top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-01

How to Become a Hacker

https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/04/19/how-to-become-a-hacker.html

6 years ago

533 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379196

6 years ago

515 upvotes – 655 comments

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067

6 years ago

456 upvotes – 396 comments

Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648

6 years ago

435 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Is Not God of the Web

https://bilge.world/google-page-experience

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 296 comments

Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive

https://publishers.org/news/publishers-file-suit-against-internet-archive-for-systematic-mass-scanning-and-distribution-of-literary-works/

6 years ago

397 upvotes – 346 comments

Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-drives-straight-into-overturned-truck-in-1843827507

6 years ago

392 upvotes – 529 comments

As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS

https://www.unlawfulshield.com/2020/06/as-qualified-immunity-takes-center-stage-more-delay-from-scotus/

6 years ago

369 upvotes – 313 comments

Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/twitter-reddit-file-in-support-of-lawsuit-challenging-us-governments-social-media-registration-requirement-for-visa-applicants

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 263 comments

C Internals

http://www.avabodh.com/cin/cin.html

6 years ago

333 upvotes – 74 comments

San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Francisco-Silicon-Valley-rents-saw-sharp-15307118.php

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 328 comments

Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster

https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 111 comments

Behind tech layoffs lay cash flow-negative companies

https://medium.com/@watfly/behind-tech-layoffs-lay-systemic-cash-flow-negative-companies-bd8592110422

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-credits-maker-of-package-manager-it-copied-for-windows-10-but-offers-no-apology/

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 129 comments

Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-patients-lose-senses-of-taste-smelland-havent-gotten-them-back-11591007522

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 179 comments

Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”

https://www.troyhunt.com/analysing-the-alleged-minneapolis-police-department-hack/

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 94 comments

The Hertz Story Isn’t What You Think

https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-hertz-story-isnt-what-you-think/

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 132 comments

Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-trump-employee-criticism/facebooks-zuckerberg-faces-employee-blowback-over-ruling-on-trump-comments-idUSKBN2382D0

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 382 comments

'Dord': A Ghost Word

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dord-a-ghost-word

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 89 comments

UVB radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous extinction kill mechanism

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/22/eaba0768

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 56 comments

The Police Data Accessibility Project

https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project

6 years ago

★ 691 GPL-3.0
236 upvotes – 90 comments

Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks

https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 31 comments

America has more new spaceships on the way

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/after-dragons-historic-docking-america-has-more-new-spaceships-on-the-way/

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 117 comments

Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)

https://practicaltypography.com/times-new-roman-alternatives.html

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 141 comments

Do I need to go to university?

http://colah.github.io/posts/2020-05-University/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 261 comments

We ditched Google Analytics

https://missiveapp.com/blog/privacy-first-analytics

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 74 comments

Mapping Police Violence

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 185 comments

Overview of Python dependency management tools

https://modelpredict.com/python-dependency-management-tools

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 178 comments

The 5.7 kernel is out

https://lwn.net/Articles/821829/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 108 comments

A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer

https://stephank.nl/p/2020-06-01-a-nix-primer-by-a-newcomer.html

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 78 comments

How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014)

http://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/how-not-to-learn-cryptography/

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 51 comments

Modern Portfolio Theory: A Case Study on Turnips

https://www.shawenyao.com/Modern-Portfolio-Theory-a-Case-Study-on-Turnips/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 19 comments

The Aesthetics of Science Fiction Spaceship Design (2010)

https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/4935

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 100 comments

Programming as Theory Building (1985)

https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f342fb1

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple patches CVE-2020-9859 (unc0ver)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211214

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 74 comments

Sortition

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

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 116 comments

The Story of Hertz Going Bust

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-24/o-j-accounting-fraud-and-icahn-the-story-of-hertz-going-bust

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 115 comments

Extra salty sodium battery performs on par with lithium

https://newatlas.com/energy/sodium-battery-alternative-lithium/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 78 comments

ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API

https://www.climacell.co/weather-api/

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 46 comments

Soviet Posters

https://www.sovietposters.com/

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 74 comments

Embedded Rules of Thumb (2018)

https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379194

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 297 comments

Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Free Software in Jeopardy

https://linuxreviews.org/Qt_Could_Go_Proprietary,_KDE_Relationship_And_Qt-Based_Free_Software_In_Jeopardy

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 228 comments

Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15823/russias-elbrus-8cb-microarchitecture-8core-vliw-on-tsmc-28nm

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/30/13-inch-macbook-pro-ram-upgrade-doubled/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 189 comments

Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377270

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: FontEdit – A desktop app to develop fonts for embedded systems displays

https://github.com/ayoy/fontedit

6 years ago

★ 355 C++ GPL-3.0
130 upvotes – 23 comments

LibreSSL 3.2.0 – TLS 1.3

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-3.2.0-relnotes.txt

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 10 comments

I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit

https://dev.to/heshiebee/i-was-emailed-after-abandoning-a-registration-form-i-did-not-click-submit-this-is-not-ok-a63

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Fursona Editor

https://fursona.app

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 25 comments

How Eduardo Saverin sold Facebook ads in 2004 (2012)

https://digiday.com/media/how-eduardo-saverin-sold-facebook-ads-in-2004/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 24 comments

Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget-windows-package-manager-appget-copied

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/facebook-employee-protest-trump.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 81 comments

Norimaki Synthesizer: Taste Display Using Ion Electrophoresis in Five Gels

https://research.miyashita.com/papers/I42

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

Linux 5.7

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZGrCkiBB1V7bxp8NZH6yWi9mPM4ptMW16OzOiNprBFA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: How Do You Blog?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23382385

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

Human Hibernation Is a Real Possibility

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/human-hibernation-real-possibility/605071/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Brex Lays Off 62 Employees

https://www.thesfnews.com/local-startup-brex-lays-off-62-employees/56172

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 55 comments

George Floyd died of asphyxia, private autopsy finds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52885964

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 52 comments

Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs (2016) [pdf]

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-143.pdf

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Rustlang: “This account will pause tweeting until further notice”

https://twitter.com/rustlang/status/1267519580756422659

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 60 comments

What makes Germans so orderly?

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200531-what-makes-germans-so-orderly

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 80 comments

UberEats lost $3.36 per order and would continue do so for next5 years

https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/05/27/during-the-pandemic-grubhub-should-be-thriving-its-not

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 77 comments
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