top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-06

GitHub Codespaces

https://github.com/features/codespaces

5 years ago

1769 upvotes – 601 comments

No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/

5 years ago

1108 upvotes – 974 comments

Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092657

5 years ago

1084 upvotes – 815 comments

Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374

5 years ago

824 upvotes – 356 comments

Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999

5 years ago

779 upvotes – 755 comments

Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

https://buttplug.io/

5 years ago

770 upvotes – 249 comments

Florian Schneider has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52564281

5 years ago

542 upvotes – 151 comments

Inkscape 1.0

https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.0#Inkscape_1.0

5 years ago

533 upvotes – 123 comments

Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/uber-is-laying-off-3700-as-rides-plummet-due-to-covid-19/

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 533 comments

Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition [pdf]

https://users.aalto.fi/~ave/BDA3.pdf

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 48 comments

GitHub Codescanning

https://github.com/features/security/advanced-security/signup

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 73 comments

Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52532930

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 218 comments

Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

https://www.beekeeperstudio.io

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 132 comments

Onfim

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

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 49 comments

Norsk Data

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

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation

https://axiom.ai/

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 129 comments

Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2020/05/06/introducing-surface-go-2-surface-book-3-surface-headphones-2-and-surface-earbuds/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 285 comments

Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/06/researchers-show-herpes-link-to-alzheimers/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 121 comments

When Parallel: Pull, Don't Push

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/04/30/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB

https://frappebooks.com

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089599

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 133 comments

I got my first $50/mo customer

https://www.alexwest.co/posts/129

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 183 comments

Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/bill_joys_greatest_gift/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 180 comments

Show HN: This Fursona Does Not Exist

https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 155 comments

GitHub Insights

https://github.com/features/insights

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 56 comments

Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code

https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 32 comments

An introduction to virtual memory

https://www.internalpointers.com/post/introduction-virtual-memory

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 17 comments

Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero

https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1257832168455208963

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

Initial Impressions of WSL 2

https://daverupert.com/2020/05/initial-impressions-of-wsl-2/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 230 comments

SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype fires rocket engine for first time

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn4-engine-static-fire-test.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 60 comments

The iPad's new cursor and keyboard

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/how-apple-reinvented-the-cursor-for-ipad/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 173 comments

GitHub Satellite Livestream

https://githubsatellite.com/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 17 comments

Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/01/31/whats-tls/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2007/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to remove news articles from HN

http://hn.luap.info/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Jet propulsion by microwave air plasma in the atmosphere

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/microwave-thruster-makes-for-clean-burning-jet/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/06/850454989/eerie-emptiness-of-ers-worries-doctors-where-are-the-heart-attacks-and-strokes

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 209 comments

GoDaddy hack: Miscreant steals SSH login creds after vandalizing server file

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/05/godaddy_ssh_login_details_compromised/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 10 comments

Prototype of a rotating detonation engine, previously thought impossible

https://newatlas.com/space/rotating-detonation-engine-ucf-hydrogen-oxygen/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 53 comments

The Rise and Fall of BowieNet

http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/when-david-bowie-launched-his-own-internet-service-provider.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Breaking RSA Security with a Low Noise D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Annealer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02268

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: How to self-host comments on your otherwise static blog?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095273

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Microsoft launches Surface Book 3 with new Nvidia GPU options

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21247907/microsoft-surface-book-3-specs-price-release-date

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 54 comments
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