top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-07

The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

https://sha-mbles.github.io/

6 years ago

Firefox 72.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/apple-airpods-iphone-accessory-or-the-next-big-thing

6 years ago

Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)

https://humanparts.medium.com/i-am-a-little-too-fat-im-a-little-too-generous-i-think-i-know-why-e97cd25b7eeb

6 years ago

Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms

6 years ago

Translating Quake 3 into Rust

https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21981923

6 years ago

Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/zidar/files/slattery-zidar-taxincentives-2020.pdf

6 years ago

Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers

6 years ago

How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]

https://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf

6 years ago

Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System

https://jellyfin.org/

6 years ago

Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=01&year=2020

6 years ago

Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1214392496375025664

6 years ago

Loudness war

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

6 years ago

Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/808575/9fd4fea3d86086f0/

6 years ago

Elixir lang 1.10.0-rc0

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.10.0-rc.0

6 years ago

★ 26.3k Elixir Apache-2.0

Comma Two Devkit

https://comma.ai/shop/products/comma-two-devkit

6 years ago

Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

https://github.com/cube2222/jql

6 years ago

★ 906 Go MIT

The End of the Beginning

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/

6 years ago

Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/01/07/arduino-goes-pro-at-ces-2020/

6 years ago

Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120224113551/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell

6 years ago

Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/urgent-important-rotate-your-amazon-rds-aurora-and-documentdb-certificates/

6 years ago

The Political History of Pad Thai

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3007657/history-pad-thai-how-stir-fried-noodle-dish-was-invented-thai

6 years ago

How to start a blog using Hugo

https://flaviocopes.com/start-blog-with-hugo/

6 years ago

ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/

6 years ago

Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51020564

6 years ago

Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-January/105156.html

6 years ago

Training GPT-2 to Play Chess

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/06/a-very-unlikely-chess-game/

6 years ago

Analyzing churn rates, free trials, and other metrics

https://jlongster.com/analyizing-profit-metrics

6 years ago

Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/01/firefox-72-our-first-song-of-2020/

6 years ago

Finding unique items: hash vs. sort

https://douglasorr.github.io/2019-09-hash-vs-sort/article.html

6 years ago

Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)

https://speakerdeck.com/k_tsj/pattern-matching-new-feature-in-ruby-2-dot-7

6 years ago

Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform

https://eng.lyft.com/introducing-flyte-cloud-native-machine-learning-and-data-processing-platform-fb2bb3046a59

6 years ago

The Wall, a modular microLED display

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/displays/direct-view-led/the-wall/

6 years ago

Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unusual-apples

6 years ago

Shenzhen’s economy under strain: blame the trade war?

https://www.gbabrief.com/2019/11/shenzhens-economy-under-strain-blame-the-trade-war/

6 years ago

How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics

https://vmcall.blog/battleye-stack-walking/

6 years ago

The Build is Always Broken

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-build-is-always-broken.html

6 years ago

Travelex being held to ransom by hackers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51017852

6 years ago

Announcing Bluetooth LE Audio

https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/bluetooth-technology/le-audio/

6 years ago

A surprising new source of attention in the brain

https://scitechdaily.com/a-surprising-new-source-of-attention-in-the-brain-raises-new-questions/

6 years ago

The Curious Case of WebCrypto Diffie-Hellman on Firefox

https://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2020/01/the-curious-case-of-webcrypto-diffie.html

6 years ago