top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-14

Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF

6 years ago

714 upvotes – 228 comments

Hipmunk Says Goodbye

https://www.hipmunk.com/tailwind/hipmunk-says-goodbye/

6 years ago

608 upvotes – 335 comments

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

6 years ago

542 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

https://diaryemail.com

6 years ago

515 upvotes – 284 comments

GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data

https://www.goatcounter.com/

6 years ago

475 upvotes – 136 comments

Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s/yHe4tQNLCgAJ

6 years ago

381 upvotes – 288 comments

Bug #915: Solved

https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/202001/bug_915_solved.html

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 106 comments

Working for someone vs. doing your own thing

https://tik.dev/dilemma

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 222 comments

Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me

https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/01/14/self-serve.html

6 years ago

310 upvotes – 246 comments

3D Buzz is shutting down

https://www.3dbuzz.com/

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 37 comments

FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/fda-and-nih-let-clinical-trial-sponsors-keep-results-secret-and-break-law

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 63 comments

Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-path-towards.html

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 200 comments

Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI [video]

https://lexfridman.com/daniel-kahneman

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 101 comments

_NSAKEY

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

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 109 comments

Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body

https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2020/Liver.html

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server

https://www.electromaker.io/tutorial/blog/raspberry-pi-vpn-server

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Cantools – an extensive set of CAN bus tools

https://github.com/eerimoq/cantools

6 years ago

★ 2.2k Python MIT
220 upvotes – 80 comments

'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cancel-culture-comes-to-science-11578867753

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 321 comments

Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-consciousness-pervade-the-universe/

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 342 comments

Video Gaming Will Take Over

https://www.matthewball.vc/all/7reasonsgaming

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 304 comments

VC List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c5zoCzjQKlzdDW-6cctRm71ZiCmLQ7EJFZJtp_6cbeI/edit?rm=minimal#gid=428940999

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 48 comments

How to identify an immoral maze

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/how-to-identify-an-immoral-maze/

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Gter – A terminal for GUI apps

https://github.com/raoofha/gter

6 years ago

★ 274 C
185 upvotes – 32 comments

Visa, Plaid, networks, and jobs

https://stratechery.com/2020/visa-plaid-networks-and-jobs/

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 107 comments

Writing Software to Last 50 Years

https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2020/01/13/50years/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 142 comments

Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/january/train-your-brain.html

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 57 comments

Frank Abagnale on the death of the con artist and the rise of cybercrime

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/frank-abagnale

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 73 comments

Equinix is acquiring Packet

https://www.packet.com/blog/ping-power-processors/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 59 comments

Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/grindr-apps-dating-data-tracking.html

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments

Away’s former CEO is returning as its co-chief

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/steph-korey-away.html

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 135 comments

Many games are held together by duct tape

https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/13/21064100/vvvvvv-source-code-game-development-terry-cavanagh-release

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 154 comments

Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU

https://maierfelix.github.io/2020-01-13-webgpu-ray-tracing/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 31 comments

The few remaining uses of the name “Macintosh”

https://tidbits.com/2020/01/10/the-one-remaining-use-of-the-word-macintosh/

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 113 comments

The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things

https://deliber.at/2020/hard-things-are-easier/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

The Y2K bug is back, causing headaches for developers again

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-y2k-bug-is-back-causing-headaches-for-developers-again/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 91 comments

All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen

https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/14/21064608/microsoft-kinect-history-rise-and-fall

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 108 comments

Stack-Oriented Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-oriented_programming

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter

https://mute.vc/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/precariously-balanced-rocks

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (1991)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.86.6185&rep=rep1&type=pdf

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 19 comments

AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/01/amazon-ec2-spot-instances-stopped-started-similar-to-on-demand-instances/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

Even Google forgets to renew its domains

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/even-google-forgets-to-renew-its-domains/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

Panopticon

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

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Backblaze acknowledges using curl, becomes the new largest single-shot donor

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/14/backblazed/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Courting Haskell

https://honzajavorek.cz/blog/courting-haskell

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 68 comments

RISC-V Software Ecosystem Overview

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-software-list

6 years ago

★ 478
83 upvotes – 5 comments

Life at the End of American Empire

https://lithub.com/life-at-the-end-of-american-empire/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 81 comments

Google acquires AppSheet

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/14/google-acquires-appsheet-to-bring-no-code-development-to-google-cloud/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Computer-Designed Organisms

https://cdorgs.github.io

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

How fast can you allocate a large block of memory in C++?

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/01/14/how-fast-can-you-allocate-a-large-block-of-memory-in-c/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 89 comments

Map/Reduce for Mortals

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/map-reduce-for-mortals/

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

How to Read an Unlabeled Sales Chart (2013)

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-to-read-an-unlabeled-sales-chart.html

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/using-machine-learning-to-nowcast.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments
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