top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-05-29

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

https://twitter.com/bjoewolf/status/1266268435647852553

5 years ago

1061 upvotes – 1467 comments

Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/29/why-kubernetes-getting-so-popular/

5 years ago

755 upvotes – 661 comments

CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClA57jWmQ

5 years ago

543 upvotes – 344 comments

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html

5 years ago

518 upvotes – 83 comments

How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

https://blog.leavemealone.app/how-does-the-gmail-unsubscribe-button-work/

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 261 comments

Godot Editor running in a web browser

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-editor-running-web-browser

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 124 comments

US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzbe3/customs-and-border-protection-predator-drone-minneapolis-george-floyd

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 412 comments

Simplifier

https://simplifier.neocities.org/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 58 comments

Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

https://www.livescience.com/oldest-hiv-genome.html

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 201 comments

Introduction to Apache Airflow

https://bhavaniravi.com/blog/apache-airflow-introduction

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 152 comments

Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

https://www.isglobal.org/en_GB/-/mosquito-el-animal-mas-letal-del-mundo

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 392 comments

But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 322 comments

Room 641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 70 comments

A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles

https://obedparla.com/code/a-visual-guide-to-react-mental-models-part-2-use-state-use-effect-and-lifecycles/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 78 comments

Amazon sellers marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules

https://www.theverge.com/21273383/amazon-price-gouging-collectible-loophole-dumbbells-hot-tub

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 355 comments

U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/u-k-plans-citizenship-for-hong-kong-residents-in-row-with-china

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 272 comments

The Hard Part of Learning a Language

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learning-a-language/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 136 comments

Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement

https://daringfireball.net/2020/05/abovitz_magic_leap_translation

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 78 comments

Make your 404s into 302s

https://4042302.org/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 97 comments

Swift AWS Lambda Runtime

https://swift.org/blog/aws-lambda-runtime/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 79 comments
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