top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-11

MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations

https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611

6 years ago

A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

https://coding.napolux.com/a-facebook-crawler-was-making-7m-requests-per-day-to-my-stupid-website/

6 years ago

Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490115

6 years ago

Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

https://www.pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin/

6 years ago

University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs

https://www.uopeople.edu/

6 years ago

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/

6 years ago

Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

https://artvee.com/

6 years ago

Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd

6 years ago

OpenAI API

https://beta.openai.com/

6 years ago

Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

https://torrentfreak.com/removing-annoying-windows-10-features-is-a-dmca-violation-microsoft-says-200611/

6 years ago

Gimp 2.10.20

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/06/11/gimp-2-10-20-released/

6 years ago

What to write down when you’re reading to learn

https://acesounderglass.com/2020/06/10/what-to-write-down-when-youre-reading-to-learn/

6 years ago

The antitrust case against Google

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/the-antitrust-case-against-google

6 years ago

Global air pollution maps by the European Space Agency

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/06/Global_air_pollution_maps_now_available

6 years ago

How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)

https://www.yuzeh.com/data/agz-cost.html

6 years ago

The Mathematics of Music [pdf]

https://imaginary.org/sites/default/files/20190911-lala-booklet-v0.4-web-text.pdf

6 years ago

30k unsuspecting Rose Bowl attendees scooped up in a facial recognition test

https://onezero.medium.com/90-000-unsuspecting-rose-bowl-attendees-were-scooped-up-in-a-facial-recognition-test-18c843909858

6 years ago

Xrdp: An open source RDP server

https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp

6 years ago

★ 6.6k C Apache-2.0

Bicycles from Sketches (2016)

http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

6 years ago

Jim Keller to Depart Intel

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/changes-intels-technology-systems-architecture-client-group/

6 years ago

Windows Explorer Through the Years

https://gekk.info/articles/explorer.html

6 years ago

Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we’ve removed

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/information-operations-june-2020.html

6 years ago

Crux: Open-source document database with bi-temporal graph queries

https://opencrux.com/

6 years ago

A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/a-new-regexp-engine-in-spidermonkey/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490

6 years ago

Spark joy by running fewer tests

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/spark-joy-by-running-fewer-tests

6 years ago

The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/the-center-of-the-pixel-is-0-50-5/

6 years ago

The Hamler Programming Language

https://www.hamler-lang.org/

6 years ago

An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12282

6 years ago

Show HN: Audino – Open-Source Audio and Speech Annotation Tool

https://github.com/midas-research/audino

6 years ago

★ 1.1k TypeScript

Bigger v. Facebook, Inc.

https://harvardlawreview.org/2020/06/bigger-v-facebook/

6 years ago

GitLab acquires Peach Tech and Fuzzit

https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2020-06-11-gitlab-acquires-peach-tech-and-fuzzit-to-expand-devsecops-offering.html

6 years ago

Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower (2018)

https://aloiskraus.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/why-skylakex-cpus-are-sometimes-50-slower-how-intel-has-broken-existing-code/

6 years ago

ACLU accuses Clearview AI of privacy “nightmare scenario”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/clearview-ai-privacy-lawsuit.html

6 years ago

The Map Is Not the Territory (2015)

https://fs.blog/2015/11/map-and-territory/

6 years ago

Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/11/microsoft-facial-recognition/

6 years ago

A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything

http://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/a-neuroscientists-theory-of-everything

6 years ago

Dexplot: Python library for data visualization

https://www.dexplo.org/dexplot/

6 years ago

FPGA: Why So Few Open Source Drivers for Open Hardware?

https://mupuf.org/blog/2020/06/09/FPGA-why-so-few-drivers/

6 years ago

Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase

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

6 years ago

A tech stack should be a well-balanced portfolio

https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/05/30/Picking-Your-Tech-Stack.html

6 years ago

Pentagon Planned for a Bitcoin Rebellion

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/06/10/pentagon-documents-reveal-the-us-has-planned-for-a-bitcoin-rebellion/#587a63844cc0

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you learn to build substantial, real world apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23487875

6 years ago

The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Home Office

https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/06/home-office-setup-design-history-remote-work-furniture/612889/

6 years ago

The Lisp 2 Project (2018)

https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2018/01/31/981/

6 years ago

Show HN: Kretes – Build full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL

https://kretes.dev/

6 years ago