**HN:Live | 13.10.2019 | Today's review of HN:Live**

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Rogue Chromium dev lead ignores W3C ’autocomplete’ spec; frustrates Internet
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914451#c73

A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies

Show HN: Bel
http://paulgraham.com/bel.html

ITA’s old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems
https://web.archive.org/web/20111012115624/http://itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/hiring-puzzles.html

Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
https://blog.prusaprinters.org/original-prusa-mini-is-here-smart-and-compact-3d-printer/

Chicken of the Woods: This mushroom tastes just like chicken
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/chicken-of-the-woods-mushroom

‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/pge-california-outage.html

My favorite Rust function
https://blog.jabid.in/2019/10/11/drop.html

Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49996166

Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
https://howonlee.github.io/2019/10/12/Literallt-20Suffocating-20In-20Meetings-20A-20Little.html

Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications
https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/hydra/

Apple’s list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
https://thetapedrive.com/235-apps-incompatible-with-catalina

Bullshit.js
https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

Goethe’s Aphorisms
https://fs.blog/2019/10/the-best-of-goethes-aphorisms/

String Diagrams for Linear Algebra
https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/06/09/matrices-diagrammatically/

Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/sports/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-record.html

What If Algorithms Could Be Fair?
https://humanreadablemag.com/issues/0/articles/what-if-algorithms-could-be-fair

Show HN: A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News
https://newsphere.org

What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
https://blog.astropad.com/sherlocked-by-apple/

The Profitability Challenge for Challenger Banks
https://fincog.nl/blog/15/the-profitability-challenge-for-challenger-banks

Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production
https://heterodoxacademy.org/seizing-means-knowledge-production/

Relativistic Quantum Chemistry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry

Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories
https://blog.7mind.io/role-based-repositories.html

What is soundness in static analysis? (2017)
http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2017/10/23/what-is-soundness-in-static-analysis/

BMW’s Electric Strategy Makes No Sense
https://jalopnik.com/bmws-electric-strategy-makes-no-sense-1838996510

A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745

Canada’s Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/11/769348119/canadas-decision-to-make-public-more-clinical-trial-data-puts-pressure-on-fda

Show HN: Monolinux – A tiny embedded Linux distro
https://github.com/eerimoq/monolinux

How to Disagree Better [video]
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/opinion/peter-boghossian-interview.html

Jack Ma Says 12-Hour Work Week Could Be the Norm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-29/jack-ma-says-forget-long-days-ai-could-bring-12-hour-work-weeks

Secret Court: FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/secret-court-rules-fbis-backdoor-searches-americans-violated-fourth-amendment

Don’t Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653

FaceForensics++: Learning to Detect Manipulated Facial Images
https://github.com/ondyari/FaceForensics

Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/11/copernicium-is-a-strange-element-indeed

Interpreting Go
http://notes.eatonphil.com/interpreting-go.html

Why are these L.A. people sleeping in pods stacked on top of each other?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-12/when-finding-affordable-housing-in-l-a-means-living-in-a-pod-or-a-bunk-bed

Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City
http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20190321-norilsk-the-city-where-the-sun-doesnt-rise

From rags to Richer: A business success story built on treating people well
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/03/from-rags-to-richer

Show HN: ProfitHunt – a curated list of profitable online projects
http://www.profithunt.co/

Typhoon Lands in Japan – Windy Storm-Tracking Platform
https://www.windy.com/?35.663,139.513,5

Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018)
http://cityobservatory.org/the-storefront-index-2/

Barred from Owning Land, Rural Chinese Miss Spoils of Country’s Success
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/world/asia/china-land-rights-farming.html

Major Rights Org: Blizzard Doesn’t Respect the Human Rights of Its Customers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3a5xx/blizzard-doesnt-respect-the-human-rights-of-its-customers-major-rights-organization-says

Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=books

Previously rejected uBlock Origin Has Been Approved for the Chrome Web Store
https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_ublock_origin_will_possibly_be/f3fwlto/

Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-china-tv-protesters-hong-kong-tim-cook

Airline algorithms may be keeping you from sitting together
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/spark-421-1.4973383/airline-algorithms-may-be-keeping-you-from-sitting-together-1.4973387

GNU Binutils 2.33.1
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-10/msg00103.html

Ransomware Gang’s Victim Cracks Their Server, Releases All Their Decryption Keys
https://www.zdnet.com/article/white-hat-hacks-muhstik-ransomware-gang-and-releases-decryption-keys/

