top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-30

SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon

5 years ago

2856 upvotes – 798 comments

Zero-day in Sign in with Apple

https://bhavukjain.com/blog/2020/05/30/zeroday-signin-with-apple/

5 years ago

1076 upvotes – 267 comments

Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363595

5 years ago

551 upvotes – 102 comments

Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster

https://abramov.io/rust-dropping-things-in-another-thread

5 years ago

481 upvotes – 273 comments

All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight

https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/all-electric-grand-caravan-makes-maiden-flight/138600.article

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 255 comments

Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0959C81A-5B07-4D04-A6B1-57AA78A9A553%40gmail.com

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 229 comments

SpaceX makes history with successful first human space launch

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/30/spacex-makes-history-with-successful-first-human-space-launch/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 73 comments

Fuchsia overview

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 227 comments

A simple way to get more value from metrics

https://danluu.com/metrics-analytics/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS

https://annoying.technology/posts/cd82d56f98e75afc/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 175 comments

CA Root expired on 30 May 2020

https://support.sectigo.com/articles/Knowledge/Sectigo-AddTrust-External-CA-Root-Expiring-May-30-2020

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 150 comments

The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos

https://acoup.blog/2020/05/28/collections-the-battle-of-helms-deep-part-v-ladders-are-chaos/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right

https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: I'd like to learn vocals, any suggestion on how I can do this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23359096

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 86 comments

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 8 comments

Well-known web sites that port-scan their visitors

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/list-of-well-known-web-sites-that-port-scan-their-visitors/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 82 comments

Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huawei-crackdown/Huawei-builds-up-2-year-reserve-of-most-important-US-chips

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 249 comments

Frameworkless Movement

http://frameworklessmovement.org/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 147 comments

SQLite Turns 20

https://www.sqlite.org/src/thisdayinhistory?today=2020-05-29

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 56 comments

Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/about-half-of-the-twitter-accounts-calling-for-reopening-america-are-probably-bots-report-2020-05-26

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 159 comments

I wrote a beginners guide to Kubernetes

https://www.learncloudnative.com/blog/2020-05-26-getting-started-with-kubernetes-part-1/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 16 comments

Black hole paradoxes reveal a fundamental link between energy and order

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-hole-paradoxes-reveal-a-fundamental-link-between-energy-and-order-20200528/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 54 comments

On Marketing Haskell

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/marketing.html

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 264 comments

Nukemap

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

K9s – Manage Your Kubernetes Clusters in Style

https://k9scli.io/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 22 comments

Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback

https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubble-sorts-comeback.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 48 comments

What is emergence?

https://axispraxis.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/what-is-emergence-and-why-should-we-care-about-it/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 68 comments

Random person name generator

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=random+person+name+generator&ia=answer

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

GPT-3: A Disappointing Paper?

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ZHrpjDc3CepSeeBuE/gpt-3-a-disappointing-paper

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 80 comments

Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-zoom-plans-to-roll-out-strong-encryption-for-paying-customers-only-idUSKBN23600L

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

The Myers diff algorithm that is used in Git (2017)

https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 15 comments

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

http://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 11 comments

Programming is boring art

https://ahsmart.com/pub/programming-is-boring-art/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 98 comments

Google postpones Android 11 beta

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-google-android/google-postpones-android-11-unveiling-amid-u-s-protests-idUSKBN2360AS

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 131 comments

Why do C to Z80 compilers produce poor code? (2018)

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/why-do-c-to-z80-compilers-produce-poor-code

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near extinction

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/superheroes-of-the-deep-humpbacks-bounce-back-from-near-extinction-to-help-fight-climate-change-20200528-p54xhq.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 50 comments

Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19a1044_pok0.pdf

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 255 comments

Show HN: Caldera – Phoenix LiveView for Node and React

https://github.com/calderajs/caldera-react

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Calculate how long your website/API can be down

https://tryhexadecimal.com/sla-uptime-calculator

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=159041121804486&w=2

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 157 comments

Tone of Voice Guide

https://monzo.com/tone-of-voice/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/10/mist-showers-sustainable-decadence.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 123 comments

After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californians are getting infected

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/05/30/after-100000-coronavirus-cases-its-clearer-where-californians-are-getting-infected/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 109 comments

Circle Packing

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

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (1922)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30688/30688-h/30688-h.htm

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 13 comments

Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector

https://github.com/io12/bootmine

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Startups shouldn't raise money

https://ensorial.com/2020/dont-raise-money/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Six Levels of Interaction with a System

https://www.charlieharrington.com/the-six-levels-of-interaction-with-a-system

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-drawn-to-conspiracy-theories-share-a-cluster-of-psychological-features/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 180 comments
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