top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-17

Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-google-fired-her-trying-notify-co-workers-n1103031

6 years ago

Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/over-100-pbs-local-stations-start-streaming-today-on-youtube-tv/

6 years ago

The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]

https://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/essential/essential-guide-shenzhen-web.pdf

6 years ago

23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/23andme-gsk-dna-data-deal,news-27685.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812442

6 years ago

An opinionated approach to GNU Make

https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/make/

6 years ago

You might literally be buying trash on Amazon

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-might-be-buying-trash-on-amazonliterally-11576599910

6 years ago

#include </etc/shadow>

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/898-include-etcshadow.html

6 years ago

Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

https://breakoutstartups.substack.com/p/breakout-startups-23-mattermost

6 years ago

Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815123

6 years ago

LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/logmein-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-francisco-partners-and-evergreen-for-4-3b/

6 years ago

France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-amf-bloomberg/frances-amf-watchdog-fines-bloomberg-5-million-over-vinci-hoax-idUSKBN1YK1VN

6 years ago

Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL

https://blog.eventide-project.org/articles/announcing-message-db/

6 years ago

From Zero to Main(): Bare Metal Rust

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-rust-1

6 years ago

PIA open-sources and announces audit plans

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/12/dont-trust-verify/

6 years ago

Climbing the Wealth Ladder

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/

6 years ago

The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days

6 years ago

Browser-based climate change simulation

https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7.6

6 years ago

Still Why No HTTPS?

https://www.troyhunt.com/still-why-no-https/

6 years ago

Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown

https://blog.bolt.io/logitech-mx-master-3-vs-2s/

6 years ago

What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14

https://java.christmas/2019/17

6 years ago

A hiring test I'd like to run

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/12/a-hiring-test-id-like-to-run/

6 years ago

Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-261

6 years ago

Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces [pdf]

http://man7.org/conf/meetup/understanding-user-namespaces--Google-Munich-Kerrisk-2019-10-25.pdf

6 years ago

United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03882-w

6 years ago

Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/kurt-godel-incompleteness-theorems/

6 years ago

Thoughts on Forth Programming

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth.txt

6 years ago

“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski

http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/dont-try-the-philosophy-of-the-hardworking-charles-bukowski.html

6 years ago

NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/12/17/firefox-announces-new-partner-in-delivering-private-and-secure-dns-services-to-users/

6 years ago

What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-we-hacked-chevy-find-out/

6 years ago

‘The Far Side’ Is Back, Sort Of

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson.html

6 years ago

Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States [pdf]

https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Keeping-Top-AI-Talent-in-the-United-States.pdf

6 years ago

A Predictive Database

https://aito.ai/blog/introducing-a-new-database-category-the-predictive-database/

6 years ago

DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543201#c4

6 years ago

Show HN: Ordinary Puzzles – An open-source mobile puzzle game

https://github.com/mmazzarolo/ordinary-puzzles-app

6 years ago

★ 507 TypeScript MIT

Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater

6 years ago

One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/807218/7589bd420fa9cfbe/

6 years ago

The case for working with your hands (2009)

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html

6 years ago

Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate

https://github.com/saasforge/open-source-saas-boilerpate

6 years ago

★ 840 JavaScript MIT

Show HN: Run – Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers

https://github.com/TekWizely/run

6 years ago

★ 494 Go MIT

The World Wants More Danish TV

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/arts/television/denmark-netflix-labor-shortage.html

6 years ago

Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/ransomware-gangs-now-outing-victim-businesses-that-dont-pay-up/

6 years ago

Binary Authorization for Borg

https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-borg/

6 years ago

Will We Run Out of Helium?

https://www.thoughtco.com/will-we-run-out-of-helium-3975959

6 years ago

Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/google-reportedly-wants-to-be-top-two-player-in-cloud-by-2023.html

6 years ago

Bill Lorensen, co-creator of Marching Cubes, has died

https://discourse.vtk.org/t/bill-lorensen/2288

6 years ago

Dave Clark, The Man Who Built Amazon’s Delivery Machine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-17/amazon-holiday-shopping-the-man-who-makes-it-happen

6 years ago

Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-at-center-of-facebooks-internal-divisions-on-politics-11576578601

6 years ago

Is It Time for the US to Drag Jobs Out of Silicon Valley and into the Heartland?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/innovation/is-it-time-for-the-us-government-to-drag-tech-jobs-out-of-silicon-valley-and-into-the-heartland

6 years ago

California’s Assembly Bill 5 came for me today

https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2019/12/16/21024414/california-terrible-ab5-came-for-me-today-and-im-devastated

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you keep your notes organized?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21810400

6 years ago

Commit messages are not titles (2015)

http://antirez.com/news/90

6 years ago

Federation is the Worst of all Worlds (2018)

https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/federation-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/

6 years ago