top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-28

Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174828

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 689 comments

Microsoft Application Inspector

https://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInspector

6 years ago

★ 4.3k C# MIT
419 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167121

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 256 comments

My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec

https://infinitediaries.net/my-2020-hackintosh-hardware-spec/

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 276 comments

U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-robocalls-fraud/u-s-files-lawsuits-over-robocall-scams-cites-massive-financial-losses-idUSKBN1ZR2SM

6 years ago

313 upvotes – 227 comments

How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/28/sign-in-with-apple-popularity

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 323 comments

Thunderbird’s New Home

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 158 comments

Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/trapped-in-iran

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 158 comments

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/apple-reports-record-first-quarter-results/

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 243 comments

Ted versus The Media Lab [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4Kr3Gsadc

6 years ago

278 upvotes – 150 comments

Anatomy of a Scam

https://jacquesmattheij.com/anatomy-of-a-scam/

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 116 comments

Coronavirus Real Time Map

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 139 comments

The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161749

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 183 comments

Show HN: Thinc, a new deep learning library by the makers of spaCy and FastAPI

https://thinc.ai/

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 17 comments

The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/us_world_news/the-pacific-ocean-is-so-acidic-that-it-s-dissolving/article_fd95d429-a451-5cf8-832d-9bb41046f5c8.html

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 151 comments

Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/single-dose-psychedelic-drug-eased-cancer-patients-anxiety-depression-years-n1123451

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 145 comments

Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1k2fymby99nj0/Famed-Medallion-Fund-Stretches-Explanation-to-the-Limit-Professor-Claims

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 187 comments

First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts research in prison

https://portlandphoenix.me/degree-of-difficulty/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 195 comments

Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51281476

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 21 comments

Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22171446

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 63 comments

Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm

https://towardsdatascience.com/jupyter-notebooks-in-the-ide-visual-studio-code-versus-pycharm-5e72218eb3e8

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 104 comments

Hachikō

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachikō

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 41 comments

Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft

http://paulstovell.com/blog/re-next-decade-of-open-source

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 93 comments

Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads

https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/sci-hub-users-cost-asa-journals-hundreds-of-thousands-of-downloads-and-thats-ok/

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170395

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 108 comments

U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-27/chicken-chemicals-eu-trade

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 209 comments

Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357261/Rocket_League_left_behind_on_macOS_and_Linux_due_to_DirectX_11_shift.php

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 222 comments

Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company's climate failures

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/27/amazon-workers-climate-protest

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03949-8

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 69 comments

Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-cops-run-wild-facial-recognition-lawsuits

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 55 comments

Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-urged-open-source-windows-7-to-undo-past-wrongs/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 119 comments

Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics

https://rootsofprogress.org/draining-the-swamp

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 71 comments

Wc in D: 712 Characters Without a Single Branch

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/28/wc-in-d-712-characters-without-a-single-branch/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 85 comments

A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex

http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-happens-when-96-bitcoin-ransom.html

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 121 comments

Automating receipt processing with deep learning

https://nanonets.com/blog/receipt-ocr/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 33 comments

The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October

https://thesoundingline.com/the-fed-has-bought-70-of-net-treasury-issuance-since-october/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 130 comments

Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)

https://blog.mysunland.org/index.php/posts/teens-dont-have-a-clue-about-it

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 190 comments

How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (2014)

https://priceonomics.com/how-the-father-of-claymation-lost-his-company/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications

https://replicache.dev/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/no-office-no-problem-how-ars-technicas-remote-workers-work/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 8 comments

Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand

https://lithub.com/poverty-hurts-children-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News

https://yahnd.com/theater/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 8 comments

American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning

https://github.com/CCExtractor/vardbg

6 years ago

★ 1.1k Python MIT
102 upvotes – 23 comments

LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/28/3

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 83 comments

Coq is a Lean Typechecker

https://coq.discourse.group/t/alpha-announcement-coq-is-a-lean-typechecker/581

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Machine Unlearning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03817

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New Coronavirus

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-warn-of-possible-sustained-global-spread-of-new-coronavirus/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

Distributed SQL vs. NewSQL

https://blog.yugabyte.com/distributedsql-vs-newsql/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

The greatest migration: the history and mystery of Polynesian navigation (2019)

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-reviews-thompson-explores-the-history-and-mystery-of-polynesian-navigation/

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Green Wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_wave

6 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

Climate Target Update Tracker

https://climateactiontracker.org/

6 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change

https://e360.yale.edu/features/deep-decarbonization-a-realistic-way-forward-on-climate-change

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 115 comments

Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51283059

6 years ago

62 upvotes – 82 comments

My butthole has been a location on Facebook since 2012 – I can’t get it removed

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/ev28pn/my_butthole_has_been_a_location_on_facebook_since/

6 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments
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