top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-15

Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

https://www.coindesk.com/hackers-take-over-prominent-crypto-twitter-accounts-in-simultaneous-attack

6 years ago

2595 upvotes – 1349 comments

Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/

6 years ago

1782 upvotes – 1141 comments

Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-i-actually-used-day-to-day/

6 years ago

1025 upvotes – 524 comments

Orthodox Privilege

http://paulgraham.com/orth.html

6 years ago

610 upvotes – 910 comments

I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBrbdU_y0s

6 years ago

560 upvotes – 114 comments

Riot is now Element

https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/

6 years ago

550 upvotes – 361 comments

Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos

6 years ago

547 upvotes – 445 comments

Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53403610

6 years ago

474 upvotes – 273 comments

Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018)

https://azeria-labs.com/the-importance-of-deep-work-the-30-hour-method-for-learning-a-new-skill/

6 years ago

452 upvotes – 87 comments

Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-headless-torso-found-manhattan-20200714-rz25uxzsejgrxnsk4rd22vf7hq-story.html

6 years ago

428 upvotes – 370 comments

Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

https://store.pine64.org/product-category/pinephone/

6 years ago

387 upvotes – 209 comments

Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh?page=2

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 269 comments

Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-lawsuit-app-tracking-without-permission-reuters-2020-7

6 years ago

311 upvotes – 91 comments

Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53416206

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 468 comments

Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states

https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 83 comments

Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Airbnb-asks-people-to-donate-money-to-hosts-15407730.php

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 187 comments

Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 88 comments

Tesla worst for reliability in American driver survey

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/american-survey-claims-tesla-build-quality-issues/

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 222 comments

Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0

https://gravitational.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-oauth/

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 28 comments

Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23846186

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 100 comments

The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book

https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484261330

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 144 comments

Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contest-removed

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 104 comments

The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/the-design-history-of-athens-iconic-apartments

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 114 comments

Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-interactive-video-service-add-live-video-to-your-apps-and-websites/

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 66 comments

GitHub was down again

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/phnch1rww464

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 124 comments

Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?

https://www.sustainability-times.com/expert/a-safe-and-profitable-nuclear-plant-is-closing-in-france-why/

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 246 comments

Moderna’s SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Phase I Data

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/modernas-phase-i-data

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 167 comments

Rewriting Fortran Software in Rust

https://mckeogh.tech/post/shallow-water/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 76 comments

The Fake Cisco

https://labs.f-secure.com/publications/the-fake-cisco/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 65 comments

Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/blueleaks-anonymous-ddos-law-enforcement-hack/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 80 comments

What's New in Lua 5.4

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/826134/b1b87e4187435cec/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 131 comments

Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outlook-is-crashing-worldwide-with-0xc0000005-errors/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 107 comments

Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXK4e4uqXY

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 49 comments

Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]

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

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 157 comments

Drone footage of Reddit's major investor rounding up people for religious belief

https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hrlwci/heres_drone_footage_of_reddit_incs_biggest/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users install other app store

https://androidrookies.com/telegram-developer-wants-a-law-to-make-apple-allow-iphone-users-to-install-apps-from-other-app-stores/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 124 comments

ActivityPub Could Be the Future

https://kyefox.com/2020/04/09/activitypub-could-be-the-future/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 75 comments

New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Nano-with-a-16-10-screen-Intel-Tiger-Lake-weighs-less-than-1-kg.481319.0.html

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 143 comments

New EU regulation strengthens hand of developers in dealings with storefronts

https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/new-eu-regulation-strengthens-hand-of-developers-and-publishers-in-dealings-with-storefronts/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

How we grew Sentry's monthly active users by rethinking invitations

https://blog.sentry.io/2020/02/12/how-we-grew-sentrys-monthly-active-users-by-rethinking-invitations

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 9 comments

Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers

https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/diekmann_tratt__dont_panic/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Sail Freight Projects Around the World

https://sailingdog.org/sail-freight-projects-around-the-world/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: How to take notes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23844490

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?

https://sciencenorway.no/diseases-food-and-diet/can-an-extreme-low-carb-diet-be-used-as-medicine/1708291

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 170 comments

Apparent absence of covid transmission at hair salon with face covering policy

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm?s_cid=mm6928e2_w

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 166 comments
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