top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-20

Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/

5 years ago

972 upvotes – 385 comments

The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/07/16/the-fbi-is-secretly-using-a-2-billion-company-for-global-travel-surveillance--the-us-could-do-the-same-to-track-covid-19

5 years ago

642 upvotes – 430 comments

Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

https://3d-book-css.netlify.app/

5 years ago

638 upvotes – 87 comments

DIY Video Hosting

https://tyler.io/diy-video-hosting/

5 years ago

509 upvotes – 198 comments

OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aqwcyx/discussion_openai_should_now_change_their_name_to/

5 years ago

503 upvotes – 108 comments

Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/07/any-claim-without-a-uri-should-be-treated-as-suspicious/

5 years ago

470 upvotes – 270 comments

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 355 comments

Reasonably priced color e-ink display

https://www.waveshare.com/5.65inch-e-paper-module-f.htm

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 208 comments

Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface

https://zoom.earth/

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 81 comments

Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 119 comments

Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 112 comments

Video Vectorization

https://vectorly.io/docs/technology/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 117 comments

Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation

https://www.nearform.com/blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracing-app-to-linux-foundation/

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 129 comments

Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897626

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 102 comments

City Map Generator – Create procedural American-style cities in the browser

https://maps.probabletrain.com/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 46 comments

Principles for great product managers

http://reeve.blog/blog/principles/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 89 comments

Minecraft@Home

https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 74 comments

Why GPT-3 Matters

https://leogao.dev/2020/05/29/GPT-3-A-Brief-Summary/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 163 comments

Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

https://scitechdaily.com/proteus-technology-new-material-is-strong-light-and-non-cuttable/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 230 comments

AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?

https://www.4alltech.com/2020/07/ai-in-physics-are-we-facing-science.html

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 131 comments
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