top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-28

Freeman Dyson Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/science/freeman-dyson-dead.html

6 years ago

Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits

https://www.musictech.net/news/programmers-generate-every-possible-melody-in-midi-to-prevent-lawsuits/

6 years ago

I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride

https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride/

6 years ago

How to brainstorm great business ideas

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-business-ideas-ab51c3d51c

6 years ago

The boss who put everyone on 70K

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811

6 years ago

Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

http://profithunt.co

6 years ago

A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/

6 years ago

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

6 years ago

AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15554/amd-launches-ultralowpower-ryzen-embedded-apus-starting-at-6w

6 years ago

Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22442454

6 years ago

COVID-19 Supply Chain Update

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-supply-chain-update

6 years ago

No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Results-of-car-free-Market-Street-so-so-for-SF-15087210.php

6 years ago

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/fcc-proposes-to-fine-wireless-carriers-200m-for-selling-customer-location-data/

6 years ago

How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o

6 years ago

Programming trick questions

https://qntm.org/trick

6 years ago

Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/google-employee-diagnosed-with-coronavirus.html

6 years ago

iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature

https://www.wired.com/story/inaturalist-app-disconnection/

6 years ago

Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kzeg4/archivists-are-uploading-hundreds-of-random-vhs-tapes-to-the-internet

6 years ago

Visual Introduction to Self Supervised Learning

https://amitness.com/2020/02/illustrated-self-supervised-learning/

6 years ago

Second U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Santa Clara County

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/28/santa-clara-county-announces-new-coronavirus-case/

6 years ago

If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/e-jEGddvSbManBMppC8XAc5i8GY/

6 years ago

Multicore OCaml: Feb 2020 update

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-feb-2020-update/5227

6 years ago

Miranda released as free software

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/

6 years ago

Downsides of Google Authenticator

https://www.zdnet.com/article/using-google-authenticator-heres-why-you-should-get-rid-of-it/

6 years ago

Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson

https://adguard.com/en/blog/ad-blocking-history.html

6 years ago

How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/#

6 years ago

Ant Design 4.0

https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/issues/21656

6 years ago

★ 97.8k TypeScript MIT

A Text Renaissance

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/02/24/a-text-renaissance/

6 years ago

Our experience moving to SF to do YC

https://posthog.com/blog/moving-to-sf/

6 years ago

An End to High Memory?

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/813201/a3b544ee8d802880/

6 years ago

Handling 350k Requests for $3 using Lambda

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/handling-350k-requests-for-3-using-lambda-c258ace3da58

6 years ago

Ken Allen

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

6 years ago

Persisting React State in LocalStorage

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/persisting-react-state-in-localstorage

6 years ago

Beware of criminals pretending to be WHO

https://www.who.int/about/communications/cyber-security

6 years ago

Langserver.org – A community-driven source for Language Server implementations

https://langserver.org/

6 years ago

Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four

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

6 years ago

Switzerland Federal Council bans large-scale events

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-78289.html

6 years ago

Crates.io incident report for 2020-02-20

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/02/26/crates-io-incident-report.html

6 years ago

Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/07/facebook_update_controversy/

6 years ago

Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks

https://findwork.dev/blog/advanced-usage-python-requests-timeouts-retries-hooks/

6 years ago

Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

https://joearms.github.io/published/2015-03-02-Waking-Up.html

6 years ago

Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser

https://swift.org/blog/argument-parser/

6 years ago

A quick primer on type traits in modern C++

https://www.internalpointers.com/post/quick-primer-type-traits-modern-cpp

6 years ago

WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/810452948/who-says-risk-of-covid-19-is-now-very-high-at-a-global-level

6 years ago

Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-quantum-photon.html

6 years ago

Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (2006)

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20060626/

6 years ago

Bootstrap Treeview

https://github.com/chniter/bstreeview

6 years ago

★ 372 JavaScript Apache-2.0

Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with sync

https://joplinapp.org/

6 years ago

A backup rotation filter for the Unix shell

https://git.sr.ht/~apreiml/prunef/

6 years ago

Freeman Dyson Has Died

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

6 years ago

The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

https://www.wired.com/story/forget-chess-real-challenge-teaching-ai-play-dandd

6 years ago