top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-05-14

Do not Draw a Penis

https://donotdrawapenis.com/

5 years ago

969 upvotes – 367 comments

Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently

https://rekken.github.io/2020/05/14/Security-Flaws-in-Adobe-Acrobat-Reader-Allow-Malicious-Program-to-Gain-Root-on-macOS-Silently/

5 years ago

871 upvotes – 418 comments

Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/14/gtc-2020-keynote/

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 333 comments

Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/13/us_spying_laws/

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 175 comments

Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem

https://blog.hypercore-protocol.org/posts/announcing-hyperdrive-10/

5 years ago

387 upvotes – 117 comments

What developers should know about TCP

https://robertovitillo.com/what-every-developer-should-know-about-tcp/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 154 comments

TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona

https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwan-company-to-build-advanced-semiconductor-factory-in-arizona-11589481659

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 113 comments

Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum

https://www.coindesk.com/reddit-rolls-out-community-points-on-ethereum-to-incentivize-positive-behavior

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 228 comments

Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-14/tech-workers-consider-escaping-silicon-valley-s-sky-high-rents

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 405 comments

GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-autonomous-layoffs/gm-self-driving-tech-unit-cruise-laying-off-about-8-of-staff-idUSKBN22Q34W

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 276 comments

How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/how-fix-slow-code-ruby

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 199 comments

Show HN: Virtual Reality DOS

https://github.com/sonictruth/vr-dos

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 46 comments

Build Software from Front-to-Back

https://happyvalley.dev/build-software-from-front-to-back/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 104 comments

Stuxnet's Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug

https://decipher.sc/stuxnets-legacy-lives-on-in-new-windows-bug

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 44 comments

Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 66 comments

Stop tracking me: Austrian citizen files complaint over Android Advertising ID

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/13/google_android_gdpr_complaint/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 46 comments

The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)

http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/index.php

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 169 comments

Earnest Capital Trailhead

https://earnestcapital.com/trailhead/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 54 comments

Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel

https://eng.uber.com/go-monorepo-bazel/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 138 comments

Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/16/which-way-a-wind-turbine-turns-might-not-seem-to-matter

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 101 comments
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