top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-18

Larry Tesler Has Died

https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408

6 years ago

1346 upvotes – 149 comments

Kickstarter employees vote to unionize

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8pp5/kickstarter-employees-win-historic-union-election

6 years ago

910 upvotes – 1092 comments

Don't touch my clipboard

https://alexanderell.is/posts/taking-over-my-clipboard/

6 years ago

718 upvotes – 312 comments

Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas

https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel

6 years ago

★ 2.4k
687 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352840

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 318 comments

ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data

https://www.adsbexchange.com/

6 years ago

438 upvotes – 196 comments

C4: C in Four Functions (2014)

https://github.com/rswier/c4

6 years ago

★ 10.6k C GPL-2.0
436 upvotes – 131 comments

Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video

https://github.com/jasonmayes/Real-Time-Person-Removal

6 years ago

★ 5.1k JavaScript Apache-2.0
429 upvotes – 142 comments

Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/challenge-snitch-on-the-glitch-help-the-graphics-team-track-down-an-interesting-webrender-bug/

6 years ago

427 upvotes – 154 comments

Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200

6 years ago

417 upvotes – 185 comments

The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-its-different-from-traditional-software/

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 210 comments

Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/don-eyles-extra-weird-looking-freak-saves-apollo-14-40737/

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 111 comments

Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/17/regulate-facebook/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 258 comments

New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-the-n2d-vm-family-based-on-amd

6 years ago

343 upvotes – 139 comments

Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian-police-open-case-against-hundreds-in-kashmir-for-using-vpn/

6 years ago

329 upvotes – 232 comments

Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad

https://www.billiam.org/2019/05/29/sherbet-an-ergonomic-keypad

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 83 comments

Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three

https://www.andrew-best.com/posts/learn-auth-the-hard-way-part-three/

6 years ago

321 upvotes – 14 comments

7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/this-7-000-year-old-well-is-the-oldest-wooden-structure-ever-discovered-archeologists-say-1.4815023

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 130 comments

How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019

https://labs.spotify.com/2020/02/18/wrapping-up-the-decade-a-data-story/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 89 comments

MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)

https://cirw.in/blog/time-to-move-on

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 178 comments

I Worked for a Criminal Organization

https://openmonstervision.github.io/blog/posts/that-time-i-worked-for-criminals/

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 226 comments

Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse

https://materialize.io/blog-introduction/

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 100 comments

JWT is Awesome

https://thehftguy.com/2020/02/18/jwt-is-awesome-heres-why/

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 166 comments

Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-tells-man-101-his-parents-must-confirm-id

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 75 comments

Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems

http://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programmer_s_critique_of_missing_structure_of_oper.html

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 193 comments

Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups

https://angel.co/today/stories/reid-hoffman-s-30m-bet-send-partners-not-cash-to-startups-10235

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 125 comments

Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/kickstarter-workers-vote-to-unionize/

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 3 comments

Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it

http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 40 comments

Gravitational-lensing measurements push Hubble-constant discrepancy past 5σ

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20200210a/full/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 33 comments

Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

https://obem.be/2020/02/18/mining-my-mailbox-for-top-email-service-providers.html

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 106 comments

Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated

https://github.com/request/request/issues/3143

6 years ago

★ 25.5k JavaScript Apache-2.0
150 upvotes – 126 comments

Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51539112

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 32 comments

New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/19/national/diamond-princess-coronavirus/#.XkwTijWIZTs

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 206 comments

Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009)

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 28 comments

Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354060

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications

https://www.amazon.science/publications/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-applications

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 16 comments

Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end

https://medium.com/makani-blog/a-long-and-windy-road-3d83b9b78328

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 130 comments

Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5t8EivCaM

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 30 comments

Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/just-imagine-ikaria-secret/

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 135 comments

'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51534957

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 97 comments

How Bezos built his data machine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22358338

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI

https://jpeg.org/items/20200217_press.html

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357517

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Why designing for open source can be difficult

https://gilli.is/journal/why-designing-for-open-source-can-be-so-difficult

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 102 comments

Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)

https://changelog.com/gotime/98

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 98 comments

DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32252/darpa-wants-millions-to-design-an-unmanned-flying-gun-under-its-new-gunslinger-program

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments
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