**HN:Live | 25.10.2019 | Today's review of HN:Live**

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Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
https://super.gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard

How SSH Port Became 22
https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port

Why EdDSA held up better than ECDSA against Minerva
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20191024-eddsa.html

An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/10/21/illustrated-guide-to-oauth-and-oidc

Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5
https://mnml.gg/

Calculus for the Curious
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/calculus-for-the-curious/

Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Bills
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-obscure-charges-that-utility-companies-add-to-your-bills

Gmail marking email from me as spam
https://www.mail-archive.com/mai...@mailop.org/msg08806.html

The effort to preserve a million letters written by U.S. soldiers during wartime
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unprecedented-effort-preserve-million-letters-written-soldiers-wartime-180973336/

Why Is Money in Asia Circles?
https://www.dampfkraft.com/money-asia-circles.html

MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn’t Work
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/start-ups/mit-media-lab-scientist-used-syrian-refugees-to-tout-food-computers

Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered
https://www.neh.gov/article/first-draft-king-james-bible

Hacker‘s Manifesto (1986)
http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html

A Framework for Purposeful Open Source (2018) [pdf]
https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MZOTS_OS_Archetypes_report_ext_scr.pdf

First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
https://thedriven.io/2019/10/24/first-electric-ute-engineered-in-australia-for-use-in-mining-and-agribusiness/

SiFive U8-Series Core IP
https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-announces-new-u8-series-core-ip-for-high-performance

Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/tiktok-lamakers-national-security-threat/

React Concurrent Mode
https://reactjs.org/docs/concurrent-mode-intro.html

Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/24/sea-urchins-california-oregon-population

Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

Show HN: A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)
https://xmake.io/#/

Iron: From Mythical to Mundane
https://rootsofprogress.org/iron-from-mythical-to-mundane

Are the common elements in our dreams the result of basic biology? (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/why-you-keep-dreaming-about-being-naked-rp

Seventeenth-Century Tunnel in Mexico Preserves Pre-Contact Artwork
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8134-191024-mexico-tunnel-images

BBC News launches ’dark web’ Tor mirror
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50150981

We Never Paid for Journalism
https://idiallo.com/blog/we-never-paid-for-journalism

Monty Hall Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

Women Under the Spell
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/10/women-under-the-spell/

Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/2113

King County Library System Boycotts Macmillan Publishers’ eBook Embargo
https://kcls.org/news/kcls-boycotts-macmillan-publishers-ebook-embargo/

Wisconsin’s Foxconn Boondoggle Is Getting Worse
https://reason.com/2019/10/24/wisconsins-massive-foxconn-boondoggle-is-getting-worse/

Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop/where-is-notepad-in-windows-10/7f9e8a8b-a18b-4cfb-9c9c-88103eb1f579

Show HN: Differential Fuzzing of Cryptographic Libraries
https://guidovranken.com/2019/05/14/differential-fuzzing-of-cryptographic-libraries/

Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests
https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840

The New World of Notebook Publishing
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/10/the-new-world-of-notebook-publishing/

Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations
https://freedom.press/news/signal-technology-foundation-now-open-donations/

Electron 7.0
https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-7-0

Jeopardy’s Newest Head Writer
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/jeopardy-michele-loud-head-writer-alex-trebek-interview.html

Working asynchronously
https://blog.remote.com/why-you-should-be-doing-async-work/

Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US, 1979-2016
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaau1184

Courts reshape the rules around AI
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/oct/22/courts-could-put-important-limits-on-the-use-of-ai/

“May You Live in Interesting Times”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/18/live/

Beating C with Dyalog APL
https://ummaycoc.github.io/wc.apl/

Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/sunday/curiosity-brain.html

How to Become the Best in the World at Something
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world-at-something-f1b658f93428

Finding meteorites with 10cm NEXRAD weather radar
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-10-22-Issue-35/

New Antenna Uses Saltwater and Plastic to Steer Radio Beams
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/new-antenna-uses-saltwater-to-achieve-multiple-beamsteering-states

