top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-29

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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

6 years ago

Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

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

6 years ago

How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?

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

6 years ago

Godot Editor running in a web browser

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Simplifier

https://simplifier.neocities.org/

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Introduction to Apache Airflow

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Room 641A

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

The Hard Part of Learning a Language

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Make your 404s into 302s

https://4042302.org/

6 years ago

Swift AWS Lambda Runtime

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

6 years ago

Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/863804342/colleges-face-student-lawsuits-seeking-refunds-after-coronavirus-closures

6 years ago

Oxidizing the Technical Interview

https://blog.mgattozzi.dev/oxidizing-the-technical-interview/

6 years ago

Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police Department

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/george-floyd-protests-surveillance-technology

6 years ago

Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS

https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digital-lawsuit-for-shipping-slower-smr-hard-drives-including-wd-red-nas/?shh

6 years ago

Hijacking the Verified Knowledge Panel

https://yvoschaap.com/weblog/another_mass_hijack_attempt_of_the_google_search_results

6 years ago

Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/vitamin-d-the-new-covid-19-chloroquine/

6 years ago

SpaceX Starship SN4 launch vehicle prototype explodes after static engine test

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/29/spacexs-starship-sn4-launch-vehicle-prototype-explodes-after-static-engine-fire-test/

6 years ago

Mental models for designers (2019)

https://dropbox.design/article/mental-models-for-designers

6 years ago

The deepest ever sighting of an octopus, by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52839678

6 years ago

Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites

https://www.formking.io

6 years ago

Launch an App

https://danielgauthier.me/launch-an-app/

6 years ago

Show HN: An API to store balances and transactions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23353970

6 years ago

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/career-choice-tip-cybercrime-is-mostly-boring/

6 years ago

1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/archaeologists-find-roman-iron-age-board-game-in-norway/

6 years ago

MicroProse Returns with the Mighty Eighth, a 10-Player WWII B-17 Simulator

https://www.vrfocus.com/2020/05/microprose-returns-with-the-mighty-eighth-a-10-player-wwii-b-17-simulator/

6 years ago

You Can Pay Credit Suisse Not to Work There

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-29/you-can-pay-credit-suisse-not-to-work-there

6 years ago

Google rescinds offers to thousands of contract workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/google-rescinds-job-offers-to-contract-workers.html

6 years ago

Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement

https://www.complianceweek.com/gdpr/two-years-in-gdpr-defined-by-mixed-signals-unbalanced-enforcement/28972.article

6 years ago

Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU

https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/05/19/cups-airprint-server-with-legacy-printer-driver-support/

6 years ago

Symbolic Logic (1897)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28696/28696-h/28696-h.htm

6 years ago

The nightmare that colleges face this fall

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/will-college-campuses-reopen/611794/

6 years ago

SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf

6 years ago

In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proactive policing’ (2017)

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Awesomeblog.club – self-hostable directory for small blogs and links

https://awesomeblog.club

6 years ago

Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks

https://vez.mrsk.me/linux-hardening.html

6 years ago

HashiCorp forbids its software being used in China

https://www.hashicorp.com/terms-of-evaluation

6 years ago

ECMAScript 4: The Missing Version

https://evertpot.com/ecmascript-4-the-missing-version/

6 years ago

Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity

https://mythirdbrain.substack.com/p/what-psychedelics-teach-us-about

6 years ago

Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service

https://github.com/r0hi7/Trashemail

6 years ago

★ 567 Java Apache-2.0

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz Is Out

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/magic-leap-ceo-rony-abovitz-is-out/

6 years ago

Insider Build of VSCode for Windows/ARM64

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/33620#issuecomment-635367046

6 years ago

★ 188.8k TypeScript MIT

What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/arts/design/van-gogh-stolen.html

6 years ago

Software bug made Bombardier planes turn the wrong way

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/29/bombardier_missed_approach_bug/

6 years ago

Linux Sucks 2020

https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/LinuxSucks2020:b

6 years ago

Thermoelectric Stoves vs. Solar Panels

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/05/thermoelectric-stoves-ditch-the-solar-panels.html

6 years ago

Association of insulin resistance marker with severity and mortality of Covid-19

https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-020-01035-2

6 years ago

The tiniest C sort function? (2008)

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/tinysort.html

6 years ago

Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (1988)

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html

6 years ago

How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers

https://first1000.substack.com/p/-slice

6 years ago

The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-painful-history-police-brutality-in-the-us-180964098/

6 years ago

Twitter restricts new Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/29/21274323/trump-twitter-glorifying-violence-minneapolis-shooting-looting-notice-restriction

6 years ago

About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.5

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211170

6 years ago