top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-19

Explorabl.es

https://explorabl.es

6 years ago

894 upvotes – 36 comments

Bert Sutherland Has Died

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

6 years ago

680 upvotes – 33 comments

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296

6 years ago

602 upvotes – 374 comments

Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

https://changelog.com/podcast/201

6 years ago

589 upvotes – 281 comments

Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/hackers-were-inside-citrix-for-five-months/

6 years ago

520 upvotes – 232 comments

Stop Using Encrypted Email

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html

6 years ago

475 upvotes – 547 comments

Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v1-v2-validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/112253

6 years ago

469 upvotes – 137 comments

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/why-is-ethernet-mtu-1500

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 162 comments

Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/19/internet_society_org_sale/

6 years ago

412 upvotes – 111 comments

IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-faces-tax-court-trial-over-ireland-offshore-deal

6 years ago

409 upvotes – 3 comments

Lambda School’s Misleading Promises

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-placement-rate-is-lower-than-claimed.html

6 years ago

406 upvotes – 240 comments

Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned

https://stripe.com/docs/refunds

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 255 comments

Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb

https://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2019/12/dollar-store-led-bulb.html?m=1

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 287 comments

Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusive-idUSKBN20D2M3

6 years ago

279 upvotes – 203 comments

The Problem with Palm Oil

https://ethical.net/ethical/the-problem-with-palm-oil/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 207 comments

How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)

https://hbr.org/2018/12/how-to-collaborate-with-people-you-dont-like

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 86 comments

Wearable Microphone Jamming

http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/jammer/

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 67 comments

Google Fonts Analytics

https://fonts.google.com/analytics

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 185 comments

Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22364212

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 123 comments

Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bloomberg-bankrolls-a-social-media-army-to-push-message-11582127768

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 515 comments

Principles of Icon Design

https://uxdesign.cc/7-principles-of-icon-design-e7187539e4a2

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 56 comments

Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-tax/facebook-faces-tax-court-trial-over-ireland-offshore-deal-idUSKBN20C2CQ

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 314 comments

Want to call C from Python? Use D

https://atilaoncode.blog/2020/02/19/want-to-call-c-from-python-use-d/

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Build a JS-only interactive product walk-through for your landing page

https://github.com/tagspace/trevor-demo

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 83 comments

Over 150k botanical illustrations enter public domain

https://hyperallergic.com/541381/over-150000-botanical-illustrations-enter-the-public-domain/

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 26 comments

Reducing Docker Image Size

https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2020/02/docker-images-part1-reducing-image-size.html

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 35 comments

Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)

https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 55 comments

BBC Micro Bot

http://www.8bitkick.cc/bbc-micro-bot.html

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 35 comments

Unix Toolbox (2008)

http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

Launch HN: Goodcover (YC S17) – Cooperative renters insurance for half the price

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368112

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 86 comments

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 30 comments

Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak, UK court hears

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-co-operated-over-email-leak-uk-court-hears-idUSKBN20D2A2

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 145 comments

Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax

http://pyos.github.io/dg/

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 77 comments

FDA agrees to expanded access program for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD

https://www.healtheuropa.eu/mdma-assisted-psychotherapy-for-ptsd-approved-by-fda/96931/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 14 comments

Fork Bomb

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

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 111 comments

Brothels of Ancient Pompeii

https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/brothels-ancient-pompeii

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 51 comments

Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/807133008/ontarios-new-license-plates-have-a-problem-you-can-t-read-them

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 161 comments

Dell Sells RSA to Private Equity Firm for $2B

https://www.darkreading.com/risk/dell-sells-rsa-to-private-equity-firm-for-$21b/d/d-id/1337078

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/19/21142081/susan-fowler-uber-whistleblower-interview-silicon-valley-discrimination-harassment

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 194 comments

Boeing finds debris left in new 737 MAXes, now in storage

https://leehamnews.com/2020/02/18/boeing-finds-debris-left-in-new-737-maxes-now-in-storage/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 117 comments

Big Ball of Mud (1999)

http://www.laputan.org/mud/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Scientist decries ‘chaotic’ conditions on cruise ship after viral outbreak

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/scientist-decries-completely-chaotic-conditions-cruise-ship-japan-quarantined-after

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

The Shifting State of Remote Work

https://www.yac.chat/blog/the-shifting-state-of-remote-work

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 45 comments

Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2020/02/18/facebook-uses-its-ad-policies-to-block-apps-that-compete-with-its-dating-service/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading

https://topfantasyreads.com/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 55 comments

A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/firmware-watchdog-best-practices

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/19/larry_tesler/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 7 comments

Uranium Glass

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

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 42 comments

Thieves are targeting beehives with growing sophistication

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/18/bees-hives-theft-stealing-organized-crime-threat

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

The Age of Instagram Face

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 69 comments

Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/19/ex-yc-partner-daniel-gross-rethinks-the-accelerator/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments
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