top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-29

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/

5 years ago

1649 upvotes – 506 comments

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288344977169235968

5 years ago

1243 upvotes – 548 comments

RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

https://developer.squareup.com/blog/the-state-of-ruby-3-typing

5 years ago

511 upvotes – 334 comments

Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords

https://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/zoom-security-exploit-crack-private-meeting-passwords/

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening

https://pluvoir.netlify.app/index.html

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

https://www.blender.org/press/microsoft-joins-the-blender-development-fund/

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 166 comments

Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA

https://hakibenita.com/sql-tricks-application-dba

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 68 comments

Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense

https://arr.am/2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 142 comments

Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/29/21347083/jeff-bezos-amazon-tech-antitrust-hearing-jayapal-questioning

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 272 comments

AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15935/amd-reports-q2-2020-earnings-notebook-and-server-sales-drive-a-record-quarter

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 205 comments

Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/29/breaking-pro-independence-student-group-leader-arrested-on-suspicion-of-inciting-secession-under-hong-kongs-security-law/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 124 comments

TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?

http://www.their.tube

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 126 comments

The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7605/soviet-internet-cybernetics-viktor-glushkov

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 181 comments

Schemastore.org – schemas for all commonly known JSON file formats

https://www.schemastore.org/json/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 66 comments

Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams

https://kislayverma.com/organizations/independence-autonomy-and-too-many-small-teams/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 173 comments

Unauthorized Bread: Jailbreaking IoT toasters

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 122 comments

1.1B Taxi Rides Using OmniSciDB and a MacBook Pro

https://tech.marksblogg.com/omnisci-macos-macbookpro-mbp.html

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 57 comments

Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53575353

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 213 comments

GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot Vulnerability: 'BootHole'

https://www.debian.org/security/2020-GRUB-UEFI-SecureBoot/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 103 comments

Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual

https://blog.nuclino.com/brown-m-ms-or-why-no-one-s-reading-the-manual

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 150 comments
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