top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-20

Lesser Known Coding Fonts

https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/

6 years ago

640 upvotes – 246 comments

The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

https://www.thegrove3d.com/releases/the-grove-release-8/

6 years ago

604 upvotes – 49 comments

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/

6 years ago

570 upvotes – 307 comments

Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302412

6 years ago

563 upvotes – 601 comments

38 People are looking at this post right now

https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201

6 years ago

477 upvotes – 189 comments

Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/22338.html

6 years ago

426 upvotes – 318 comments

Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/20/facebook-isnt-free-speech-its-algorithmic-amplification-optimized-for-outrage/

6 years ago

358 upvotes – 161 comments

Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company

https://www.perell.com/blog/boeing-737-max

6 years ago

352 upvotes – 213 comments

Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0

https://www.evilsocket.net/2019/10/19/Weaponizing-and-Gamifying-AI-for-WiFi-Hacking-Presenting-Pwnagotchi-1-0-0/#.Xas1JEBAewV.reddit

6 years ago

336 upvotes – 51 comments

FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices

https://twitter.com/cglyer/status/1182413194360508419

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 70 comments

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plastics-pollution/

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 132 comments

What should have been an IMG element became this

https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/1185604806901207045

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 143 comments

Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA

https://www.thanassis.space/myowncpu.html

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 127 comments

Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/are-we-cusp-next-dot-com-bubble/600232/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307888

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 63 comments

A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 124 comments

Dr Sarah E. Hill: ‘A blind spot about how the pill influences women’s brains’

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/19/dr-sarah-e-hill-how-pill-influences-womens-brains

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 98 comments

Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

https://srlabs.de/bites/smart-spies/

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 62 comments

A Forty Year Career

https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 35 comments

Client-side web programming in Haskell: A retrospective

https://chrisdone.com/posts/clientside-programming-haskell/

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 47 comments
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