top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-23

Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015

6 years ago

1350 upvotes – 692 comments

Career advice for people with bad luck

https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad

6 years ago

981 upvotes – 491 comments

If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/363933/182292

6 years ago

895 upvotes – 478 comments

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52388586

6 years ago

768 upvotes – 1000 comments

When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-look-up-call-back/

6 years ago

734 upvotes – 347 comments

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes

6 years ago

589 upvotes – 385 comments

Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/apple-aims-to-sell-macs-with-its-own-chips-starting-in-2021

6 years ago

482 upvotes – 533 comments

Books I recommend to my software engineering students

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/booksformystudents.html

6 years ago

411 upvotes – 116 comments

Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

https://manualdousuario.net/instagram-photos-videos-unlogged-on-computers/

6 years ago

396 upvotes – 301 comments

How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200415-how-to-make-pizza-like-a-neapolitan-master

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 294 comments

Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies

https://www.6sqft.com/new-york-covid-antibody-test-preliminary-results/

6 years ago

364 upvotes – 651 comments

The ProtonMail Android app is now open source

https://protonmail.com/blog/android-open-source/

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 78 comments

When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html

6 years ago

273 upvotes – 112 comments

Rust 1.43

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/04/23/Rust-1.43.0.html

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 104 comments

Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers

https://capnproto.org/news/2020-04-23-capnproto-0.8.html

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 72 comments

The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52394485

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 210 comments

Covid-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons

https://quillette.com/2020/04/23/covid-19-superspreader-events-in-28-countries-critical-patterns-and-lessons/

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 146 comments

Medical staffing companies cut doctors’ pay while spending millions on ads

https://www.propublica.org/article/medical-staffing-companies-cut-doctors-pay-while-spending-millions-on-political-ads

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 74 comments

A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/experimental-webgpu-in-firefox/

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 77 comments

A primer on some C obfuscation tricks

https://github.com/ColinIanKing/christmas-obfuscated-C/blob/master/tricks/obfuscation-tricks.txt

6 years ago

★ 378 C
223 upvotes – 88 comments

Why We Can't Build

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 218 comments

Paris to Create 650 Kilometers of Post-Lockdown Cycleways

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/04/22/paris-to-create-650-kilometers-of-pop-up-corona-cycleways-for-post-lockdown-travel/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 83 comments

Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification

https://www.blog.google/products/ads/advertiser-identity-verification-for-transparency/

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 92 comments

Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-returns-amazon-management-covid-19-2020-4

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 264 comments

Ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived millenia because it worked (2018)

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/biology-fields/ancient-egyptian-pregnancy-test-survived-millenia-because-it-worked.htm

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 92 comments

EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AcB4x7JCWET0ysDr0gsX-EIdQSTyBtmi6OAW7bE0jm0/edit#slide=id.g704abb5039_2_106

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 89 comments

Pennsylvania factory team clocks out after 28 days of live-in work for masks

https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/pa-factory-team-clocks-out-after-28-days-of-live-in-work-making-coronavirus-protective-material.html

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 78 comments

Why not “Why not WireGuard?”

https://tailscale.com/blog/why-not-why-not-wireguard/

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 41 comments

I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (2013)

http://mhawthorne.net/posts/2013-etsy-netflix-I-push-therefore-I-am/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 75 comments

UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/23/uk_snoopers_charter_sequel/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 72 comments

Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/23/rel/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 73 comments

75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/telecom/internet/georgian-woman-accidentally-brings-down-armenias-internet

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 97 comments

Federal Reserve balance sheet trends

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 259 comments

Amazon AppFlow

https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 109 comments

Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?

https://jakewharton.com/which-is-better-on-android-divide-by-two-or-shift-by-one/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 110 comments

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xeonr-ubu1804-2004&num=9

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

We’re Testing the Wrong People

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/were-testing-the-wrong-people/610234/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 150 comments

Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/instacart-announces-new-covid-19-policies-and-plans-to-hire-250000-more-shoppers/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 166 comments

I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs in my code

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/08/02/stop-apologizing-for-bugs

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 183 comments

Lubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

https://lubuntu.me/focal-released/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 121 comments

Comparison of C++17, Go, and Java for a next-generation sequencing tool

https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-2903-5

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 186 comments

Show HN: An online collaborative UML editor using PlantUML

http://collabuml.com

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 comments

GitHub was down again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955611

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 76 comments

Engineering challenges for children during lockdown

https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/resources/challenge-cards.html

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Host your own minimal file sharing site (now with expiring files)

https://github.com/nikosch86/file-upload

6 years ago

★ 155 Shell
110 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Maps SDK is crashing

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/154855417

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments
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