top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-17

Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

6 years ago

Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/

6 years ago

Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53074995

6 years ago

Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques

https://hot3eed.github.io/snap_part1_obfuscations.html

6 years ago

AWS Snowcone

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-snowcone-small-lightweight-edge-storage-and-processing/

6 years ago

Practical Python Programming

https://github.com/dabeaz-course/practical-python

6 years ago

Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-faces-5-billion-lawsuit-for-tracking-people-in-incognito-mode/

6 years ago

YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program

https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-relaunch/

6 years ago

Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-abandoned-specialreport/special-report-millions-of-abandoned-oil-wells-are-leaking-methane-a-climate-menace-idUSKBN23N1NL

6 years ago

Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key'

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2020-06-14-postbank-forced-to-replace-12-million-bank-cards-after-employees-steal-master-key/

6 years ago

Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/microsoft-pitched-facial-recognition-dea-drug-enforcement

6 years ago

Image GPT

https://openai.com/blog/image-gpt/

6 years ago

Hashcat 6.0

https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-9303.html

6 years ago

Advice to Young Web Developers

https://tumblr.beesbuzz.biz/post/621010836277837824/advice-to-young-web-developers

6 years ago

FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars

https://6abc.com/fbi-etsy-linkedin-used-to-make-arrest-in-police-car-arson/6252215/

6 years ago

Rents are dropping across the US

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/16/success/rents-are-dropping-us-cities-coronavirus/index.html

6 years ago

Show HN: I am trying to start a webring for geeks

https://geekring.net/

6 years ago

BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/5938.html

6 years ago

A look at the die of the 8086 processor

http://www.righto.com/2020/06/a-look-at-die-of-8086-processor.html

6 years ago

Realtime Starlink Satellite Map

https://satellitemap.space/indexA.html

6 years ago

Deep JavaScript: Theory and Techniques

https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/

6 years ago

Apollo – Funding for Moonshots

https://apolloprojects.com/

6 years ago

Go generics draft design: building a hashtable

https://mdlayher.com/blog/go-generics-draft-design-building-a-hashtable/

6 years ago

20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-year-old-robinhood-customer-commits-suicide-after-seeing-a-730000-negative-balance/

6 years ago

Booting embedded Linux in 0.37 seconds on an ARMv7-A CPU at 528 MHz

https://github.com/eerimoq/monolinux-jiffy#boot-time

6 years ago

AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-said-it-mitigated-a-2-3-tbps-ddos-attack-the-largest-ever/

6 years ago

Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/15/diluting-blood-plasma-rejuvenates-tissue-reverses-aging-in-mice/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you divide time between engaging with users and development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549804

6 years ago

Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey

https://hey.com/apple/

6 years ago

GoPlus – The Go+ language for data science

https://www.github.com/qiniu/goplus

6 years ago

Covid-19: The T Cell Story

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/covid-19-t-cells/

6 years ago

On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (1975) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Motivation/Kerr_Folly_of_rewarding_A_while_hoping_for_B.pdf

6 years ago

Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-propose-limiting-internet-firms-protections-11592391602

6 years ago

A Graphical Introduction to Lattices

https://philosophyforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-graphical-introduction-to-lattices.html

6 years ago

Apple is facing rage from developers over the commission on the App Store

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-developer-rage-30-percent-app-store-tax-2020-6

6 years ago

How I Make Yogurt (2019)

https://rmosolgo.github.io/blog/2019/03/28/how-i-make-yogurt/

6 years ago

Expose – A fully open-source ngrok alternative written in PHP

https://github.com/beyondcode/expose

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you develop internal motivation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23550758

6 years ago

WhatsApp has introduced a feature that allows users to send and receive money

https://www.iafrikan.com/2020/06/17/facebook-whatsapp-payments-chat/

6 years ago

Getting the most out of YubiKeys for your business

https://blog.congruentlabs.co/getting-the-most-out-of-yubikeys-for-your-business/

6 years ago

How to get people to work on your project (2007)

https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2007/08/06/how-to-get-your-project-moving-or-my-ego-is-massive-and-you-should-listen-to-me./

6 years ago

Consistency Models (2018)

https://jepsen.io/consistency

6 years ago

A tiny smartphone company just brought a new Android version to a 2015 device

https://www.androidauthority.com/fairphone-2-android-9-1129547/

6 years ago

Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda

https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/use-nuclear-technology-gets-green-light-rwanda

6 years ago