Hacker News on 12 September 2019

• California bans private prisons
• Ask HN: Are you ok?
• Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
• A lighter V8
• Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House
• The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
• Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found
• Ban kids from loot box gambling in games
• WebGPU and WSL in Safari
• The Rise of the Electric Scooter