top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-06

The Great Cannon has been deployed again

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again

6 years ago

1043 upvotes – 431 comments

No to Chrome

https://notochrome.org

6 years ago

632 upvotes – 306 comments

Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website

https://rufposten.de/blog/2019/12/05/privacy-analysis-of-tiktoks-app-and-website/

6 years ago

623 upvotes – 201 comments

Building a Search Engine from Scratch

https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-from-scratch.html

6 years ago

481 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: Space Invaders in C

http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/si78c/

6 years ago

478 upvotes – 105 comments

W3C recommends WebAssembly

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8123

6 years ago

385 upvotes – 338 comments

Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch

https://brave.com/brave-passes-10m-mau/

6 years ago

384 upvotes – 225 comments

NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn

https://github.com/trekhleb/nano-neuron

6 years ago

★ 2.2k JavaScript MIT
377 upvotes – 22 comments

Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

https://blog.elementary.io/introducing-elementary-os-5-1-hera/

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 190 comments

Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study

https://www.jotaen.net/2e2Ff/sabbatical-self-study-reflection/

6 years ago

358 upvotes – 96 comments

Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dented-reality-magic-leap-sees-slow-sales-steep-losses?pu=hackernewsfh62oc&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

323 upvotes – 302 comments

British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50681489

6 years ago

314 upvotes – 165 comments

Low-Cost VPS Testing

https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 137 comments

Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last

https://aeon.co/essays/how-emotionally-focused-couple-therapy-can-help-love-last

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 93 comments

France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights

https://juliareda.eu/2019/12/french_uploadfilter_law/

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 75 comments

Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/bernie-sanders-releases-broadband-plan-targets-comcast-att-verizon.html

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 301 comments

PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious

https://erthalion.info/2019/12/06/postgresql-stay-curious/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 72 comments

FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf]

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/d09389_comm_final_opinionpublic.pdf

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 42 comments

Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs

https://easydns.com/blog/2019/12/06/its-called-f-you-money-for-a-reason-why-isoc-sold-org-to-vcs/

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 101 comments

The Siege of Carrie Lam

https://idlewords.com/2019/12/the_siege_of_carrie_lam.htm

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress

https://www.kokoanalytics.com/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 62 comments

Business Models

https://axial.substack.com/p/axial-business-models

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 25 comments

A new way to make quadratic equations easy

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614775/a-new-way-to-make-quadratic-equations-easy/

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 94 comments

If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/if-the-universe-is-13-8-billion-years-old-how-can-we-see-46-billion-light-years-away-db45212a1cd3

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 128 comments

Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon

https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/security/2019/10/20/mitigating-a-ddos.html

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 63 comments

Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/science/forests-fragmentation-wildlife.html

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 48 comments

Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/bure.html

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 10 comments

Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/freedom-of-expression-study.php

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 156 comments

New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/rivers-could-generate-thousands-nuclear-power-plants-worth-energy-thanks-new-blue

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 77 comments

Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

https://www.profgalloway.com/twtr-enough-already

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 112 comments

The Road to Valhalla

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/sov/01-background.html

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 81 comments

Unsolicited messages on Keybase

https://www.whiskey-tango.org/2019/11/keybase-weve-got-privacy-problem.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 96 comments

A One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/building-ai-that-can-master-complex-cooperative-games-with-hidden-information/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery

https://www.thefoodcorridor.com/2019/12/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cloud-kitchens-aka-ghost-kitchens-in-2020/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 127 comments

The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file

https://github.com/photonlines/Go-Web-Server

6 years ago

★ 263 Go MIT
116 upvotes – 32 comments

JIT and Ruby's MJIT

http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2019/7/18/jit-and-rubys-mjit

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01703

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 16 comments

Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective

https://faroutride.com/two-years-vanlife/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 102 comments

Deep Dive Into C# 9

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/deev-dive-into-c-sharp-9/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 133 comments

Math Whiz Trades Without Humans

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/math-whiz-trades-without-humans-to-build-a-700-million-fortune

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/mint-late-stage-adversarial-interoperability-demonstrates-what-we-had-and-what-we

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

Setup for Your Next Golang Project

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/5

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Turning .NET assemblies into FPGA hardware

https://github.com/Lombiq/Hastlayer-SDK

6 years ago

★ 319 VHDL BSD-3-Clause
87 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: How can I tell if I am a good developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725380

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 48 comments

Machine Learning Christmas Calendar

https://ml.christmas/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 5 comments

An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0

6 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript
76 upvotes – 72 comments

Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 133 comments

Verifiable Voting: A Primer

https://rcoh.me/posts/verifiable-voting-primer/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments
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