Huh, Bill Gates sure hung out with Jeffrey Epstein a lot more than he admitted
https://gizmodo.com/huh-bill-gates-sure-hung-out-with-jeffrey-epstein-a-lo-1839000866

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

Tall Buildings of the Last Fifty Years
https://ctbuh2019.com/other-info/50-influential-buildings/

Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you turn off notifications
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/dgtgr4/amazon_app_disables_charitable_donations_via/

Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dies at 85
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/alexei-leonov-1.5317734

The Internet Archive’s Whole Earth Collection
https://archive.org/details/wholeearth

Apple Content Cache Reverse Engineered
https://github.com/kendfinger/AppleCache

It’s Time to Delete Live Video
https://medium.com/@carissalintao/its-time-to-delete-live-video-2d24d46c0ee2

Massacre
http://www.cnd.org/June4th/massacre.html

Replying to Domain Abuse Mail
https://danrl.com/blog/2018/sealand-abuse-mail/

Time Cube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

New Insights into Self-Insight: More May Not Be Better
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-insights-into-self-insight-more-may-not-be-better/

Take the Dora DevOps Quick Check
https://www.devops-research.com/quickcheck.html

Siraj Raval found plagiarizing “neural qubit” paper
https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1183150368945049605

Frank Herbert on the Origins of Dune ( 1965)
https://archive.org/details/FrankHerbertOnTheOriginsOfDune1965

AWS Transfer for SFTP Now Supports Logical Directories for Amazon S3
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/aws-transfer-for-sftp-now-supports-logical-directories-for-amazon-s3/

KDE Plasma Mobile weekly update: part 2
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2019/10/11/Plasma-Mobile-Weekly-update-2.html

Objc_msgSend’s New Prototype
https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.html

ScummVM 2.1.0
https://www.scummvm.org/news/20191013/

The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (2013)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-money-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204/

500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Da Vinci’s Bridge Design Works
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a29426711/da-vinci-bridge/

History Is Written by the Losers (2016)
http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2016/11/history-is-written-by-losers.html

I wrote an eBook on pickling fresh olives
https://write.as/sevilo/olives

Vulnerability in sodiumoxide: generichash::Digest::eq always returns true
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/dguqt3/vulnerability_in_sodiumoxide_generichashdigesteq/

Typhoon Hagibis Live
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/

The Redshift Hate Logs
https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=a362fd3bffdc7eecde1838916fb8f4c267f5672b3774bd86dd23dce9dac72bee

Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/25/12212

Warren runs ‘fake’ FB ad attacking Zuckerberg over inaction on misinformation
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elizabeth-warren-facebook-advert-zuckerberg-trump-fake-news-a9153221.html

Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/science/marrow-israel-cave.html

Espalier (Formerly Object Spreadsheets)
http://sdg.csail.mit.edu/projects/espalier

The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome?
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/12/the-end-of-ublock-origin-for-google-chrome/#comments

Fibers under the magnifying glass [pdf]
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p1364r0.pdf

Show HN: Betting game where you can choose your prize or your chance of winning
https://kaue.me/bet/

Propositions Are Not Types (2018)
https://medium.com/@rplevy/propositions-are-not-types-naturalizing-information-content-in-computing-e51b94ad6674

Merging stars may create the universe’s most powerful magnets
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/10/merging-stars-may-create-the-universes-most-powerful-magnets

Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook’s ad policy – with a Facebook ad
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/11/politics/elizabeth-warren-facebook-ad/index.html

Disk Prices – Comparison of All Hard Drives and SSDs on Amazon
https://diskprices.com/

When inmates design prisons for rehabilitation (2016)
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/of-our-own-making-inmates-redesign-prisons-for-rehabilitation/

Command Line Heroes: Heroes in a Bash Shell
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/heroes-in-a-bash-shell

Show HN: Online SVG XML Editor
https://owenshen24.github.io/edit-svg/

Work of renowned UK psychologist Hans Eysenck ruled ‘unsafe’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/11/work-of-renowned-uk-psychologist-hans-eysenck-ruled-unsafe

SF to Establish Office of Emerging Technology
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-to-establish-office-of-emerging-technology/

An Unexplored Area of Artificial Intelligence: Smart Mirrors – Analytics Insight
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/an-unexplored-area-of-artificial-intelligence-smart-mirrors/

When Ted Lost Control of Its Crowd (2013)
https://hbr.org/2013/04/when-ted-lost-control-of-its-crowd

Reproduction revolution: how our skin cells might be turned into sperm and eggs
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/14/scientists-create-sperm-eggs-using-skin-cells-fertility-ethical-questions

