top 50% 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

Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

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

6 years ago

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

https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign

6 years ago

★ 1.4k WTFPL

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

Jitsi Meet features update

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

6 years ago

An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

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

6 years ago

Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha

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

6 years ago

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

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

http://dig.ccmixter.org/

6 years ago

I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust

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

6 years ago

Deploys at Slack

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

6 years ago

Mosh

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

6 years ago

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

Office noise generator

https://imisstheoffice.eu/

6 years ago

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

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

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

6 years ago

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

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

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

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

6 years ago

Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs

https://github.com/google/jax

6 years ago

★ 35.5k Python Apache-2.0

Zappy – Screen capture tool

https://zapier.com/zappy

6 years ago

Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810718

6 years ago

Google Wave’s failure is a lesson for modern real-time collaboration tools

https://blog.taskade.com/google-wave-history/

6 years ago

Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813834

6 years ago

Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB

https://www.trek10.com/blog/the-ten-rules-for-data-modeling-with-dynamodb

6 years ago

A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained

http://www.righto.com/2020/04/a-circuit-board-from-saturn-v-rocket.html

6 years ago

HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS

https://legacyos.org/hpe-sets-end-date-for-hobbyist-licenses-for-openvms/

6 years ago

Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX5B6cD4_4

6 years ago

Why it’s so hard to make a good Covid-19 model

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/

6 years ago

How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes

https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/porting-to-typescript-solved-our-api-woes

6 years ago

Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control

https://forklog.media/safety-over-freedom-how-governments-introduce-surveillance-under-veil-of-coronavirus-control/

6 years ago

Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/probable-roman-shipwrecks-unearthed-at-a-serbian-coal-mine/

6 years ago

Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerberg-s-jealousy-held-back-instagram-and-drove-off-founders

6 years ago

Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810639

6 years ago

Uber wants to redefine employment, labor groups are fighting back

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-04-08/labor-groups-ask-congress-to-reject-uber-ceo-plea

6 years ago

A Static Future: The magic of compile-time workflows

https://joshwcomeau.com/gatsby/a-static-future/

6 years ago

Zoom’s 90-day plan to bolster key privacy and security initiatives

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/08/update-on-zoom-90-day-plan-to-bolster-key-privacy-and-security-initiatives/

6 years ago

US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies

6 years ago

First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-first-ever-photo-proof-powerful-jet.html

6 years ago

List of software and things that use or support WireGuard

https://ianix.com/wireguard/wireguard-deployment.html

6 years ago

Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ecs-supports-efs/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813573

6 years ago

Rams [video]

https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/free

6 years ago

Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately

https://usefathom.com/blog/targeted-ads

6 years ago

Promising Covid-19 treatment using convalescent serum therapy fast-tracked

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/04/08/arturo-casadevall-blood-sera-profile

6 years ago

Migrating ZooKeeper into Kubernetes

https://product.hubspot.com/blog/zookeeper-to-kubernetes-migration

6 years ago

AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps

https://raymondcheng.net/projects/decentralization/autodapp-proposal.html

6 years ago

Pydeps: A Useful Program

https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2019/12/pydeps-very-useful-program.html

6 years ago

Anton (Computer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)

6 years ago

Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/tesla-to-cut-employees-pay-as-much-as-30-to-curb-costs-k8qrmfkl

6 years ago

AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, Second Edition

https://artint.info

6 years ago

A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal

https://github.com/KillerFeature/WT64

6 years ago

★ 155 PowerShell

WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article

6 years ago

The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1830480/

6 years ago

Google's Chief Internet Evangelist: 'privacy may be an anomaly' (2013)

https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/20/5125922/vint-cerf-google-internet-evangelist-says-privacy-may-be-anomaly

6 years ago

Go 1.14.2 and Go 1.13.10 are released

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/golang-announce/9UJN3gwMzhY/HVdQFNOVBgAJ

6 years ago

Why Explore the Moon

https://jatan.space/why-explore-the-moon/

6 years ago