top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-18

Mozilla VPN

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/

6 years ago

Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut

https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/appleid/android-apple-music-account-payment-none.jpg

6 years ago

The Return of the 90s Web

https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/

6 years ago

Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/822568/61d29096a4012e06/

6 years ago

GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all

https://github.blog/2020-06-18-introducing-github-super-linter-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/

6 years ago

Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

https://www.andyibanez.com/posts/please-help-apple-threatening-terminate-apple-developer-account/

6 years ago

536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

6 years ago

The Coming Chip Wars

https://steveblank.com/2020/06/18/the-coming-chip-wars-of-the-21st-century/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23562181

6 years ago

Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/18/data-privacy-law-sherrod-brown/

6 years ago

We need to do the math, even on “small” projects

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/6/16/do-the-math-small-projects

6 years ago

CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/announcing-cuda-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2/

6 years ago

A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics

https://quantum.country/

6 years ago

Russia lifts ban on Telegram

https://apnews.com/1da061ce00eb531291b143ace0eed1c9

6 years ago

Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey

https://www.axios.com/apple-rejects-appeal-from-e-mail-app-hey-4ea2f994-2d8c-49e9-9713-6db35b3aea84.html

6 years ago

Breakthrough in inverse Laplace transform procedures

http://inverselaplace.org/

6 years ago

Why is there a “V” in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-is-there-a-v-in-sigsegv-segmentation-fault/

6 years ago

Hash: A free, online platform for modeling

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2020/06/18/hash-a-free-online-platform-for-modeling-the-world/

6 years ago

How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Stick Around?

https://builtin.com/employee-engagement/how-much-engineer-pay

6 years ago

Restoring and MIDI-Fying a Baby Grand Piano

https://jacquesmattheij.com/midi-fied-baby-grand-piano/

6 years ago

"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

6 years ago

Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy against organized hate'

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/facebook-takes-down-trump-ads-for-violating-our-policy-against-organized-hate-1.4990065

6 years ago

Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM

https://imil.net/blog/posts/2020/fakecracker-netbsd-as-a-function-based-microvm/

6 years ago

The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22The+Navy+Electricity+and+Electronics+Training+Series%22&sort=publicdate

6 years ago

Procedural Lake Village

https://www.anastasiaopara.com/lakevillage

6 years ago

Show HN: Flatend – Quickly build microservices using P2P networking in Node/Go

https://github.com/lithdew/flatend

6 years ago

UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336

6 years ago

FF Sandbox Escape

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/06/ff-sandbox-escape-cve-2020-12388.html?m=1

6 years ago

Autopen

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

6 years ago

Portugal finally recognises consul who saved thousands from Holocaust

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53006790

6 years ago

Show HN: Poica – Algebraic data types and type introspection for pure C

https://github.com/Hirrolot/poica

6 years ago

Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal

https://www.quantamagazine.org/dark-matter-experiment-finds-unexplained-signal-20200617/

6 years ago

Bees Can Sense the Electric Fields of Flowers (2013)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/21/bees-can-sense-the-electric-fields-of-flowers/

6 years ago

Genes, blood type tied to risk of severe Covid-19

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/06/18/genes-blood-type-tied-to-covid-19-risk-of-severe-disease/

6 years ago

The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (1996) [pdf]

https://cr.yp.to/2005-590/powerpc-cwg.pdf

6 years ago

Micro-front ends in Webpack 5

https://github.com/sokra/slides/blob/master/content/ModuleFederationWebpack5.md

6 years ago

Improving Chromium's browser compatibility in 2020

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/06/improving-chromiums-browser.html

6 years ago

Caffeine: Livecoding environment for web browsers, Node.js, and WebAssembly

https://caffeine.js.org/

6 years ago

Apache Spark Release 3.0.0

https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-3-0-0.html

6 years ago

Navigating the Venture World as a Black VC

https://dot.la/black-venture-capital-2646196848.html

6 years ago

DeCSS Haiku

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

6 years ago

A concise guide to the latest Go generics draft design

https://pmihaylov.com/go-generics-draft-design/

6 years ago

Dogs' Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them (2019)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/domestication-gave-dogs-two-new-eye-muscles/591868/

6 years ago