top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-14

Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/12/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/

6 years ago

Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1157729616259235840

6 years ago

Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23521399

6 years ago

Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised

https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/

6 years ago

Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS

https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_flat/index.html?lat=30&lng=-60&pn=6&ph=0#

6 years ago

Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=878

6 years ago

Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

https://collectednotes.com/

6 years ago

Never Hertz to Ask

https://alexdanco.com/2020/06/14/never-hertz-to-ask/

6 years ago

An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/06/11/an-understanding-of-ais-limitations-is-starting-to-sink-in

6 years ago

Accurate N64 emulation gets resolution upscaling powered by Vulkan (RetroArch)

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/coming-soon-parallel-n64-rdp-resolution-upscaling-video-demonstration/

6 years ago

Show HN: Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources

https://logosear.ch/search.html

6 years ago

Intermittent fasting works – not only for weight loss but also for heart health

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/intermittent-fasting-works-for-many--not-only-for-weight-loss-but-also-for-heart-health/2020/06/12/11420c1c-a4d5-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html

6 years ago

Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)

http://www.redbook.io/

6 years ago

Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (2018)

http://flatkill.org/

6 years ago

Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-night-owls-grey-brains-early.html

6 years ago

Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning

https://acesounderglass.com/2020/06/12/emotional-blocks-as-obstacles-to-learning/

6 years ago

Astronauts say riding Falcon 9 rocket was different from space shuttle

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/06/12/astronauts-say-riding-falcon-9-rocket-was-totally-different-from-the-space-shuttle/

6 years ago

Aging Problems at 5nm and Below

https://semiengineering.com/aging-problems-at-5nm-and-below/

6 years ago

Three people with inherited diseases successfully treated with CRISPR

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246020-three-people-with-inherited-diseases-successfully-treated-with-crispr

6 years ago

Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”

https://maggieappleton.com/basb

6 years ago

Marc Andreessen interview

https://www.theobservereffect.org/marc.html

6 years ago

Temporary National Emergency Library to close 2 weeks early

https://blog.archive.org/2020/06/10/temporary-national-emergency-library-to-close-2-weeks-early-returning-to-traditional-controlled-digital-lending/

6 years ago

RusTLS Formal Audit [pdf]

https://github.com/ctz/rustls/blob/master/audit/TLS-01-report.pdf

6 years ago

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The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword Syntax

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/06/the-curious-case-of-swift-adoption-of.html

6 years ago

GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references

https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/

6 years ago

Questions to help people decide what to learn

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/06/14/questions-to-help-you-learn/

6 years ago

No Code

https://vas3k.com/blog/nocode/

6 years ago

High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization

https://shunsukesaito.github.io/PIFu/

6 years ago

Scientists have lost their jobs after NIH probe into foreign ties

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties

6 years ago

The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386332

6 years ago

Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into useful material

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-find-neat-way-turn-waste-carbon-dioxide-useful-material

6 years ago

The privilege of boredom: How philosophy can happen in isolation

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/privilege-boredom-philosophy-isolation-anil-gomes/

6 years ago

Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html

6 years ago

American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/native-american-coronavirus-data-314527

6 years ago

I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-i-built-an-ipfs-crawler

6 years ago

From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)

https://sidsite.com/posts/autodiff/

6 years ago

Storytelling Tips for Technical Interviews

https://stanete.com/storytelling-tips-technical-interviews

6 years ago

Performance/Avoid SQLite in Your Next Firefox Feature (2014)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Avoid_SQLite_In_Your_Next_Firefox_Feature

6 years ago

How Can You Help the Internet Archive?

https://blog.archive.org/2020/06/14/how-can-you-help-the-internet-archive/

6 years ago

Third-Party Audit of Rustls

http://jbp.io/2020/06/14/rustls-audit.html

6 years ago

Learning How to Learn

https://max2c.com/learning-how-to-learn/

6 years ago

Thracian Ritual Pits Discovered in Bulgaria

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8795-200612-bulgaria-ritual-pits

6 years ago

Which cyclist hill descent position is superior? (2017)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/which-cyclist-hill-descent-position-really-superior-froome-blocken

6 years ago

One word in PostgreSQL unlocked a 9x performance improvement

https://jlongster.com/how-one-word-postgresql-performance

6 years ago

Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results from a Randomized Trial

https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(20)30860-2/pdf

6 years ago

Responding to the Controversy about YOLOv5

https://blog.roboflow.ai/yolov4-versus-yolov5/

6 years ago