top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-15

A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub

https://www.saddlebackbbq.com/how-google-doordash-grubhub-conspire-screw-local-restaurants

6 years ago

Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

https://www.axios.com/scoop-facebook-to-buy-giphy-for-400-million-4a75a359-833b-484d-b15b-87e94d3de017.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

6 years ago

Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-state-attorneys-general-likely-to-bring-antitrust-lawsuits-against-google-11589573622

6 years ago

Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/swift-5-3-windows-linux/

6 years ago

So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/14/so-much-of-academia-is-about-connections-and-reputation-laundering/

6 years ago

Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/mozilla-goes-full-incubator-with-fix-the-internet-startup-lab-and-early-stage-investments/

6 years ago

US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/15/us-video-game-sales-have-record-quarter-as-consumers-stay-at-home/

6 years ago

Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis

https://github.com/neelsomani/senator-filings

6 years ago

★ 412 Jupyter Notebook MIT

Our Chrome Extension Is Safe

https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/15/our-extension-is-safe/

6 years ago

Google Erases Thousands of Links, Tricked by Phony Complaints

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-dmca-copyright-claims-takedown-online-reputation-11589557001

6 years ago

The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-unattributable-db8151dd-data-breach/

6 years ago

The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017

https://dropbox.tech/frontend/the-great-coffeescript-to-typescript-migration-of-2017

6 years ago

So you want to write your own CSV code (2014)

http://thomasburette.com/blog/2014/05/25/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-CSV-code/

6 years ago

Five Years of Rust

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/05/15/five-years-of-rust.html

6 years ago

Pretending OOP Never Happened

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/05/15/pretending-oop-never-happened/

6 years ago

Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Tampering of Mortgage Funds

https://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-wall-street-has-engaged-in-widespread-manipulation-of-mortgage-funds

6 years ago

The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB

https://www.dynamodbbook.com/

6 years ago

If Rockets Were Transparent [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9EVeHqizY

6 years ago

DIY Particle Detector

https://scoollab.web.cern.ch/diy-particle-detector

6 years ago

Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients

https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1258372975004389379

6 years ago

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What programming skills are required by HFT or Trading firms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23190601

6 years ago

In Defense of the Modern Web

https://dev.to/richharris/in-defense-of-the-modern-web-2nia

6 years ago

An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains

https://github.com/flotwig/the-one-cert

6 years ago

★ 806 JavaScript

Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/15/large-areas-of-london-to-be-made-car-free-as-lockdown-eased

6 years ago

Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron

https://github.com/alexkim205/Google-Drive-Desktop

6 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript MIT

The CPU Cost of Networking on a Linux Host

https://people.kernel.org/dsahern/the-cpu-cost-of-networking-on-a-host

6 years ago

The PeerTube content bootstrap fund

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-15-peertube-bootstrap-fund/

6 years ago

WebAssembly COBOL Pong

https://moxon6.github.io/cobol-js-emscripten/

6 years ago

Daily standups should be async

https://www.cadencework.com/blog/async-standups.html

6 years ago

Gilead should ditch remdesivir and focus on its simpler and safer ancestor

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/14/gilead-should-ditch-remdesivir-and-focus-on-its-simpler-safer-ancestor/

6 years ago

New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/

6 years ago

GitHub Actions: Organization secrets

https://github.blog/changelog/2020-05-14-organization-secrets/

6 years ago

US blocks shipments of semiconductors to Huawei

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/15/us-china-tensions-rise-as-trump-administration-moves-to-cut-huawei-off-from-global-chip-suppliers.html

6 years ago

Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6

http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

6 years ago

A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-highly-efficient-real-time-text-to-speech-system-deployed-on-cpus/

6 years ago

Polyglot Makefiles

http://agdr.org/2020/05/14/Polyglot-Makefiles.html

6 years ago

Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]

http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

6 years ago

Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/vice-media-layoffs-155-employees-covid19-1234607610/

6 years ago

Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (1973)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2130424/

6 years ago

‘Stealth bailout’ shovels millions of dollars to oil companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-15/-stealth-bailout-shovels-millions-of-dollars-to-oil-companies

6 years ago

Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23190617

6 years ago

Show HN: kutty, jQuery-free intercooler.js

https://kutty.org/posts/2020-5-15-kutty-0.0.1-is-released/

6 years ago

The most successful developers share more than they take

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/14/the-most-successful-developers-share-more-than-they-take/?cb=1

6 years ago

Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation

https://github.com/BuzonIO/zipfly#zipfly

6 years ago

★ 531 Python MIT

May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More

https://www.pine64.org/2020/05/15/may-update-pinetab-pre-orders-pinephone-qi-charging-more/

6 years ago

Vitamin D and Inflammation: Potential Implications for Severity of Covid-19

http://imj.ie/vitamin-d-and-inflammation-potential-implications-for-severity-of-covid-19/

6 years ago

Podcasts are my new Wikipedia

https://lnns.co/6ArPszTwvDE

6 years ago

Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185012/

6 years ago

Sony Builds AI into a CMOS Image Sensor

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/sensors/imagers/sony-builds-ai-into-a-cmos-image-sensor

6 years ago

$14M in ETH stolen from Upbit were laundered in May through well-known exchanges

https://blog.clain.io/upbit-stolen-ethereum-being-laundring-through-binance-huobi-and-okex/

6 years ago