top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-29

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/

6 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

6 years ago

1243 upvotes – 548 comments

RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

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

6 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/

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening

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

6 years ago

393 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

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

6 years ago

377 upvotes – 166 comments

Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA

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

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 68 comments

Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense

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

6 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

6 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

6 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/

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 124 comments

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

http://www.their.tube

6 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

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 181 comments

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

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

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 66 comments

Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams

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

6 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/

6 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

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 57 comments

Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'

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

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 213 comments

GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot Vulnerability: 'BootHole'

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

6 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

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 150 comments

Minimal single-board computer based on Motorola 68000

https://github.com/74hc595/68k-nano

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 104 comments

Google offers refunds after smart glasses stop working

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53581762

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 161 comments

Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]

http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/eopp/eopp67.pdf

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 297 comments

The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks

https://blog.libro.fm/the-harmful-impact-of-audible-exclusive-audiobooks/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 142 comments

Interactive Generative Art

http://weavesilk.com/?ika/

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 26 comments

Tihle: A new emulator targeting TI graphing calculators

https://www.taricorp.net/2020/introducing-tihle/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Credit Card Fraud Is Still a Thing

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/heres-why-credit-card-fraud-is-still-a-thing/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 180 comments

Launch HN: Humanloop (YC S20) – A platform to annotate, train and deploy NLP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987353

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 33 comments

Speculation in JavaScriptCore

https://webkit.org/blog/10308/speculation-in-javascriptcore/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 67 comments

ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-tiktok-exclusive/exclusive-bytedance-investors-value-tiktok-at-50-billion-in-takeover-bid-sources-idUSKCN24U1M9

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 200 comments

The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-antitrust-hearing-the-role-of-congress-ceo-questions/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings

https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states

https://srconstantin.github.io/2020/07/29/chronic-mania.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 91 comments

Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/ancient-trash-heaps-reveal-the-plague-of-justinians-economic-toll/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 74 comments

Americans are getting more nervous about what they say in public

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/28/americans-are-getting-more-nervous-about-what-they-say-in-public

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 243 comments

ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/07/announcing-scann-efficient-vector.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 33 comments

Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/72876.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 157 comments

LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lifelabs-data-breach-1.5667618

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3

https://vwo.com/ab-testing-openai-gpt-3/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 78 comments

Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/29/1005720/george-church-diy-coronavirus-vaccine

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 137 comments

A Closer Look at the Super NES Doom Source Code Release [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqP3ZzWiul0

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words

https://bitoduc.fr/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 96 comments

Microsoft Engineer Proposes “Trampfd” for Improving Linux Security

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-TRAMPFD-Linux

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work

https://www.axios.com/tiktoks-new-ceo-says-company-will-reveal-how-its-algorithms-work-aff01b6c-8f33-454f-9b4a-7d52292ce501.html

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 123 comments

U.S. prosecutors seek 27 months imprisonment for former Uber self-driving head

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-autonomous-levandowski-idUSKCN24U125

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 119 comments

I love ARM

https://www.20i.com/blog/i-love-arm/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 187 comments

SiFive Core IP 20G1

https://www.sifive.com/blog/sifive-core-ip-20g1

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 24 comments

Bezos: No guarantee Amazon didn't exploit third-party seller data

https://www.axios.com/bezos-no-guarantee-amazon-didnt-exploit-third-party-seller-data-9f31e00d-1e4b-4eaa-88b3-3d50a87be5e7.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 3 comments
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