top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-21

X

https://xkcd.com/2309/

5 years ago

896 upvotes – 128 comments

Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-shift-permanently-toward-more-remote-work-after-coronavirus-11590081300

5 years ago

596 upvotes – 591 comments

An introduction to RabbitMQ

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/an-introduction-to-rabbitmq-what-is-rabbitmq.html

5 years ago

586 upvotes – 255 comments

The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 266 comments

Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-extensions-work-from-home/

5 years ago

531 upvotes – 194 comments

Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets

https://medium.com/@stestagg/stealing-secrets-from-developers-using-websockets-254f98d577a0

5 years ago

513 upvotes – 137 comments

Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twitter-jack-dorsey-giving-andrew-090025479.html

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 724 comments

Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/179

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 316 comments

Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 67 comments

YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-more-dangerous-than-the-virus/

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 551 comments

Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23258111

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 287 comments

Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/shopify-is-joining-twitter-in-permanent-work-from-home-shift

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 11 comments

TI removes access to assembly programs on the TI-83 Premium CE

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/149/149342.html

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 216 comments

Dolphins at popular spot miss tourists and keep leaving 'gifts' on shore

https://7news.com.au/news/wildlife/dolphins-bring-gifts-from-sea-in-apparent-response-to-lack-of-human-interaction-c-1049565

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 116 comments

Shopify Goes Digital by Default

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1263483496087064579

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 425 comments

Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-moderators-quit/

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 452 comments

An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015)

https://pastebin.com/BjD84BQ3

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 268 comments

The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning

https://cybernews.com/news/the-fbi-monitoring-your-browsing-history-without-a-warrant-might-just-be-the-beginning/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 179 comments

China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/China-signals-plan-to-take-full-control-of-Hong-15285627.php

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 265 comments

University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT

https://www.wsj.com/articles/university-of-california-will-stop-using-sat-act-11590099469

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 367 comments

The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff

https://www.axios.com/the-atlantic-layoffs-coronavirus-49cc6ad2-6579-45cd-b816-e20865f7351e.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 149 comments

Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal traffic collisions

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/20/858712314/organ-transplants-down-as-stay-at-home-rules-reduce-fatal-traffic-collisions

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 255 comments

Automattic invests in Matrix

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/21/automattic-pumps-4-6m-into-new-vector-to-help-grow-matrix-an-open-decentralized-comms-ecosystem/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 110 comments

G2A pays Factorio developer $40k over illegally obtained game keys

https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/20/21265275/g2a-confirms-it-sold-stolen-game-keys

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 156 comments

Quickref – Experimental search engine for developers

https://quickref.dev/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: SpaceX Dragon simulator docking autopilot in Clojure

https://github.com/DaniruKun/spacex-iss-docking-sim-autopilot

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 35 comments

California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-04-09/california-low-income-housing-expensive-apartment-coronavirus

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 204 comments

VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for FPGA

https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/05/multicore-vex-in-litex/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 77 comments

PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2040/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 53 comments

Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 173 comments

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/home

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 125 comments

Where Do Eels Come From?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-come-from

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 54 comments

Rust Analyzer: Next few years

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2020/05/18/next-few-years.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 55 comments

Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/zuckerberg-50percent-of-facebook-employees-could-be-working-remotely.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 223 comments

Goals and Priorities for C++

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2137r0.html

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 197 comments

EA Is Releasing Command and Conquer and Red Alert’s Source Code

https://kotaku.com/ea-is-releasing-command-conquer-and-red-alerts-source-1843574798

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 23 comments

The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models (2018)

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/09/the-what-if-tool-code-free-probing-of.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Blunt – A CSS Layout Framework for Minimalists

https://github.com/f-prime/Blunt

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 74 comments

Sxmo: Simple X Mobile – A Pinephone UI that is simple and suckless

https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

How Nextdoor courts police and public officials

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/05/nextdoor-local-partnerships-police-government-privacy-app/611827/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 106 comments

Safe-Linking – Eliminating a 20 year-old malloc() exploit primitive

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/safe-linking-eliminating-a-20-year-old-malloc-exploit-primitive/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 28 comments

Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)

https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Is there any open source tool for creating simple CRUD Apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23264850

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 51 comments

‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-hijacks-cells-in-unique-ways/?

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself

https://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Pinball-Machine-That-Plays-Itself/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: My mother has shaky hands – guidance on iPhone accessibility settings?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257102

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-more-dangerous-than-the-virus/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 1 comments

ScoutSuite: Multi-cloud security auditing tool

https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Open-Sourcing Bit: Exploring Large-Scale Pre-Training for Computer Vision

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/open-sourcing-bit-exploring-large-scale.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments
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