top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-16

Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations

https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

6 years ago

804 upvotes – 171 comments

For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/black-lives-matter-highlights-adversity-facing-black-tech-ceos

6 years ago

677 upvotes – 775 comments

The Next Step for Generics

https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step

6 years ago

673 upvotes – 664 comments

Bootstrap 5 alpha

https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2020/06/16/bootstrap-5-alpha/

6 years ago

641 upvotes – 265 comments

Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-june-14-2020-1.5604357/there-s-a-reason-we-procrastinate-and-it-s-not-laziness-1.5604433

6 years ago

613 upvotes – 312 comments

FFmpeg 4.3

http://ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_4.3

6 years ago

554 upvotes – 220 comments

A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess

https://www.wired.com/story/hikaru-nakamura-twitch-chess

6 years ago

474 upvotes – 165 comments

Apple, ARM, and Intel

https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-arm-and-intel/?href=

6 years ago

456 upvotes – 474 comments

3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust

https://blog.tonari.no/why-we-love-rust

6 years ago

427 upvotes – 205 comments

How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-performance-report

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 128 comments

Apple rejects Hey for second time, threatens removal from App Store

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1272968382329942017

6 years ago

384 upvotes – 275 comments

Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/16/apple-threatens-to-remove-hey-from-app-store/

6 years ago

347 upvotes – 348 comments

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 264 comments

Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-predator-buster-hernandez

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 111 comments

Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-gravity-is-not-like-the-other-forces-20200615/

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 241 comments

Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers

https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 159 comments

EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21292651/apple-eu-antitrust-investigation-app-store-apple-pay

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 163 comments

FreeBSD 11.4

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.4R/announce.html

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 201 comments

Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/google-bans-zerohedge-and-the-federalist-from-its-ad-platform.html

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 344 comments

A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite

https://blog.jupyter.org/a-jupyter-kernel-for-sqlite-9549c5dcf551

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 45 comments

Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends

https://pragmaticpineapple.com/do-not-follow-javascript-trends/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 272 comments

Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-breaking-jet-which-still-haunts-a-country

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 280 comments

Boston Dynamics shop: Spot Explorer

https://shop.bostondynamics.com/DefaultStore/spot?cclcl=en_US&pid=aDl6g000000XdpZCAS

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 216 comments

CIA hacking unit failed to protect its systems, allowing Vault 7 disclosure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/elite-cia-unit-that-developed-hacking-tools-failed-to-secure-its-own-systems-allowing-massive-leak-an-internal-report-found/2020/06/15/502e3456-ae9d-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 98 comments

Loglo: Experimental spreadsheet and stack language for vector graphics

https://loglo.app/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 32 comments

Operating a Tor Relay

https://birb007.github.io/blog/2020/06/06/operating-a-tor-relay.html

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 100 comments

Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/21/who-the-hell-is-this-joyce/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 109 comments

Pyrrhic Victory

https://granolashotgun.com/2020/06/16/pyrrhic-victory/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 173 comments

Show HN: 100% offline Shamir's Secret Sharing GUI

https://simon-frey.com/s4/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 67 comments

A shared file system for lambda functions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-a-shared-file-system-for-your-lambda-functions/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 109 comments

‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location

https://www.fox29.com/news/hey-siri-im-getting-pulled-over-iphone-feature-will-record-police-interaction-send-location

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 101 comments

Paper Airplane Designs

https://www.foldnfly.com/index.html#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 8 comments

Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More

https://www.wired.com/story/dating-apps-leak-explicit-photos-screenshots/

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit

https://blog.grimm-co.com/2020/06/soho-device-exploitation.html?m=1

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 98 comments

Announce bad news without lying to your team

https://deliverydoubled.com/announce-bad-news-without-lying-to-your-team-avoid-my-damaging-rookie-mistakes/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 76 comments

Body by Victoria (2009)

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/322-Body-By-Victoria.html

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (1985)

http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf;jsessionid=9BC204670EC73ACE845085C27F5A7DC6.2_cid285?__blob=publicationFile

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 105 comments

Using Lua as a Serialization Format

https://mkhan45.github.io/2020/06/16/using-lua-as-a-serialization-format.html

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 94 comments

Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app

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

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 111 comments

Polyphasic sleep takes napping to the extreme

https://trickle.app/drip/24112-polyphasic-sleep-takes-napping-to-the-extreme/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 130 comments

Venezuela is a testing ground for digital dollarization, Zelle doesn’t like it

https://www.coindesk.com/venezuela-is-a-testing-ground-for-digital-dollarization-and-zelle-doesnt-like-it

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 85 comments

AMD to Launch New Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs: Zen 2 with More MHz

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15854/amd-ryzen-3000-xt-cpus-zen-2-more-mhz

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Against Cop Shit

https://jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02-13-against-cop-shit/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 68 comments

Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/nested-transactions-in-cockroachdb-20-1/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

A gentle introduction to pointers using C (2019)

https://www.brainstobytes.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-pointers-in-c/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 135 comments

How Rust Lets Us Monitor 30k API calls/min

https://blog.bearer.sh/how-rust-lets-us-monitor-30k-api-calls-min/#.XujqagRRU9Q.hackernews

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 76 comments

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]

https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Findka – Personalized recommendations for any type of content

https://findka.com

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments
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