top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-10

Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211148

5 years ago

787 upvotes – 954 comments

App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427

5 years ago

596 upvotes – 432 comments

Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

https://twitter.com/scotthickle/status/1281631749533990914

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 455 comments

LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825598/21fb7c2a3f9358e7/

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 425 comments

Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/google-password-2fa-woes/

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23793216

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 104 comments

Neural programmer better than Quicksort

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03629

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 126 comments

Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/investors-find-agroforestry-isnt-just-climate-friendly-it-can-also-be-profitable/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 164 comments

Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-india-apple-exclusive-idUSKBN24B2GH

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 258 comments

Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better

https://medium.com/pwabuilder/microsoft-and-google-team-up-to-make-pwas-better-in-the-play-store-b59710e487

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 195 comments

Pinboard Turns Eleven

https://blog.pinboard.in/2020/07/pinboard_is_eleven/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 99 comments

This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power

https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-power.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 120 comments

Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/valve-secrets-spill-over-including-half-life-3-in-new-steam-documentary-app/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 214 comments

Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23795779

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 39 comments

Visualizing and Understanding JPEG Format

https://github.com/corkami/formats/blob/master/image/jpeg.md

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 46 comments

The Polymath Playbook

https://salman.io/posts/polymath-playbook/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 65 comments

Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

https://www.beamjobs.com/startups/2-years-to-make-10-dollars-in-software-revenue

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 75 comments

Blog Anonymously

https://uglyduck.ca/blog-anonymously/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 460 comments

Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/21318060/quibi-subscriber-count-free-trial-paying-users-conversion-rate

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 193 comments

Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/110907

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 120 comments

France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-introduce-controversial-age-verification-system-for-adult-pornography-websites/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 258 comments

São Paulo Labor Judge Rules Uber Must Pay Full Employee Benefits to Drivers

https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/politics-brazil/uber-to-pay-13th-month-and-vacation-to-drivers-rules-sao-paulo-labor-court/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 172 comments

Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (2016)

https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 109 comments

Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 386 comments

Hindley-Milner Type Inference (2012)

http://steshaw.org/hm/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 184 comments

Rackspace S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810019/000119312520190902/d915709ds1.htm

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 138 comments

ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS

https://exsaasperated.com/2020/06/20/hello-world.html

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 42 comments

Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX Spotted

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/spotted-ryzen-threadripper-pro-3995wx-processor-with-8-channel-ddr4,2.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 165 comments

The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/the-uncertain-future-of-ham-radio

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 150 comments

Major Proposed Changes to Linux From Scratch

http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2020-June/073815.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 93 comments

Programming at the REPL (2018)

https://clojure.org/guides/repl/guidelines_for_repl_aided_development

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 121 comments

Healthy Self-Doubt

https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 120 comments

Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective

https://netflixtechblog.com/byte-down-making-netflixs-data-infrastructure-cost-effective-fee7b3235032

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

Venice test brings up floodgates for first time

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53361958

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 75 comments

Explaining RNNs without neural networks

https://explained.ai/rnn/index.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 7 comments

“LibreOffice is at serious risk”

https://lwn.net/Articles/825602/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 108 comments

Oura Ring 2 Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Oura+Ring+2+Teardown/135207

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 71 comments

Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America

https://www.whose.land/en/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 241 comments

Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)

https://linuxreviews.org/Mpv_drops_GNOME_support

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/if-its-not-cancel-culture-what-kind-46a

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 110 comments

'Street Fighter II' Wasn’t Just a Game, It Was a Portal

https://frieze.com/article/street-fighter-ii-wasnt-just-game-it-was-portal

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 82 comments

Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (2011)

http://colinux.org/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 58 comments

Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01993-3

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 157 comments

Pulsar vs. Kafka

https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/pulsar-vs-kafka-part-1

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 99 comments

Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way

https://threatpost.com/unpatched-zoom-bug-rce/157317/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK0KXEpF8U

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 96 comments

Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 148 comments

We are all prisoners of groupthink

https://unherd.com/2020/07/why-the-prisoner-is-more-accurate-than-orwell/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 154 comments

USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Member, for Xinjiang Abuses

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889406296/u-s-sanctions-chinese-officials-including-politburo-member-for-xinjiang-abuses

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 125 comments

Group brainstorming is a waste of time (2015)

https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-group-brainstorming-is-a-waste-of-time

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 54 comments

Learnings from a Year of Being Indie

https://ryanashcraft.com/a-year-of-being-indie/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

Stitch Labs has been acquired by Square

https://www.stitchlabs.com/blog/stitch-labs-acquired-by-square/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007)

http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-functional-programs/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/35-percent-of-excess-deaths-from-pandemic-not-caused-by-covid-19

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: Best resources to learn about stock trading and investing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23796028

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 57 comments

Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2020/02/16/colecovision-diy-part-1.html

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments
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