top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-06

DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

https://www.bitlog.com/2020/03/06/duckduckgo-is-good-enough-for-regular-use/

6 years ago

1158 upvotes – 476 comments

The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/03/06/earn-it-is-an-attack-on-encryption/

6 years ago

715 upvotes – 309 comments

Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month

https://blog.sia.tech/cloud-storage-for-2-tb-mo-8a34043e93bb

6 years ago

659 upvotes – 334 comments

Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/who-is-facebooks-mysterious-lan-tim-2/

6 years ago

657 upvotes – 315 comments

Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

https://news.uark.edu/articles/52447/caffeine-boosts-problem-solving-ability-but-not-creativity-study-indicates

6 years ago

466 upvotes – 194 comments

6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

https://lunchbag.ca/lunch-money-mistakes/

6 years ago

454 upvotes – 161 comments

Stages of denial in encountering K

http://nsl.com/papers/denial.html

6 years ago

439 upvotes – 422 comments

Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/study-shows-low-carb-diet-may-prevent-reverse-age-related-effects-within-the-brain/

6 years ago

429 upvotes – 328 comments

Not being an asshole will make you more money

https://www.atlassquats.com/post/not-being-an-asshole-will-make-you-more-money

6 years ago

397 upvotes – 299 comments

Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03129

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 135 comments

A googol-to-one gear ratio [video]

https://www.kottke.org/20/03/heres-what-a-googol-to-one-gear-ratio-looks-like

6 years ago

276 upvotes – 108 comments

Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-can-clone-millions-of-toyota-hyundai-kia-keys/

6 years ago

276 upvotes – 141 comments

Knowledge Graphs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02320

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 49 comments

YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w20-online-demo-day/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 106 comments

21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/21-yr-old-student-from-pune-and-the-curious-case-of-her-changing-hands-6301734/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 79 comments

FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 107 comments

AMD is determined to gets its rightful datacenter share

https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/03/06/amd-is-determined-to-gets-its-rightful-datacenter-share/

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 115 comments

Philips Hue Bridge v1 online services will be shut off after April 2020

https://twitter.com/tweethue/status/1235844699253956609

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 147 comments

Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias-audacious-operation-that-gave-them-access-to-state-secrets

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 91 comments

Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/scientists-monitored-brains-replaying-memories-real-time

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 51 comments

SXSW Cancelled Due to Coronavirus

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/06/sxsw-cancelled/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications

https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2020/mar/05/apple-ios-developers-send-ads-push-notifications/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 139 comments

If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make them meaningless?

https://www.academia.edu/30544981/If_Nearly_all_Airbnb_Reviews_are_Positive_Does_that_Make_them_Meaningless?email_work_card=title

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 205 comments

Two new ways to read a file quickly

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/813827/5a28c7fcd5ffadbb/

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 89 comments

Launch HN: Datasaur (YC W20) – data labeling interface for NLP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506429

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 62 comments

Sonos is getting rid of its controversial “recycle mode”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/5/21166777/sonos-ending-recycle-mode-trade-up-program-sustainability

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43645676

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 332 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion

https://feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 32 comments

Coronavirus outbreak makes lobsters so cheap that sellers face a fatal blow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-05/virus-makes-luxe-lobsters-so-cheap-that-sellers-face-fatal-blow

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 307 comments

Johns Hopkins CSSE Covid-19 Global Case Dashboard

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/85320e2ea5424dfaaa75ae62e5c06e61

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 156 comments

‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to track phones without warrants

https://www.protocol.com/government-buying-location-data

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

Operation Dark Winter

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

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 104 comments

Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation

https://www.hanshq.net/zip.html

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Try Out Management

https://adamconrad.dev/blog/technical-lead-management/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 33 comments

Minsky moment

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

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 91 comments

Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/5/21166686/coronavirus-amazon-google-facebook-microsoft-twitter-seattle-staff-remote-work

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 87 comments

Stanford Medicine COVID-19 test now in use

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/stanford-medicine-COVID-19-test-now-in-use.html

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Building Spectro: a Real-Time WebGL audio spectrogram visualizer

https://github.com/calebj0seph/spectro/blob/master/docs/making-of.md

6 years ago

★ 597 TypeScript MIT
123 upvotes – 28 comments

Indian bank's meltdown takes out several popular services

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/06/indias-yes-bank-breakdown-disrupts-walmarts-phonepe-among-a-dozen-other-services/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

Pair Programming Economics

https://wiki.c2.com/?PairProgrammingEconomics

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 77 comments

Using Models to Stay Calm in Charged Situations

https://fs.blog/2020/03/models-charged-situations/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Torture prevalent, effective in popular movies, study finds

https://www.ua.edu/news/2020/01/torture-prevalent-effective-in-popular-movies-study-finds/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: Animating randomized L-Systems in real time

https://ehrenjn.github.io/LSystems/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Remotely dump memory with no interaction on iPhone 11 Pro (fixed in iOS 13.3.1)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1982

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

Taking Someone Aside (2018)

https://www.jefftk.com/p/taking-someone-aside

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

The race to save Polesia, Europe's Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/the-race-to-save-polesia-europes-secret-amazon-aoe

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 32 comments

SARSCoV2 cell entry depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2, blockable by protease inhibitor

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30229-4

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 78 comments

Novel Laser-Based Method Effectively De-Ices Aircraft

https://optics.org/news/11/1/97

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments
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