top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-04

The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

https://prithu.xyz/posts/unix-pipeline/

5 years ago

649 upvotes – 374 comments

A History of Clojure [pdf]

https://clojure.org/about/history

5 years ago

627 upvotes – 374 comments

Blur Tools for Signal

https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/

5 years ago

603 upvotes – 241 comments

I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/timothy.j.aveni/posts/3006224359465567

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 464 comments

macOS in QEMU in Docker

https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 186 comments

Anxiety in product development

https://andreschweighofer.com/agile/anxiety-in-product-development/

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere

https://gridjs.io/?hn

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 132 comments

Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem

https://blog.gitbook.com/tech/post-mortems/06-20-gitbook-domains-blocked-by-registrar

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 186 comments

Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court

https://repair.eu/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 232 comments

Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-autos/germany-forces-all-petrol-stations-to-provide-electric-car-charging-idUSKBN23B1WU

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 183 comments

Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140673620313246

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 172 comments

Hands-On Scala Programming

http://handsonscala.com

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

https://www.c0d3.com

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 166 comments

Germany bans digital doppelganger passport photos

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-tech-morphing/germany-bans-digital-doppelganger-passport-photos-idUSKBN23A1YM

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 223 comments

Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01658-1

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 106 comments

Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-employment-coronavirus

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 154 comments

People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-people.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 110 comments

DeepFaceDrawing Generates Photorealistic Portraits from Freehand Sketches

https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/04/deepfacedrawing-generates-photorealistic-portraits-from-freehand-sketches/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 75 comments

Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 129 comments

Decoding radio telemetry heard on news helicopter video footage with GNU Radio

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/decoding-radio-telemetry-heard-on-news-helicopter-video-footage-with-gnu-radio/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 36 comments

Julia as a CLI Calculator

https://krasjet.com/rnd.wlk/julia/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 130 comments

More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May

https://www.businessinsider.com/retailers-didnt-pay-rent-may-upset-the-entire-economy-2020-6

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 220 comments

Researcher questions years of his own work with a reexamination of fMRI data

https://today.duke.edu/2020/06/studies-brain-activity-aren%E2%80%99t-useful-scientists-thought

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels

http://blog.interviewing.io/interviewing-io-is-out-of-beta-anonymous-technical-interview-practice-for-all/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 120 comments

Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52912881

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414896

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 184 comments

The case for declaring armed and fully autonomous drone swarms as WMD

https://mwi.usma.edu/swarms-mass-destruction-case-declaring-armed-fully-autonomous-drone-swarms-wmd/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 106 comments

Akira Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-hand-painted-film-storyboards/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 14 comments

Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS (2018)

https://cdm.link/2018/07/watch-kraftwerk-jam-with-the-iss-and-esa-astronaut-alexander-gerst/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/06/defund-police-reform-peoples-budget-racism-city-funding/612517/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 239 comments

SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-and-records-a-reusability-record-for-a-falcon-9-booster/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 126 comments

Why I don’t usually meet startups in person (2019)

https://elizabethyin.com/2019/03/08/why-i-dont-usually-meet-startups-in-person/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 93 comments

IMAP Email Backup

https://smalldata.tech/blog/2020/04/07/imap-email-backup

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: A Commodore Amiga Workbench Style Smart Watch with Mod and Say Support

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-10

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 16 comments

Emacs as Email Client

http://www.mycpu.org/read-email-in-emacs/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 105 comments

Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/coronavirus-for-a-population-of-12-crore-why-bengaluru-has-only-300-covid-cases

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 125 comments

Huawei proposes to replace TCP/IP at ITU

https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/discussion-paper-an-analysis-of-the-new-ip-proposal-to-the-itu-t/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Facebook will block ads from state-controlled media outlets

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/facebook-will-block-ads-from-state-controlled-media-outlets.html

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 96 comments

HFT in My Backyard (2014)

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-backyard-part-i/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 47 comments

555 timer teardown: inside the most popular IC (2016)

http://www.righto.com/2016/02/555-timer-teardown-inside-worlds-most.html

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (2014)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 109 comments

BlackRock Is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/06/blackrock-is-bailing-out-its-etfs-with-fed-money-and-taxpayers-eating-losses-its-also-the-sole-manager-for-335-billion-of-federal-employees-retirement-funds/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 85 comments

GM plans electric van for business users

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-vans-exclusive/exclusive-gm-plans-electric-van-for-business-users-in-bid-to-pre-empt-tesla-idUSKBN23B1G1

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 184 comments

First photo of HS2 tunnel boring machines

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/06/04/first-photo-of-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 173 comments

Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?

https://rossbarkan.substack.com/p/why-is-the-nypd-so-powerful

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 75 comments

Qualified Immunity: Explained

https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity-explained/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 55 comments

Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/acs-presspac-june-3-2020/synthetic-red-blood-cells-mimic-natural-ones-and-have-new-abilities.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Solving Jepsen with OpenCensus Distributed Tracing

https://dgraph.io/blog/post/solving-jepsen-with-opencensus/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 6 comments

Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2B

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/romanian-skimmer-gang-in-mexico-outed-by-krebsonsecurity-stole-1-2-billion/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 14 comments

The Tienanmen Square Massacre (2019)

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-tiananmen-square-massacre-195216

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Lattice FPGA adds 'no reversing' clause for SDK built on reversed bitstreams

https://twitter.com/fpga_dave/status/1268497428501725184/photo/1

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Who Smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-feynman/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

Julialang Antipatterns

https://white.ucc.asn.au/2020/04/19/Julia-Antipatterns.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

On a caravan, with one of the Sahara's last European explorers

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-caravan-sahara-european-explorers.html

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Study finds political bias skews perceptions of verifiable fact

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/study-finds-political-bias-skews-perceptions-of-verifiable-fact/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Video of hundreds of police attacks on peaceful protestors

https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266751520055459847

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

The BBC Microcomputer User Guide

http://central.kaserver5.org/Kasoft/Typeset/BBC/Contents.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Jobless claims, total unemployment level worse than expected

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/weekly-jobless-claims.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments
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