top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-02

Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/well-try-to-help-you-follow-the-police-attacks-on-journalists-across-the-country

6 years ago

Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

https://eugeneyan.com/2020/04/05/note-taking-zettelkasten/

6 years ago

P2P Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix

6 years ago

DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/george-floyd-police-brutality-protests-government

6 years ago

Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html

6 years ago

Guide to Python Debugging

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/24

6 years ago

Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23390966

6 years ago

Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/seven-years-later-i-bought-a-new-macbook-for-the-first-time-i-dont-love-it.html

6 years ago

People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/grubhub-phone-order-call-fee-coronavirus

6 years ago

The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation

6 years ago

★ 918

Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64

https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware

6 years ago

★ 1.7k Python MIT

Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkybn8/police-radio-scanner-apps-george-floyd-protests

6 years ago

Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program/

6 years ago

Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records

https://ketancmaheshwari.github.io/posts/2020/05/24/SMC18-Data-Challenge-4.html

6 years ago

How to write a toy JVM

https://zserge.com/posts/jvm/

6 years ago

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

http://oceans.nautil.us/feature/564/why-our-intuition-about-sea-level-rise-is-wrong

6 years ago

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers

https://getimageview.net/2020/06/02/microsoft-defender-smartscreen-is-hurting-independent-developers/

6 years ago

Papers with Code

https://paperswithcode.com/

6 years ago

Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page

https://hnblogs.substack.com

6 years ago

Dust in the Light

https://stratechery.com/2020/dust-in-the-light/

6 years ago

Tor Browser 9.5

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95

6 years ago

Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-machines/

6 years ago

Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/05/05/thoughts-on-cameras-in-the-age-of-excellent-cell-phone-photos/

6 years ago

“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmatter-activity-6673316720993824768-q_dU/

6 years ago

Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/internet-users-all-kinds-should-be-concerned-new-copyright-offices-report

6 years ago

Study of the effect of Vitamin D, Magnesium and Vitamin B12 on Covid-19 patients

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.01.20112334v1

6 years ago

The business of tear gas

https://www.axios.com/companies-produce-tear-gas-protests-58051fa3-8ac2-4fa7-817f-8cda0af1a14d.html

6 years ago

Leave Facebook

https://om.co/2020/06/02/leave-facebook/

6 years ago

Writing to the Framebuffer (2018)

http://seenaburns.com/2018/04/04/writing-to-the-framebuffer/

6 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk

http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914

6 years ago

Refactor vs. Rewrite

https://remesh.blog/refactor-vs-rewrite-7b260e80277a

6 years ago

Understanding Programs Using Graphs

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/understanding-programs-using-graphs

6 years ago

White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-washington-protest-disinformation-bot-behavior-n1221456

6 years ago

Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/facebook-employees-stage-virtual-walkout-over-trump-post-moderation.html

6 years ago

Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams

http://penrose.ink/siggraph20

6 years ago

Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family

https://www.propublica.org/article/this-treasury-official-is-running-the-bailout-its-been-great-for-his-family

6 years ago

Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem

https://www.aniccaresearch.tech/blog/bitcoin-minings-three-body-problem

6 years ago

Stitch Fix to Lay off About 1,400 Employees in California

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stitch-fix-to-lay-off-about-1-400-employees-in-california-11591053525

6 years ago

Firefox 77

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

Military Helicopters Descend on Washington in Bizarre Low-Altitude Show of Force

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33802/military-helicopters-descend-on-washington-in-bizarre-very-low-altitude-show-of-force

6 years ago

NSA Exposes Tool Used by Russian Hackers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/national-security-agency-exposes-tool-used-by-russian-hackers

6 years ago

Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg

https://news.yale.edu/2020/05/29/ahoy-oumuamua-may-be-hydrogen-iceberg

6 years ago

Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/democracy-in-america-partisanship-polarization-and-the-robustness-of-support-for-democracy-in-the-united-states/C7C72745B1AD1FF9E363BBFBA9E18867#

6 years ago

Science without Validation in a World without Meaning

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/science-without-validation-in-a-world-without-meaning/

6 years ago

Entire Google search result pages are now ads

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/gvdsu1/entire_google_search_result_pages_are_now_ads/

6 years ago

Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/walmart-employees-are-out-to-show-its-anti-shoplifting-ai-doesnt-work/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23390308

6 years ago

Show HN: CubeWeaver, a collaborative multidimensional web-based spreadsheet

https://cubeweaver.com/

6 years ago

Zero Knowledge Proofs applied to Auctions (2019) [pdf]

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2019/project/18-doNascimento-Kumari-Ganesan.pdf

6 years ago

Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2020.1732046

6 years ago

Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt)

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk#a-smalltalk-80-interpreted-virtual-machine

6 years ago

★ 319 C++ GPL-2.0

Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor (2016)

http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html

6 years ago

Le fardier de Cugnot: Replica of the first automobile

http://www.lefardierdecugnot.fr/Accueil%20en%20anglais.htm

6 years ago

Building binary deb packages: a practical guide

https://www.internalpointers.com/post/build-binary-deb-package-practical-guide

6 years ago

IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK

https://schmud.de/posts/2020-06-02-mlk.html

6 years ago

Stockton extends its monthly $500 UBI payment experiment

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/06/ubi-stockton-universal-basic-income-coronavirus-economy/611191/

6 years ago

What Is The Insurrection Act?

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867467714/what-is-the-insurrection-act-that-trump-is-threatening-to-invoke#umm

6 years ago

Vortex Lasers May Be a Boon for Data

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/vortex-laser

6 years ago

Google is sued in U.S. for tracking users' 'private' internet browsing

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/google-is-sued-in-u-s-for-tracking-users-private-internet-browsing-idUSKBN23933H

6 years ago