top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-08

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/

6 years ago

Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

https://smitop.com/post/reddit-whiteops/

6 years ago

We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)

http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

6 years ago

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/

6 years ago

Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767781

6 years ago

Flutter for Linux

https://snapcraft.io/blog/canonical-enables-linux-desktop-app-support-with-flutter

6 years ago

EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

6 years ago

A graphical analysis of women's tops sold on Goodwill's website

https://goodwill.awardwinninghuman.com/

6 years ago

SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-to-acquire-rancher-labs/

6 years ago

Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

https://www.runnaroo.com/

6 years ago

MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations

http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-harvard-file-suit-against-new-ice-regulations-0708

6 years ago

The saddest “Just Ship It” story

https://kitze.io/posts/saddest-just-ship-it-story-ever

6 years ago

The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)

https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-more-senior-your-job-title-the-more-you-need-to-keep-a-journal

6 years ago

Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/git-commit-accepts-several-message-flags-m-to-allow-multiline-commits/

6 years ago

Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

6 years ago

Firefox Picture-in-Picture

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-picture-in-picture-mode/

6 years ago

KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-07-07-2.6.0-released/

6 years ago

The stable marriage problem and modern dating

https://www.arvarik.com/the-stable-marriage-problem-and-modern-dating

6 years ago

Ariane RISC-V CPU – An open source CPU capable of booting Linux

https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6

6 years ago

On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs

https://rottedbits.blogspot.com/2020/07/on-closing-of-living-computers.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR30zAZFD54sW4qfZ-X3GatKhMo6nNsuEEHuIQkKPq7ONWhKFBPQncBVIlM

6 years ago

Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/science/polynesian-ancestry.html

6 years ago

CUDA 11.0

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html#cuda-whats-new

6 years ago

Identity Beyond Usernames

https://lord.io/blog/2020/usernames/

6 years ago

Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/spreading-rock-dust-on-fields-could-remove-vast-amounts-of-co2-from-air

6 years ago

VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality

https://thebolditalic.com/vcs-have-a-well-known-black-founder-problem-but-really-they-have-just-forgotten-about-people-2e8452029793

6 years ago

Concorde ‘B’ (2014)

https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b

6 years ago

A $500M call option on home gyms

https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/the-future-of-fitness-lululemon-buys

6 years ago

Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?

https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers

6 years ago

Tin Can Phone Modem

https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/tin_can_phone_modem.php

6 years ago

Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/06/30/beta-evidence-based-software-engineering-book/

6 years ago

Launch HN: ElectroNeek (YC W20) – Automatically find and automate routine work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23770214

6 years ago

Pope pulls speech on Hong Kong freedom, raising questions over Beijing pressure

https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200707/3JPO2PWP2UXTHBOUYIKKMLKKUU/

6 years ago

The GDPR as accidentally explained by people in the US

https://hroy.eu/posts/gdprExplainedByUS/

6 years ago

Barebones WebGL in 75 lines of code

https://avikdas.com/2020/07/08/barebones-webgl-in-75-lines-of-code.html

6 years ago

Never Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment and Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/07/02/never-before-have-i-seen-so-much-fake-unemployment-jobs-data-by-the-bureau-of-labor-statistics-while-labor-department-nails-it/

6 years ago

The GNU Name System IETF Draft

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html

6 years ago

Robinhood has lured young traders, sometimes with devastating results

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risky-trading.html

6 years ago

On Interviewing Programmers

https://thecobraeffect.blogspot.com/2020/07/interviewing-programmers.html

6 years ago

Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-harvard-mit-sue-trump-govt.html

6 years ago

GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache

https://github.com/jakekgrog/GhostDB

6 years ago

Fig: Visual Apps and Shortcuts for Your Terminal

https://withfig.com/

6 years ago

XMPP works – 1 July 2020

https://xmpp.org/2020/07/newsletter-01-july/

6 years ago

The myth of “joins don't scale”

https://blog.dbi-services.com/the-myth-of-nosql-vs-rdbms-joins-dont-scale/

6 years ago

FPGA Softcore SoC Shootout

https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=705

6 years ago

Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-disinformation-usa/facebook-takes-down-accounts-and-pages-of-trump-ally-roger-stone-idUSKBN2492YK

6 years ago