top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-05-20

Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

https://nullsweep.com/why-is-this-website-port-scanning-me/

5 years ago

1294 upvotes – 430 comments

EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/gnevp8/remaster_update_and_open_source_mod_support/fr97x9x/

5 years ago

993 upvotes – 247 comments

Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS

http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html

5 years ago

747 upvotes – 101 comments

Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21262302/ap-test-fail-iphone-photos-glitch-email-college-board-jpeg-heic

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 553 comments

What Is Nix?

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/what-is-nix

5 years ago

598 upvotes – 333 comments

Surviving Depression

https://vishnu.tech/posts/surviving-depression/

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 206 comments

Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?te20hn

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 131 comments

The death of corporate research labs

https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 248 comments

Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens

https://www.studyfinds.org/digital-overload-average-adult-will-spend-34-years-of-their-life-staring-at-screens/

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 296 comments

Unofficial APIs

https://github.com/Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 72 comments

Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAYWPRrWKb

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 152 comments

Lovely Week with Elixir

https://www.ramblingcode.dev/posts/lovely_week_with_elixir/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 132 comments

Coinbase will be a remote-first company

https://blog.coinbase.com/post-covid-19-coinbase-will-be-a-remote-first-company-cdac6e621df7?gi=97cf312cab0b

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 145 comments

15 years later: remote code execution in qmail

https://www.qualys.com/2020/05/19/cve-2005-1513/remote-code-execution-qmail.txt

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 159 comments

Welcome to C# 9.0

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-c-9-0/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 190 comments

Why the Cessna is such a badass plane (2019)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a29417998/cessna-badass-plane/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 187 comments

U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with Ghosn escape from Japan

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-arrests-former-green-beret-son-in-connection-with-ghosn-escape-from-japan-11589984215

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 294 comments

Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal

https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/turning-signal-app-into-a-coarse-tracking-device-643eb4298447

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 64 comments

Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system

https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/uk-laws/organ-donation-law-in-england

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 258 comments

Free, open and collaborative routing service

https://maps.openrouteservice.org

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 58 comments
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