top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-27

Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

https://twitter.com/disneyplus/status/1254772307941191686

6 years ago

textfiles.com

http://www.textfiles.com/

6 years ago

Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2020/04/20/first-release.html

6 years ago

How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/27/how-to-avoid-amazon-the-definitive-guide-to-online-shopping-without-the-retail-titan

6 years ago

I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year

https://nicklafferty.com/blog/i-spent-6-million-on-google-ads-last-year-here-s-what-i-learned/

6 years ago

Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities

https://keys.pub/

6 years ago

The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May

https://sfmayor.org/article/joint-statement-seven-bay-area-health-officers-upcoming-extension-and-revisions-current

6 years ago

Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05074

6 years ago

Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

https://www.dansdeals.com/more/site-announcements/twitter-kills-off-sms-notifications-posting-countries-deletes-sms-followers-without-providing-warning/

6 years ago

Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1150_7m58.pdf

6 years ago

NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52441428

6 years ago

Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust

https://github.com/dandavison/delta

6 years ago

★ 30.5k Rust MIT

Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/27/hear-scientists-different-views-covid-19-dont-attack-them/

6 years ago

SICP in Python

https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/

6 years ago

A Critique of React Hooks

https://dillonshook.com/a-critique-of-react-hooks/

6 years ago

HSE: Heterogeneous-memory storage engine designed for SSDs

https://github.com/hse-project/hse

6 years ago

★ 673 C

YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10934

6 years ago

How coffee became a modern necessity

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-coffee-became-a-modern-necessity-11585972861

6 years ago

Debugging Distributed Systems

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2927299.2940294

6 years ago

Mastering systemd: Securing and sandboxing applications and services

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/mastering-systemd

6 years ago

Wi-Fi over Coax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_over_Coax

6 years ago

GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt

https://francescmm.github.io/GitQlient/

6 years ago

Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams

https://www.cyberark.com/threat-research-blog/beware-of-the-gif-account-takeover-vulnerability-in-microsoft-teams/

6 years ago

Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/leo-tolstoys-childrens-stories-will-devastate-your-children-and-make-you-want-to-die/

6 years ago

Heat Pump Water Heaters

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/water-heating/heat-pump-water-heaters

6 years ago

Controlling My A/C with a Gameboy

http://jg.sn.sg/ir/

6 years ago

How does a TCP Reset Attack work?

https://robertheaton.com/2020/04/27/how-does-a-tcp-reset-attack-work/

6 years ago

Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha

https://zerodha.tech/blog/infra-monitoring-at-zerodha/

6 years ago

Principles and priorities

https://adactio.com/journal/16811

6 years ago

2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees

https://www.wcvb.com/article/2-million-chickens-will-be-killed-in-us-processing-plants-because-of-lack-of-employees/32279804

6 years ago

The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018)

http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

6 years ago

Show HN: An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors

https://cone.app

6 years ago

Benchmarking C++ Allocators

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTJmRADDPyybMjBxQ5r-PHEdHQWoOW-Wk87IVoT_EvFv9B5Ks3Mjuk8IXIDYPKFvWW6ezsl9PSZ1JbF/pub

6 years ago

The Diminishing Returns of Everything

https://stevenshang.com/things-i-learned-today-april-25-2020

6 years ago

Wealth Inequalities Shown to the Scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

6 years ago

Build institutions, not apps

https://www.marklutter.com/post/build-institutions-not-apps

6 years ago

Trends in Show HN posts

https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=Show+HN&f=title&s=text&m=frac_items&t=month

6 years ago

The Birth of Calculus (1986) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObPg3ki9GOI

6 years ago

Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels

https://duo.com/labs/research/finding-radio-sidechannels

6 years ago

GDPR Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/technology/GDPR-privacy-law-europe.html

6 years ago

Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15746/opencl-30-announced-hitting-reset-on-compute-frameworks

6 years ago

Google inserts links to its Duo video chat app when users text about Zoom

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/google-adds-sketchy-duo-link-when-zoom-is-mentioned-on-android

6 years ago

Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22994984

6 years ago

Towards Sequoia OpenPGP v1.0

https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2020/04/26/202004-towards-sequoia-v1.0/

6 years ago

Porting a React Front End to TypeScript

https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/porting-a-react-frontend-to-typescript

6 years ago

I designed and built my own function generator

http://cushychicken.github.io/bfunc-retro-one/

6 years ago

Foucault pendulum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum

6 years ago