top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-25

Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037

6 years ago

I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/

6 years ago

Software will eat software in a remote-first world

https://themargins.substack.com/p/software-will-eat-software-in-a-remote

6 years ago

I've collected over 600 pitch decks

https://starthouse.xyz?ref=hn

6 years ago

A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

https://twitter.com/rkoutnik/status/1255505362733674499

6 years ago

The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33645/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-armys-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains

6 years ago

GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code

https://torrentfreak.com/github-reinstates-popcorn-time-code-despite-mpa-threat-200520/

6 years ago

Two capacitor paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_capacitor_paradox

6 years ago

Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305111

6 years ago

I bought netflix.soy

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_bought_netflix_dot_soy

6 years ago

Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

6 years ago

Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/court-decision_companies-must-pay-share-of-rent-for-employees-working-from-home/45781126

6 years ago

Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-removes-over-5-million-reviews-from-play-store-to-improve-tiktok-rating-1681721-2020-05-25

6 years ago

Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?

https://www.type-driven.org.uk/edwinb/why-is-idris-2-so-much-faster-than-idris-1.html

6 years ago

Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2020/05/23/Solving-the-Miracle-Sudoku-in-Prolog/

6 years ago

Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres

https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped

6 years ago

★ 3.2k TypeScript MIT

A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/arts/music/poland-chart-song-removed.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303562

6 years ago

I/O library 6x faster than fmt, 10x faster than stdio.h and iostream

https://github.com/expnkx/fast_io

6 years ago

Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated

https://afridigest.substack.com/p/why-super-apps-are-proliferating

6 years ago

Intelligent disobedience

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_disobedience

6 years ago

The Vanishing Of Ashlar: 4kb demo using GPU for sound and pathtracing

https://demozoo.org/productions/278629/

6 years ago

Pelorus Jack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorus_Jack

6 years ago

A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers

https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-threat-modelling.html

6 years ago

Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation

https://tanay.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-stock-based

6 years ago

Thai Database Leaks 8.3B Internet Records

https://rainbowtabl.es/2020/05/25/thai-database-leaks-internet-records/?=may-23-2020

6 years ago

eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ebay-port-scans-visitors-computers-for-remote-access-programs/

6 years ago

A day using money in Cuba

http://boazsobrado.com/blog/2020/05/22/a-day-using-money-in-cuba/

6 years ago

Bahamas Company Registry Leaked

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/25/mafia-logic/#ddosecrets

6 years ago

Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/joe-rogan-spotify-podcast.html

6 years ago

Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”

https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/05/25/hardware-fix-for-dell-ac-power-adapter-could-not-be-determined/

6 years ago

Duff's device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

6 years ago

Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)

https://the-eye.eu/public/Software/Old%20Apps/DOS%20Resources/Undocumented%20dos%20tips.txt

6 years ago

Highly available Kubernetes with batteries for small business

https://cinaq.com/post/2020/05/25/highly-available-kubernetes-with-batteries-for-small-business/

6 years ago

The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism

https://aeon.co/essays/the-china-tea-trade-was-a-paradox-of-global-capitalism

6 years ago

Guilemacs – Emacs with Guile Scheme

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

6 years ago

Beyond Remote

https://vimota.me/writing/beyond-remote

6 years ago

Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01543-x

6 years ago

SONiC – An Open Source Network Operating System

https://azure.github.io/SONiC/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Did Reddit ever end up giving equity to any of its users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23298611

6 years ago

Russian Espionage and Electromagnetic Fields: The Story of the Theremin (2017)

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/theremin-instrumental-instruments

6 years ago

A Developer Culture Test

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-developer-culture-test/

6 years ago

Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/ancient-egyptian-coffins-and-mystery-of-black-goo/

6 years ago

Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2020/05/22/examining-windows-1-0-hello-c/

6 years ago

An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007)

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/sine-wave-speech/

6 years ago