top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-19

You download the app and it doesn’t work

https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com

6 years ago

1044 upvotes – 543 comments

Written communication is remote work super power

https://snir.dev/blog/remote-async-communication/

6 years ago

831 upvotes – 190 comments

BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory

https://github.com/johang/btfs

6 years ago

510 upvotes – 121 comments

Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wirecard-accounts/wirecard-ceo-quits-as-search-for-missing-billions-hits-dead-end-in-asia-idUSKBN23Q0YA

6 years ago

409 upvotes – 261 comments

A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/06/19/a-little-bit-of-plain-javascript-can-do-a-lot/

6 years ago

397 upvotes – 198 comments

Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/19/21296657/microsoft-apple-app-store-antitrust-comments

6 years ago

391 upvotes – 289 comments

Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014

https://ylukem.com/blog/apple-gave-me-the-hey-treatment-back-in-2014

6 years ago

384 upvotes – 383 comments

Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them

https://rudism.com/quit-whining-about-apple-and-just-stop-using-them/

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 319 comments

Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53099283

6 years ago

310 upvotes – 151 comments

Hypothes.is: An Open Annotations Platform

https://web.hypothes.is/

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 77 comments

Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel

https://tedium.co/2020/06/16/apple-powerpc-intel-transition-history/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 345 comments

Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS

https://ninjarockstar.dev/css-hex-grids/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 42 comments

Researchers and Founders

https://blog.samaltman.com/researchers-and-founders

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 105 comments

'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53106441

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 297 comments

Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

https://www.reuters.com/tools/rss

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 124 comments

Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/turn-on-mfa-before-crooks-do-it-for-you/

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 195 comments

On Cultures That Build

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-cultures-that-build.html

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 189 comments

Linear types are merged in GHC

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-19-linear-types-merged

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 80 comments

Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/823352/ea717c1e49390505/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 146 comments

Strike a Solder Joint Behind Enemy Lines

https://hackaday.com/2020/06/19/strike-a-solder-joint-behind-enemy-lines/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 41 comments

Control theory for fun and profit

https://fauna.com/blog/control-theory-for-fun-and-profit

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 47 comments

SpaceX applies to offer high-speed internet service to Canadians

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/spacex-high-speed-internet-1.5618918

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 133 comments

Let them paste passwords (2017)

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/let-them-paste-passwords

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 126 comments

Linear Regression

https://www.simonwardjones.co.uk/posts/linear_regression/

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 69 comments

Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode on iPad Pro

https://twitter.com/jankais3r/status/1274043856821145602

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 52 comments

Neil Armstrong's reply to a Moon landing skeptic

https://kottke.org/20/06/teacher-tells-off-neil-armstrong-for-faking-the-moon-landing

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 194 comments

Apple’s secretive AR and VR Headset plans altered by internal differences

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-19/apple-team-working-on-vr-and-ar-headset-and-ar-glasses

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 105 comments

Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/19/oracle-bluekai-web-tracking/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23579184

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 303 comments

Micromort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? Rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur (2019)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3479042

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 81 comments

Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People?

https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-freedom-of-speech/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 265 comments

MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat

https://makespace.fun/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments

Launch HN: Mighty Health (YC S19) – Health coaching for people over 50

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23574723

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 77 comments

Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/beauty-of-text.html

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 55 comments

Blu-ray player keeps cycling on/off whenever plugged in

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Blu-ray-player-BD-JM57C-keeps-cycling-on-off-whenever-plugged-in/td-p/1278935

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

CERN makes push to build €21B super-collider

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01866-9

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser

https://github.com/Niek/obs-web

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

If this is not the correct way to use a 64-Core Processor, I don't know what is

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/hbx72t/if_this_is_not_the_correct_way_to_use_a_64core/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House antitrust committee chair

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-hey-email-fees-policies-antitrust-wwdc-2020

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: Automatically Rename HEY's 'Imbox' to 'Inbox'

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hey-typo-fixer/caapeklncafkddgbhdhneelnoamcjkin

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 146 comments

Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store

https://www.protocol.com/apple-hey-rejection-letter

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 220 comments

Billionaire, Board Game God and Tech's Hidden Disruptor (2019)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/29/meet-matt-calkins-billionaire-board-game-god-and-techs-hidden-disruptor/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23575296

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 28 comments

W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life (2016)

https://hyperallergic.com/306559/w-e-b-du-boiss-modernist-data-visualizations-of-black-life/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: gRPC over WebRTC

https://github.com/jsmouret/grpc-over-webrtc

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Pwned Passwords, Version 6

https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-passwords-version-6/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon’s enforcement failures leave open a back door to banned goods

https://themarkup.org/banned-bounty/2020/06/18/amazons-enforcement-failures-leave-open-a-back-door

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

The Shareware Scene, Part 5: Narratives of Doom

https://www.filfre.net/2020/06/the-shareware-scene-part-5-narratives-of-doom/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)

http://www.swans.com/library/art9/mparen01.html

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 166 comments

Berlin Gold Hat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Gold_Hat

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 57 comments

International Standard Paper Sizes

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 73 comments

Alex: A ML-enhanced range index

https://github.com/microsoft/ALEX

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Analysis of SwissCovid app

https://lasec.epfl.ch/people/vaudenay/swisscovid.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Zombie Satellites Return from the Graveyard

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/zombie-satellites-return-from-the-graveyard

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Osint Amateur Hour

https://www.secjuice.com/geolocation-osint-amateur-hour/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Are planets with oceans common in the galaxy? It's likely, NASA scientists find

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-planets-oceans-common-galaxy-nasa.html

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

The Silicon Oligarchy

https://themargins.substack.com/p/the-silicon-oligarchy?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDYwNDE2NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTQzOTE1LCJfIjoieFFrWkoiLCJpYXQiOjE1OTI1NTU0NzcsImV4cCI6MTU5MjU1OTA3NywiaXNzIjoicHViLTY2ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.LnUmkJ5oBydiuAjz5ljbHGRHeqaIezIo8S4oni7nHMo

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 93 comments

How to reclaim disk space used by Docker volumes, but keep a few important on

https://domm.plix.at/perl/2020_06_docker_prune_volumes_by_label.html

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Bessemer Ventures Anti-Portfolio

https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aerial Surveillance

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/george-floyd-protests-surveillance.html

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 59 comments

Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based cyber attack, PM says

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/australian-government-and-private-sector-reportedly-hit-by-massive-cyber-attack/news-story/b570a8ab68574f42f553fc901fa7d1e9

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 52 comments

Private Equity Investing Now Allowed in 401(k) Retirement Funds

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benefits/benefits-overseer-oks-private-equity-investing-by-401k-holders

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Tragopan – Minimal, dependency-free pan/zoom JavaScript library

https://github.com/team-video/tragopan

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

Robust APIs Are Weird

https://www.aviskase.com/articles/2020/06/18/robust-apis-are-weird/

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments
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