top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-03

Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/

6 years ago

1248 upvotes – 302 comments

How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

https://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/how-i-recovered-over-300k-of-bitcoin/

6 years ago

998 upvotes – 198 comments

Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/1/web/1

6 years ago

771 upvotes – 312 comments

Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

http://schools.nyc.gov/freemeals

6 years ago

710 upvotes – 454 comments

PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-is-the-worlds-best-database/

6 years ago

591 upvotes – 355 comments

Secret iPad

https://thinkfractional.blog/secret-ipad/

6 years ago

537 upvotes – 82 comments

How We reduced our Google Maps API cost

https://blog.cityflo.com/how-we-reduced-our-google-maps-api-cost/

6 years ago

430 upvotes – 163 comments

OpenTTD 1.10

https://www.openttd.org/news/2020/04/01/openttd-1-10-0.html

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22770643

6 years ago

391 upvotes – 320 comments

Tell HN: Launch HN Test

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767151

6 years ago

385 upvotes – 106 comments

Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22773810

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 47 comments

Nim 1.2

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/04/03/version-120-released.html

6 years ago

358 upvotes – 128 comments

Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/os-x-server/id883878097

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 141 comments

Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/twitter-direct-message-caching-and-firefox/

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 69 comments

Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 124 comments

Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning

https://amitness.com/2020/03/fixmatch-semi-supervised/

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 47 comments

Free software tools for staying in touch

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 57 comments

How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom

https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 176 comments

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769789

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 309 comments

Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante

https://netflixtechblog.com/bringing-4k-and-hdr-to-anime-at-netflix-with-sol-levante-fa68105067cd

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 120 comments

How I lost control of our bank accounts to a phone scammer

https://robservatory.com/how-i-lost-control-of-our-bank-accounts-to-a-phone-scammer/

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 139 comments

Introduction to Permaculture (1994)

https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00moll/mode/2up

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 58 comments

Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 96 comments

SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/spacex-loses-its-third-starship-prototype-during-a-cryogenic-test/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 198 comments

Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/04/03/does-zoom-use-end-to-end-encryption/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 99 comments

Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/02/dear-jeff-bezos-amazon-instead-of-firing-me-protect-your-workers-from-coronavirus

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 132 comments

Windows 10 Hosted App Model

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/03/19/hosted-app-model/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 109 comments

Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports

https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 83 comments

Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

https://github.com/jethrokuan/org-roam

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

https://github.com/capnmidnight/lozya

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 43 comments

Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon

https://www.insidehook.com/article/bookshop-independent-bookstores-amazon

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/03/zoom-waiting-rooms-default/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

Iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust

https://github.com/hecrj/iced

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 48 comments

The Object Model of Self

https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/articles/tree/master/SelfObjectModel

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 30 comments

Private Equity Wants in on the Bailout? Spare Me

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-02/coronavirus-private-equity-wants-in-on-small-business-bailout

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 131 comments

The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-anarchist-abstractionist-who-was-alexander-grothendieck-cc396083d94e

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 58 comments

Rust docs team is no more

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/03/27/goodbye-docs-team.html

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 44 comments

Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/solutions-journalism/2019/09/05/gainesville-florida-put-its-internal-emails-online-making-residents-angry-frustrating-journalists/2196171001/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-01/tracking-coronavirus-by-smell-test-is-risk-manager-s-project-now

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 110 comments

Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/homo-erectrus-australopithecus-saranthropus-south-africa-180974571/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 21 comments

Americans are underestimating how long disruptions will last, health experts say

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/03/americans-are-underestimating-how-long-coronavirus-disruptions-will-last-health-experts-say/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 439 comments

Deep Molecular Programming

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13720

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 11 comments

Nvidia Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 25 comments

Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/bank-of-americas-small-business-loan-portal-is-up-making-it-the-first-bank-to-accept-applications.html

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 193 comments

Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler

https://github.com/cxxxr/valtan

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 87 comments

How to flash an LED: writing ARM assembly for an STM32 microcontroller

https://mcla.ug/blog/how-to-flash-an-led.html

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Apple Store leaks 4.7-inch ‘iPhone SE’ name

https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/02/exclusive-iphone-9-launch-imminent-2020-iphone-se-in-red-white-and-black/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 110 comments

Bug bounty platforms buy researcher silence, violate labor laws, critics say

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3535888/bug-bounty-platforms-buy-researcher-silence-violate-labor-laws-critics-say.html

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

“farewell outline. we have all been laid off.”

https://twitter.com/leahfinnegan/status/1246070831807188993

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 53 comments

Zoom Has a Dark Side – and an FBI Warning

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826129520/a-must-for-millions-zoom-has-a-dark-side-and-an-fbi-warning

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 29 comments

Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/04/temporarily-rolling-back-samesite.html

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

New WebKit Features in Safari 13.1

https://webkit.org/blog/10247/new-webkit-features-in-safari-13-1/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

Most-recommended programming books

https://www.daolf.com/posts/best-programming-books/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

When debugging, attitude matters

https://jvns.ca/blog/debugging-attitude-matters/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform

https://jcs.org/2019/05/03/mailstation

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: KCP: a new low-latency, secure network stack

https://improbable.io/blog/kcp-a-new-low-latency-secure-network-stack

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Electricity as Power (1880) [pdf]

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/os-1/1/5.full.pdf

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments
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