top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-04

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/467#issuecomment-581944600

6 years ago

★ 366 JavaScript CC0-1.0

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f

6 years ago

Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22235279

6 years ago

Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin

https://twitter.com/Aissn/status/1224588783657439234

6 years ago

I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system

https://www.perimeterx.com/tech-blog/2020/whatsapp-fs-read-vuln-disclosure/

6 years ago

Reviving Sandstorm

https://sandstorm.io/news/2020-02-03-reviving-sandstorm

6 years ago

A new hash algorithm for Git

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/811068/cfeb6a67b8dfbe47/

6 years ago

Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries

https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects

6 years ago

★ 15.9k JavaScript

Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November

https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/

6 years ago

U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799402801/canada-wins-u-s-loses-in-global-fight-for-high-tech-workers?sc=18&f=1001

6 years ago

Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/bosch-ar-smartglasses-tiny-eyeball-lasers

6 years ago

Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-an-attacker-used-its-api-to-match-usernames-to-phone-numbers/

6 years ago

Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/someone-used-neural-networks-to-upscale-a-famous-1896-video-to-4k-quality/

6 years ago

AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-threadripper-3990x-crushing-xeon-platinum-8280-cpus

6 years ago

The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/y3m33x/heres-the-shadow-inc-app-that-failed-in-iowa-last-night

6 years ago

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html

6 years ago

How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a-purity-spiral/

6 years ago

The mysteries of aerodynamic lift

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/

6 years ago

Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (2014)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-not-a-draft-06

6 years ago

Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-04/iowa-democrats-say-results-to-be-released-today-campaign-update

6 years ago

Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-batchelors-law-of-turbulence-20200204/

6 years ago

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth

6 years ago

Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records

https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-14-feature-spotlight/?

6 years ago

Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs

6 years ago

App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucus-app.html

6 years ago

Universal, reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection (2017)

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39956

6 years ago

Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3270/intel-axes-nervana-just-two-months-after-launch/

6 years ago

Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.28.923953v1

6 years ago

Asana files to go public via direct listing

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/asana-files-to-go-public-says-it-will-do-so-via-a-trendy-direct-listing/

6 years ago

Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-to-label-deepfakes-and-other-deceptive-media-idUSKBN1ZY2OV

6 years ago

You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wkuDgmpxwbu2M2k3w/you-have-a-set-amount-of-weirdness-points-spend-them-wisely

6 years ago

Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for speech violation

https://scroll.in/article/951915/karnatakas-sedition-case-against-parent-and-teacher-for-a-school-play-is-absurd-and-illegal

6 years ago

Amazon Dating: The Future of Dating

https://amazondating.co/

6 years ago

Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4CySB2E6s

6 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News Trends

http://eliot-jones.com:5690/

6 years ago

Learn X in Y minutes Where X=Prolog

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/prolog/

6 years ago

Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities

https://everlookjobs.com/

6 years ago

The man who discovered umami

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-mystery-taste-that-always-eluded-us

6 years ago

F# Pipeline Operator in JavaScript with Babel

http://codereform.com/blog/post/babel-fsharp-pipeline-operator/

6 years ago

Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-04/visa-is-planning-the-biggest-changes-to-swipe-fees-in-a-decade

6 years ago

Iowa Caucus App Error

https://twitter.com/farmerchris/status/1224550710836113408

6 years ago