top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-27

Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/27/one-billion-certs.html

6 years ago

Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers

https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/

6 years ago

The Simpsons in CSS

https://pattle.github.io/simpsons-in-css/

6 years ago

Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

6 years ago

Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/salon2020/

6 years ago

CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484903-cdc-declined-to-test-new-coronavirus-patient-for-days-california-hospital

6 years ago

Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200227_49/

6 years ago

Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/26/hasura-raises-9-9m-series-a-to-simplify-graphql-for-developers/

6 years ago

Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome

6 years ago

★ 23.4k Rust MIT

Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/googles-abandoned-android-authenticator-app/

6 years ago

Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output

https://benhoyt.com/writings/dont-sanitize-do-escape/

6 years ago

GitHub was down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q07bfjh7jf1t

6 years ago

The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/27/35-raspberry-pi-4-double-ram-2-GB/

6 years ago

John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCBCk4xVa0

6 years ago

The war on food waste is a waste of time

https://theoutline.com/post/8739/food-waste-fight-waste-of-time

6 years ago

Things about the new Firefox browser for Android

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-android-new-features/

6 years ago

Undiscoverable UI Madness

https://birchtree.me/blog/undiscoverable-ui-madness/

6 years ago

A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-mom-broke-into-prison-wardens-computer/

6 years ago

Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/27/citroen-introduces-a-two-seat-ev-that-costs-e19-99-a-month/

6 years ago

Clearview’s App Used by Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, and the NBA

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement

6 years ago

Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline

https://github.com/san089/goodreads_etl_pipeline

6 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT

Using BPF to Transform SSH Sessions into Structured Events

https://gravitational.com/blog/enhanced-session-recording/

6 years ago

Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/apple-wont-let-bad-guys-use-iphones-in-movies-says-knives-out-director.html

6 years ago

Spreadsheet Horror Stories

http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm

6 years ago

Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-moderators-purged/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22433069

6 years ago

The Two Middle Classes

https://quillette.com/2020/02/27/the-two-middle-classes/

6 years ago

New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-container-distribution/

6 years ago

Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot

https://postgres.ai/blog/joe-0.5/

6 years ago

Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees

https://mashable.com/article/etsy-offsite-ads-program-sellers-backlash/

6 years ago

Assange Hearing Day 3

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-the-assange-hearing-day-3/

6 years ago

Show HN: Ecosim – A cellular ecosystem simulator toy for Linux written in C

https://github.com/connor-brooks/ecosim

6 years ago

★ 402 C GPL-2.0

Redecentralize.org

https://redecentralize.org/

6 years ago

Will VBA Die? (2019)

https://www.thespreadsheetguru.com/blog/are-vba-macros-dead

6 years ago

Unix as IDE (2012)

https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/

6 years ago

Measuring Latency in Linux (2014)

http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2014/02/18/clock-sources-in-linux/

6 years ago

Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley

https://johnlekberg.com/blog/2020-02-26-cli-stardew-sprinkler.html

6 years ago

U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-27/u-s-identifies-first-coronavirus-case-without-ties-to-outbreak

6 years ago

YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/first-amendment-doesnt-apply-on-youtube-judges-reject-prageru-lawsuit/

6 years ago

Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains

https://www.zmescience.com/science/honeybee-brains-alpha-waves/

6 years ago

Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/oracle-reveals-it-s-funding-dark-money-group-fighting-big-tech

6 years ago

Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain

https://blog.archive.org/2020/02/24/love-zombies-thank-the-public-domain/

6 years ago

Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans

https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-02-27-base24/

6 years ago

Google Earth finally available in browsers other than Chrome

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/27/21155707/google-earth-firefox-edge-opera-support-webassembly-code-update-web-release

6 years ago

Hidden Champions: Successful but little-known businesses

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/15/the-leadership-secrets-of-the-hidden-champions/

6 years ago

Launch HN: Probably Genetic (YC W19): At-home DNA testing for every gene

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22436022

6 years ago

Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/technology/personaltech/ubereats-doordash-postmates-grubhub-review.html

6 years ago

Japanese woman confirmed as coronavirus case for second time

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan/japanese-woman-confirmed-as-coronavirus-case-for-second-time-weeks-after-initial-recovery-idUSKCN20L0BI

6 years ago

Why business is so difficult and unpredictable

https://www.younglingfeynman.com/essays/artofbusiness

6 years ago

Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2020/02/27/important-f8-2020-update/

6 years ago

Highlights from FPGA 2020

https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/highlights-from-fpga-2020/

6 years ago

Show HN: Pep – Turn Your Website into a Progressive Web App

https://pep.dev/

6 years ago

I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices

https://ma.ttias.be/loophole-cookie-notices/

6 years ago

Ask HN: My web app was hacked today – Bad experiences and how to prevent them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429966

6 years ago

Japan to close schools nationwide to control spread of virus

https://apnews.com/c92ca9ae1c59079557e98275ff814c06

6 years ago

Facial recognition company Clearview’s client list stolen by “intruder”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-company-that-works-with-law-enforcement-says-entire-client-list-was-stolen

6 years ago

Galileo was right, but so were his critics (2015)

https://strangenotions.com/galileo-was-right-but-so-were-his-critics/

6 years ago

CDC: Possible ‘community spread’ coronavirus case in Bay Area

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/new-coronavirus-case-with-unknown-origin-confirmed-in-northern-california-report-says/

6 years ago

The Awakening of Norman Rockwell

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/19/21052356/norman-rockwell-the-problem-we-all-live-with-saturday-evening-post

6 years ago

Network topology design at 27,000 km/hr

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/02/25/network-topology-design-at-27000-km-hr/

6 years ago

NIH trial of remdesivir for COVID-19 begins in hospitalized adults in Nebraska

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-remdesivir-treat-covid-19-begins

6 years ago

We Just Witnessed the Fastest Stock Market Correction on Record

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-27/we-just-witnessed-the-fastest-stock-market-correction-on-record

6 years ago

SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals

https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-rajeev-misra-used-campaign-of-sabotage-to-hobble-internal-rivals-11582743294

6 years ago

Kubernetes Journey – How to setup the HAProxy Cluster with high availability

https://itnext.io/kubernetes-journey-up-and-running-out-of-the-cloud-how-to-setup-the-haproxy-cluster-with-high-ee5eb9a7f2e1

6 years ago

Artificial Intelligence as the year 2000 approaches (1992)

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1145/135226.135237

6 years ago