top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-10

VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now

http://distractionware.com/blog/2020/01/vvvvvv-is-now-open-source/

6 years ago

SMS is not 2FA-secure

https://www.issms2fasecure.com/

6 years ago

The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/19/the-unstoppable-rise-of-sci-hub-how-does-a-new-generation-of-researchers-perceive-sci-hub/

6 years ago

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/

6 years ago

I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M

https://baremetrics.com/blog/i-almost-sold-baremetrics-for-5m?ck_subscriber_id=1673362

6 years ago

Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011743

6 years ago

Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795123158/boeing-employees-mocked-faa-in-internal-messages-before-737-max-disasters

6 years ago

Facebook's PR feels broken

https://themargins.substack.com/p/facebooks-pr-feels-broken

6 years ago

Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/technology/david-drummond-google.html

6 years ago

War Is a Racket (1933)

https://www.wanttoknow.info/warisaracket

6 years ago

Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs

https://bunnycdn.com/blog/is-your-fancy-new-domain-hurting-your-performance-gtld-benchmark/

6 years ago

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left

https://write.as/dsf4khx3r1m1208f.md

6 years ago

Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

http://news.mit.edu/2020/faq-fact-finding-report-jeffrey-epstein-0110

6 years ago

The Unison language

https://www.unisonweb.org/

6 years ago

Did you ever need to run a piece of C# code on Windows 3.11?

https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/status/1215331352352034818

6 years ago

Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/women-stand-out-in-otherwise-middling-u-s-december-jobs-report

6 years ago

Towards a Rust Foundation

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2020/01/09/towards-a-rust-foundation/

6 years ago

Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004

https://vtdigger.org/2019/11/25/how-vermonts-dmv-makes-millions-selling-personal-information/

6 years ago

Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes

https://grafana.com/blog/2020/01/09/introducing-tanka-our-way-of-deploying-to-kubernetes/

6 years ago

Mozilla says a new Firefox security bug is under active attack

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/firefox-security-bug-zero-day/

6 years ago

Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/

6 years ago

The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/disturbing-power-of-information-pollution/

6 years ago

'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795169417/enormous-mega-fire-in-australia-engulfs-1-5-million-acres

6 years ago

Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

https://screentop.gg

6 years ago

Amiga Java

http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/amiga_java.php

6 years ago

A fitness watch that measures blood pressure

https://omronhealthcare.com/products/heartguide-wearable-blood-pressure-monitor-bp8000m/

6 years ago

Milvus – An Open-Source Vector Similarity Search Engine

https://milvus.io/

6 years ago

Three New Longevity Startups

https://www.leafscience.org/three-groundbreaking-longevity-startups/

6 years ago

Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartphone sold in the US

https://www.zdnet.com/article/unremovable-malware-found-preinstalled-on-low-end-smartphone-sold-in-the-us/

6 years ago

Boeing docs show staffers discussing ways to manipulate regulators on 737 Max

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/internal-boeing-documents-show-employees-discussing-efforts-to-mani/2020/01/09/83a0c6ec-334f-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html

6 years ago

Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03147

6 years ago

African grey parrots spontaneously 'lend a wing'

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cp-agp010220.php

6 years ago

Database containing details of 56M US residents found on the public internet

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/09/checkpeoplecom_data_exposed/

6 years ago

Casper Sleep S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1598674/000104746920000166/a2240404zs-1.htm

6 years ago

Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-california/uber-stops-upfront-ride-pricing-in-response-to-california-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z731Z

6 years ago

Home in Nix – dotfile management

https://hugoreeves.com/posts/2019/nix-home/

6 years ago

ngn/k, an AGPL K interpreter

https://bitbucket.org/ngn/k/

6 years ago

Why we've never fallen in love with virtual reality

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50265414

6 years ago

Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more like a gas car'

https://electrek.co/2020/01/10/mazda-electric-car-artificially-slower-to-feel-like-gas-car/

6 years ago

Confessions of a lotus-eater

https://tjcx.me/posts/confessions-lotus-eater/

6 years ago

T1: A Modern Programming Language for Constrained Environments

https://t1lang.github.io/

6 years ago

FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral interview questions

https://www.beseen.com/blog/talent/faang-managers-answer-interview-questions/

6 years ago

Some aspects of memory get better as we age

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/opinion/sunday/age-memory.html

6 years ago

Why should bottlepy stick to a file?

https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/issues/1158

6 years ago

★ 8.7k Python MIT

Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/uber-to-quit-colombia-after-judge-says-it-doesn-t-compete-fairly

6 years ago

In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are essential to a career

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/09/silicon-valley-some-men-say-cosmetic-procedures-are-essential-career/

6 years ago

What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops?

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019/10/23/what-is-wrong-with-all-those-aarch64-desktops/

6 years ago

Synopsis – Open-Source Computational Cinematography

https://synopsis.video/

6 years ago

Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Importance of Tongue Fat

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.201903-0692OC

6 years ago