top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-13

I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html

6 years ago

1564 upvotes – 437 comments

Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

https://boingboing.net/2020/02/10/study-facebook-quitters-repor.html

6 years ago

919 upvotes – 403 comments

Ultimate Electronics

https://ultimateelectronicsbook.com/

6 years ago

624 upvotes – 85 comments

Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-13/apple-workers-paid-for-searches

6 years ago

464 upvotes – 338 comments

Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces

https://october.substack.com/p/part-ii-usenet-a-genuinely-public

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 367 comments

Burnoutindex.org

https://burnoutindex.org/

6 years ago

394 upvotes – 181 comments

Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database

http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/old-book-illustrations-download.html

6 years ago

386 upvotes – 50 comments

Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.

https://twitter.com/G_IW/status/1227700420178567170

6 years ago

380 upvotes – 141 comments

Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/facebook-dating-launch-blocked-in-europe-after-it-fails-to-show-privacy-workings/

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 216 comments

The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/the-u-s-is-charging-huawei-with-racketeering/

6 years ago

311 upvotes – 301 comments

The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3752#issuecomment-585202516

6 years ago

★ 9.2k HTML
282 upvotes – 176 comments

The outsize influence of middle-school friends

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/01/friendship-crucial-adolescent-brain/605638/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 164 comments

Goodbye Joyent

https://zinascii.com/2020/goodbye-joyent.html

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 72 comments

GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

https://github.blog/2020-02-13-github-enterprise-is-now-free-through-microsoft-for-startups/

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 82 comments

Lockdown: Open-source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping

https://lockdownhq.com

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz

https://shellmagic.xyz

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 77 comments

Nintendo Play Station Super NES CD-ROM Prototype

https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play-station-super-nes-cd-rom-prototype-sony-and-nintendo-c-1992/a/7224-93060.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 135 comments

What happened to Google's effort to scan university library books? (2017)

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-of-university-library-books

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 46 comments

How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack

https://slack.engineering/how-big-technical-changes-happen-at-slack-f1569d25ee7b

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 142 comments

Unofficial Winamp Web Site

http://www.mywinamp.com

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 143 comments

64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/3

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 187 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 89 comments

The 2020 State of Remote Work

https://lp.buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2020

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 85 comments

Actix – Actor Framework for Rust

https://github.com/actix/actix

6 years ago

★ 9.1k Rust Apache-2.0
185 upvotes – 126 comments

ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components

https://medium.com/ing-blog/ing-open-sources-lion-a-library-for-performant-accessible-flexible-web-components-22ad165b1d3d

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Open Source Security Tools

https://blog.runpanther.io/open-source-cloud-security-tools/

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 17 comments

Windows Terminal Preview 0.9

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-v0-9-release/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 143 comments

The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 56 comments

Sealed Rust Update

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-plan/

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 32 comments

PeerTube 2.1

https://joinpeertube.org/news#release-2-1-0

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 29 comments

Quibble – Custom Windows Bootloader

https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble

6 years ago

★ 2.4k C LGPL-3.0
156 upvotes – 32 comments

The web as a GUI toolkit

https://www.arp242.net/webui.html

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 125 comments

Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s JEDI Contract in Victory for Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/technology/amazon-jedi-pentagon-contract-microsoft.html

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 99 comments

DNSSEC root key signing ceremony postponed because they can't open a safe

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/13/iana_dnssec_ksk_delay/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 97 comments

The Navy SEAL and His Doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up two lives

http://rewired.inewsource.org/ucsd-kevin-murphy-prtms-navy-seals.html

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (2017)

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/02/08/how-to-tell-a-mathematician-you-love-them/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 15 comments

Building a neural network from scratch in Haskell

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/brain.html

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

Questions to ask before adopting microservices

https://medium.com/@ebin/stop-you-dont-need-microservices-dc732d70b3e0

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 74 comments

Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps on IPFS

https://blog.terminal.co/introducing-terminal-v2/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 69 comments

Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp

https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture

6 years ago

★ 396 Common Lisp
129 upvotes – 52 comments

Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y = Re(-sqrt(1-sqrt(abs(x))))}

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7By+%3D+Re%28sqrt%28abs%28x%29%281-abs%28x%29%29%29%29%2C+y+%3D+Re%28-sqrt%281-sqrt%28abs%28x%29%29%29%29%7D

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

McClatchy files bankruptcy

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article240139933.html

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 151 comments

The Business Case for Formal Methods

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/business-case-formal-methods/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 65 comments

DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135474/doordash-workers-forced-arbitration-william-alsup

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 28 comments

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 22 comments

Mitigations are attack surface, too

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/02/mitigations-are-attack-surface-too.html

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 22 comments

Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus

6 years ago

★ 1k Vala
101 upvotes – 24 comments

iPhone 11 Pro Emits Twice the Amount of Radiation for Safe Use

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a30857609/iphone-11-pro-radiation/

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

New math makes scientists more certain about quantum uncertainties

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/new-math-makes-scientists-more-certain-about-quantum-uncertainties

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 15 comments

Fedora Muscian's Guide

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Musicians_Guide/index.html

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 81 comments

State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo

https://branding.ok.gov/visual-identity/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 85 comments

Time safety is more important than memory safety

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/036_timesafety/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 109 comments

Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/189/parsoid_in_php_or_there_and_back_again/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments

Shiohara – Open-Source CMS

https://github.com/ShioharaCMS/shiohara

6 years ago

★ 148 CSS Apache-2.0
82 upvotes – 27 comments
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