top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-08

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news

7 years ago

Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

https://www.linuxjournal.com/

7 years ago

AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amd-alphabet/amd-lands-google-twitter-as-customers-with-newest-server-chip-idUSKCN1UX2KL

7 years ago

Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/#7b31cc2d3948

7 years ago

GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/

7 years ago

Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,356,024.PN.&OS=PN/10,356,024&RS=PN/10,356,024

7 years ago

Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/technology/uber-earnings.html

7 years ago

Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/walking-in-berlin-friedrichstrasse-tauentzienstrasse/595597

7 years ago

Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49252501

7 years ago

9th Circuit says users can sue Facebook over unlawful use of facial recognition

https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/federal-court-rules-facebook-users-can-sue-company-over-unlawful-use-face-recognition

7 years ago

Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/group-sex-app-leaks-locations-pictures-and-other-personal-details-identifies-users-in-white-house-and-supreme-court/

7 years ago

Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair

https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-iphones-now

7 years ago

One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO

https://madewithlove.be/one-job-many-roles-the-different-skills-needed-to-be-a-successful-cto/

7 years ago

NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28636123/exxonmobil-lawsuit-climage-change-new-york/

7 years ago

The Door Problem of Combat Design

https://gamasutra.com/blogs/AndrewYoder/20190808/348237/The_Door_Problem_of_Combat_Design.php

7 years ago

The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-death-of-social-reciprocity-in-the-era-of-digital-distraction/

7 years ago

Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2019-08-07-advice-to-younger-self

7 years ago

Racket: Lisp for Learning

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/795385/d7f8fe54132b2013/

7 years ago

What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NoSwapConsequence

7 years ago

How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be

https://www.figma.com/blog/the-birth-of-inter/

7 years ago