Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2020-05-26

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AWS services explained in one line each

https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html

5 years ago

1668 upvotes – 344 comments

1227

977

Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499

5 years ago

1227 upvotes – 977 comments

685

349

Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

https://bearblog.dev

5 years ago

685 upvotes – 349 comments

655

349

I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next

https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/05/26/I-Was-Blackmailed-Any-YouTuber-Could-Be-Next.aspx

5 years ago

655 upvotes – 349 comments

498

151

Speed.cloudflare.com

https://speed.cloudflare.com/

5 years ago

498 upvotes – 151 comments

448

441

I won’t buy ebooks anymore

https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 441 comments

435

131

How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive

https://www.madisontaskett.com/lazy-bastard-productivity/

5 years ago

435 upvotes – 131 comments

393

296

Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so

http://www.marilynburnsmathblog.com/can-1-3-1-3-2-6-it-seemed-so/

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 296 comments

388

105

ZSH Aliases

https://thorsten-hans.com/5-types-of-zsh-aliases

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 105 comments

384

370

Why is AI so useless for business?

https://mebassett.info/ai-useless-for-business

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 370 comments

334

153

NextDNS Is Out of Beta

https://nextdns.io

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 153 comments

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The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated cyber actors”

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/peoples-republic-of-china-prc-targeting-of-covid-19-research-organizations

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 233 comments

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47

Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/blue-bee-feared-be-extinct-found-florida-180974957

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 47 comments

309

74

I helped reposition a database product that went on to make $1B in revenue

https://www.thefxck.com/interviews/product-positioning-april-dunford

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 74 comments

299

102

Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment

https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/05/26/11-local-tv-stations-that-pushed-amazon-scripted-segment/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 102 comments

275

99

Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks

https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbolic-mathematics-finally-yields-to-neural-networks-20200520/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 99 comments

266

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How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs

https://pausebutton.substack.com/p/how-to-put-more-character-into-your

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 116 comments

262

108

Make Writing a Habit

https://www.writenext.io/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 108 comments

255

31

Real time image animation in opencv using first order model

https://github.com/anandpawara/Real_Time_Image_Animation

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 31 comments

253

145

Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/26/looking-glass-starts-shipping-its-8k-holographic-display/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 145 comments

205

114

Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator

https://builders.mozilla.community

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 114 comments

196

71

Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework

https://preshing.com/20200526/a-new-cross-platform-open-source-cpp-framework/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 71 comments

192

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The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020

https://vriad.com/blog/devii

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 268 comments

185

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MasterClass is seizing its moment

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/style/masterclass-secrets.html

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 173 comments

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127

Stop Watching the News (2019)

https://josephcwells.com/blog/better-than-news

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 127 comments

167

91

Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5

http://www.nitrome.com/blog/articles/1427/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 91 comments

162

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Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52815552

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 284 comments

161

101

Sublime Merge 2

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge-2-announcement

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 101 comments

157

57

YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1265077232176775168

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

150

41

Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom

https://github.blog/2020-05-26-code-in-the-browser-with-github-classroom/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 41 comments

146

44

India’s contact tracing app is going open source

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/26/aarogya-setu-india-source-code-release/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 44 comments

140

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Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/growing-anomalies-at-the-large-hadron-collider-hint-at-new-particles-20200526/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 88 comments

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How do you measure nuclear warhead yield with a PDP-11?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160507110751/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Folklore/How%20do%20you%20measure%20nuclear%20warhead%20yield%3F.html

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 77 comments

129

136

Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies

https://novi.com

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 136 comments

128

42

JWT (JSON Web Token) debugger

https://jwt.io

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 42 comments

115

20

Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08848

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

102

73

The 10,000,000,000th Prime Number (1994)

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Doc/Articles/Play104

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 73 comments

102

28

AVX-512 Mask Registers, Again

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/26/kreg2.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 28 comments

96

10

OpenResty: A Swiss Army Proxy for Serverless

https://futurice.com/blog/openresty-a-swiss-army-proxy-for-serverless

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 10 comments

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Lessons from Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Aids Disinformation Campaign

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/operation-denver-kgb-aids-disinformation-campaign/