top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-05

Wacom tablets track every app you open

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/

6 years ago

What's SAP?

https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/

6 years ago

Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51384614

6 years ago

Scaling to 100k Users

https://alexpareto.com/scalability/systems/2020/02/03/scaling-100k.html

6 years ago

Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]

https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Surveillance-on-UK-council-websites_compressed_version.pdf

6 years ago

Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)

https://github.com/p8952/bocker/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 12.6k Shell GPL-3.0

Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/events/

6 years ago

Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/jeffrey-epstein-estate-bank.html

6 years ago

0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras

https://habr.com/en/post/486856/

6 years ago

macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated

https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

6 years ago

Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications

https://www.mint-lang.com/

6 years ago

Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-now-streaming-av1-on-android-d5264a515202

6 years ago

Show HN: My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]

https://mlpowered.com/pdf/BMLPA_Chapter_1.pdf

6 years ago

ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C

https://github.com/aep/zz

6 years ago

★ 1.6k Rust MIT

Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00309-9

6 years ago

Website data leaks pose greater risks than most people realize

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/01/imperiled-information

6 years ago

Space Frigates

https://www.spacefrigates.com

6 years ago

End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux

https://coreos.com/os/eol/

6 years ago

Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble burst

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/chip-industry-had-worst-sales-year-since-dot-com-bubble-burst

6 years ago

Using ‘radioactive data’ to detect if a data set was used for training

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-radioactive-data-to-detect-if-a-data-set-was-used-for-training/

6 years ago

More than a thousand scientists have built the most detailed picture of cancer

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51391151

6 years ago

An Incident Impacting your Account Identity

https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2020/an-incident-impacting-your-account-identity

6 years ago

Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

https://campfire.rest

6 years ago

Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156577899252143&id=722677142

6 years ago

Building WebGPU with Rust [video]

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/rust_webgpu/

6 years ago

Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [pdf]

http://www.mlton.org/References.attachments/Shipman02.pdf

6 years ago

A list of companies using Elm in production

https://github.com/jah2488/elm-companies

6 years ago

★ 495 Elm

The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-googles-click-metric/

6 years ago

YaCy: Decentralized Web Search

https://yacy.net

6 years ago

The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-grand-unified-theory-of-rogue-waves-20200205/

6 years ago

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

6 years ago

Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (2016)

http://phrack.org/issues/69/12.html#article

6 years ago

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale/

6 years ago

On Mind, Language and Machines

https://0x0f0f0f.github.io/posts/2020/02/on-mind-language-and-machines/

6 years ago

Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/iowa-caucuses-the-blob-and-the-democratic

6 years ago

How ‘big law’ makes big money

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/02/13/how-big-law-makes-big-money/

6 years ago

NanoTritium 20-Year Betavoltaic Battery

https://citylabs.net/products/

6 years ago

Richard P. Feynman on the Distinction Between Past and Future

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/richard-feynman-on-the-differences-between-the-future-and-past-9bb1a550519c

6 years ago

How might the coronavirus change our world?

https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-six-ways-coronavirus-will-change

6 years ago

Twinkle Notes: Cross-platform encrypted notes app

https://github.com/twinkle-labs/twinkle-notes

6 years ago

★ 122 JavaScript AGPL-3.0

Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/limited-liability-corporate-shares-by-katharina-pistor-2020-02

6 years ago

Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free

https://bail-app.netlify.com/

6 years ago

The Emu War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War#The_%22War%22

6 years ago

Dell’s 2019 XPS 13 DE: As close as we currently get to Linux-computing nirvana

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/dells-2019-xps-13-developer-edition-the-best-linux-laptop-til-the-2020-version/

6 years ago

January 2020 warmest on record: EU climate service

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-january-warmest-eu-climate.html

6 years ago

Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2020/02/climate-change-migration-map-sea-level-rise-coastal-cities/605440/

6 years ago