top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-06-26

Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC

5 years ago

836 upvotes – 605 comments

Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-military-usually-punishes-misconduct-but-police-often-close-ranks-127898

5 years ago

815 upvotes – 532 comments

Boston bans use of facial recognition technology

https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/23/boston-facial-recognition-ban

5 years ago

543 upvotes – 158 comments

There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff

https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 195 comments

Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21297400/microsoft-retail-stores-closing-cities-open

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 277 comments

Dynamic linking

https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 244 comments

Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

https://www.stevebenjamins.com/blog/music-in-the-age-of-algorithms-47syg

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 274 comments

Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112048980882521

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 644 comments

Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 271 comments

Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

https://www.axios.com/report-amazon-to-pay-1-billion-for-self-driving-tech-firm-zoox-719d293b-3799-4315-a573-a226a58bb004.html

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 186 comments

Turn recipe websites into plain text

https://plainoldrecipe.com/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper

https://hific.github.io

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 89 comments

Tim O’Reilly makes a case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/tim-oreilly-makes-a-persuasive-case-for-why-venture-capital-is-starting-to-do-more-harm-than-good/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 143 comments

Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-removes-manual-deferrals-from-windows-update-by-it-pros-to-prevent-confusion/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 325 comments

Xbox Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/projects/consoles/xbox/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 73 comments

Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers

https://aiprobook.com/numerical-linear-algebra-for-programmers?release=0.9.0

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 75 comments

What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)

https://wordsbyevanporter.com/what-i-learned-from-writing-for-the-onion-for-a-month/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 114 comments

Building AI Trading Systems

https://dennybritz.com/blog/ai-trading/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 103 comments

The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia

https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 85 comments

“Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/release-notes/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 164 comments
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