top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-15

Mozilla lays off 70

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-waits-for-subscription-products-to-generate-revenue

6 years ago

Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware

https://glia.org/

6 years ago

The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/01/15/new-year-new-browser-the-new-microsoft-edge-is-out-of-preview-and-now-available-for-download/

6 years ago

Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

http://news.trust.org/item/20200115150054-km9of/

6 years ago

JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

6 years ago

New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising-industry-is-systematically-breaking-the-law/

6 years ago

Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction

https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy

6 years ago

Everything I Know About SSDs

http://kcall.co.uk/ssd/index.html

6 years ago

Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/06/18/733510647/apples-buying-power-and-the-woman-who-named-it

6 years ago

CollegeHumor shuts down

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/09/collegehumor-shuts-down/

6 years ago

Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200114-why-japan-is-so-successful-at-returning-lost-property

6 years ago

Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/letting-slower-passengers-board-airplane-first-really-is-faster-study-finds/

6 years ago

MIT 6.004: Computation Structures

https://6004.mit.edu/web/fall19/resources/lectures

6 years ago

DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

https://github.com/magenta/ddsp

6 years ago

★ 3.2k Python Apache-2.0

Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22053605

6 years ago

Ways of Implementing a System Call

https://x86.lol/generic/2019/07/04/kernel-entry.html

6 years ago

A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties

https://github.com/zcor/githubjobs

6 years ago

★ 385 MIT

Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

6 years ago

Security Architecture Anti-Patterns

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/security-architecture-anti-patterns

6 years ago

Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says

https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008

6 years ago

SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase

https://sapphire-db.com

6 years ago

Problems with TypeScript

https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-it/

6 years ago

Finding Time to Invest in Yourself

https://nav.al/finding-time

6 years ago

CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT

https://github.com/NieDzejkob/cursedfs/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 384 Shell WTFPL

Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++

https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula

6 years ago

★ 12.1k C++ Apache-2.0

My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0

https://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/weblog/2020/compiler_or_cpu.html

6 years ago

A Guide to Minimalist Web Design (2017)

https://ismailelazizi.com/blog/a-guide-to-minimalist-web-design

6 years ago

How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/implement-secure-central-authentication-service-six-steps

6 years ago

“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time”

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1217471369350348807

6 years ago

What kind of data is my new car collecting?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/technology/article-what-kind-of-data-is-my-new-car-collecting-about-me-nearly-everything/

6 years ago

Lessons Learned from Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/01/lessons-learned-from-writing-san-diego.html

6 years ago

Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4

https://www.gmass.co/blog/google-sheets-api-v4-bullshit/

6 years ago

On Pair Programming

https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html

6 years ago

How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20980741/fake-news-facebook-twitter-misinformation-lies-fact-check-how-to-internet-guide

6 years ago

A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change

https://medium.com/@yishan/a-massive-global-reforestation-project-is-how-we-fix-climate-change-e37fa24436a3

6 years ago

Understanding Bash (2018)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/understanding-bash-elements-programming

6 years ago

Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home

https://www.businessinsider.com/family-freemason-temple-indiana-into-home

6 years ago

Firebase as a React Hook

https://pragli.com/blog/firebase-as-a-react-hook/

6 years ago

Show HN: Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network

https://ouroboros.rocks

6 years ago

Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes in the Himalayas

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51050456

6 years ago

To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)

https://qz.com/quartzy/1121077/to-solve-problems-caused-by-sitting-learn-to-squat/

6 years ago

Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond

http://gowaterfalling.com/

6 years ago

Kubernaughty: A collection of documentation, how-tos, tools for K8s

https://github.com/jnoller/kubernaughty

6 years ago

The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark

https://onezero.medium.com/the-military-is-building-long-range-facial-recognition-that-works-in-the-dark-4f752fa713e6

6 years ago

Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_III_of_Sweden%27s_coffee_experiment

6 years ago

I quit contracting 6 months ago

https://coda.io/d/I-Quit-Contracting-6-Months-Ago-Heres-How-Im-Doing-With-Charts_dt6Kk4hYMa1/I-Quit-Contracting-6-Months-Ago-Heres-How-Im-Doing-With-Charts_su9Nw#_luPVu

6 years ago

Using neural networks to solve advanced mathematics equations

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-neural-networks-to-solve-advanced-mathematics-equations/

6 years ago

Show HN: CrossHair – SMT Assisted Testing for Python

https://github.com/pschanely/CrossHair

6 years ago

★ 1.2k Python

You Bet [pdf]

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/you-bet.pdf

6 years ago

No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/no-job-is-too-small-for-compact-geostationary-satellites

6 years ago

The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth – Gary Gygax’s first published D&D module

http://www.dndchronologically.com/the-lost-caverns-of-tsojconth-gary-gygaxs-first-ever-published-dnd-module/

6 years ago

Factor: A Practical Stack Languge

https://factorcode.org/

6 years ago

Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux

https://pulp-platform.github.io/ariane/docs/home/

6 years ago

What we know so far about the Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability

https://blog.lessonslearned.org/chain-of-fools/

6 years ago

Show HN: Murex – non-Posix shell designed for productivity

https://murex.rocks/

6 years ago

On Composition (2019)

https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/on-composition.html

6 years ago