top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-15

Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

6 years ago

After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract

6 years ago

Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstalking/

6 years ago

How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?

https://iism.org/article/how-many-of-you-know-deep-down-that-the-team-is-working-on-something-that-no-customer-wants-54

6 years ago

Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed

https://mothership.sg/2020/06/woman-china-scam-insurance-delayed-flights/

6 years ago

On Coding, Ego and Attention

https://josebrowne.com/on-coding-ego-and-attention/

6 years ago

Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing

https://lucperkins.dev/blog/new-db-tech-1/

6 years ago

U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-idUSKBN23M20N

6 years ago

Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion

https://www.protocol.com/hey-email

6 years ago

T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21292024/t-mobile-verizon-att-calls-failing-down-phone-networks-us-carriers

6 years ago

MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software

https://musescore.org/en/MuseScore4

6 years ago

WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues

https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-dm-smr-update-3-vendors-bail-and-wd-knew-of-zfs-issues/

6 years ago

Looking Back at Postgres

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01973

6 years ago

Supreme Court declines to hear cases over qualified immunity

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-cases-over-qualified-immunity.html

6 years ago

Remembering Windows 2000

https://www.howtogeek.com/676095/remembering-windows-2000-microsofts-forgotten-masterpiece/

6 years ago

New Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor

https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2020/june/lego-mindstorms-robot-inventor/

6 years ago

Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel

https://github.com/excalidraw

6 years ago

The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (2007)

http://strangepaths.com/the-sun-seen-through-the-earth-in-neutrino-light/2007/01/06/en/

6 years ago

Fighting poverty accidentally stopped deforestation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-15/how-fighting-poverty-accidentally-stopped-deforestation

6 years ago

AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/14/Amazon-profit-from-AWS

6 years ago

Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/

6 years ago

PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/06/15/pinephone-postmarketos-community-edition/

6 years ago

An exploratory statistical analysis of Akira and Ghost in the Shell

https://nibnalin.me/dust-nib/shadows-of-stained-glass.html

6 years ago

Indie.vc: Unicorns Are Out, Profits Are In

https://marker.medium.com/indie-vc-unicorns-are-out-profits-are-in-648d2576319

6 years ago

DIY True 4K Projector

https://youtu.be/YfvTjQ9MCwY

6 years ago

Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker (2018)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3226595

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525456

6 years ago

Facebook disqualifies leaders of Deepfake Detection Challenge for rule breach

https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/14/facebook-and-kaggle-face-backlash-after-disqualifying-apparent-deepfake-detection-challenge-winner/

6 years ago

The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53178/first-woman-earn-phd-computer-science-was-nun

6 years ago

Hertz SEC Filing: Up to $500M Common Stock

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1657853/000110465920073132/tm2022223-1_424b5.htm

6 years ago

Geany – A flyweight IDE

https://www.geany.org/

6 years ago

Gated Linear Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01526

6 years ago

A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-guy-named-craig-may-soon-have-control-over-a-large-swath-of-utah

6 years ago

Basics of Pneumatic Logic

https://www.hydraulicspneumatics.com/technologies/pneumatic-valves/article/21122363/basics-of-pneumatic-logic

6 years ago

Show HN: Collection of animated algorithms and data structures

https://www.chrislaux.com/

6 years ago

Bypass kernel lockdown/UEFI secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 with ACPI SSDT injection

https://git.zx2c4.com/american-unsigned-language/tree/american-unsigned-language.sh

6 years ago

Hackers use an ordinary light bulb to spy on conversations 80 feet away

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/06/14/how-to-use-an-ordinary-light-bulb-to-spy-on-conversation-80-feet-away-security-research-lamphone-hack/

6 years ago

Grassmann.jl A\b 3x faster than Julia's StaticArrays.jl

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/grassmann-jl-a-b-3x-faster-than-julias-staticarrays-jl/41451?u=chakravala

6 years ago

Assange indictment fails to mention video that exposed US 'war crimes' in Iraq

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/15/julian-assange-indictment-fails-to-mention-wikileaks-video-that-exposed-us-war-crimes-in-iraq

6 years ago

Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam (2003)

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0305062

6 years ago

Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown

https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/

6 years ago

Tell HN: Skiena's “The Algorithm Design Manual” currently free from publisher

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529759

6 years ago

An exploratory statistical analysis of the 2014 World Cup Final

https://beta.deepnote.com/article/statistical-analysis-of-2014-world-cup-final

6 years ago

Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/instagram-algorithm-nudity/

6 years ago

Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

https://postbag.co/

6 years ago

New TLS certificate for .herokuapp.com hostnames

https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1813

6 years ago

NetBSD Code Study

http://silas.net.br/codereading/netbsd-code.html

6 years ago

Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Foundry's 130nm node

https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk

6 years ago

★ 3.6k Python Apache-2.0