1074
367
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
746
499
Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
560
287
Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-unverified-takeover/
511
384
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
500
133
Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat
https://blog.zulip.com/2020/07/16/zulip-3-0-released/
491
218
Rust 1.45
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/07/16/Rust-1.45.0.html
479
89
Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit
https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2020/05/hacking-reolink-cameras-for-fun-and-profit/
444
226
What’s New in Thunderbird 78
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/07/whats-new-in-thunderbird-78/
403
261
Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work
https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/07/16/unemployment-benefits-website-failures-deloitte-ibm
363
413
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
354
Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-us-data-transfer-facebook/a-54194377
313
284
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
286
7
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
260
316
British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet
https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/07/16/british-airways-announces-immediate-retirement-of-747-fleet/
245
283
No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker
https://fortenf.org/e/security/2020/07/15/twitter-hack.html
243
65
The Incredibly Stupid One
https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/h/h135.htm
242
11
Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283591844962750464
228
207
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
216
160
Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'
https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-youtube-bubble-200045382.html
213
113
DDR5 Memory Specification Released
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15912/ddr5-specification-released-setting-the-stage-for-ddr56400-and-beyond
202
251
How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/07/15/how-objectivity-in-journalism-became-a-matter-of-opinion
197
407
Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23862903
183
125
How Pulse Oximeters Work (2015)
https://www.howequipmentworks.com/pulse_oximeter/
180
98
The GitHub Availability Report
https://github.blog/2020-07-08-introducing-the-github-availability-report/
162
We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos
https://projects.propublica.org/protest-police-tactics/
161
22
I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac
https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2020/07/im-back-into-grind-of-freebsds-wireless.html
159
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault
https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/
157
43
D 2.093.0
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.093.0.html
153
61
Voting misinformation flourishes on Facebook
https://www.propublica.org/article/outright-lies-voting-misinformation-flourishes-on-facebook
151
15
Continuations by example: Exceptions, time-traveling search, threads, and more
http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuations--exceptions-backtracking-search-threads-generators-coroutines/
144
86
Nikon Issues Small Recall for a 16-Year-Old Film Camera
https://petapixel.com/2020/07/16/nikon-issues-recall-for-16-year-old-film-camera-due-to-european-law/
138
191
Twitter hack has profound national security implications
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/a-catastrophe-at-twitter-263960
54
Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser
https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/
136
45
India’s daunting challenge: There’s water everywhere, and nowhere
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/08/indias-daunting-challenge-there-is-water-everywhere-and-nowhere-feature/
116
Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
https://swift.org/blog/swift-service-lifecycle/
134
137
Who is the greatest knife steel metallurgist of all time?
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2020/06/29/who-is-the-greatest-knife-steel-metallurgist-of-all-time/
12
EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you
https://www.zdnet.com/article/effs-new-database-shows-you-what-tech-local-police-are-using-to-spy-on-you/
132
64
Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-bacteria-metal-diet-dirty-glassware.html
129
52
Import – A Simple and Fast Module System for Bash and Other Unix Shells
https://import.pw/
127
37
Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell
https://medium.com/swlh/optimizing-ray-tracing-in-haskell-3dc412fff20a
123
92
To Delay Death, Lift Weights
https://www.outsideonline.com/2263346/delay-death-lift-weights
164
Another 1.3M Americans File for Unemployment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/07/16/dow-falls-100-points-after-another-13-million-americans-file-for-unemployment/#5677021c6720
73
What if the Trinity test had failed?
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/07/16/what-if-the-trinity-test-had-failed/
107
Launch HN: [name-redacted] (YC [year-redacted]) – Price A/B Testing for Shopify
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23861435
14
Shipping Const Generics in 2020
https://without.boats/blog/shipping-const-generics/
102
46
Emergency Directive 20-03 – Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows DNS
https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/20-03/
20
How to use math input in GIMP
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/how-to-use-math-input-in-gimp
90
Homemade Analytics with Ecto and Elixir
https://dashbit.co/blog/homemade-analytics-with-ecto-and-elixir
83
60
The Trick
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/hrn8ih/the_trick/
26
Databricks acquires Redash
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/24/databricks-acquires-redash-a-visualizations-service-for-data-scientists/
82
Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/minimum-wage-workers-cannot-afford-rent-in-any-us-state.html
80
Mozilla VPN exits beta, launches on Android and Windows for $5 a month
https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/15/mozilla-vpn-exits-beta-launches-on-android-and-windows-for-5-a-month/
77
What Makes a Picture Good?
https://phillipreeve.net/blog/what-makes-a-picture-good/
74
111
Ending at-will employment: a better remedy for cancel culture?
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-better-remedy-for-cancel-culture
Continuations by example: Exceptions, time-traveling search, threads, and more