top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-04-08

New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

6 years ago

1429 upvotes – 217 comments

Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans-zoom

6 years ago

882 upvotes – 437 comments

Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign

6 years ago

770 upvotes – 186 comments

Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815583

6 years ago

673 upvotes – 180 comments

Jitsi Meet features update

https://jitsi.org/news/features-update-april-2020/

6 years ago

628 upvotes – 196 comments

An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics

6 years ago

462 upvotes – 301 comments

Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/

6 years ago

438 upvotes – 189 comments

Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy-lawsuit/zoom-sued-for-overstating-not-disclosing-privacy-security-flaws-idUKKBN21Q10V

6 years ago

391 upvotes – 157 comments

A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games

http://dig.ccmixter.org/

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 50 comments

I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust

https://timidger.github.io/posts/i-cant-keep-up-with-idiomatic-rust/

6 years ago

378 upvotes – 420 comments

Deploys at Slack

https://slack.engineering/deploys-at-slack-cd0d28c61701

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 136 comments

Mosh

https://www.jefftk.com/p/mosh

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 148 comments

Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-coal/nearly-half-of-global-coal-plants-will-be-unprofitable-this-year-carbon-tracker-idUSKBN21P3HM

6 years ago

303 upvotes – 101 comments

Office noise generator

https://imisstheoffice.eu/

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 145 comments

Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/em/dyson.pdf

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 144 comments

230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question

https://signal.org/blog/earn-it/

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 170 comments

How to Edit Your Own Writing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/smarter-living/how-to-edit-your-own-writing.html

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 65 comments

Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study

https://thinkpol.ca/2020/04/08/covid-19-twice-contagious-previously-thought/

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 295 comments

Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online

https://hn.town.siempre.io/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 46 comments

Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs

https://github.com/google/jax

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 65 comments
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