top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-02

LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

https://twitter.com/doncubed/status/1278757106468806656

5 years ago

928 upvotes – 360 comments

Abstract Wikipedia

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/June_2020_announcement

5 years ago

798 upvotes – 227 comments

The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14979

5 years ago

754 upvotes – 92 comments

Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive

https://www.spacejam.com/

5 years ago

707 upvotes – 266 comments

Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53263310

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 365 comments

Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/boeing-quietly-pulls-plug-on-the-747-closing-era-of-jumbo-jets

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 210 comments

Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711942

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 187 comments

Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3703

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 104 comments

MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308677/microsoft-forza-player-ban-confederate-flag-hate-symbols

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 810 comments

Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53262860

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 239 comments

Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719376

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 311 comments

Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

https://www.capitalone.com/tech/software-engineering/go-is-boring/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 375 comments

Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel

https://www.thedrive.com/news/34554/some-of-the-most-impressive-backyard-engineering-weve-seen-goes-down-on-this-obscure-youtube-channel

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 61 comments

The BEAM Book (2017)

https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 22 comments

Crooked to the Millimetre

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/07/crooked-to-the-millimetre.html

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 37 comments

Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/parsovs

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 80 comments

Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/6/24/21301245/south-park-2000-oscars-blame-canada-controversy

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 118 comments

RCE on Telia Routers

https://full-disclosure.eu/reports/2019/FDEU-CVE-2019-10222-telia-savitarna-backdoor.html

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 49 comments

Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks

https://poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 21 comments

Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automatic updates are critical

https://www.theverge.com/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-forced-update-chromium-editorial

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 160 comments

RedHat Mandrel Makes Java Native

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/mandrel-graalvm/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 139 comments

On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)

https://ryxcommar.com/2019/07/14/on-moving-from-statistics-to-machine-learning-the-final-stage-of-grief/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 103 comments

Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/01/coronavirus-drug-overdose/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 159 comments

Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12499

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 228 comments

Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search

https://blog.algolia.com/introducing-algolias-most-customer-friendly-pricing

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 98 comments

How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 57 comments

LFortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler

https://lfortran.org/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking Internal Debate

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-ceo-wants-to-shift-more-engineering-jobs-to-india-sparking-internal-debate

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 217 comments

Json-Base – Database built as JSON files

https://github.com/Devs-Garden/jsonbase

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 177 comments

HotSpot compiler: Stack allocation prototype for C2

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2020-June/038779.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/urban-gilgamesh

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 65 comments

New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears

https://www.wired.com/story/new-mac-ransomware-thiefquest-evilquest/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 60 comments

Ghislaine Maxwell arrested by the FBI

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epsteins-confidante-arrested-by-the-fbi-report-says

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 78 comments

GShard: Scaling giant models with conditional computation and automatic sharding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16668

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

AsciiDoc Language Submitted to Eclipse Foundation

https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/asciidoc-language

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 49 comments

RenderMan and Funko Games

https://renderman.pixar.com/stories/renderman-and-funko-games

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 7 comments

Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering

https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/07/introducing-neural-supersampling-for-real-time-rendering/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

Does saying “Fuck You AWS” constitute offensive content?

http://thoughts.josephdeon.me/2020/07/02/fuck-you-aws.html

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 112 comments

Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-elite-discuss-journalists-having-too-much-power-in-private-app

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

Markets, Rent and WFH

https://macrocrunch.substack.com/p/markets-rent-and-wfh

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 151 comments

Show HN: Ward – Minimalistic Server Dashboard

https://github.com/B-Software/Ward

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 24 comments

Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11512

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Differential privacy tools from MS Research and Harvard

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/06/24/differential-privacy-harvard-opendp/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Peppering (Password Storage)

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html#peppering

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

Quantum fluctuations have been shown to affect macroscopic objects

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01914-4

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Single-use JIT Performance on x86 Processors

https://github.com/animetosho/jit_smc_test/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Things I wish I had known when I started programming, Part 4 (2019)

https://www.brainstobytes.com/advice-for-new-developers-or-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-i-started-programming-part-4/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boycott

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/07/01/why-facebook-is-well-placed-to-weather-an-advertising-boycott

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 112 comments

Modern Android is pretty secure

https://palone.blog/#post-your-android-might-be-the-most-secure-device-you-own-4

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Dyna-Kinematics – A 2D physics simulator with some unique features

https://github.com/diegomacario/Dyna-Kinematics

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Fixing critical vulnerabilities in Apache's remote desktop

https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/07/02/hole-y-guacamole-fixing-critical-vulnerabilities-in-apaches-popular-remote-desktop-gateway/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Indaba grand challenge: curing Leishmaniasis, a neglected disease

https://deeplearningindaba.com/grand-challenges/leishmaniasis/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/7/1/21308153/the-ezra-klein-show-the-shallows-twitter-facebook-attention-deep-reading-thinking

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

http://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/the-idea-of-entropy-has-led-us-astray

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 73 comments

Not true

https://github.com/Luehang/react-native-gallery-swiper/pull/44

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments

Intel Lakefield deep dive: the first x86 hybrid CPU

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15877/intel-hybrid-cpu-lakefield-all-you-need-to-know

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

I Got Rejected by Y Combinator So I’m building my own Incubator

https://medium.com/univation/i-got-rejected-by-y-combinator-so-im-building-my-own-incubator-546b4e72e418

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 27 comments
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