top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-09

U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-oklahoma/us-supreme-court-deems-half-of-oklahoma-a-native-american-reservation-idUSKBN24A2BE

6 years ago

1489 upvotes – 1225 comments

New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/new-german-law-would-force-isps-to-allow-secret-service-to-install-trojans-on-user-devices/

6 years ago

731 upvotes – 236 comments

Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/portland-approves-10-cap-on-fees-that-food-delivery-apps-can-charge-restaurants.html

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 551 comments

Unit Testing Is Overrated

https://tyrrrz.me/blog/unit-testing-is-overrated

6 years ago

501 upvotes – 387 comments

Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-police-department-arrest-api-shutdown-is-its-own-kind-of-cover-up/

6 years ago

421 upvotes – 249 comments

Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 240 comments

Sampler for Mac Touchbars

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/07/09/free-macos-sampler-samplr-for-touchbar/

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 195 comments

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media

6 years ago

354 upvotes – 555 comments

How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-unc0ver-0-day-in-4-hours-or-less.html

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 116 comments

A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/vital-signs-the-woman-who-needed-to-be-upside-down

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 97 comments

Nvidia is now worth more than Intel

https://www.techspot.com/news/85932-nvidia-passes-intel-most-valuable-us-chipmaker.html

6 years ago

273 upvotes – 199 comments

Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39

https://blogs.igalia.com/compilers/2020/06/23/dates-and-times-in-javascript/

6 years ago

268 upvotes – 154 comments

MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac

https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 86 comments

Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780062

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 305 comments

Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02054-5

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 43 comments

One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53316895

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 170 comments

Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation

https://decentraleyes.org

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 80 comments

Hacker News RSS Feeds

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 59 comments

How to track and display profile views on GitHub

https://rushter.com/blog/github-profile-markdown/

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 108 comments

Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons for the Istio project

https://developer.ibm.com/components/istio/blogs/istio-google-open-usage-commons/

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 112 comments

PostgreSQL Templates

https://supabase.io/blog/2020/07/09/postgresql-templates/

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 33 comments

Boom supersonic jet readies for rollout

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/boom-supersonic-jet-readies-rollout/

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 271 comments

Computational Music Synthesis

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/synthesis/

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 39 comments

RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine

https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 92 comments

Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire

https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-index/

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 27 comments

New JavaScript code generator in Idris 2

https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2/pull/415

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 27 comments

Full Employment

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 185 comments

xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15894/xmems-announces-worlds-first-monolithic-mems-speaker

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 76 comments

Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline

https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/09/bulgaria-writes-new-chapter-in-long-story-of-demographic-decline/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 142 comments

The Magic of Math in Modern Cryptography [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSMQ-xowqAg

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 19 comments

A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

https://zerodivs.com/#/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-supreme-court-rule-violating-terms-service-isnt-crime-under-cfaa

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Screenr – Automated Workflow for Your Email

https://www.feval.ca/posts/screenr/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB drives: EAMR HDDs enter the retail channel

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15903/western-digitals-16tb-and-18tb-gold-drives-eamr-hdds-enter-the-retail-channel

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 164 comments

In north Michigan woods, feds raid an alleged upscale art forgery factory

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/07/08/art-forgery-ring-targeted-fbi-raids-near-traverse-city/5398152002/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 99 comments

Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/animals-use-social-distancing-to-avoid-disease1/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 121 comments

Redis Core Team Update

https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-core-team-update/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

The Bitter Lesson (2019)

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 85 comments

Rust Playground

https://play.rust-lang.org/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

A Tour of Acme (2012)

https://research.swtch.com/acme

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 59 comments

Six arrested after 'Dutch torture chambers' found

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53325388

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 122 comments

Vienna, City of Paradox

https://aeon.co/essays/vienna-schoenberg-and-the-advent-of-musical-modernism

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 68 comments

Hard is not defensible (2017)

https://www.alexcrompton.com/blog/2017/05/26/hard-is-not-defensible

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 52 comments

NeurIPS 2020 Optimization Competition

http://bbochallenge.com/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

The Rise of the Solo Capitalists

https://nbt.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-solo-capitalists

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Is Ghislaine Maxwell secretly one of the most powerful Redditors of all time?

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/is-ghislaine-maxwell-secretly-one-of-the-most-powerful-redditors-of-all-time

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Finding SARS-CoV-2 carriers by optimizing pooled testing at low prevalence [pdf]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20087924v1.full.pdf

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information with police

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/tell-amazon-ring-stop-sharing-information-police-services/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments
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