top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-05

SimRefinery Recovered

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

5 years ago

723 upvotes – 139 comments

There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs

https://almad.blog/essays/no-bugs-just-todos/

5 years ago

510 upvotes – 198 comments

U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/states-lean-toward-pushing-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business.html

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 415 comments

Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

https://qz.com/1864846/signal-app-downloads-spike-as-us-protesters-seek-message-encryption/

5 years ago

472 upvotes – 356 comments

IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/06/ibm-releases-fully-homomorphic-encryption-toolkit-for-macos-and-ios-linux-and-android-coming-soon/

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 89 comments

Looking back at how Signal works

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-as-the-world-moves-forward/

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 294 comments

Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23427689

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 329 comments

CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations into Illustrative Diagrams

https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/05/cmus-penrose-turns-complex-math-notations-into-illustrative-diagrams/

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 48 comments

Mental Wealth

https://jjbeshara.com/2020/06/04/mental-wealth/

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 252 comments

WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password

https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 253 comments

The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/05/protests-washington-dc-federal-agents-law-enforcement-302551

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 158 comments

Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/04/fitful-nightly-sleep-linked-to-chronic-inflammation-hardened-arteries/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 274 comments

It is as if you were doing work

https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 81 comments

Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1268943033137053698

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 409 comments

If you see the cops, start recording

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/5/21281264/protests-police-violence-record-phone-video-right-legal

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 256 comments

Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23426574

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 291 comments

Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxma3/slack-blog-post-worked-with-police

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 273 comments

Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-france-gaia-x-cloud-platform-eu-tech-sovereignty/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 496 comments

Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-dumps-ubuntu-snap/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 289 comments

Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns

https://axisofeasy.com/aoe/amazon-spikes-book-on-covid-19-and-lockdowns-only-official-sources-permitted/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 325 comments

Show HN: Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq

https://github.com/fiatjaf/jqview

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018)

http://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/why-is-the-human-brain-so-efficient-rp

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 166 comments

Government finally publishes NHS contracts with Palantir, Faculty and big tech

https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/nhs-contracts-palantir-faculty-microsoft-google

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 58 comments

Ruby vs. Crystal Performance

https://ptimofeev.com/ruby-vs-crystal-performance/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 148 comments

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID

https://www.propublica.org/article/tear-gas-is-way-more-dangerous-than-police-let-on-especially-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 125 comments

SQLancer, a tool to automatically test DBMSs to find logic bugs

https://github.com/sqlancer/sqlancer

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 26 comments

Open source 5G core network

https://github.com/free5gc/free5gc

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 48 comments

So You Want to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Web App

https://www.zfnd.org/blog/so-you-want-an-e2e-encrypted-webapp/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23427186

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Sleep Deprivation Kills

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-sleep-deprivation-kills-20200604/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 89 comments

The Go Compiler Needs to Be Smarter

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/06/04/the-go-compiler-needs-to-be-smarter/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 117 comments

How we raised $3M for an open source project

https://posthog.com/blog/raising-3m-for-os

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 60 comments

The Shareware Scene, Part 4: Doom

https://www.filfre.net/2020/06/the-shareware-scene-part-4-doom/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 58 comments

We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal

https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 36 comments

Presentation Rules

http://www.jilles.net/perma/2020/06/05/presentation-rules.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 68 comments

Genetic Drawing

https://github.com/anopara/genetic-drawing

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 10 comments

Maze Algorithms (2011)

https://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

US schools lay off hundreds of thousands

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers-insig/u-s-schools-lay-off-hundreds-of-thousands-setting-up-lasting-harm-to-kids-idUSKBN23B39R

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 192 comments

How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines (2015)

http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.html

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines

https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art22.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

https://github.com/v002/v002-Camera-Live

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 105 comments

Containers from first principles

https://fzakaria.com/2020/05/31/containers-from-first-principles.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

How to receive a million packets per second (2015)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/research-story-tip-something-in-the-water-environmental-pollutant-may-be-more-hazardous-than-previously-thought

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 75 comments

Chance of finding young Earth-like planets higher than previously thought

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-chance-young-earth-like-planets-higher.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Where Do People Draw Lines? (2008)

https://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Cole_2008_WDP/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Choose – An alternative to cut and sometimes awk

https://github.com/theryangeary/choose

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple releases open source 'Password Manager Resources' project for developers

https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/05/apple-releases-new-open-source-password-manager-resources-project-for-developers/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

Zuckerberg: I just shared the following note with our employees

https://facebook.com/zuck/posts/10111985969467901

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 160 comments

Starting Many Things

https://jetholt.com/micro/starting-many-things/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

Special.fish

https://special.fish/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

Four million parts, 30 countries: How an Airbus A380 comes together (2018)

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-a380-parts-together/index.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 70 comments
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