top 50% 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/

6 years ago

Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere

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

6 years ago

How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)

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

6 years ago

Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)

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

6 years ago

Firefox 76

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

6 years ago

Humans Not Invited

http://www.humansnotinvited.com/

6 years ago

Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice

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

6 years ago

Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

We are complicit in our employer’s deeds

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

6 years ago

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

https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle

6 years ago

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Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS

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

6 years ago

California sues Uber and Lyft, claiming workers are misclassified

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

6 years ago

Show HN: Endpoints.dev – Pastebin for HTTP Requests

https://endpoints.dev

6 years ago

Nazar: Analyzing malware that was uncovered in leaked NSA files

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

6 years ago

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

https://benchmarks.slaylines.io

6 years ago

Apple will host WWDC virtually, beginning June 22

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/05/apple-to-host-virtual-worldwide-developers-conference-beginning-june-22/

6 years ago

Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scrolltrotter/mppejknbhapogefdpekbpalahphlhgdm

6 years ago

Point of WebGPU on Native

http://kvark.github.io/web/gpu/native/2020/05/03/point-of-webgpu-native.html

6 years ago

The Framing of the Developer

https://www.svese.de/impact-vs-backlog-frame-in-software-development

6 years ago

Retrofuturism

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

6 years ago

How to Detect Business Fraud

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/04/30/how-to-detect-business-fraud

6 years ago

Learn sound theory with an acclaimed synth company

https://sfree.life/sound-theory-toyota-vangelis-bastl-instruments-free/

6 years ago

Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/introducing-web-vitals-essential-metrics.html

6 years ago

A visual explanation for regularization of linear models

https://explained.ai/regularization/index.html

6 years ago

Best CPUs for Workstations

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations

6 years ago

An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor

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

6 years ago

SaltStack Mining Attack

https://saltexploit.com/

6 years ago

React-flow: a library to create interactive node-based graphs

https://webkid.io/blog/react-flow-node-based-graph-library/

6 years ago

Why does musl make my Rust code so slow?

https://andygrove.io/2020/05/why-musl-extremely-slow/

6 years ago

Ruby Next: A Transpiler for Ruby

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ruby-next-make-all-rubies-quack-alike

6 years ago

Advanced Programming Languages (2009)

http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

6 years ago

How to correct a team member: avoid my damaging rookie mistakes

https://deliverydoubled.com/correcting-a-team-member-avoid-my-damaging-rookie-mistakes/

6 years ago

OpenRAMAN – Low-cost, high-performance, open-source Raman spectrometer

http://www.open-raman.org/

6 years ago

Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/hopl-4-emacs-lisp.pdf

6 years ago

San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate

https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/sf-outbound-surge-2020/

6 years ago

A Map of the Trees of London

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/05/05/a-map-of-the-trees-of-london/

6 years ago

How to get stock fundamentals data with Python

http://theautomatic.net/2020/05/05/how-to-download-fundamentals-data-with-python/

6 years ago

The Content Marketing Handbook (2015)

https://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/

6 years ago

Supreme Court of the United States to Live Stream Oral Arguments

https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/pr_04-30-20

6 years ago

Surveillance plane starts flying over Baltimore

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-police-surveillance-plane-starts-flying-recording-everyones-movements/32346318

6 years ago

Post Mortem on Salt Incident

https://blog.algolia.com/salt-incident-may-3rd-2020-retrospective-and-update/

6 years ago

A Map of Trees in London

https://www.treetalk.co.uk/map/#xyz=8.2/51.508/-0.128

6 years ago

Deleting data distributed throughout a microservice architecture

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2020/deleting-data-distributed-throughout-your-microservices-architecture.html

6 years ago

How to trigger races reliably in the Linux kernel

https://people.kernel.org/metan/how-to-trigger-races-reliably

6 years ago

Keeping bees means thinking about landscape as a system

https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-bees-means-thinking-about-landscape-as-a-system

6 years ago

Ask HN: How to be fluent in functional language speak?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078173

6 years ago

In Defense of Inclusionism (2009-18)

https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism

6 years ago

Textile Hub: databases, storage, and remote IPFS for app builders

https://blog.textile.io/announcing-the-textile-protocol-hub/

6 years ago

Animals killed since opening this page

https://justone.earth/food/

6 years ago

What we get wrong about Machiavelli

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-we-get-wrong-about-machiavelli-the-prince-ferdinand-mount

6 years ago

Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era Interconnect

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3293/inside-rosetta-the-engine-behind-crays-slingshot-exascale-era-interconnect/

6 years ago

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? (2019)

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science

6 years ago

Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (2006)

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2006-12-04/closing-collapse-gap-ussr-was-better-prepared-collapse-us/

6 years ago