top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-16

Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/nebraska-farmers-vote-overwhelmingly-right-repair

6 years ago

SQL Murder Mystery

https://mystery.knightlab.com/

6 years ago

ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/org-update

6 years ago

Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/12/free-transit-how-much-cost-kansas-city-bus-streetcar-fare/603397/

6 years ago

WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation

https://www.w3.org/2019/12/pressrelease-wasm-rec.html.en

6 years ago

Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802452

6 years ago

Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805248

6 years ago

‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/

6 years ago

Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-to-suspend-737-max-production-in-january-11576532032

6 years ago

Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua

https://www.hammerspoon.org/

6 years ago

Kotlin vs. Java

https://www.kotlinvsjava.com

6 years ago

The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468

6 years ago

Microbrowsers Are Everywhere

https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/

6 years ago

2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2020-cloud-report/#

6 years ago

Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform

https://www.floatplane.com/

6 years ago

Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/travis-kalanick-is-getting-out-of-his-uber-holdings-uber-quickly

6 years ago

German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report

https://www.golem.de/news/encryption-software-german-bsi-withholds-truecrypt-security-report-1912-145552.html

6 years ago

Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (2016)

https://kotaku.com/game-critic-uses-brilliant-workaround-for-youtubes-copy-1773452452

6 years ago

Amateur Radio

http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2019/08/07/amateur-radio/

6 years ago

Giving every IPv6 address a name

https://has-a.name

6 years ago

“Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/12/neal-stephenson-snowcrash-metaverse-magic-leap-hbo-series.html

6 years ago

Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020938/amazon-logistics-prime-air-fedex-ups-package-delivery-more-than-50-percent

6 years ago

Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-blocks-sellers-from-using-fedex-ground-for-prime-shipments-2019-12-16-15103614

6 years ago

Show HN: I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY_gpi_gsRI

6 years ago

Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-weighs-cutting-or-halting-737-max-production-11576448990

6 years ago

Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795/

6 years ago

Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/how-i-created-a-deepfake-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-star-treks-data/

6 years ago

U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-homelessness/u-s-supreme-court-leaves-in-place-ruling-barring-prosecution-of-homeless-idUSKBN1YK1EA

6 years ago

Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate

https://aimlesslygoingforward.com/blog/2019/10/02/roguelike-tutorial-up-to-date-and-literate/

6 years ago

Lisp Macros by Example

https://m.stopa.io/macros-by-example-6ddbc8f3d93b

6 years ago

IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development

https://forums.swift.org/t/december-12th-2019/31735

6 years ago

Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-path-we-didnt-take.html

6 years ago

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon

https://aiweirdness.com/post/189511103367/play-ai-dungeon-2-become-a-dragon-eat-the-moon

6 years ago

The dark side of electronic waste recycling

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/4/20992240/e-waste-recycling-electronic-basel-convention-crime-total-reclaim-fraud

6 years ago

4.2 Kiloyear Event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2_kiloyear_event

6 years ago

Things every programmer should know

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=every%20programmer&sort=byPopularity&type=story

6 years ago

Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis

http://nautil.us/blog/memories-can-be-injected-and-survive-amputation-and-metamorphosis

6 years ago

Nuclear fusion startup raises $100M to design and build a demo power plant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/bezos-backed-fusion-start-up-raises-100-million-for-demo-system

6 years ago

The Society of the Spectacle

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

6 years ago

Build APKs on Android devices with Termux

https://github.com/BuildAPKs/buildAPKs

6 years ago

★ 631 Shell GPL-3.0

OpenTitan: An open-source silicon root of trust from lowRISC

https://opentitan.org

6 years ago

A White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-japanese-christmas

6 years ago

Abe’s New Word Order

http://www.petertasker.asia/articles/abes-new-word-order/

6 years ago

Rv8 – RISC-V simulator for x86-64 (2018)

https://rv8.io/

6 years ago

Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive

https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-16/your-news-is-not-our-business.html

6 years ago

Book Review: All Therapy Books

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therapy-books/

6 years ago

Airbus Beluga XL

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

6 years ago

How cloud computing impacts the environment

https://thecloud.christmas/2019/15

6 years ago

California oceans rising in acidity at alarming rate, study finds

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-16/ocean-acidification-california

6 years ago

Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019

http://levels.fyi/2019/index.html

6 years ago

The Accidental Book Review That Made Jack Kerouac Famous

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-accidental-book-review-that-made-jack-kerouac-famous/2019/12/13/23e94230-04b3-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html

6 years ago

Donate – iTerm2

https://iterm2.com/donate.html

6 years ago

So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?

https://hackaday.com/2016/12/21/so-wheres-my-low-voltage-dc-wall-socket/

6 years ago

Economists’ projections of interest rates and unemployment have proved too high

https://www.wsj.com/articles/economists-got-the-decade-all-wrong-theyre-trying-to-figure-out-why-11576346400

6 years ago

Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

https://torrentfreak.com/two-las-vegas-men-plead-guilty-in-u-s-criminal-streaming-piracy-case-191214/

6 years ago

Three Best Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)

https://marker.medium.com/the-3-best-business-books-of-2019-according-to-every-other-best-of-2019-list-c53a97e69be6

6 years ago