top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-25

Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263/

6 years ago

To get good, go after the metagame

https://commoncog.com/blog/to-get-good-go-after-the-metagame/

6 years ago

An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)

https://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

6 years ago

Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/02/25/the-facts-mozillas-dns-over-https-doh/

6 years ago

Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/25/disney-hotstar-blocks-john-olivers-new-episode-critical-of-narendra-modi/

6 years ago

We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%

https://tuananh.net/2020/02/20/the-story-behind-my-talk-cloud-cost-optimization-at-scale/

6 years ago

MSPaint in JavaScript

https://jspaint.app

6 years ago

Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/

6 years ago

Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password

https://github.com/skysafe/reblog/blob/master/0000-defeating-a-laptops-bios-password/README.md

6 years ago

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Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master/docs/project/policy/programming_languages.md

6 years ago

Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/25/disney-ceo-bob-iger-immediately-steps-down-from-ceo-position/

6 years ago

Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together

http://blog.archive.org/2020/02/25/brave-browser-and-the-wayback-machine-working-together-to-help-make-the-web-more-useful-and-reliable/

6 years ago

We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech

https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/

6 years ago

Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?

https://www.andreagrandi.it/2020/02/25/google-is-moving-eu-citizens-data-to-us/

6 years ago

Securing Firefox with WebAssembly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-webassembly/

6 years ago

Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/02/25/firefox-continues-push-to-bring-dns-over-https-by-default-for-us-users/

6 years ago

Vue.js Documentary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrxmtDw4pVI

6 years ago

PCILeech

https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech/

6 years ago

★ 7.6k C AGPL-3.0

Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices

https://ambrevar.xyz/modern-common-lisp/index.html

6 years ago

China bans consumption and trade of wild animals

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/china-bans-human-consumption-and-trade-of-wild-animals-1.4824540

6 years ago

Walmart Gets Into Health Care

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/walmart-takes-on-cvs-amazon-with-low-price-health-care-clinics

6 years ago

Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain

6 years ago

Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules

https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack

6 years ago

★ 3k C++

Implement with types, not your brain (2019)

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/typeholes/index.html

6 years ago

CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/cdc-outlines-what-closing-schools-businesses-would-look-like-in-us-pandemic.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium

https://github.com/mherrmann/helium

6 years ago

★ 8.2k Python MIT

In Britain, even jails have a class system

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/jails-britain-chris-atkins-book/606730/

6 years ago

Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/02/sarah-connor-in-hiding-before-war.html

6 years ago

SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful

https://tonsky.me/blog/swiftui/

6 years ago

My favorite Erlang program (2013)

https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-erlang-program.html

6 years ago

How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders

https://themarkup.org/allstates-algorithm/2020/02/25/car-insurance-suckers-list

6 years ago

Amazon Common Software for Devices

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/device-makers/2020/02/introducing-amazon-common-software-for-devices-preview

6 years ago

Revolut raises $500M at a $5.5B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/24/revolut-raises-500-million-at-5-5-billion-valuation/

6 years ago

Go 1.14 release notes

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.14

6 years ago

Dictionary union (PEP 584) is merged

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12088

6 years ago

★ 72.5k Python

Waymo’s Hiring Binge

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-waymos-hiring-binge?pu=hackernewso4ym9z&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you do home surveillance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22411717

6 years ago

Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/02/25/critical-paypal-security-hack-multiple-thefts-now-reported-check-your-settings/#7920ef866e98

6 years ago

Was Knuth Really Framed?

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20200225/

6 years ago

Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/rip-windows-10-live-tiles-reportedly-getting-killed-by-microsoft

6 years ago

Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-25/tesla-autopilot-crash-hearing

6 years ago

MIDI 2.0 Specifications Available for Download

https://ask.audio/articles/midi-20-specifications-available-for-download

6 years ago

How to Make a Memex

https://srconstantin.posthaven.com/how-to-make-a-memex

6 years ago

Seattle Tech Employees Earn 56% More Than NYC Finance Workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-24/seattle-tech-employees-earn-56-more-than-nyc-finance-workers

6 years ago

Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

https://github.com/liamg/shox

6 years ago

★ 728 Go Unlicense

“If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/f9d5rf/are_you_sure_you_really_wanna_leave_if_you_do_we/

6 years ago

FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/fastmri-leverages-adversarial-learning-to-remove-image-artifacts/

6 years ago

Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plots-course-to-overtake-cloud-rivals-11582383601

6 years ago

“Theire Soe Admirable Herbe”: How the English Found Cannabis

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/how-the-english-found-cannabis/

6 years ago

Go 1.14

https://blog.golang.org/go1.14

6 years ago

How our QA team leverages Gitlab’s performance testing tool

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/02/18/how-were-building-up-performance-testing-of-gitlab/

6 years ago