top 50% 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/

6 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

6 years ago

642 upvotes – 430 comments

Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

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

6 years ago

638 upvotes – 87 comments

DIY Video Hosting

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

6 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/

6 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/

6 years ago

470 upvotes – 270 comments

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

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

6 years ago

415 upvotes – 355 comments

Reasonably priced color e-ink display

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

6 years ago

413 upvotes – 208 comments

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

https://zoom.earth/

6 years ago

399 upvotes – 81 comments

Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

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

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 119 comments

Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo

6 years ago

342 upvotes – 112 comments

Video Vectorization

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

6 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/

6 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

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 102 comments

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

https://maps.probabletrain.com/

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 46 comments

Principles for great product managers

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

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 89 comments

Minecraft@Home

https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 74 comments

Why GPT-3 Matters

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

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 163 comments

AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?

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

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 131 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 100 comments

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

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

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 230 comments

Highly automated digital audio workstation extensible in Guile

https://www.zrythm.org

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 85 comments

We Need a Yelp for Doctoral Programs

https://community.chronicle.com/news/2283-why-we-need-a-yelp-for-doctoral-programs

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 111 comments

On the Twitter Hack

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/on_the_twitter_.html

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 88 comments

New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/new-data-on-t-cells-and-the-coronavirus

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 89 comments

Ways to think long-term: a cognitive toolkit for good ancestors

https://blog.longnow.org/02020/07/20/six-ways-to-think-long-term-a-cognitive-toolkit-for-good-ancestors/

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 52 comments

I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me

http://www.bemmu.com/gpt3-presentation

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 101 comments

Coronavirus protein treatment trial 'a breakthrough'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53467022

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 70 comments

Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zao_AyBhNb8TPWrQqgXn5NzNAgfEqzTIaFYos7wdqGI/edit?usp=drivesdk

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: UUIDs that are Shakespearean, grammatically correct sentences

https://github.com/Debdut/uuid-readable

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 98 comments

In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSZEDPraise

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 120 comments

The German Problem with Tor

https://worldofmatthew.com/post/tor-german-avoid/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 124 comments

Z80 Explorer – a Zilog Z80 netlist-level simulator

https://baltazarstudios.com/z80explorer/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 13 comments

Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking 2TB of user data

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 69 comments

All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and-markets-in-one-visualization-2020/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 41 comments

Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437k

https://www.zdnet.com/article/rare-and-hardest-to-crack-enigma-code-machine-sells-for-437000/

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 58 comments

Man Dressed as Delivery Driver Executes Hit on Federal Judges House

https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-judges-son-shot-killed-husband-injured-attack/story?id=71871708

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 17 comments

Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-schools-reopening-outdoors.html

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 130 comments

Reactive Probabilistic Programming

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07563

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-of-the-earliest-science-fiction-books-was-written-in-the-1600s-by-a-duchess

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

Assasination attempt on judge of the Epstein/Deutsche Bank case

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/federal-judge-esther-salas-shooting-investigation/index.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 28 comments

Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions

https://longintuition.com/2020/07/20/max-entropy-intuition.html

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine

https://tiledb.com/blog/tiledb-closes-15m-series-a-for-industry-s-first-universal-data-engine-2020-07-14

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 61 comments

SEC charges YouPlus and CEO with defrauding investors

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-160

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Demo of OpenAI's GPT-3 generating tweets given a word

https://thoughts.sushant-kumar.com/hong%20kong

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 85 comments

A man trying to automate Thailand’s hospitals

https://restofworld.org/2020/the-man-trying-to-automate-thailands-hospitals/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing

http://github.com/gradio-app/gradio

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

Tackling the misinformation epidemic with “In Event of Moon Disaster”

http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-tackles-misinformation-in-event-of-moon-disaster-0720

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 97 comments

Lincos language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_language

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments
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