top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-14

Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1349488392732491776

5 years ago

Null

https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/null/

5 years ago

We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/we-need-data-engineers-not-data-scientists/

5 years ago

Aquafaba

http://aquafaba.com/index.html

5 years ago

Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/

5 years ago

Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-account-sci-hub-pirated-papers-website

5 years ago

Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25783152

5 years ago

Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-steady-decrease-among-young-us-men

5 years ago

'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210111/p2a/00m/0dm/016000c

5 years ago

Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation

https://marksaroufim.substack.com/p/machine-learning-the-great-stagnation

5 years ago

Facebook Incubated the Insurrection

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/facebook-far-right.html

5 years ago

DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?lang=en

5 years ago

Wine 6.0

https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/wine-6.0:/ANNOUNCE

5 years ago

Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-scrapped-fbi-reuters-report

5 years ago

10 years-ish of Elixir

https://dashbit.co/blog/ten-years-ish-of-elixir

5 years ago

Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot

5 years ago

Dungeon Magazine

https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine?sort=titleSorter

5 years ago

Parisian Accent in 1912

https://www.franceculture.fr/sciences-du-langage/archive-exceptionnelle-ecoutez-laccent-parisien-en-1912

5 years ago

Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change

5 years ago

Fitbit is now officially part of Google

https://blog.fitbit.com/2021-update/

5 years ago

Open Letter from Laura Poitras

https://www.praxisfilms.org/open-letter-from-laura-poitras/

5 years ago

Zoom improvements requested by music schools

https://music.yale.edu/news/yale-led-effort-yields-zoom-upgrades

5 years ago

U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capitol-riot-bitcoin-donation-alt-right-domestic-extremism

5 years ago

English as She Is Spoke

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

5 years ago

Idris 2 version 0.3.0

https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-2-version-030-released.html

5 years ago

A Week with Plan 9

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/a-week-with-plan-9

5 years ago

Analyzing the performance of Tensorflow training on M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100

https://wandb.ai/vanpelt/m1-benchmark/reports/Can-Apple-s-M1-help-you-train-models-faster-cheaper-than-NVIDIA-s-V100---VmlldzozNTkyMzg

5 years ago

Smart contracts on Bitcoin

https://avc.com/2021/01/smart-contracts-on-bitcoin/

5 years ago

If you want peace, study war

https://www.persuasion.community/p/if-you-want-peace-study-war-533

5 years ago

Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-resolution/native-americans-say-u-s-does-not-own-land-it-is-about-to-give-to-rio-tinto-idUSKBN29J2R9

5 years ago

German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'

https://www.barrons.com/news/german-police-take-down-world-s-largest-darknet-marketplace-01610449507

5 years ago

Intel is dying and we can’t save it

https://sithsiri.medium.com/intel-is-dying-and-we-cant-save-it-a8685189d79a

5 years ago

Feds asks Tesla to recall vehicles over failing touchscreen displays

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/13/feds-asks-tesla-to-recall-158000-vehicles-over-failing-touchscreen-displays/

5 years ago

The richer you are, the more likely you’ll social distance, study finds

https://releases.jhu.edu/2021/01/14/the-richer-you-are-the-more-likely-youll-social-distance-study-finds/

5 years ago

Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38686/everything-we-know-about-the-mysterious-dark-helicopters-that-have-been-circling-los-angeles

5 years ago

CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

5 years ago

A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

https://course.raku.org/

5 years ago

You might not need jQuery (2014)

http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

5 years ago

Rendering Moana with Swift

https://gonsoloblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/rendering-moana-with-swift/

5 years ago

State-backed manipulation rampant on social media

https://theconversation.com/trumps-twitter-ban-obscures-the-real-problem-state-backed-manipulation-is-rampant-on-social-media-153136

5 years ago

macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 adds full custom kernel support

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1349478954982232064

5 years ago

Apply to YC on Your Schedule

https://blog.ycombinator.com/apply-to-yc-on-your-schedule/

5 years ago

Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/01/combating-scraping-by-malicious-browser-extensions/

5 years ago

Antioxidants Vitamin C and Vitamin E associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/3848

5 years ago

Hack together your own e-paper smartwatch with this $50 open-source kit

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22229985/customizable-epaper-smartwatch-kit-arduino

5 years ago

PG: Twitter made a mistake in banning Sci-Hub

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1349771657485955074

5 years ago

The threats and violence Twitter won't police

https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/the-threats-and-violence-twitter-wont-police/

5 years ago

Decentralised content moderation

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2021/01/13/decentralised-content-moderation.html

5 years ago

Free ePub books from the Open University on mutiple topics

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-ebooks

5 years ago

51 Star Flag (2011)

http://danbliss.blogspot.com/2011/11/

5 years ago

'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210113-the-megascale-structures-that-humans-could-one-day-build

5 years ago

Alpine Linux 3.13

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.13.0-released.html

5 years ago

ChrysaLisp

https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp

5 years ago

Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-now-business-risks

5 years ago

Google Completes Fitbit Acquisition

https://blog.google/products/devices-services/fitbit-acquisition

5 years ago

Hardware for Deep Learning. Part 4: ASIC

https://blog.inten.to/hardware-for-deep-learning-part-4-asic-96a542fe6a81

5 years ago

History of Tcl (2009)

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php

5 years ago

zForth – Tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth for embedded systems

https://github.com/zevv/zForth

5 years ago

The Supply Chain for Lithium (2020)

https://clearpath.org/energy-101/supply-chain-for-lithium-and-critical-minerals-is-critical/

5 years ago

Beating Up on Qsort (2019)

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/05/22/sorting.html

5 years ago

Dire wolves were not wolves, new genetic clues reveal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-not-really-wolves-new-genetic-clues-reveal/

5 years ago