top 50% 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

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

Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel

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

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 138 comments

Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap

https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-cheap-2020/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 213 comments

FBI serves warrant on Apple to access Senator's iCloud data

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/14/fbi-issues-warrant-to-apple-to-gain-senators-icloud-data

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

https://www.density.io/blog/safe-by-density/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 81 comments

OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic

https://www.elle.com/culture/a32459935/onlyfans-sex-work-influencers/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 241 comments

Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017)

http://www.righto.com/2017/04/reverse-engineering-76477-space.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 19 comments

A unusual keyboard key switch

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1260688848104771586

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

Woman stalked by sandwich server via her Covid-19 contact tracing info

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/05/14/woman-stalked-by-sandwich-server-via-her-covid-19-contact-tracing-info/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 81 comments

How to prepare for losing your programming job

https://codewithoutrules.com/2020/05/14/prepare-losing-job/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 100 comments

Recoil – A state management library for React

https://recoiljs.org/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 85 comments

IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ikea-ingka-centres-exclusive/exclusive-ikeas-shopping-malls-arm-ingka-centres-plans-u-s-entry-in-major-play-idUSKBN22Q2MF

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 108 comments

CERN publishes instructions for building your own particle detector

https://twitter.com/CERN/status/1260600298206302210

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 5 comments

Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly

https://v8.dev/blog/4gb-wasm-memory

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

Weakening Cycles So That Turing Can Halt

http://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/weakening-cycles/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 68 comments

Chekhov's Gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 72 comments

Zoom CEO sold all of his common shares

https://investors.zoom.us/static-files/192d304e-10ec-4585-8233-698d7e1e73ad

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

Tesla’s readying a ‘million mile’ battery that could greatly lower cost of EVs

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21258650/tesla-million-mile-battery-catl-china-kilowatt-hour-cost-range-improvement

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Zoom fatigue is real

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/video-call-fatigue-tips/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 82 comments

Tesla's batteries aim to rework the math for electric cars and the grid

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tesla-batteries-exclusive/exclusive-teslas-secret-batteries-aim-to-rework-the-math-for-electric-cars-and-the-grid-idUSKBN22Q1WC

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

A List of Free Networking courses that offer free certification

https://www.helpmegeek.com/free-network-certifications-and-courses/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression

https://daily.jstor.org/how-reading-got-farm-women-through-the-depression/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Online Compiler Courses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23187239

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

I learned 1500 Chinese Characters in a Month

https://underscorehao.net/2020/05/learning-1500-chinese-characters-in-a-month-heisig-method-review/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 66 comments

Embedding Objective-Smalltalk

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/05/embedding-objective-smalltalk.html

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join

https://joaoapps.com/join-chrome-extension-in-jeopardy-google-wont-tell-me-why/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Mortgage delinquencies will exceed Great Recession levels

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mortgage-delinquencies-caused-by-the-coronavirus-will-exceed-great-recession-levels-according-to-this-forecast-2020-05-13

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments

Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997

http://www.cpushack.com/2020/05/13/chapter-2-mini-mainframe-at-home-the-story-of-a-6-cpu-server-from-1997/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments
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