top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-28

“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187

6 years ago

The Anti-Amazon Alliance

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-anti-amazon-alliance/

6 years ago

British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/

6 years ago

With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube

https://waxy.org/2020/04/jay-z-orders-deepfake-audio-parodies-off-youtube/

6 years ago

Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-discusses-plan-to-lay-off-about-20-of-employees?&pu=hackernews0hocd3&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

Good writing is a business advantage

https://adaged.blogspot.com/2020/04/good-writing-is-business-advantage.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing

https://github.com/mifi/editly

6 years ago

★ 5.3k TypeScript MIT

IPFS 0.5

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-04-28-go-ipfs-0-5-0/

6 years ago

Gallery of database schema diagrams of open-source packages

https://drawsql.app/templates

6 years ago

Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address

https://twitter.com/bicycult/status/1254789591283851264

6 years ago

Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

6 years ago

DigitalOcean VPC

https://blog.digitalocean.com/vpc-trust-platform/

6 years ago

Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-growing-cohort-of-overwhelmed-parents-unengaged-children-drop/

6 years ago

CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth

https://onezero.medium.com/ceo-of-surveillance-firm-banjo-once-helped-kkk-leader-shoot-up-synagogue-fdba4ad32829

6 years ago

Inside of a Tractor Cab [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dQItxc5zto

6 years ago

YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine

https://www.theblaze.com/news/youtube-removed-viral-doctor-video-end-quarantine

6 years ago

US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies

https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies

6 years ago

Better C – A subset of D Programming Language

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

6 years ago

India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52435463

6 years ago

What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-decompile

6 years ago

What I wish I knew about React

https://bitsofco.de/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-react/

6 years ago

Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

https://www.tylermw.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-making-3d-maps-with-satellite-imagery-in-r/

6 years ago

0.999...= 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

6 years ago

We Need DevOps for ML Data

https://tecton.ai/blog/devops-ml-data/

6 years ago

Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough

https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-school-districts-plan-to-end-the-year-early-call-remote-learning-too-tough-11588084673

6 years ago

A little-known airline has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/air-sinai-ghost-flight

6 years ago

Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/zoom-taps-oracle-for-cloud-deal-passing-over-amazon-microsoft.html

6 years ago

How we use Rust in our mobile SDK

https://bionic.fullstory.com/rust-at-fullstory-part-2/

6 years ago

At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/computer-vision-police-discrimination/

6 years ago

May Sky Challenge

https://mayskychallenge.com/

6 years ago

The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-28/facebook-beat-a-2018-wiretap-case-the-aclu-wants-to-know-why

6 years ago

Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast

6 years ago

Airport Stuffed with Airliners

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33141/these-aerial-and-satellite-photos-of-an-airport-absolutely-stuffed-with-airliners-are-nuts

6 years ago

Building a WireGuard jail with FreeBSD's standard tools

https://genneko.github.io/playing-with-bsd/networking/freebsd-wireguard-jail/

6 years ago

Conventional Comments

https://conventionalcomments.org/

6 years ago

Hunting a Linux kernel bug

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2020/hunting-a-linux-kernel-bug.html

6 years ago

Google Pixel Buds

https://blog.google/products/pixel-buds/pixel-buds-now-available

6 years ago

Show HN: Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

https://liftbridge.io

6 years ago

Boiling the machines when they needed to just chill

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/28/boil/

6 years ago

Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps

https://github.com/furkansenharputlu/f-license

6 years ago

★ 823 Go Apache-2.0

More Descent, Less Gradient

https://koaning.io/posts/more-descent-less-gradient/

6 years ago

Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/would-you-have-fallen-for-this-phone-scam/

6 years ago

Astroquery: A package that contains tools to access online astronomical data

https://github.com/astropy/astroquery

6 years ago

★ 775 Python BSD-3-Clause

Having trouble with the IRS site? Try all caps

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-27/irs-website-hack-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-all-caps

6 years ago

Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)

http://toastytech.com/evil/index.html

6 years ago

Zoom 5.0

https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/zoom-v5-0.html

6 years ago

9M logs of Brits' road journeys spill from number-plate camera dashboard

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/anpr_sheffield_council/

6 years ago

Fed aid program for corporations won't require them to preserve jobs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/federal-reserve-bond-corporations/

6 years ago

Tripadvisor lays off 25% of workforce

https://skift.com/2020/04/28/tripadvisor-lays-off-25-percent-of-global-workforce-closes-some-offices/

6 years ago

Deep dive into runc and OCI specifications

https://mkdev.me/en/posts/the-tool-that-really-runs-your-containers-deep-dive-into-runc-and-oci-specifications

6 years ago

When does React re-render? Explaining rerenders and how to optimize performance

https://felixgerschau.com/react-rerender-components

6 years ago

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=4690b9f

6 years ago

Extremely Large Telescope

https://projectescape.eu/science-projects/extremely-large-telescope

6 years ago

Ask HN: What is the real difference between Terraform and Ansible?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005228

6 years ago

Millions of Americans can't afford food, rent and other basics, report finds

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-food-rent-basic-expenses-coronavirus-crisis/

6 years ago

Software Is Polluting the World

https://www.kentdebruin.com/blog/software-is-polluting-the-world

6 years ago

Facebook and the Silent Bob Effect (2019)

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/facebook-and-the-silent-bob-effect/

6 years ago

Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few (2019)

https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368

6 years ago