top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-10

ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/

6 years ago

White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-raven-whitehouse/

6 years ago

Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now

https://twitter.com/CascadianSolo/status/1204306278173958145

6 years ago

Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything

https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim

6 years ago

★ 23.1k Go Apache-2.0

Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

https://asciinema.org/

6 years ago

Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/technology/whatsapp-barr-encryption.html

6 years ago

Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun

https://disaster.radio/

6 years ago

OpenLayers

https://openlayers.org/

6 years ago

Founder came back after 8 years to rewrite Flash photo editor in Canvas/WebGL

http://pixlr.com/e

6 years ago

New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/index.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency

https://kong.cash/

6 years ago

Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee

https://www.eetimes.com/apple-sues-nuvias-ceo-a-former-employee/

6 years ago

L-systems

https://jsantell.com/l-systems

6 years ago

China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal

https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader

6 years ago

Machine Learning Crash Course

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course

6 years ago

Facebook fired an employee who was paid bribes to reactivate banned ad accounts

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-fired-employee-bribed-ads-inc

6 years ago

Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking

https://webkit.org/blog/9661/preventing-tracking-prevention-tracking/

6 years ago

Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/google-under-investigation-from-nlrb.html

6 years ago

Informer: A bot library that allows masquerading as real users on Telegram

https://github.com/paulpierre/informer

6 years ago

★ 1.6k Python MIT

Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement

https://daringfireball.net/2019/12/away_replaces_ceo

6 years ago

Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

https://www.elementsofai.com/eu2019fi

6 years ago

Git from the Inside Out (2015)

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out

6 years ago

Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens

https://www.fatpick.com/

6 years ago

A Better Qt Because of Open Source and KDE

http://www.olafsw.de/a-better-qt-because-of-open-source-and-kde/

6 years ago

Man sentenced to prison after assault of domain name owner who refused to sell

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/social-media-influencer-sentenced-14-years-federal-prison-after-plotting-hijack

6 years ago

Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins

https://www.outsideonline.com/2406433/thieves-bluetooth-scanner-vehicle-break-in

6 years ago

Student Loans a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Debacle, Watchdog Says

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/09/785527874/student-loans-a-lot-like-the-subprime-mortgage-debacle-watchdog-says

6 years ago

Things to Read to Become a Better Human and Developer

https://dottedsquirrel.com/everything-else/2020-reading-list-for-developers/

6 years ago

From SaaS idea validation in 1 day to 150+ Beta signups

https://rocketchart.co/en/saas-founders-story

6 years ago

ABCL – Common Lisp on the JVM

https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

6 years ago

How does Apple get away with this UI?

https://twitter.com/yetanotherfella/status/1204475446655504385

6 years ago

Leadership behaviors that nurture collaboration are the true drivers of change

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-noble-purpose-alone-wont-transform-your-company/

6 years ago

The Evolution of Management: Transitioning Up the Ladder

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3350548

6 years ago

Books on Critical Thinking

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/critical-thinking-nigel-warburton/

6 years ago

George Laurer, co-inventor of the barcode, dies at 94

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50726950

6 years ago

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies, aged 61

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50730052

6 years ago

Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00317.html

6 years ago

Apple Mac Pro Available to Buy

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro

6 years ago

SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-10/the-dogs-ate-softbank-s-money

6 years ago

Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued with Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/boeing-737-max-whistleblower.html

6 years ago

Applications Are Now Open for YC Startup School – Starts in January

https://www.startupschool.org/

6 years ago

Refinery: SQL Migration Toolkit for Rust

https://github.com/rust-db/refinery

6 years ago

★ 1.6k Rust MIT

Object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision models

https://news.mit.edu/2019/object-recognition-dataset-stumped-worlds-best-computer-vision-models-1210

6 years ago

Show HN: Flash replacement

https://its-near.me/flash2/editor

6 years ago

Google Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=51dd0122-9399-48e9-b6ef-fc357760d387

6 years ago

Show HN: Bravo – Turn designs into native iOS and Android apps without coding

https://www.bravostudio.app/

6 years ago

Get companies to erase your personal data – automated CCPA deletion requests

https://yourdigitalrights.org

6 years ago

Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50715156

6 years ago

64-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (2005)

https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12654

6 years ago

Simple Software Manifesto

https://arewesimpleyet.org/

6 years ago

Kernel-Bypass Networking

https://www.godaddy.com/engineering/2019/12/10/Kernel-Bypass-Networking/

6 years ago

Notepad++ v7.8.2: Free Uyghur

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v782-free-uyghur-edition/

6 years ago

This isn't fun anymore (2017)

http://www.therandymon.com/index.php?/archives/338-This-isnt-fun-anymore.html

6 years ago

Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21756517

6 years ago