top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-02

PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy

https://telegra.ph/Private-Internet-Access-VPN-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-Israeli-spies-12-01

6 years ago

0.30000000000000004

https://0.30000000000000004.com/

6 years ago

Django 3

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/releases/3.0/

6 years ago

AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-entire-inventory-outsold-japan-worldwide/

6 years ago

Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence

https://oxide.computer/blog/introducing-the-oxide-computer-company/

6 years ago

The Plain Text Project

https://plaintextproject.online/

6 years ago

Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-braket-get-started-with-quantum-computing/

6 years ago

Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust

https://blog.anp.lol/rust/moxie-intro/

6 years ago

Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/02/school-surveillance-us-schools-safety-shootings

6 years ago

Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/group-of-premiers-band-together-to-develop-nuclear-reactor-technology-1.5380316

6 years ago

I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

https://www.wired.com/story/i-ditched-google-for-duckduckgo-heres-why-you-should-too/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683554

6 years ago

Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-were-creating-a-new-rust-based-programming-language-for-secure-coding/

6 years ago

Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell developers they can build homes

https://www.city-journal.org/oakland-rezoning-california-housing

6 years ago

Show HN: How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-analyse-100s-of-gbs-of-data-on-your-laptop-with-python-f83363dda94

6 years ago

Is true hacking dead? What we lost

http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2019/12/is-true-hacking-dead-what-we-lost.html

6 years ago

Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users

https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/china-introduces-mandatory-face-scans-phone-users-doc-1mp8yr2

6 years ago

The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FBI%20Letter%20to%20Schumer%20re%20FaceApp11.pdf

6 years ago

How to rewrite it in Rust

http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/how-to-riir/index.html

6 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/mark-zuckerberg-interviews-patrick-collison-and-tyler-cowen/

6 years ago

The Air Force of the Knights Hospitaller

https://twitter.com/garius/status/1151832864494903296

6 years ago

Born in a Garage

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/

6 years ago

Taking ML to production with Rust

https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2019-12-01-taking-ml-to-production-with-rust-a-25x-speedup/

6 years ago

My Experience as a Remote Worker

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/posts/remote-work/

6 years ago

Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo/reviews/

6 years ago

Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/01/millions-sms-messages-exposed/

6 years ago

The soul of a new computer company

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/12/02/the-soul-of-a-new-computer-company/

6 years ago

Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects

https://lucperkins.dev/blog/introducing-tract

6 years ago

Polytope Model

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

6 years ago

Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction

https://lithub.com/aldous-huxley-foresaw-americas-pill-popping-addiction-with-eerie-accuracy/

6 years ago

A Personal API

https://blog.webb.page/2019/a-personal-api

6 years ago

The programmer behind the Therac-25 fiasco was never found

https://twitter.com/zgryphon/status/1201292269787238400

6 years ago

Introduction to Bert

https://towardsml.com/2019/09/17/bert-explained-a-complete-guide-with-theory-and-tutorial/

6 years ago

Unicode Is Awesome

https://wisdom.engineering/awesome-unicode/

6 years ago

"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/that-time-benjamin-franklin-tried-and-failed-to-electrocute-a-turkey/

6 years ago

TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities

https://netzpolitik.org/2019/discrimination-tiktok-curbed-reach-for-people-with-disabilities/

6 years ago

Better Intuition for Information Theory

https://www.blackhc.net/blog/2019/better-intuition-for-information-theory/

6 years ago

Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)

https://courses.washington.edu/psii101/Powerpoints/Symptoms%20of%20Groupthink.htm

6 years ago

WeWork’s Escape Plan Is Buried in the Books at Its Tokyo Office

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-24/wework-s-escape-plan-is-buried-in-the-books-at-its-tokyo-office

6 years ago

California car burglaries are at crisis levels

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-02/california-car-burglaries-lawmakers-loophole

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are successful projects that started as prototyped hypotheses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21687488

6 years ago

ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-11-aclu-police-robots.html

6 years ago

The Battlefield After the Battle

https://acoup.blog/2019/10/18/collections-the-battlefield-after-the-battle/

6 years ago

Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-catch-a-pattern-by-figuring-out-how-to-avoid-it-20191125/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683552

6 years ago

The Qt Marketplace

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-marketplace

6 years ago

Spying tools website taken down after UK raids

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50601905

6 years ago

How to Build a SaaS Unicorn: The Outreach Story

https://blog.getlatka.com/outreach-saas-revenue-sales-customers/

6 years ago

ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise

https://apostrophecms.com/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683553

6 years ago

Launch HN: Vouch (YC S19) – Business Insurance for Startups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684496

6 years ago

Startup Pivots

https://github.com/delight-im/Knowledge/blob/68b79f8c204defea42c0fc34aa31596b221e73fc/Startups.md

6 years ago

★ 188 CC-BY-4.0

Onboarding Automation Case Study: Winning Back 80% of Our Time

https://outfunnel.com/onboarding-automation/

6 years ago

Privacy or Data, a Convenient False Dichotomy

https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil.html

6 years ago

How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science (2001)

https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~hornby/amuse/vs_toast.txt

6 years ago

RabbitMQ integer overflow that leads to heap memory corruption

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18609

6 years ago

Clive James Got It Right

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/clive-james-got-it-right

6 years ago