top 50% 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/

6 years ago

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat

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

6 years ago

Rust 1.45

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

6 years ago

Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

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

6 years ago

What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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

6 years ago

Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

The Incredibly Stupid One

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'

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

6 years ago

DDR5 Memory Specification Released

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23862903

6 years ago

How Pulse Oximeters Work (2015)

https://www.howequipmentworks.com/pulse_oximeter/

6 years ago

The GitHub Availability Report

https://github.blog/2020-07-08-introducing-the-github-availability-report/

6 years ago

We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos

https://projects.propublica.org/protest-police-tactics/

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

D 2.093.0

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.093.0.html

6 years ago

Voting misinformation flourishes on Facebook

https://www.propublica.org/article/outright-lies-voting-misinformation-flourishes-on-facebook

6 years ago

Continuations by example: Exceptions, time-traveling search, threads, and more

http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuations--exceptions-backtracking-search-threads-generators-coroutines/

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Twitter hack has profound national security implications

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/a-catastrophe-at-twitter-263960

6 years ago

Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser

https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle

https://swift.org/blog/swift-service-lifecycle/

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-bacteria-metal-diet-dirty-glassware.html

6 years ago

Import – A Simple and Fast Module System for Bash and Other Unix Shells

https://import.pw/

6 years ago

Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell

https://medium.com/swlh/optimizing-ray-tracing-in-haskell-3dc412fff20a

6 years ago

To Delay Death, Lift Weights

https://www.outsideonline.com/2263346/delay-death-lift-weights

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

What if the Trinity test had failed?

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/07/16/what-if-the-trinity-test-had-failed/

6 years ago

Launch HN: [name-redacted] (YC [year-redacted]) – Price A/B Testing for Shopify

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23861435

6 years ago

Shipping Const Generics in 2020

https://without.boats/blog/shipping-const-generics/

6 years ago

Emergency Directive 20-03 – Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows DNS

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/20-03/

6 years ago

How to use math input in GIMP

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/how-to-use-math-input-in-gimp

6 years ago

Homemade Analytics with Ecto and Elixir

https://dashbit.co/blog/homemade-analytics-with-ecto-and-elixir

6 years ago

The Trick

https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/hrn8ih/the_trick/

6 years ago

Databricks acquires Redash

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/24/databricks-acquires-redash-a-visualizations-service-for-data-scientists/

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

What Makes a Picture Good?

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/what-makes-a-picture-good/

6 years ago

Ending at-will employment: a better remedy for cancel culture?

https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-better-remedy-for-cancel-culture

6 years ago