top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-16

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/

5 years ago

1074 upvotes – 367 comments

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/

5 years ago

746 upvotes – 499 comments

Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-unverified-takeover/

5 years ago

560 upvotes – 287 comments

Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress

https://psyche.co/ideas/lets-avoid-talk-of-chemical-imbalance-its-people-in-distress

5 years ago

511 upvotes – 384 comments

Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat

https://blog.zulip.com/2020/07/16/zulip-3-0-released/

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 133 comments

Rust 1.45

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/07/16/Rust-1.45.0.html

5 years ago

491 upvotes – 218 comments

Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2020/05/hacking-reolink-cameras-for-fun-and-profit/

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 89 comments

What’s New in Thunderbird 78

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/07/whats-new-in-thunderbird-78/

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 226 comments

Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work

https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/07/16/unemployment-benefits-website-failures-deloitte-ibm

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 261 comments

TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huawei-crackdown/TSMC-plans-to-halt-chip-supplies-to-Huawei-in-2-months

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 413 comments

Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-us-data-transfer-facebook/a-54194377

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 218 comments

Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-15/teenage-boy-was-given-estrogen-developed-breast-tissue-while-in-l-a-county-juvenile-hall-lawsuit-alleges

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 284 comments

EU’s Top Court Restricts Personal-Data Transfers to U.S., Citing Surveillance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/eus-top-court-restricts-personal-data-transfers-to-u-s-citing-surveillance-concerns-11594888385

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 7 comments

British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet

https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/07/16/british-airways-announces-immediate-retirement-of-747-fleet/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 316 comments

No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker

https://fortenf.org/e/security/2020/07/15/twitter-hack.html

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 283 comments

The Incredibly Stupid One

https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/h/h135.htm

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 65 comments

Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283591844962750464

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 11 comments

U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-barr/attorney-general-barr-takes-aim-at-hollywood-disney-for-censoring-films-to-appease-china-idUSKCN24H2JT

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 207 comments

Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'

https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-youtube-bubble-200045382.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 160 comments

DDR5 Memory Specification Released

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15912/ddr5-specification-released-setting-the-stage-for-ddr56400-and-beyond

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 113 comments
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