top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-16

Unofficial Apple Archive

https://www.applearchive.org/

6 years ago

Reverse engineering course

https://github.com/0xZ0F/Z0FCourse_ReverseEngineering

6 years ago

★ 5.8k C++ AGPL-3.0

BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next

https://theconversation.com/blackrock-is-the-canary-in-the-coalmine-its-decision-to-dump-coal-signals-whats-next-129972

6 years ago

Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

6 years ago

Christopher Tolkien has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95

6 years ago

An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)

https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have

6 years ago

Back pain is a problem which is badly treated

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/18/back-pain-is-a-massive-problem-which-is-badly-treated

6 years ago

Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable

https://asadmemon.com/projects/screenshothero/

6 years ago

How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

https://medium.com/@Soccermatics/how-swedes-were-fooled-by-one-of-the-biggest-scientific-bluffs-of-our-time-de47c82601ad

6 years ago

What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips

https://payup.wtf/doordash/no-free-lunch-report

6 years ago

Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067907/google-chrome-apps-end-support-lune-windows-macos-linux

6 years ago

Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmj7pw/theres-growing-evidence-that-the-universe-is-connected-by-giant-structures

6 years ago

Adult site leaks data of cam models

https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-pussycash-leak/

6 years ago

The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-technology-corrupts-education/

6 years ago

Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)

https://www.benkuhn.net/autocomplete

6 years ago

Progress of anti-aging therapies by clinical trial stage

https://www.lifespan.io/road-maps/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/

6 years ago

Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-15/climate-change-is-killing-alpine-skiing-as-we-know-it

6 years ago

How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage

https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/new-york-times-iran-ukraine-flight.php

6 years ago

SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00041-4

6 years ago

Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Exclusive-Washington-pressures-TSMC-to-make-chips-in-US

6 years ago

FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case

https://ww.9to5mac.com/2020/01/15/fbi-pensacola-iphone-11-pro/

6 years ago

Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/

6 years ago

Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10476298

6 years ago

GNU Guile 3.0

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-300-released.html

6 years ago

Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years

https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/01/amsterdam-architecture-history-canal-houses-urban-design/604921/

6 years ago

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (2014)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true

6 years ago

Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space

https://jalopnik.com/theres-an-actual-name-and-reason-for-those-beeps-you-he-1841024797

6 years ago

Vulkan 1.2

https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-group-releases-vulkan-1.2

6 years ago

Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails

https://pganalyze.com/blog/materialized-views-ruby-rails

6 years ago

Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neural-dendrites-reveal-their-computational-power-20200114/

6 years ago

The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

https://www.teslarati.com/the-boring-companys-las-vegas-tunnel-is-nearly-50-done/

6 years ago

Records Come to Java

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java

6 years ago

New 10.3″ Waveshare E Ink Monitor

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2020/01/14/new-10-3-waveshare-e-ink-monitor-released-for-539-video/

6 years ago

Show HN: Darken – Darkmode Made Easy

https://github.com/ColinEspinas/darken

6 years ago

★ 610 JavaScript MIT

U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (1998)

https://www.historynet.com/us-torpedo-troubles-during-world-war-ii.htm

6 years ago

The Roots of Lisp (2001)

http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

6 years ago

Mistakes were made: ERP screwups

https://tedium.co/2020/01/14/sap-enterprise-vendors-mistakes-history/

6 years ago

Show HN: Chatistics – Turn Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger Chatlogs to DataFrames

https://masterscrat.github.io/Chatistics/

6 years ago

Exploiting the Windows Cryptoapi Vulnerability

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/01/16/exploiting-the-windows-cryptoapi-vulnerability/

6 years ago

Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51064369

6 years ago

Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fairchild-and-the-fairchildren/

6 years ago

Plastic Pollution

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

6 years ago

An unidentifiable mechanism that helps bypass the Great Firewall of China

https://github.com/trojan-gfw/trojan

6 years ago

★ 19.7k C++ GPL-3.0

What Nihilism Is Not

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-nihilism-is-not/

6 years ago

How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-14/how-nissan-s-carlos-ghosn-was-smuggled-out-of-japan

6 years ago

A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaax7467

6 years ago

How Tesla's battery costs impact its gross margins

https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/pNkbHhrb/A-Detailed-Look-At-How-Tesla-s-Battery-Costs-Impact-Its-Gross-Margins?fromforbesandarticle=tsla200113

6 years ago

The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare

https://newrepublic.com/article/156202/silicon-valley-economy-here-its-nightmare

6 years ago

Show HN: Generative art with ant colony optimization algorithms

http://amydyer.art/wp/index.php/2020/01/01/drawing-with-ants-generative-art-with-ant-colony-optimization-algorithms/

6 years ago

JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers

https://jetbrains.com/mono

6 years ago

Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51137069

6 years ago

Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cp-bas010920.php

6 years ago