top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-27

The Day AppGet Died

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

5 years ago

1930 upvotes – 535 comments

Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

https://twitter.com/zenexer/status/1265633022709301249

5 years ago

1375 upvotes – 542 comments

Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

https://obsidian.md/

5 years ago

1087 upvotes – 477 comments

Htmx – high power tools for HTML

https://htmx.org/

5 years ago

728 upvotes – 166 comments

Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/after-twitter-fact-check-trump-threatens-to-regulate-or-close-down-social-media-platforms/

5 years ago

707 upvotes – 1625 comments

Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-jobs/boeing-laying-off-6700-u-s-workers-with-thousands-more-planned-idUSKBN2332EP

5 years ago

588 upvotes – 470 comments

Rediscovering the Small Web

https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

5 years ago

472 upvotes – 120 comments

Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320974

5 years ago

452 upvotes – 445 comments

YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments

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

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 180 comments

Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017)

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guerrilla-public-service/

5 years ago

421 upvotes – 110 comments

After Twitter fact-check, Trump threatens to regulate or close down social media

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/after-twitter-fact-check-trump-threatens-to-regulate-or-close-down-social-media-platforms/

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 2 comments

Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel

https://twitter.com/jamescham/status/1265512829806927873

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 129 comments

Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1743538

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 138 comments

Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/has-online-grocery-shopping-peaked-most-still-prefer-in-store

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 462 comments

Snowpack 2.0

https://www.snowpack.dev/posts/2020-05-26-snowpack-2-0-release/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder

https://straight2spam.com

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 109 comments

SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)

https://www.spacex.com/

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 323 comments

Bash IRC Quote Database

http://bash.org

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 160 comments

Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52818746

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 93 comments

Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Hong-Kong-security-law-is-going-to-devastate-its-economy

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 144 comments

$100M in bounties paid via HackerOne to ethical hackers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/100-million-in-bounties-paid-by-hackerone-to-ethical-hackers/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 120 comments

SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch live on Wednesday

https://www.spacex.com/launches/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 1 comments

Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China

https://www.axios.com/pompeo-hong-kong-autonomous-china-aa719c5e-b6e7-4ce5-a56f-c3c276513927.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 185 comments

Salaries Get Chopped for Many Americans Who Manage to Keep Jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/salaries-get-chopped-for-many-americans-who-manage-to-keep-jobs

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 292 comments

HBO Max taking on Netflix with human curation instead of relying on algorithms

https://www.theverge.com/21268972/hbo-max-design-recommendation-human-curation-friends-kids-profiles

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 161 comments

A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree

https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/complete-artificial-intelligence-undergraduate-course-plan/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 101 comments

GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/ge-switches-off-light-bulb-business-after-almost-130-years/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 155 comments

Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/05/27/gatsby-website-building-startup-backed-by-index-ventures-raises-28-million/#18bc10047f3e

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Twingate – A modern solution for remote access

https://www.twingate.com/blog/introducing-twingate

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 48 comments

Regexes vs. Combinatorial Parsing (2019)

https://khanlou.com/2019/12/regex-vs-combinatorial-parsing/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 45 comments

2020 Developer Survey Results

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/27/2020-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 124 comments

Stoke – A stochastic superoptimizer and program synthesizer

http://stoke.stanford.edu/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/how-many-people-did-it-take-to-build-the-great-pyramid

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 108 comments

Navajo Nation and Other Native American Reservations Hit Hard by Covid-19

https://www.cybercoastal.com/navajo-nation-and-other-native-american-reservations-hit-hard-by-covid-19/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

https://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 122 comments

Achieving Accessibility Through Simplicity

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-27-accessibility-through-simplicity/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 79 comments

How to build your own feature store for ML

https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/how-to-build-your-own-feature-store

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 23 comments

France, Italy, Belgium stop hydroxychloroquine use for Covid-19 on safety fears

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine/france-bans-hydroxychloroquine-to-treat-covid-19-amid-safety-concerns-idUSKBN233197

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 94 comments

Tell HN: Shutterstock is changing its commission structure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322662

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

The Concurnas Programming Language

https://concurnas.com/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Variolation

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

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 117 comments

Editmode: Make any website editable inline

https://editmode.app/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Software for producing terminal-based tutorials?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322117

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 41 comments
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