top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-17

Cloudflare was down

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?hn=2020

6 years ago

Things I wish I’d known about CSS

https://cssfordesigners.com/articles/things-i-wish-id-known-about-css

6 years ago

NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

https://newpipe.schabi.org/

6 years ago

UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs [resolved]

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/ufo-vpn-data-exposure/

6 years ago

Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/

6 years ago

Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-germanys-sec-dismissed-a-decade-of-warnings-about-wirecard-11594907212

6 years ago

The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf]

https://www.minervanett.no/files/2020/07/13/TheEvidenceNoNaturalEvol.pdf

6 years ago

Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives

6 years ago

TensorFlow, Keras and deep learning, without a PhD

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/cloud-tensorflow-mnist/#0

6 years ago

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

6 years ago

New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads

https://medium.com/macoclock/apple-is-killing-a-billion-dollar-ad-industry-with-one-popup-2f83d182837f

6 years ago

Ways to make a web component

https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/

6 years ago

Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-specialreport/special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-cell-tower-repairmen-idUSKCN24G1DN

6 years ago

Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/fahim-saleh-murder-arrest-tyrese-devon-haspil.html

6 years ago

On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-bankruptcy-bonuses/on-eve-of-bankruptcy-us-firms-shower-execs-with-bonuses-idUSKCN24I1EE

6 years ago

The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/

6 years ago

Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/powerful-ai-can-now-be-trained-on-a-single-computer

6 years ago

Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog

https://petevilter.me/post/datalog-typechecking/

6 years ago

Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

https://talkingbiznews.com/they-talk-biz-news/bloomberg-eic-micklethwait-we-publish-too-many-mediocre-and-long-enterprise-stories/

6 years ago

The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/07/18/the-end-of-the-arab-worlds-oil-age-is-nigh

6 years ago

Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS

https://propjockey.github.io/css-media-vars/

6 years ago

Why are CEOs failing software engineers?

https://iism.org/article/why-are-ceos-failing-software-engineers-56

6 years ago

Google AMP Can Go To Hell (2018)

https://www.polemicdigital.com//google-amp-go-to-hell/

6 years ago

How do I design a game from scratch? A primer on core loops

https://teamavocado.co/core-loop/

6 years ago

Hackers tell the story of the Twitter attack from the inside

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html

6 years ago

ProcMon for Linux

https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux

6 years ago

Shoelace 2.0 release: UI toolkit that works with all frameworks or none at all

https://shoelace.style/

6 years ago

Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/507442-almost-one-third-of-florida-children-tested-are

6 years ago

A new and improved Twitter API

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/introducing_new_twitter_api.html

6 years ago

Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk

6 years ago

Doordash and Thousands of Other Companies Passively Send Your Data to Facebook

https://onezero.medium.com/doordash-and-thousands-of-other-companies-passively-send-your-data-to-facebook-4ebe851e710

6 years ago

Solar Orbiter first images revealed

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/07/Solar_Orbiter_first_images_revealed

6 years ago

Covid-19 is causing a wide range of disorders in the nervous system

https://english.elpais.com/science_tech/2020-07-17/over-half-of-coronavirus-hospital-patients-in-spain-have-developed-neurological-problems-studies-show.html

6 years ago

Straightened Trees

http://danieltemkin.com/StraightenedTrees

6 years ago

RecordRTC: JavaScript library for audio, video, screen, and canvas recording

https://recordrtc.org/

6 years ago

What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14242

6 years ago

Entropy: An Introduction

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ewein/blog/2020/07/14/entropy/

6 years ago

Claude Shannon Documentatry, “Bit Player”, Released Today

https://twitter.com/ieee_itsoc/status/1284089491775459328

6 years ago

Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/

6 years ago

US homebuilding surges as coronavirus sparks flight to suburbs, rural areas

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-homebuilding-surges-as-coronavirus-crisis-sparks-flight-to-suburbs-rural-areas-idUSKCN24I1OY

6 years ago

The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/15/morale/

6 years ago

Shelly – a programming language to draw in the browser

https://shelly.dev/

6 years ago

‘Excited delirium’, used by police to justify brutality, is junk science

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/chokehold-police-excited-delirium/2020/07/17/fe907ec8-c6bc-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23872811

6 years ago

FAA documents give unprecedented look into Colorado drone swarm mystery

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34662/faa-documents-offer-unprecedented-look-into-colorado-drone-mystery

6 years ago

How the heart influences what we perceive and fear

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-heart-influences-what-you-perceive-and-fear-20200706/

6 years ago

Cloudflare: Is anyone else seeing DNS outages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875671

6 years ago

Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles to Grab Protesters in Portland

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/#.XxD9y_CwH4w.twitter

6 years ago

Improving Performance of PHP for Arm64 and Impact on Amazon EC2 M6g Instances

https://idk.dev/improving-performance-of-php-for-arm64-and-impact-on-amazon-ec2-m6g-instances/

6 years ago

Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

https://www.dosome.yoga

6 years ago

Inside the Coronavirus

https://www.scientificamerican.com/interactive/inside-the-coronavirus/

6 years ago

The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII

https://vale.dev/blog/next-steps-raii

6 years ago

Iran state hackers caught in intercepted videos

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/iran-state-hackers-caught-with-their-pants-down-in-intercepted-videos/

6 years ago

It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160809-why-it-pays-to-be-grumpy-and-bad-tempered

6 years ago

Arctic Code Vault Contributor

https://sam.elborai.me/blog/arctic-code-vault-contributor

6 years ago

Global CO2 Emissions in 2019

https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2-emissions-in-2019

6 years ago