top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-22

Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21295475/apple-mac-processors-arm-silicon-chips-wwdc-2020

6 years ago

1869 upvotes – 1436 comments

Reflections on Being a Female Founder

https://tracy.posthaven.com/reflections-on-being-a-female-founder

6 years ago

699 upvotes – 273 comments

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/blueleaks-exposes-files-from-hundreds-of-police-departments/

6 years ago

501 upvotes – 343 comments

Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/22/patagonia-joins-growing-list-of-companies-boycotting-facebook-ads.html

6 years ago

477 upvotes – 210 comments

Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021

https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1275074784351543298

6 years ago

474 upvotes – 392 comments

Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”

https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hddnml/the_warnings_have_changed_into_bannings/

6 years ago

420 upvotes – 366 comments

What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/overview/whats-new-in-macos/

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 366 comments

Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298919/andrew-yang-big-tech-data-dividend-project-facebook-google-ubi

6 years ago

369 upvotes – 277 comments

A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic

https://abstreet.org/

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 87 comments

Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick

https://adsp.ai/articles/google-vs-trick/

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 66 comments

The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/university-like-cd-streaming-age/613291/

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 282 comments

ARM Mac Impact on Intel

https://mondaynote.com/arm-mac-impact-on-intel-9641a8e73dca

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 525 comments

Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer

https://www.top500.org/news/japan-captures-top500-crown-arm-powered-supercomputer/

6 years ago

315 upvotes – 208 comments

Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299032/microsoft-mixer-closing-facebook-gaming-partnership-xcloud-features

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 250 comments

Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia

https://github.com/jonathan-laurent/AlphaZero.jl

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 70 comments

iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps

https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/22/ios-14-default-apps/

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 242 comments

macOS Big Sur Preview

https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 382 comments

MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation (1986) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 76 comments

What happens when you update your DNS

https://jvns.ca/blog/how-updating-dns-works/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 85 comments

TSMC officially begins 5 nm production

https://www.notebookcheck.net/TSMC-officially-begins-5-nm-production-Snapdragon-875-SoC-Snapdragon-X60-5G-modem-A14-Bionic-and-a-5-nm-AMD-high-end-GPU-incoming.477119.0.html

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 124 comments

Trump suspends H1B, H4 visas till year end

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-suspends-h1b-h4-visas/articleshow/76519657.cms

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 381 comments

Apple WWDC Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEZhD3J89ZE

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 360 comments

Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/the-rescue-will-begin-in-its-own-time

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent

https://blog.statechannels.org/introducing-web3torrent/

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 94 comments

Gitlab 13.1

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/06/22/gitlab-13-1-released/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 84 comments

NPhysics: 2D and 3D Real-Time Physics Engine for Rust

https://nphysics.org/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 34 comments

Rust concurrency: the archetype of a message-passing bug

https://medium.com/@polyglot_factotum/rust-concurrency-the-archetype-of-a-message-passing-bug-817b60efd8f8

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 92 comments

Wirecard – The “German Enron”, and a personal history

https://valueandopportunity.com/2020/06/19/wirecard-the-german-enron-a-very-personal-history-2008-2020/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 84 comments

Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01874-9

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 232 comments

The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/the-us-military-is-getting-serious-about-nuclear-thermal-propulsion/

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 210 comments

Why did Facebook acquire Mapillary?

https://medium.com/@joemorrison/why-on-earth-did-facebook-just-acquire-mapillary-9838405272f8

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 30 comments

Health Effects of Coffee

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/6/1842

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 164 comments

Ask HN: How to develop a growth mindset?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605790

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 87 comments

An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

https://www.freethink.com/articles/lsd-trip

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 145 comments

Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-physics-neural-networks-chaos.html

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 74 comments

Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017)

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 28 comments

Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/06/22/deus-ex-at-20-the-oral-history-of-a-pivotal-pc-game/

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 127 comments

The Importance of India

https://alexkolchinski.com/2020/06/22/the-importance-of-india/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 162 comments

Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14

https://www.maptiler.com/news/2020/06/vector-tiles-in-qgis-3-14/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 13 comments

Create No-JavaScript friendly sites

https://www.garron.blog/posts/no-javascript-sites.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 128 comments

Open IP over VHF/UHF

http://www.rowetel.com/?p=7207

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Why you should re-read Paradise Lost (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170419-why-paradise-lost-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-important-poems

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages

https://corvidresearch.blog/2020/06/21/the-crows-are-watching-your-language-literally/

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 50 comments

Sugary drink tax models show health gains, cost reductions, but vary by design

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/sugary-drink-tax-models-show-health-gains-cost-reductions-but-vary-by-tax-design?preview=cd61

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 122 comments

Apple, Hey, and the Path Forward

https://hey.com/apple/path/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 111 comments

Prolog Web Applications (2016)

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/web

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 18 comments

The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't (2010)

https://www.economist.com/news/2010/11/22/nassim-taleb-looks-at-what-will-break-and-what-wont

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 111 comments

Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium

https://github.com/tbensky/selenium-peoplesoft

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration

https://github.com/nxrighthere/UnrealCLR

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Deep Learning from Scratch Part 3: Generalizing Gradient Descent

https://jdridgeway.com/deep-learning-from-scratch-generalizing-gradient-descent/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure

https://github.com/whytheplatypus/switchboard

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Sat solver on top of regex matcher

https://yurichev.com/news/20200621_regex_SAT/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 52 comments

Stuck at home, scientists discover new insect species

https://www.wired.com/story/stuck-at-home-scientists-discover-9-new-insect-species/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 4 comments

The Problem with America’s Lab Mice [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4q-1D_Ajo

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 70 comments
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