Web Based Qt Design Viewer
https://www.qt.io/blog/web-based-qt-design-viewer

DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/06/04/db-19-resurrecting-an-obsolete-connector/

Show HN: Curated List of Windows Utilities
https://orga.cat/posts/windows-utilities

Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/how-flagstaff-arizona-switched-to-leds-without-giving-astronomers-a-headache/

Facebook Bought a Police Force
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3akm7/how-facebook-bought-a-police-force

Parenting and Panic
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/parenting-and-panic-agnes-callard/

Show HN: Talktech.io – a search engine for tech talks
https://talktech.io

Say hello to the future of ProtonMail Introducing Version 4.0 beta
https://protonmail.com/blog/v4-beta-announcement/

South-Pointing Chariot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot

How to build a cult brand in a crowded market: lessons from A24
https://www.junction43.co/blog/lessons-from-a24-how-to-build-cult-brand-in-crowded-market

Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code
https://www.reidatcheson.com/hpc/architecture/performance/rust/c++/2019/10/19/measure-cache.html

Eat My Phone: SJSU uses power of metal-munching bacteria in rare-earth recycling
http://www.metroactive.com/features/Rare-Earth-Recycling-San-Jose-State-Scientist-Elizabeth-Skovran.html

Realtek 2.5 GbE PCIe Cards Now for Sale
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15026/25-gbe-card-w-realtek-rtl8125-makes-a-debut

Grise Fiord, Canada’s most northerly community
https://o.canada.com/travel/a-visit-to-grise-fiord-canadas-most-northerly-community

The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)
https://www.popsci.com/life-expectancy-declining

The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fall-of-wework-how-a-startup-darling-came-unglued-11571946003?mod=rsswn

Show HN: Passbox – Give access to your data only after you’re dead
https://passbox.co

Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don’t make obvious
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/publishing-on-medium-b1f788c42634

Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars ’in my lifetime’
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-he-does-not-expect-n1071436

My own private Iceland
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/21/20905485/iceland-overtourism-reykjavik-blue-lagoon-northern-lights

The Qualified Manifesto on Hiring Software Developers
https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/the-qualified-manifesto-on-hiring-software-developers

Army War College paper predicts possible collapse of US military within 20 years
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmkz8/us-military-could-collapse-within-20-years-due-to-climate-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says

Show HN: A/B testing as Easy as Short URLs, no integration, w/ redirects via CDN
https://direktor.io

A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2013/07/28/lecture-johnson-and-boswell/

Micron Finally Announces a 3D XPoint Product: Micron X100 NVMe SSD
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15029/micron-finally-announces-a-3d-xpoint-product-micron-x100

How Telephone Phreaking Worked [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tHyZdtXULw

Playing with Numbers (2000)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2000/09/01/playing-with-numbers/

Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network
https://www.axios.com/scoop-cyber-memo-warns-of-new-risks-to-white-house-network-9aa19c6c-77a3-485b-919b-1dd9bd691514.html

Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/23/fx-preview-geckoview-add-ons-support/

Royal Society journals are free to access until Oct 27
https://royalsociety.org/journals/

Limited reports of Catalina installation bricking some Macs via EFI firmware
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/24/efi-firmware/

Grafana Labs raises $24M
https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/24/what-24-million-means-for-our-open-source-community/

NYC accused of illegally altering parking tickets to get more fines from drivers
https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/city-accused-of-illegally-altering-parking-tickets-to-squeeze-more-fines-from-drivers/

I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900
https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/comments/dkyq92/how_i_wasted_10_weeks_of_my_life_and_1900/

Mozilla: Cloudflare doesn’t pay us for any DoH traffic
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-cloudflare-doesnt-pay-us-for-any-doh-traffic/

Show HN: Mac toolbar app to show electricity cutoff schedule
https://mhasbini.com/blog/introducing-electricity-cutoff-app.html

Our model is customers first, investors never
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-23-srht-puts-users-first/

Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Release
https://ubports.com/pt_PT/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-11-release-252

MacLean and Smedley: love among the scientists (2015)
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2015/09/maclean-and-smedley-love-among-the-scientists/

High-Dimensional Probability: An Intro with Applications in Data Science [pdf]
https://www.math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/papers/HDP-book/HDP-book.pdf

Wartime Broadcasting Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_Broadcasting_Service

Broken health care system is causing rampant burnout among doctors, nurses
https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Broken-health-care-system-is-causing-rampant-14556273.php

IEA: Offshore windfarms ’can provide more electricity than the world needs’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/24/offshore-windfarms-can-provide-more-electricity-than-the-world-needs

Police chief refuses to tell Parliament about secret spyware
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-24/police-chief-refuses-to-tell-parliament-about-secret-spyware/11632956

Software Link Suspected in Airbus Engine Blowouts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a220-exclusive/exclusive-software-link-suspected-in-airbus-a220-engine-blowouts-sources-idUSKBN1X31ST

Amish Counter Top Kitchen Appliances Run Off Compressed Air (2012)
https://www.sufficientself.com/threads/amish-counter-top-kitchen-appliances-run-off-compressed-air.12802/

U.N. Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300B. Here’s How
https://time.com/5709100/halt-climate-change-300-billion/

Tesla has made a profit. Repeat, Tesla has made a profit – $143m in fact
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/24/tesla_makes_a_profit_shocking/

Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing for Python
https://github.com/fuzzitdev/pythonfuzz

Street level surveillance: a guide to law enforcement spying technology
https://www.eff.org/sls

Vim 101: How to Start Using the Text Editor for Developers
http://www.datastuff.tech/programming/vim-start-using-the-text-editor-for-developers/

Intel wants back in the tablet space with its new Tremont architecture
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/intel-wants-back-in-the-tablet-space-with-its-new-tremont-architecture/

US Army Will Study ‘Metamaterials’ Collected by UFO Study Group
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/10/army-partners-ufo-researchers-study-active-camouflage-and-other-sci-fi-tech/160815/

Show HN: Wasienv – WebAssembly WASI Development Toolchain for C/C++
https://medium.com/wasmer/wasienv-wasi-development-workflow-for-humans-1811d9a50345

Everything Curl – The Book
https://curl.haxx.se/book.html

A world record slackline in the Utah desert [video]
https://vimeo.com/146064760

Aluminium-air battery that can power electric cars for 1,500 miles
https://www.adaptnetwork.com/tech/aluminium-air-battery-can-power-electric-cars-for-1500-miles/

We Sold Pando
https://pando.com/2019/10/23/we-sold-pando/

Show HN: A tool to let you find websites that accept guest post
http://www.wuztr.com

The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yngp/the-universe-is-made-of-tiny-bubbles-containing-mini-universes-scientists-say

Pixel 4 XL teardown reveals remarkably tiny Soli chip
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/24/pixel-4-xl-teardown-tiny-soli-chip/

Senators ask US intel to determine whether TikTok poses national security risks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/24/tiktok-raises-national-security-concerns-congress-schumer-cotton-ask-federal-review/

A rock band hid a C64 program on a vinyl album in 1984
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/20/20923280/christian-rock-band-commodore-64-easter-egg-prodigal-program-download

SiFive unveils Shield security architecture
https://semiaccurate.com/2019/10/23/sifive-unveils-shield-security-architecture/

The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-europe/the-uncertain-fate-of-amsterdams-red-light-district

Tor Snowflake turns the browser into a proxy for users in censored countries
https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-snowflake-turns-your-browser-into-a-proxy-for-users-in-censored-countries/

Entrepreneurs who start on their own more likely to succeed: researchers
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/solo-founders-entrepreneurs-success-nyu-wharton-research.html

What’s Everything Made Of?
https://aeon.co/essays/is-everything-made-of-particles-fields-or-both-combined

