top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-05

The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

6 years ago

Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/hong-kong-books-by-pro-democracy-activists-disappear-from-library-shelves

6 years ago

UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/uasp-makes-raspberry-pi-4-disk-io-50-faster

6 years ago

China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887239225/china-suppression-of-uighur-minorities-meets-u-n-definition-of-genocide-report-s

6 years ago

Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/florida-becomes-first-state-to-enact-dna-privacy-law-blocking-insurers-from-genetic-data

6 years ago

I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH

6 years ago

Bible API

http://bible-api.com/

6 years ago

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/stop_tracking_increase_revenue_effectiveness/

6 years ago

Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)

https://observer.com/2019/05/internet-mob-justice-innocent-lives/

6 years ago

Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/07/03/2133201/linus-torvalds-i-do-no-coding-any-more

6 years ago

Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust

https://www.codeslow.com/2020/07/writing-winning-4k-intro-in-rust.html

6 years ago

Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code

https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_violating_the_linux_kernels_license/

6 years ago

A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time

https://carolchen.me/blog/jits-intro/

6 years ago

I Got My Attention Back (2017)

https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/

6 years ago

Rich Tables in the Terminal

https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich#tables

6 years ago

The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design

https://applypixels.com/blog/comeback

6 years ago

How McKinsey helps companies avoid responsibility

https://slate.com/business/2020/06/mckinsey-companies-avoid-responsibility-management-consulting.html

6 years ago

The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law

https://ark-invest.com/analyst-research/ai-training/

6 years ago

Beginner's Guide to Abstraction

https://jesseduffield.com/beginners-guide-to-abstraction/

6 years ago

Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/504/why-im-writing-a-book-on-cryptography/

6 years ago