top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-07-05

California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-californias-new-bot-law-strengthen-democracy

6 years ago

709 upvotes – 264 comments

How the Dat Protocol Works

https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/

6 years ago

707 upvotes – 75 comments

Is this Paypal experience customary?

https://gist.github.com/stratosgear/6923623321adacd368e965ff193fe2ce

6 years ago

537 upvotes – 287 comments

Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino

https://easylang.online/apps/tutorial_mcarlo.html

6 years ago

431 upvotes – 161 comments

Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers

https://www.scorpia.co.uk/2019/06/28/pi4-not-working-with-some-chargers-or-why-you-need-two-cc-resistors/

6 years ago

401 upvotes – 300 comments

Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48868261

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 136 comments

Wringing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block#Wringing

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 77 comments

How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

https://medium.com/@sidneyliebrand/how-fzf-and-ripgrep-improved-my-workflow-61c7ca212861

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 87 comments

Understanding Kafka with Factorio

https://hackernoon.com/understanding-kafka-with-factorio-74e8fc9bf181

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 84 comments

81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent

https://news.sky.com/story/met-polices-facial-recognition-tech-has-81-error-rate-independent-report-says-11755941

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 173 comments

Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way/

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 293 comments

Run Your Own Website

https://zacs.site/blog/own-your-platform.html

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 158 comments

The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 190 comments

How much free time do you have?

https://erikrood.com/Posts/free_time_calc.html

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 220 comments

Go compiler internals: Adding a new statement to Go

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-compiler-internals-adding-a-new-statement-to-go-part-1/

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 52 comments

Lenovo BIOS Simulator

https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 28 comments

Assholes: A Probing Examination

https://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2019/06/03/dont-hire-assholes/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 191 comments

Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty

https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 167 comments

“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannidis (2016)

http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/16/evidence-based-medicine-has-been-hijacked-a-confession-from-john-ioannidis/

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 76 comments

SBCL – Past, Present, Future [pdf]

https://european-lisp-symposium.org/static/2019/rhodes.pdf

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 48 comments
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