Congressman’s phone password is 111111
https://gfycat.com/uncommonacclaimedboar

Windows Terminal 1910 Release
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1910-release/

India cancels coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/india-solar-power-electricity-cancels-coal-fired-power-stations-record-low-a7751916.html

The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP) for Mail
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8621

Who DDoS’d Austin?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/who-ddosd-austin/

Square’s Cash App adds free stock trading
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20930659/square-cash-app-invest-stocks-commission-free-robinhood-competition

Russia Will Test Its Ability to Disconnect from the Internet
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/10/russia-will-test-its-ability-disconnect-internet/160861/

A man died in a burning Tesla because its doors wouldn’t open, lawsuit alleges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/23/man-died-burning-tesla-because-its-futuristic-doors-wouldnt-open-lawsuit-alleges/

BBC News heads to the dark web with new Tor mirror
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20930085/bbc-news-dark-web-tor-the-onion-browser-secure-censorship

Data-Driven Ways to Improve Employee Engagement
https://blog.bonus.ly/improve-employee-engagement

I tracked down developer of Android adware affecting millions of users
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/10/24/tracking-down-developer-android-adware/

A. Ocasio-Cortez grills M. Zuckerberg during Congressional hearing [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iCVn_JvOiQ

Solving classic unsupervised learning problems with deep neural networks
https://towardsdatascience.com/solving-classic-unsupervised-learning-problems-with-deep-neural-networks-768adb892201

All Carrots and No Sticks:A Case Study on Social Credit Scores in Xiamen,Fuzhou
https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/social-credit-case-study-city-citizen-scores-in-xiamen-and-fuzhou-2a65feb2bbb3

Open-sourcing Polynote: an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-polynote-an-ide-inspired-polyglot-notebook-7f929d3f447

Show HN: Witness – A Web Application Using IPFS and Ethereum
https://witnessdb.com

Open Sourcing Mantis
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a

The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/say-goodbye-millennial-urban-lifestyle/599839/

Maxwell’s Equations in Wonderland
https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/maxwells-equations-in-wonderland/

Coca Cola named most polluting brand in global audit of plastic waste
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/coca-cola-plastic-waste-pollution/

WeWork Staff, Facing Job Cuts, Express Outrage at Founder Payout
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/wework-staff-facing-job-cuts-express-outrage-at-founder-payout

FT investigation: The darker side of a British tech baron
https://www.ft.com/content/afffb542-f577-11e9-b018-3ef8794b17c6

Google Staff Suspect Internal Software Is Designed to Suppress Employee Dissent
https://gizmodo.com/report-google-staff-suspect-new-internal-software-is-d-1839310098

Y Combinator, Not Lambda School, Is Unbundling Education
https://medium.com/swlh/y-combinator-not-lambda-school-is-unbundling-education-bd6fdf0c78d7

How Apple, Google and Blizzard Are Silencing Hong Kong Protesters
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-google-blizzard-hong-kong-protests

’White terror’: Hong Kong’s China critics beaten in targeted attacks
https://news.yahoo.com/white-terror-hong-kongs-china-critics-beaten-targeted-044507277.html

RLSL Allows Running a Subset of Rust on Vulkan/SPIR-V Enabled GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RLSL-Rust-On-SPIR-V-GPUs

Show HN: A digital coach to kill procrastination
https://getsofia.com

Object Detection in PHP with 15 lines of code
https://www.codespeedy.com/object-detection-in-php-with-15-lines-of-code/

Build a Fashion-Mnist CNN, PyTorch Style
https://towardsdatascience.com/build-a-fashion-mnist-cnn-pytorch-style-efb297e22582?source=friends_link&sk=f5ef7e22c5e7371a3fdb1c62d722be5f

Rookie Naming Mistakes Your Startup Should Avoid
https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1514/what-are-rookie-naming-mistakes-we-should-avoid-fo.html

The Rise and Fall of a Vision: Wrightbus Enters Administration
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-vision-wrightbus-enters-administration/



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