top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-20

Why Figma Wins

https://kwokchain.com/2020/06/19/why-figma-wins/

6 years ago

A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RPi-VK-Driver

6 years ago

RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS

https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/

6 years ago

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/

6 years ago

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/

6 years ago

Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use

https://quanticdev.com/articles/cleaning-macbook-after-16800-hours-of-use

6 years ago

NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech

https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/18/new-york-city-council-passes-law-requiring-nypd-to-reveal-its-surveillance-technologies/

6 years ago

Ghoti

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

6 years ago

Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year

6 years ago

Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582602

6 years ago

Do the Real Thing

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thing/

6 years ago

An Intro to Compilers (2017)

https://nicoleorchard.com/blog/compilers

6 years ago

“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/19/swisher-app-store-hey

6 years ago

The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation?

https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-nova-scotia-shooter-case-has-hallmarks-of-an-undercover-operation/

6 years ago

NimConf 2020 Videos

https://conf.nim-lang.org/index.html?ref=hn

6 years ago

Why people hate contemporary architecture (2017)

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture

6 years ago

Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs (2013)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460

6 years ago

A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/3

https://www.nginx.com/blog/introducing-technology-preview-nginx-support-for-quic-http-3/

6 years ago

Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x5kpb/anyone-can-build-this-open-source-drm-free-kindle-alternative

6 years ago

The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/news/news-center/the-us-can-reach-90-percent-clean-electricity-by-2035-dependably-and-without-increasing-consumer-bills

6 years ago

11 Foot 8 – The Can-opener Bridge

http://11foot8.com/

6 years ago

Facebook acquires Mapillary

https://blog.mapillary.com/news/2020/06/18/Mapillary-joins-Facebook.html

6 years ago

The Art of the Possible

https://hypercritical.co/2020/06/20/the-art-of-the-possible

6 years ago

Nextdoor ends its program for forwarding suspicions to police

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-19/why-nextdoor-cut-its-forward-to-police-tool

6 years ago

My story with App Review

https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1274356729224892416

6 years ago

I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract

https://virginmedia-is-evil.com/

6 years ago

Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2019/jul/low-carb-diet-leads-to-clinical-remission-in-three-case-studies-of-adults-with-type-1-diabetes-99607766.html

6 years ago

30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/can-an-unloved-child-learn-to-love/612253/

6 years ago

Specific ways to write better Python (2017)

https://github.com/SigmaQuan/Better-Python-59-Ways

6 years ago

MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/resignation.html

6 years ago

Solar storm risk and EMP attacks

https://chris-said.io/2020/06/18/everything-ive-learned-about-solar-storm-risk-and-emp-attacks/

6 years ago

The Art of Prolog (1994)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition

6 years ago

The history that James Baldwin wanted America to see

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-history-that-james-baldwin-wanted-america-to-see

6 years ago

Today’s developers don’t need what the App Store offers

https://capiche.com/e/ecommerce-and-app-store-fees-compared

6 years ago

Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/119

6 years ago

What adolescents think of mindfulness in schools

https://psyche.co/ideas/its-time-to-hear-what-adolescents-think-of-mindfulness-in-schools

6 years ago

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2012)

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/

6 years ago

Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (1974) [pdf]

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jlp/75.knuth.trees.pdf

6 years ago

CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/citylab-has-been-relaunched-under-the-bloomberg-umbrella/

6 years ago

Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views) with a copyright claim

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/hcj9hx/gameloft_has_taken_down_marvels_spiderman_miles/

6 years ago

Building an online community around learning from incidents (2019)

https://www.learningfromincidents.io/blog/learning-from-incidents-in-software

6 years ago

Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581118

6 years ago

Slo Mo Guys created a great video of the Apple Watch water-ejection system

https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/19/apple-watch-water-ejection-system/

6 years ago

Reverse-engineering and comparing two Game Boy audio amplifier chips

http://www.righto.com/2020/06/reverse-engineering-and-comparing-two.html

6 years ago

Odds of communicating with 36 other possible intelligent civilizations are small

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/there-may-be-36-other-intelligent-civilizations-in-the-galaxy-but-odds-of-communicating-with-them-are-small-1.5618194

6 years ago

TiDB 4.0 GA Release

https://pingcap.com/blog/tidb-4.0-ga-gearing-you-up-for-an-unpredictable-world-with-real-time-htap-database/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581414

6 years ago

Memory in JavaScript – Beyond Leaks (2019)

https://medium.com/walkme-engineering/memory-in-javascript-beyond-leaks-8c1d697c655c

6 years ago

Recognizing vs. Generating

https://mlu.red/52622266310.html

6 years ago