top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-12

Gears

https://ciechanow.ski/gears/

6 years ago

No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia

6 years ago

GitHub CLI is now in beta

https://github.blog/2020-02-12-supercharge-your-command-line-experience-github-cli-is-now-in-beta/

6 years ago

Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom

https://zephony.com/remote-software-developer-productivity

6 years ago

Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

https://www.kqed.org/news/11801138/apple-engineer-killed-in-tesla-crash-had-previously-complained-about-autopilot

6 years ago

OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

https://openchakra.app

6 years ago

Rotary Cellphone

http://justine-haupt.com/rotarycellphone/

6 years ago

Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200210/14173343897/appeals-court-rules-that-people-cant-be-locked-up-indefinitely-refusing-to-decrypt-devices.shtml

6 years ago

Why are we so bad at software engineering?

https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/

6 years ago

OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android

https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/openpush-talk.html

6 years ago

SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/11/music-streaming-pioneer-soundcloud-raises-75m-from-pandora-owner-siriusxm

6 years ago

Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers

https://simpleanalytics.com/open

6 years ago

Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day

https://blog.ndepend.com/mythical-man-month-10-lines-per-developer-day/

6 years ago

A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

https://github.com/marcpaq/b1fipl

6 years ago

★ 1k

US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-gave-allies-evidence-that-huawei-can-snoop-on-phone-networks-wsj-says/

6 years ago

Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/12/lets-encrypt-an-automated-certificate-authority-to-encrypt-the-entire-web/

6 years ago

Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

https://handshake.org/

6 years ago

Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

https://autocode.com/

6 years ago

Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone

https://9to5google.com/2020/02/12/essential-shutting-down/

6 years ago

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

6 years ago

★ 2k Objective-C GPL-3.0

Does my data fit in RAM?

https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

6 years ago

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Linux_Kernel_Runtime_Guard_LKRG

6 years ago

Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22312366

6 years ago

Why programming is difficult (2014)

https://joearms.github.io/#2014-02-07%20Why%20programming%20is%20difficult

6 years ago

Time Machine in macOS 10.15.3 is very slow on first full backup

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/02/12/time-machine-in-catalina-10-15-3-has-serious-bugs/

6 years ago

Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-fired-midlevel-executive-following-embarrassing-emails-11581521922

6 years ago

Why we need a book about naming

https://www.namingthings.co/naming-things-software-engineering-book

6 years ago

MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21127754/mwc-2020-canceled-coronavirus-trade-show-phone-mobile-world-congress-gsma-statement

6 years ago

Hallucinogenic Fish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_fish

6 years ago

Multi-account containers add-on sync feature

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/02/06/multi-account-containers-sync/

6 years ago

Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/02/several-months-in-life-of-part1.html

6 years ago

Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/registrars-raise-alarm-over-proposal-for-big-com-fee-hikes/

6 years ago

Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/804586191/beer-waste-saves-montana-town-1-million-on-water-treatment

6 years ago

Show HN: Broxy – An HTTP/HTTPS intercept proxy written in Go

https://github.com/rhaidiz/broxy

6 years ago

★ 1k Go GPL-3.0

Companies flooding Kenya with apps offering high-interest loans

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-12/tech-startups-are-flooding-kenya-with-apps-offering-high-interest-loans

6 years ago

First, Do No Harm

https://stratechery.com/2020/first-do-no-harm/

6 years ago

Coronavirus Mortality Rate

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

6 years ago

Crypto AG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

6 years ago

Explore ancient Athens online in 3D models

https://hyperallergic.com/542093/ancient-athens-3d/

6 years ago

Parasite – Firebug for GTK+ Applications

http://chipx86.github.io/gtkparasite/

6 years ago

Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/02/11/toward-_fortify_source-parity-between-clang-and-gcc/

6 years ago

The Economics of Maps [pdf]

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.34.1.196

6 years ago

Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306181

6 years ago