top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-13

Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/

6 years ago

The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

https://twitter.com/_taylorswope/status/1205252714680045568

6 years ago

Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

https://www.happyhues.co/

6 years ago

An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/e7yivg/join_reddit_to_keep_reading_an_account_is_now/

6 years ago

49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change

https://www.grahamcluley.com/49-of-workers-when-forced-to-update-their-password-reuse-the-same-one-with-just-a-minor-change/

6 years ago

If this project is dead, just tell us

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/4058

6 years ago

★ 25k Python MIT

Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783303

6 years ago

Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-terence-tao-and-the-collatz-conjecture-20191211/

6 years ago

Cyc

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

6 years ago

Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes

6 years ago

Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-1-scrubs-its-image-online-11576233000

6 years ago

AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/att-drops-out-of-fcc-speed-test-program-so-it-can-hide-bad-results/

6 years ago

Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS

https://gameanalytics.com/blog/reduce-costs-https-api-aws.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21786111

6 years ago

Shopping Sucks Now

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9399mp/im-fed-up-with-shopping-it-blows-so-hard-why-cant-i-buy-anything-someone-help-me

6 years ago

Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Joining_Apple_Computer

6 years ago

Reimagining the PhD

https://nadiaeghbal.com/phd

6 years ago

Bloomberg just bought CityLab and put half its reporters out of a job

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/12/bloomberg-just-bought-citylab-and-put-half-its-reporters-out-of-a-job/

6 years ago

Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf]

http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/basics_lulu2.pdf

6 years ago

We 30x'd our Node parallelism

https://blog.plaid.com/how-we-parallelized-our-node-service-by-30x/

6 years ago

Layout 101

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0gPtgNVonXPT1NsWGpKZWZKV1U

6 years ago

Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen

https://www.timesofisrael.com/cache-of-crypto-jewish-recipes-dating-to-inquisition-found-in-miami-kitchen

6 years ago

Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf]

http://martin.zinkevich.org/rules_of_ml/rules_of_ml.pdf

6 years ago

How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gandhara-scroll-library-of-congress

6 years ago

BBC Sound Effects

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

6 years ago

Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow

https://blog.mattbierner.com/10-years-stack-overflow-learnings/

6 years ago

Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020

https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/13/google-ai-chief-jeff-dean-interview-machine-learning-trends-in-2020/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Best ways to volunteer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783323

6 years ago

SuperShuttle is going out of business

https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2019-12-12/supershuttle-says-it-will-stop-service-to-lax

6 years ago

Offering software for snooping to governments is a booming business

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/12/12/offering-software-for-snooping-to-governments-is-a-booming-business

6 years ago

Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle

https://www.lastingpaper.com

6 years ago

Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering

https://jacco.ompf2.com/2019/12/11/probability-theory-for-physically-based-rendering/

6 years ago

Poetry – Dependency Management for Python – v1.0

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.0.0

6 years ago

★ 34.2k Python MIT

Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05270

6 years ago

Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/22/20920762/proprioception-sixth-sense

6 years ago

Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber (2016)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38224564

6 years ago

Show HN: Falco – Open-Source Web Performance Monitoring

https://github.com/theodo/falco

6 years ago

★ 769 TypeScript MIT

A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54447-w

6 years ago

StyleGAN2

https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2

6 years ago

★ 11.1k Python

Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/dota-2.pdf

6 years ago

Deep Learning Breakthrough Made by Rice University Scientists

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/mach-ai-training-linear-cost-exponential-gain/

6 years ago

“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)

https://www.digitalrepublik.com/digital-marketing-newsletter/2015/05/10/my-car-does-not-start-when-i-buy-vanilla-ice-cream-said-a-man-to-general-motors/

6 years ago

Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development

https://endpts.com/biopharma-has-abandoned-antibiotic-development-heres-why-we-did-too/

6 years ago

Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)

https://sujithjay.com/data-systems/dynamo-cassandra/

6 years ago

The AI Index 2019 Report

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/introducing-ai-index-2019-report

6 years ago

The Cybertruck is not brutalist

https://www.inverse.com/article/61479-cybertruck-brutalism-not-really

6 years ago

Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/12/netflix-sends-journalists-pricey-trips-raising-questions-angering-rivals/

6 years ago

Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/10/07/#seven-type-sins

6 years ago

A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21019565/murfie-madison-wisconsin-store-stream-cd-vinyl-collection-closed

6 years ago

Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)

https://themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pirate.html

6 years ago

The future of finance is self-driving money

https://venturegrit.substack.com/p/why-self-driving-money-is-more-important

6 years ago

Ant Colony Optimization Visualization for the Travelling Salesman Problem

https://jtp.io/aco-tsp/

6 years ago

VirtualBox 6.1

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v0

6 years ago

How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/13/21004456/bill-gates-mckinsey-global-public-health-bcg

6 years ago

DeepMind Memory Task Suite

https://github.com/deepmind/dm_memorytasks

6 years ago

★ 225 Python Apache-2.0

The falling price of a TV set

https://theoutline.com/post/8421/smart-tv-cheap-roku

6 years ago

Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20993621/genius-google-lawsuit-stolen-lyrics-lyricfind

6 years ago

Work Is a Queue of Queues

https://amontalenti.com/2019/11/04/work-is-a-queue-of-queues

6 years ago

The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2019/12/10/the-arctic-may-have-crossed-key-threshold-in-a-long-dreaded-climate-feedback/

6 years ago

1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/12/1950s-smart-homes-and-longevity-of.html

6 years ago

Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-20/robots-replacing-human-workers-isn-t-supported-by-data

6 years ago

How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies

https://remotehub.io/blog/build-remote-team

6 years ago

America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281

6 years ago