top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-03

Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement

https://twitter.com/nicoagrant/status/1268020841054269440

5 years ago

1094 upvotes – 458 comments

ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/police-are-attacking-journalists-at-protests-were-suing/

5 years ago

758 upvotes – 247 comments

SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18747

5 years ago

715 upvotes – 291 comments

In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed

https://gothamist.com/news/mount-vernon-police-tapes-innocent-people-were-framed

5 years ago

598 upvotes – 293 comments

Software Engineering Within SpaceX

https://yasoob.me/posts/software_engineering_within_spacex_launch/

5 years ago

591 upvotes – 313 comments

GitHub Classroom

https://classroom.github.com/

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 166 comments

Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 575 comments

Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends

https://voxeu.org/article/declining-worker-power-versus-rising-monopoly-power

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 454 comments

OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera

https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 155 comments

Weirdos in the depression

https://blog.plover.com/book/weirdos.html

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 308 comments

Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-web-data

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 189 comments

Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-brings-linux-certification-to-thinkpad-and-thinkstation-workstation-portfolio-easing-deployment-for-developers-data-scientists/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 200 comments

A photo is crashing some Android phones

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52891650

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 226 comments

Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-5g-ericsson-1.5594601

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 191 comments

A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 360 comments

Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 173 comments

Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/kerbal-space-program-2-release-disrupted-by-corporate-strife

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 143 comments

Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/zoom-transforms-hype-into-huge-jump-in-sales-customers

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 15 comments

Is a trillion dollars’ worth of programming lying on the ground?

https://blog.cerebralab.com/Is_a_trillion-dollar_worth_of_programming_lying_on_the_ground

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 334 comments

German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux

https://androidrookies.com/this-german-city-wants-to-ditch-microsoft-for-linux/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 233 comments

A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 254 comments

Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

https://virus.cafe

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 218 comments

How much do we need the police?

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 464 comments

Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/6/3/21278233/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-walkout-employee-meeting-leaked-audio

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 407 comments

Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators

https://www.govtrades.com/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

https://titlerun.xyz/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 50 comments

The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle

https://www.dyson.co.uk/newsroom/overview/features/june-2020/dyson-battery-electric-vehicle.html

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 140 comments

Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies

https://www.wsj.com/articles/last-person-to-receive-a-civil-war-era-pension-dies-11591141193

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 114 comments

Personal Wiki for Vim

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 80 comments

Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 62 comments

Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus

https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/03/stanford-lab-envisions-delivery-drones-that-save-energy-by-taking-the-bus/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 173 comments

Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404900

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 173 comments

I Cannot Remain Silent

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-cities-are-not-battlespaces/612553/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 31 comments

Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)

https://workmanlayout.org/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 231 comments

Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-donald-trump-suspend-tweets-policy-violence/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams

https://www.squawk.to

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 114 comments

In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-math-it-often-takes-a-good-map-to-find-answers-20200601/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Basic.css – Classless CSS Starter File

https://github.com/vladocar/Basic.css

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 65 comments

The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads

https://www.adamjuliangoldstein.com/blog/contagion-of-concern/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: When is it time to give up on a side project SaaS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23399979

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 84 comments

Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch (2019)

https://blog.benwiener.com/programming/2019/04/29/reinventing-the-wheel.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

Hacking the Planet With Notcurses: A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics [pdf]

https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017)

https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 123 comments

How We Automated 99% of Our Newsletter Business

https://thetechonomics.com/2020/06/03/how-we-automated-99-of-our-newsletter-business/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

Regulators may punish Deutsche Bank for its Jeffrey Epstein ties

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/business/jeffrey-epstein-deutsche-bank.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 46 comments

Blue Cross Blue Shield plans sue CVS for overcharging them for generic drugs

https://medcitynews.com/2020/05/blues-plans-sue-cvs-saying-it-overcharged-them-for-generic-drugs/?rf=1

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 85 comments

Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (2018)

https://stingingfly.org/2018/06/27/bland-god-notes-on-mark-zuckerberg/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Akira Kurosawa’s Record of a Living Being

https://cinemasojourns.com/2020/03/29/akira-kurosawas-record-of-a-living-being/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Parcel and Rust: A WASM Romcom

https://dev.p.ota.to/post/parcel-and-rust-a-wasm-romcom-4kgsjnrdm5t/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-australian-carbon-dioxide-capture.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

Toki Pona

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

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits mistakes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/man-behind-sweden-s-virus-strategy-says-he-got-some-things-wrong

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 103 comments

Automated Work Recordings with OBS Studio and TaskWarrior and TimeWarrior

https://cristian.io/post/auto-screencasts/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments
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