Harvard’s policies do not discriminate against Asian Americans – Federal Judge
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/10/07/federal-judge-finds-harvards-policies-do-not-discriminate-against

History threatened as Turkey prepares to flood ancient city
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/history-threatened-turkey-prepares-flood-ancient-city-191007062610635.html

Inspector Tiger. A Pythonic Linter
https://github.com/thg-consulting/inspectortiger

A ’Null’ License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20908128/smart-tv-surveillence-data-collection-home-roku-amazon-fire-princeton-study

Elizabeth Warren Trolls Facebook with ’False’ Zuckerberg Ad
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/11/elizabeth-warren-facebook-zuckerberg-trump-troll

How YouTube recommends your next video
https://medium.com/vantageai/how-youtube-is-recommending-your-next-video-7e5f1a6bd6d9

Spoof UK Government’s Brexit Propaganda
https://ledbydonkeys.com/

Show HN: Aes.vbs – AES-256-CBC Encrypt and Decrypt in VBScript for legacy apps
https://github.com/susam/aes.vbs

Against Murderism (2017)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

Hong Kong Has Weaponized the City’s Subway Against Protesters
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/hong-kong-mtr-protests

Microsoft Displaying Ads in Powershell
https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/brwb9h/new_nag_message_in_powershell/

Applied Discrete Structures [pdf]
http://discretemath.org/ads-latex/ads.pdf

Show HN: Most Used Repositories on GitHub
https://usedby.dev/

Programming Sucks
http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Show HN: Free illustrations for commercial and non-commercial projects
https://design.meetanders.com

CEO of world’s largest e-sports firm ESL warns staff not to discuss HK protests
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/12/exclusive-ceo-worlds-largest-e-sports-firm-esl-warns-staff-not-discuss-hong-kong-protests/

Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser
https://github.com/hericlesme/cast-sh

Richard Stallman defies push by 27 GNU Project developers to end his leadership
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/10/12/0027247/richard-stallman-defies-push-by-27-gnu-project-developers-to-end-his-leadership

Johns Hopkins Study to Increase Learning Speed (2018)
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/a-johns-hopkins-study-reveals-scientific-secret-to-double-how-fast-you-learn.html

Apple told Apple TV+ creators to avoid portraying China ‘in a poor light’
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/12/apple-china-apple-tv-plus/

It’s crowded in here: programmable socket lookup with BPF
https://blog.cloudflare.com/its-crowded-in-here/?a

A “dirty” thunderstorm erupts in Chile
https://imgur.com/gallery/mUncW

DJ Zedd perma banned from entering China after liking tweet
https://nationalfile.com/dj-was-banned-from-china-after-liking-south-park-tweet/

She began to talk – then mysteriously fell silent. Later her parents learned why
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/medical-mysteries/she-began-to-talk--then-mysteriously-fell-silent-months-later-her-parents-learned-why/2019/10/11/703f97f4-c9be-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Activists’ phones targeted by one of the world’s most advanced spyware apps
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/activists-phones-targeted-by-one-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-espionage-apps/

Everyone’s AirPods will die. We’ve got the trick to replacing them
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/everyones-airpods-will-die-weve-got-the-trick-to-replacing-them/

VC4 and V3D OpenGL Drivers for Raspberry Pi: An Update
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vc4-and-v3d-opengl-drivers-for-raspberry-pi-an-update/

500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Da Vinci’s Bridge Design Works
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a29426711/da-vinci-bridge/

Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook
https://kevq.uk/why-you-shouldnt-use-facebook

Singapore to become first country banning ads on sugary drinks
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/11/health/singapore-sugar-drink-ads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

The Median Voter Theorem: Why a far-left candidate will never beat Trump
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-median-voter-theorem-c81630b57fa4

The End of uBlock Origin for Google Chrome?
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/12/the-end-of-ublock-origin-for-google-chrome/

The Future of Energy Storage – Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76q-9q7ZDg

After using both, I regretted switching from Terraform to CloudFormation
https://medium.com/@cep21/after-using-both-i-regretted-switching-from-terraform-to-cloudformation-8a6b043ad97a

Automating Kubernetes Deploys with CircleCI
https://boredhacking.com/deploying-to-eks-circleci/

Freelancing: Zero to Hero
https://medium.com/@BenSassiAladin/freelancing-zero-to-hero-38f0840d2e13

Sidecar in iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina
https://www.macstories.net/stories/sidecar-in-ios-13-and-macos-catalina-working-seamlessly-between-an-ipad-and-mac/

