fido Security

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROTOCOL.u2f

6 years ago

★ 3.8k C
233 upvotes – 49 comments

Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

https://lightcommands.com/20191104-Light-Commands.pdf

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 107 comments

Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/designed-for-demolition-why-the-swiss-rigged-critical-infrastructure-to-explode/

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 129 comments

Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille

https://design-milk.com/lego-launches-braille-bricks-for-children-to-learn-braille/

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 40 comments

Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/risky-mortgage-bonds-are-back-and-delinquencies-are-piling-up

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 129 comments

Tech and Liberty

https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-liberty/

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 162 comments

Really Small Java Apps

http://august.nagro.us/small-java.html

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 64 comments

The Lost Key of QWERTY (2016)

http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-lost-key-of-qwerty.html

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 84 comments

Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/rural-farm-market.html

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 320 comments

Super-precise new CRISPR tool could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03164-5

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 53 comments

Few-Shot Video-to-Video Synthesis

https://nvlabs.github.io/few-shot-vid2vid/

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 40 comments

AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimited data' pledge

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-at-t-settlement/att-will-pay-60-million-over-u-s-allegations-it-lied-in-unlimited-data-pledge-government-idUSKBN1XF26Q

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 106 comments

Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

https://www.pine64.org/2019/11/05/brave-heart-edition-pinephones/

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 86 comments

Unofficial Windows XP SP4

https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10321

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: How is your mental health?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21456399

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 153 comments

California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-mayors-join-campaign-to-make-pg-e-a-cooperative-11572955201?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 234 comments

Static Types in SwiftUI

https://www.objc.io/blog/2019/11/05/static-types-in-swiftui/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 67 comments

Factual Inaccuracies of “Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound”

https://tonyarcieri.com/factual-inaccuracies-of-facebook-libra-is-architecturally-unsound

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/technology/personaltech/google-data-self-destruct-privacy.html

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 74 comments

We built network isolation for 1500 services

https://monzo.com/blog/we-built-network-isolation-for-1-500-services

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50296742

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 26 comments

The young centre of the Earth (2016)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05507

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 71 comments

How to Build an Income Sharing Agreement Product

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/how-to-build-an-income-sharing-agreement-product

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 68 comments

Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable monitoring tool

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/chronosphere-launches-with-11m-series-a-to-build-scalable-cloud-native-monitoring-tool/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 35 comments

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 76 comments

Natural image reconstruction from brain waves

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v3.full

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

How to Turn Physics into an Optimization Problem

https://medium.com/@marksaroufim/how-to-turn-physics-into-an-optimization-problem-11b3fbf83062

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

German government expands subsidies for electric cars

https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-expands-subsidies-for-electric-cars/a-51113225

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 152 comments

Energy Breakthrough could Store Solar Power for Decades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/moth-poulsen-s-energy-trapping-molecule-could-solve-solar-storage

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Ogre 1.12.3

https://www.ogre3d.org/2019/11/05/ogre-1-12-3-released

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Layers in Software: From Data to Value

https://blog.jessitron.com/2019/11/05/layers-in-software-from-data-to-value/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

Python should take a lesson from APL: Walrus operator not needed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454881

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 106 comments

Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer

https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05724

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 17 comments

Ubiquiti and GPL: When companies use GPL against each other, our community loses

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/02/cambium-ubiquiti-gpl-violations/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/1235

6 years ago

★ 34k Rust Apache-2.0
92 upvotes – 10 comments

Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze, displaying scary message

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/scammers-are-exploiting-an-unpatched-firefox-bug-to-send-users-into-a-panic/

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

There are many small orbital launch vehicles proposed or under development

https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-11-05-Issue-37/?

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” (2016)

https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/in-the-17th-century-leibniz-dreamed-of-a-machine-that-could-calculate-ideas

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Query2vec: Search query expansion with query embeddings

https://bytes.grubhub.com/search-query-embeddings-using-query2vec-f5931df27d79

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Anchor Says Buckingham Palace Pressure Killed ABC's Story on Epstein

https://news.yahoo.com/abc-news-jeffrey-epstein-amy-robach-buckingham-palace-173025977.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 0 comments

Ask HN: Do you have experience with school bullying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21451247

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 64 comments

DIY beehive

https://www.ikkaro.net/diy-beehive/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

1984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (1984)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-01/page/n135

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 48 comments

Scissors Congruence

https://dmsm.github.io/scissors-congruence/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments

Whatsapp Attributes Hack of 1,400 Users to NSO Group Technology

https://citizenlab.ca/2019/11/whatsapp-attributes-hack-of-1400-users-to-nso-group-technology/

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/decisions-decisions-or-why-baskets-of-options-dominate-9ac63658b593

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry

https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2

6 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History

https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/10/17/javascript-errors-an-exceptional-history.html

6 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Photoacoustic Effect

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

6 years ago

63 upvotes – 17 comments

How to Run Great Product Team Meetings

https://andyjohns.co/why-standups-are-useless-and-how-to-run-great-product-team-meetings/

6 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Why I don’t love light rail transit

https://alexdanco.com/2019/09/12/why-i-dont-love-light-rail-transit/

6 years ago

62 upvotes – 96 comments
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