top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-01

Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)

https://sipb.mit.edu/doc/safe-shell/

6 years ago

I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf

https://twitter.com/kmlefranc/status/1221869659139366912

6 years ago

Educated Fools

https://newrepublic.com/article/156000/educated-fools-democrats-misunderstand-politics-social-class

6 years ago

Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders

https://www.ft.com/content/f7a01a60-442b-11ea-abea-0c7a29cd66fe

6 years ago

OK Doomer

https://aelkus.github.io/games/2020/01/30/doom

6 years ago

Hard negotiations: why a softer approach yields better outcomes

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/hard-negotiations-why-a-softer-approach-yields-better-outcomes/

6 years ago

Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA

https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API

6 years ago

Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22210361

6 years ago

Deanonymizing Tor Circuits

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/868-Deanonymizing-Tor-Circuits.html

6 years ago

Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/rust-analyser-ide-support/

6 years ago

How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012)

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/12/20/writing-that-works-roman/

6 years ago

History of LSD in Czechoslovakia

https://przekroj.pl/en/society/a-communist-lsd-trip-aleksander-kaczorowski

6 years ago

Algo Deck: an open-source collection of 200 cards on algorithms

https://github.com/teivah/algodeck

6 years ago

★ 5.8k HTML

PyRobot

https://www.pyrobot.org/

6 years ago

Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/boris-johnson-britain-knows-its-selling-out-its-national-security-to-huawei/

6 years ago

Where Have All the Schematics Gone?

https://groups.io/g/TekScopes/message/163878

6 years ago

USB 4.0 [pdf]

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/USB-IF_USB4%20spec%20announcement_FINAL.pdf

6 years ago

My Second Phone Is in the Cloud

https://lucassimpson.com/blog/2020-01-23/my-second-phone-is-in-the-cloud/

6 years ago

Shaking Up the Diamond Industry

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/the-woman-shaking-up-the-diamond-industry

6 years ago

Show HN: I made a site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws

https://visalist.io/travel/gay

6 years ago

Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/classical-chinese

6 years ago

MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua

https://moonscript.org

6 years ago

What Exactly is Docker?

https://medium.com/@burakkarakan/what-exactly-is-docker-1dd62e1fde38

6 years ago

Keybase: Public, Signed Files

https://keybase.pub/

6 years ago

Apple Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)

https://techreflect.net/2019/12/10/aperture-senior-qa-2004-2005/

6 years ago

Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re an SRE

https://www.transposit.com/blog/2020.01.30-writing-runbook-documentation-when-youre-an-sre/

6 years ago

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea

6 years ago

Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service

https://github.com/fterh/heimdall

6 years ago

★ 536 TypeScript MIT

AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle

https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-reckons-it-can-win-the-high-end-gpu-battle-and-dethrone-nvidia-just-like-it-did-with-intel

6 years ago

Kicks Condor

https://www.kickscondor.com/

6 years ago

Show HN: FastComments

https://fastcomments.com

6 years ago

The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris is a trove of cunning inventions

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/best-little-museum-you-never-visited-180956025/

6 years ago

Show HN: A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C

https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/basque

6 years ago

★ 449 C MPL-2.0

Project Euler 001 the Hard Way

https://statagroup.com/articles/explore

6 years ago

Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

https://ankeshanand.com/blog/2020/01/26/contrative-self-supervised-learning.html

6 years ago

The Persian Desert (2015)

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-persian-desert.html

6 years ago

A Russian satellite appears to be shadowing an American spy satellite

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32031/a-russian-inspector-spacecraft-now-appears-to-be-shadowing-an-american-spy-satellite

6 years ago

Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22211791

6 years ago

Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World

https://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/why-silicon-valley-and-big-tech-dont-innovate-anymore/604969/

6 years ago

A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116788/earn-it-act-section-230-lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption

6 years ago

Swedish speakers of HN: Please check if testimony on Assange was manipulated

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209868

6 years ago

A milestone in the hunt for metallic hydrogen

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00149-7

6 years ago

Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/01/31/reading-notes-civilization-capitalism/

6 years ago

'Guaranteed hit' tech could be added to army’s next-gen squad weapon

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/29/guaranteed-hit-tech-could-be-added-armys-next-gen-squad-weapon.html

6 years ago

Amazon has 150M Prime members

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/30/amazon-q4-2019/

6 years ago