top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-05-05

Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/05/citing-revenue-declines-airbnb-cuts-1900-jobs-or-around-25-of-its-global-workforce/

5 years ago

791 upvotes – 901 comments

Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/04/14/april-extensions-for-firefox-preview/

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 179 comments

How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)

https://leerob.io/blog/how-stripe-designs-beautiful-websites

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 159 comments

Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)

http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/index.html

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 96 comments

Firefox 76

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

422 upvotes – 264 comments

Humans Not Invited

http://www.humansnotinvited.com/

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 130 comments

Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-has-reportedly-suffered-a-significant-legacy-console-leak/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 213 comments

Ask HN: I work for AWS. How do I encourage change for Amazon warehouse workers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23083496

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 213 comments

Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update

https://bill.harding.blog/2020/04/26/linux-touchpad-like-a-macbook-pro-may-2020-update/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 324 comments

Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/utah-boy-driver.html

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 208 comments

OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-15

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 92 comments

Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App

https://blog.tumult.com/2020/05/04/reviving-a-16-year-old-mac-app/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 102 comments

Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-04/coronavirus-causes-blood-clots-harming-organs-from-brain-to-toes

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 107 comments

We are complicit in our employer’s deeds

https://drewdevault.com/2020/05/05/We-are-complicit-in-our-employers-deeds.html

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 179 comments

Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative metaprogramming

https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 139 comments

Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS

https://www.trek10.com/blog/guiding-priciples-for-building-saas-on-aws

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 90 comments

California sues Uber and Lyft, claiming workers are misclassified

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/california-uber-lyft-lawsuit.html

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: Endpoints.dev – Pastebin for HTTP Requests

https://endpoints.dev

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 50 comments

Nazar: Analyzing malware that was uncovered in leaked NSA files

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/nazar-spirits-of-the-past/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Canvas engines performance comparison – PixiJS, Two.js, and Paper.js

https://benchmarks.slaylines.io

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 102 comments
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