top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-20

Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

What Is Nix?

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

6 years ago

Surviving Depression

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

6 years ago

Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work

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

6 years ago

The death of corporate research labs

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Unofficial APIs

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Lovely Week with Elixir

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

6 years ago

Coinbase will be a remote-first company

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

6 years ago

15 years later: remote code execution in qmail

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

6 years ago

Welcome to C# 9.0

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

6 years ago

Why the Cessna is such a badass plane (2019)

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Free, open and collaborative routing service

https://maps.openrouteservice.org

6 years ago

Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23252448

6 years ago

Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability

https://electrek.co/2020/05/19/tesla-bidirectional-charging-ready-game-changing-features/

6 years ago

The mystery of 'hacked' Houseparty users may have been solved

https://medium.com/@thezedwards/epic-games-ignored-epic-subdomain-takeover-on-their-authentication-domain-promoted-1-million-b4d809039b0e

6 years ago

Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

6 years ago

Things I hate about Rust

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/05/20/Things-I-hate-about-rust

6 years ago

Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'historic' space mission

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/20/nasa-head-of-human-spaceflight-doug-loverro-suddenly-resigns-days-before-historic-space-mission

6 years ago

KVM host in a few lines of code

https://zserge.com/posts/kvm/

6 years ago

Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/20/google_chrome_83/

6 years ago

Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23245552

6 years ago

In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websocket port scanning

https://medium.com/@bjt2n3904/in-protest-of-the-web-bulldozer-e0fce4567d26

6 years ago

Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/dead-sea-scroll-fragments-thought-to-be-blank-reveal-text/

6 years ago

U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-birthrates-fall-to-record-low-11589947260

6 years ago

Apache Drill's Future

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/drill-user/202005.mbox/%[email protected]%3e

6 years ago

Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09535

6 years ago

The Liskov Substitution Principle (2019)

https://www.brainstobytes.com/the-liskov-substitution-principle/

6 years ago

TikTok has recently traded at valuations of $105-110B on private markets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/tiktok-owner-s-value-surpasses-100-billion-in-private-markets

6 years ago

Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web projects

https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access

6 years ago

★ 745 JavaScript Apache-2.0

The silence of the owls

https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound?MvBriefArticleId=702

6 years ago

Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)

http://unicode.org/notes/tn27/

6 years ago

The problem isn't the 'merit' it's the 'ocracy' (2019)

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-problem-isnt-merit-its-ocracy.html

6 years ago

China’s new plan to seize the world’s tech crown from the U.S

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/china-has-a-new-1-4-trillion-plan-to-overtake-the-u-s-in-tech

6 years ago

Free Elixir/Phoenix LiveView Course

https://pragmaticstudio.com/phoenix-liveview

6 years ago

The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15785/the-intel-comet-lake-review-skylake-we-go-again

6 years ago

How to use UTM parameters to grow your audience

https://smashnotes.com/updates/how-to-use-utm-parameters-to-grow-your-audience

6 years ago

Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf]

https://mboehme.github.io/paper/FSE20.EmpiricalLaw.pdf

6 years ago

The Third Age of JavaScript

https://www.swyx.io/writing/js-third-age/

6 years ago

Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter

https://internetofthieves.org/posts/twitter-map-optout/

6 years ago