2019-07-09 front | Hacker News

Stories from July 9, 2019

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera (medium.com/jonathan.leitschuh)
		1937 points by mplanchard on July 8, 2019 \| 456 comments
2.		Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 (blog.mozilla.org)
		648 points by johnnyRose on July 9, 2019 \| 197 comments
3.		I Can’t Stop Winning (blog.pinboard.in)
		786 points by jashkenas on July 9, 2019 \| 214 comments
4.		IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B (redhat.com)
		552 points by voxadam on July 9, 2019 \| 292 comments
5.		Ross Perot Has Died (cnbc.com)
		407 points by chuckgreenman on July 9, 2019 \| 209 comments
6.		France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall (reuters.com)
		309 points by Ultramanoid on July 9, 2019 \| 562 comments
7.		John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better (nextplatform.com)
		432 points by galaxyLogic on July 9, 2019 \| 189 comments
8.		It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done (nytimes.com)
		375 points by mhb on July 8, 2019 \| 129 comments
9.		When Can I Reuse This Calendar? (whencanireusethiscalendar.com)
		289 points by sharkweek on July 9, 2019 \| 68 comments
10.		Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer (github.com/johnfactotum)
		299 points by lulouie on July 9, 2019 \| 112 comments
11.		Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients (sciencedaily.com)
		248 points by Someone on July 9, 2019 \| 58 comments
12.		Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing (pixelfed.org)
		284 points by octosphere on July 7, 2019 \| 130 comments
13.		California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast (arrl.org)
		218 points by sciurus on July 9, 2019 \| 95 comments
14.		Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code (github.com/nanochess)
		229 points by nanochess on July 8, 2019 \| 62 comments
15.		Data Still Dominates (theartofmachinery.com)
		152 points by atomlib on July 9, 2019 \| 49 comments
16.		C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years (bloomberg.com)
		169 points by artsandsci on July 9, 2019 \| 91 comments
17.		Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions (ashleyblewer.com)
		183 points by luu on July 9, 2019 \| 132 comments
18.		Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies (bbc.com)
		289 points by pseudolus on July 9, 2019 \| 314 comments
19.		Database as Filesystem [video] (youtube.com)
		175 points by enobrev on July 9, 2019 \| 58 comments
20.		Libra, 2 Weeks In (facebook.com)
		185 points by simonebrunozzi on July 8, 2019 \| 276 comments
21.		The challenges of teaching software engineering (sicpers.info)
		118 points by ingve on July 9, 2019 \| 106 comments
22.		Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2 (minimaxir.com)
		126 points by minimaxir on July 9, 2019 \| 43 comments
23.		How I Taught My Kid to Read (theatlantic.com)
		210 points by objections on July 9, 2019 \| 173 comments
24.		How to run a small social network site for your friends (runyourown.social)
		252 points by coldsnap427 on July 8, 2019 \| 60 comments
25.		Disney TV Studios Eyes New Profit Participation Model (deadline.com)
		71 points by hhs on July 9, 2019 \| 30 comments
26.		The Riemann Hypothesis Says 5040 Is the Last (utexas.edu)
		219 points by ColinWright on July 8, 2019 \| 56 comments
27.		Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span (pnas.org)
		153 points by bookofjoe on July 8, 2019 \| 61 comments
28.		Firefox 68.0 (mozilla.org)
		478 points by dm on July 9, 2019 \| 271 comments
29.		Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes (lundbeckfonden.com)
		98 points by dpflan on July 9, 2019 \| 3 comments
30.		New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing (fast.ai)
		320 points by my_first_acct on July 9, 2019 \| 21 comments
		More

HN For You