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

Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

6 years ago

★ 49.2k Ruby MIT

Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191211-crows-could-be-the-smartest-animal-other-than-primates

6 years ago

Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

https://twitter.com/AntNesterov/status/1205086129504104460

6 years ago

Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#7e36570827dc

6 years ago

Switch to OpenStreetMap

https://switch2osm.org/

6 years ago

Music for Programming (2011)

http://musicforprogramming.net/

6 years ago

We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

6 years ago

Thinking in React Hooks

https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-hooks

6 years ago

A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bbq4/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast

6 years ago

Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C

https://github.com/jeremycw/httpserver.h

6 years ago

★ 1.9k C MIT

The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/

6 years ago

Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)

https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-not-actually-strategies

6 years ago

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

https://twinery.org

6 years ago

Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50754303

6 years ago

If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/303310-facebook-oculus-vr-data-advertising

6 years ago

My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

https://mohddanish.me/my-bootstrapped-micro-startup-got-acquired-for-usd22k-10

6 years ago

Using Clojure for Web Apps

https://github.com/tbsschroeder/using-clojure-for-web-apps

6 years ago

★ 89 JavaScript

We Just Got a Rare Look at US National Security Surveillance

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-fbi.html

6 years ago

Pedestrian fatally crushed between two parked cars after one started remotely

https://gothamist.com/news/pedestrian-fatally-crushed-between-two-parked-cars-after-one-vehicle-started-remotely

6 years ago

Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible

https://telegra.ph/Why-OpenBSD-is-marginally-less-horrible-12-05

6 years ago

Click Here to Kill

https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/click-here-to-kill-dark-web-hitman/

6 years ago

Experiments in Constraint-Based Graphic Design

https://www.anishathalye.com/2019/12/12/constraint-based-graphic-design/

6 years ago

Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/scaring_people_.html

6 years ago

SoftRAM 95 (1996)

https://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/inside-softram-95/184409937

6 years ago

We need to adopt a no-commute culture

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/chris-horn-we-need-to-adopt-a-no-commute-culture-1.4110977

6 years ago

Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5c237a34-7a47-4deb-a5b4-a23e77cc88f7

6 years ago

NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-treasure-map-for-water-ice-on-mars

6 years ago

Twitter to decentralize something

https://www.manton.org/2019/12/11/twitter-to-decentralize.html

6 years ago

Software Library: MS-DOS Games

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

6 years ago

Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15217/intels-manufacturing-roadmap-from-2019-to-2029

6 years ago

Discontinued Microsoft Products

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-products

6 years ago

Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code

https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/

6 years ago

Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/luxury-hotel-guests-keep-stealing-mattresses-survey-reveals

6 years ago

Modern garbage collection: Part 2

https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-part-2-1c88847abcfd

6 years ago

Warrantless encryption is a first amendment issue

https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/12/12/warrantless-14.html

6 years ago

First mathematical proof for a key law of turbulence in fluid mechanics

https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4520

6 years ago

Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's Dynamic Loader

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/11/9

6 years ago

WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel

https://kotaku.com/popular-wow-streamer-hires-youtubers-who-leeched-off-hi-1840377137

6 years ago

Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2019/12/10/a-self-driving-truck-delivered-butter-from-california-to-pennsylvania-in-three-days/

6 years ago

FastMRI initiative releases neuroimaging data set

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/fastmri-releases-neuroimaging-data-set/

6 years ago

The Feedback Fallacy

https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-feedback-fallacy

6 years ago

Write a parser with JavaScript

https://lihautan.com/json-parser-with-javascript/

6 years ago

Moscow Nginx office under police raid

https://o.wzm.me/river/stream/123393

6 years ago

Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojis

https://github.com/arp242/uni

6 years ago

★ 856 Go MIT

My Year in Review: 2019

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2019/12/10/my-year-in-review-2019

6 years ago

Using Broadway in an Elixir application

https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/12/12/how-to-use-broadway-in-your-elixir-application.html

6 years ago

Vim 8.2

https://www.vim.org/vim-8.2-released.php

6 years ago

Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-pledges-130-million-to-fund-supreme-court-for-content-11576166992

6 years ago

Startup Growth and Venture Returns

https://angel.co/blog/venture-returns

6 years ago

Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a88z3/getting-drivers-for-old-hardware-is-harder-than-ever

6 years ago

To Understand the Future of AI, Study Its Past

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2019/11/17/to-understand-the-future-of-ai-study-its-past/

6 years ago

Framework Patterns

https://blog.startifact.com/posts/framework-patterns.html

6 years ago

Using the same blogging software for 20 years

http://boston.conman.org/2019/12/04.1

6 years ago

Greeks set to face fines if they don't spend 30% of their income electronically

https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/greeks-set-to-face-heavy-fines-if-they-don-t-spend-30-per-cent-of-their-income-electronically-20191209-p53i14.html

6 years ago

Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future

https://autoweek.com/article/green-cars/toyota-really-believes-hydrogen-fuel-cells-are-future-heres-why

6 years ago

Intel Takes Lidar Indoors

https://www.zdnet.com/article/intels-new-realsense-camera-brings-hi-res-lidar-to-a-small-form-factor/

6 years ago

Byte Magazine: Future Computers (1981)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-04

6 years ago

Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons

https://www.sanity.io/blog/why-we-wrote-yet-another-parser-compiler

6 years ago

Problematic monetization in security products, Avira edition

https://palant.de/2019/12/11/problematic-monetization-in-security-products-avira-edition/

6 years ago