Lmarv-1: A RISC-V processor you can see. Part 1: 32-bit registers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLs_NRwu1Y4

Celebrating 50 Years of Unix – Bell Labs
https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/celebrating-50-years-unix/

Ecological disaster taking toll on scientists’ mental health
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ecological-disaster-mental-health-awareness-day-scientists-climate-change-grief-a9150266.html

Solving Problems the Clojure Way – Rafal Dittwald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1DazRK_a0

Consume Information That Encourages You to Do More
https://blog.ycombinator.com/consume-information-that-encourages-you-to-do-more/

The Word “Hacker” (2004)
http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html

How to sync your fork with the parent repository
https://dev.to/jeremy/how-to-sync-your-fork-with-the-parent-repository-3ok1

Exploring Multilingual, Neural Machine Translation
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/exploring-massively-multilingual.html

Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows access to all the data on 100M users’ phones
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-app-on-xis-ideology-allows-data-access-to-100-million-users-phones-report-says/2019/10/11/2d53bbae-eb4d-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html

Cloudflare: It’s crowded in here!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/its-crowded-in-here/

Google AI Research Division to Issue PhD Degrees
https://medium.com/halting-problem/google-ai-research-division-to-issue-phd-degrees-8a6954293047

Relearning to Type
https://gryphon.dev/2019/10/04/relearning-to-type/

iPadOS review: The iPad is dead, long live the iPad
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/ipados-review-the-ipad-is-dead-long-live-the-ipad/

Nir Eyal on how to beat tech addiction: ‘We need a new skill set’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/12/nir-eyal-on-how-to-beat-tech-addiction-we-need-a-new-skill-set

Webassembly.sh – online WebAssembly Terminal to run WASI modules on the browser
https://medium.com/wasmer/webassembly-sh-408b010c14db

CppCon 2019: Andrei Alexandrescu “Speed Is Found in the Minds of People” [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJTYQYB1JQ

Apple told Apple TV+ creators to avoid portraying China ‘in a poor light’
https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/12/apple-china-apple-tv-plus/

Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/12/driverless-cars-are-stuck-in-a-jam

Why I No Longer Use Haskell
https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/14649-lightning-talk-why-i-no-longer-use-haskell

Risk-Based Testing
https://medium.com/simbirsoft/qa-journal-risk-based-testing-b0b5b2315753

SvelteJS: The next big UI framework
https://dev.to/mstamstrom/sveltejs-the-next-big-ui-framework-4n0e

How to Think About Different Data Models: Relational vs. Document Data Models
https://medium.com/@shekhargulati/how-to-think-about-different-database-data-models-relational-vs-document-data-models-a90fc80bb267

Boeing removes CEO as chairman amid 737 Max crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/12/boeing-removes-ceo-as-chairman-amid-737-max-crisis

Eliud Kipchoge smashes two-hour marathon barrier
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/12/sport/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-vienna-intl/index.html

Marco Arment: “I hope Apple wise enough to start removing themselves from China”
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1182693729255219201

Court Rules That FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/secret-court-rules-fbis-backdoor-searches-americans-violated-fourth-amendment

China goes ahead with corporate social credit rating system for 33M firms
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3027674/china-pushing-ahead-controversial-corporate-social-credit

Nginx Unit. Running Node.js, Golang and PHP on the One App Server
https://medium.com/@Mnwa/nginx-unit-running-nodejs-golang-and-php-on-the-one-app-server-a3ff349a61a3

DJ Zedd Banned in China for Liking a South Park Tweet
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/12/dj-zedd-banned-in-china-for-liking-a-south-park-tweet.html

Eliud Kipchoge makes history by running sub two-hour marathon
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/12/eliud-kipchoge-makes-history-sub-two-hour-marathon

Hong Kong: arrest of 750 children during protests sparks outcry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/hong-kong-arrest-of-750-children-during-protests-sparks-outcry

Comparing Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes
https://medium.com/flant-com/comparing-ingress-controllers-for-kubernetes-9b397483b46b

A Third of Hong Kong Democracy Activists Arrested Are Teenagers
https://www.voanews.com/episode/third-hong-kong-democracy-activists-arrested-are-teenagers-4058166

Highly Distractible People Have More Creative Success (2015)
https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/highly-distractible-people-have-more-creative-success

Show HN: Collection of pseudocodes[pdf] on DS&A for interviews
https://github.com/Just-A-Visitor/Coding

Do California’s Blackouts Make Sense?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-californias-blackouts-make-sense-11570832232?mod=rsswn



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