Show HN: Chelodina – A Logo-to-Python Transpiler
Pixelmash: Resolution-Independent Pixel Art Software for PC and Mac [video]
Amazon's Alexa fund is investing in a $6.7M round for Plant Prefab, a maker of prefabricated homes that wants to let buyers customize houses with voice devices
bloomberg.com · Techmeme · 33 mins ago
India’s Mars probe completes four years in orbit, sends back images
Jeff Sessions Couldn’t Get State AGs to Back His Campaign Against Tech
AWS announces YubiKey can be used as a MFA device to sign into the AWS management console
aws.amazon.com · Techmeme · 54 mins ago
Ex-NSA employee gets 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified info
Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins
Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD
Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
Apple removes conspiracy sites & other fake news from ‘Siri Suggested Websites’ in Safari.
On Reddit, Russian propagandists try new tricks
The Mystery of the Shakespearian Cartoons
Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
France says it received 3,767 privacy complaints since GDPR debuted, up 64% YoY, as UK ICO says complaints more than doubled to 6,281 from May 25 to July 3
Safari’s “Siri Suggested” Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Sites And Fake News
NSA employee who brought hacking tools home sentenced to 66 months in prison
New Research Finds that Caravaggio Died of Sepsis, Not Syphilis
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch
Amazon makes first investment in a homebuilder, backing start-up focused on prefabricated houses
cnbc.com · Reddit · 3 hours ago
AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
aws.amazon.com · Hacker News · 3 hours ago
Meshbird – distributed private networking
Fata Morgana in the Juan de Fuca Strait
Uber launches the Global Security Center, a Washington, DC-based hub that will manage the company's responses to global crises such as natural disasters
Popular ad blocker uBlock Origin gets the option to block all JavaScript execution on a page by default globally or at a domain-specific level
An original, working Apple I sold for $375,000
Show HN: Meetter – Reduce time wasted by meetings
Instagram adds notifications to its web apps and Instagram Lite, which is still in testing
androidpolice.com · Techmeme · 4 hours ago
Cody Wilson quits as director of Defense Distributed, which he founded to distribute blueprints of guns that can be 3D printed, following sexual assault charges
Millennials more likely to fall for scams than baby boomers.
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users
Stop Using Select Menus for Known User Input
Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight? – USAReally is based in Moscow and has received funding from the Federal News Agency, a Russian media conglomerate with ties to the Internet Research Agency.
Texas coal plant to shut down by 2020 – A north Texas coal-fired power plant will shut down claiming it couldn’t make money in the Texas power market.
Qute-Browser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5
Sources: SurveyMonkey to price its IPO at $12/share, above the range, due to strong demand from investors in advance of its first day of trading on Wednesday
Safari's Siri Suggested recommendation feature is found promoting Pizzagate videos, holocaust denier stories, debunked race-based "science" posts, more
Former NSA employee Nghia Hoang Pho sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified files that were then allegedly stolen by Russian hackers
Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks
New Features in Qt 5.12
Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux
Microsoft says its Microsoft Whiteboard collaboration app is out now on iOS and available on the web in preview, two months after launching on Windows 10
Instagram founders quit amid suspected clash with Zuckerberg
theguardian.com · Reddit · 6 hours ago
How to Protect Yourself From Public USB Charging Ports
In Search of Darkness
Qute-Browser – Keyboard driven QTWebEngine (Chromium without Google)
Kevin Systrom had the CEO title, but Zuckerberg controlled Instagram's destiny, with unwavering focus on building a great business, not simply a great product
stratechery.com · Techmeme · 6 hours ago