top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-31

Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls

6 years ago

1922 upvotes – 743 comments

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/

6 years ago

1230 upvotes – 339 comments

FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363399A1.pdf

6 years ago

929 upvotes – 335 comments

Apple acquires Dark Sky

https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/

6 years ago

894 upvotes – 576 comments

Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-30/amazon-worker-who-led-strike-over-virus-says-company-fired-him

6 years ago

835 upvotes – 345 comments

How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’

https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193

6 years ago

796 upvotes – 325 comments

I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH

https://feed.tyler.io/so-uh-i-think-catalina-10154-broke-ssh/

6 years ago

733 upvotes – 340 comments

Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/court-violating-a-sites-terms-of-service-isnt-criminal-hacking/

6 years ago

513 upvotes – 111 comments

Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed

6 years ago

★ 2.7k Nim Unlicense
480 upvotes – 113 comments

Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy

https://www.superhighway98.com/google

6 years ago

443 upvotes – 269 comments

Trolls break into meetings on Zoom

https://www.businessinsider.com/aa-intergroup-meetings-zoom-bombing-trolls-alcoholics-anonymous-2020-3

6 years ago

442 upvotes – 291 comments

“C is how the computer works” is a dangerous mindset for C programmers

https://words.steveklabnik.com/c-is-how-the-computer-works-is-a-dangerous-mindset-for-c-programmers

6 years ago

337 upvotes – 368 comments

Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access

https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-2-beta-b7bcl0gd8d8e

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 122 comments

Planning and Managing Layoffs

https://a16z.com/2020/03/31/planning-and-managing-layoffs/

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 156 comments

Industry spent millions selling recycling, to sell more plastic

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631/plastic-wars-three-takeaways-from-the-fight-over-the-future-of-plastics

6 years ago

279 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22737423

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 249 comments

People are planting more vegetable gardens

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/27/822514756/fearing-shortages-people-are-planting-more-vegetable-gardens

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 240 comments

Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marriott-intnl-data-breach/marriott-says-5-2-million-guests-exposed-in-new-data-breach-idUSKBN21I3DC

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 69 comments

The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1739154-changes-to-the-official-unreal-engine-wiki

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 130 comments

Ask HN: How to self study management, especially supply chain management?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736545

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 49 comments

Signaling as a Service

https://julian.digital/2020/03/28/signaling-as-a-service/

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 93 comments

Machine translation of cortical activity to text with encoder–decoder framework

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0608-8.epdf?referrer_access_token=yqi8gndGo3bsyqSOt-QH49RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PGGLjJSIdJ3hFHzrqzGtisj2DRxrMxg3xPhwYR9Or_MFFWi9FFLCitwQPN6hzDOfuddKxNu7NRPQzS80eVE9peKMdJN14zNjJ66HDiFw8OaB3K899HudKHwkGg7prtc2MKkCosR0Mg9lyu2R8tDA-O-XP-CgHFT7NJfXeq8il1mGo_26BUelda8VnFBttFRYIzC7ZAr5I03DG6S_NFvZQTiBj8zrA4P4qwNArhZ0sCMS7bc6l-KY6PS-SIqYDW2LvT2pkbfxepOjoNylWMqOyE&tracking_referrer=www.theguardian.com

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 91 comments

Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Lists

https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friendly-plant-lists

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 45 comments

Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20200331-theia.php

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 147 comments

The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux

https://www.linaro.org/blog/the-end-of-an-era/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 72 comments

How YC will be funding the S20 batch

https://dalton.substack.com/p/how-yc-will-be-funding-the-s20-batch

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 43 comments

Amazon struggles to find its coronavirus footing

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-struggles-to-find-its-coronavirus-footing-its-a-time-of-great-stress-11585664987

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 118 comments

What is the engineering hiring bar?

http://blog.interviewing.io/the-eng-hiring-bar-what-the-hell-is-it/

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 278 comments

Lens – open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters

https://k8slens.dev/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Xcnotary – a Mac app notarization helper made with Rust

https://github.com/akeru-inc/xcnotary/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

★ 646 Rust MIT
125 upvotes – 29 comments

Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmeka/whole-foods-employees-are-staging-a-nationwide-sick-out

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon

https://github.com/johntitus/bungholio

6 years ago

★ 168 JavaScript MIT
119 upvotes – 57 comments

Masks4All: Wear a mask to stop the spread of Coronavirus (Jeremy Howard)

https://masks4all.co/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 150 comments

Binance to acquire CoinMarketCap for $400M

https://decrypt.co/24031/binance-to-acquire-coinmarketcap-in-400-million-deal

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Achieving full-motion video on the Nintendo 64 (2000) [pdf]

https://ultra64.ca/files/other/Game-Developer-Magazine/GDM_September_2000_Achieving_Full-Motion_Video_on_the_Nintnedo_64.pdf

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3376122

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Agent57-Outperforming-the-human-Atari-benchmark

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

Service Directory: Manage all your services in one place at scale

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/introducing-service-directory

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

A reduction in seismic noise is a boon for geoscientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00965-x

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments
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