top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-30

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288625617873694721

5 years ago

1594 upvotes – 351 comments

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

http://nautil.us/blog/you-want-to-see-my-data-i-thought-we-were-friends

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 134 comments

Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-from-nginx-to-envoy

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 237 comments

The Haskell Elephant in the Room

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 329 comments

Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit

https://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 348 comments

Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/30/googles-problems-are-bigger-than-just-the-antitrust-case

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 368 comments

Philosophers on GPT-3

http://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 327 comments

Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS

https://web.dev/one-line-layouts/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 56 comments

Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

https://github.com/mengshukeji/Luckysheet

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 119 comments

Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 191 comments

How Best Buy saved itself (2019)

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/amazon-almost-killed-best-buy-then-best-buy-did-something-completely-brilliant.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 287 comments

Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 100 comments

I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects

https://indielog.com/user/damon

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 106 comments

Nano 5.0

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-07/msg00010.html

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 195 comments

Why forgiving someone else is about you

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896245305/why-forgiving-someone-else-is-really-about-you

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 239 comments

How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book

https://www.blakeboles.com/2020/07/book-story/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 37 comments

Five Buck Fatigue

https://underjord.io/five-buck-fatigue.html

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 246 comments

One Byte to rule them all

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/07/one-byte-to-rule-them-all.html

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 31 comments

ZSA Moonlander: A next-generation ergonomic keyboard

https://zsa.io/moonlander

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 275 comments

Launch HN: BaseDash (YC S20) – Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23999124

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 98 comments

Apple reports Q3 results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 238 comments

Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds

https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-07-27/wetts

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 109 comments

Sandboxing and workload isolation

https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 46 comments

Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipper-devices/flipper-zero-tamagochi-for-hackers

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 53 comments

Study finds learning music won’t make children smart

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/put-down-the-banjo-timmy-study-finds-learning-music-won-t-make-children-smart-1.1055974

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 169 comments

Is your chip card secure? Much depends on where you bank

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/is-your-chip-card-secure-much-depends-on-where-you-bank/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 177 comments

Experts recommend Machine Learning books

https://mentorcruise.com/books/ml/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 20 comments

NASA Just Launched Its New Perseverance Rover to Mars

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-nasa-launch-its-new-perseverance-mars-rover/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

Apps for Bicycle Directions

https://jakecoppinger.blog/articles/the-best-apps-for-bicycle-directions-2020/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 104 comments

Grub2 security update renders system unbootable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 85 comments

U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter

https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-report-second-quarter-coronavirus-11596061406

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 143 comments

Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database

https://www.tarynpivots.com/post/migrating-40tb-sql-server-database/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 120 comments

Seven Sets Venn Diagram

http://moebio.com/research/sevensets/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 19 comments

An abandoned seaside town in Cyprus is about to reopen

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/07/29/seaside-ghost-town-the-abandoned-millionaires-resort/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 60 comments

How to Hire Great Engineers

https://autoiterative.com/blog/posts/how-to-hire-great-engineers/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 165 comments

Remote First at Quora

https://greylock.com/quora-remote-first/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 121 comments

Elite Disillusionment

https://saffronhuang.com/post/elite-disillusionment/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 71 comments

Alzheimer's: 'Promising' blood test for early stage of disease

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53567486

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/what-is-the-pci-of-bank-payments

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 59 comments

Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/30/argos-to-stop-printing-catalogue-after-almost-50-years

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture

https://getrevolv.com

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

M2OS: A Small and Lightweight Ada RTOS for Microcontrollers

https://m2os.unican.es/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

The mysterious life of birds who never come down

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/magazine/vesper-flights.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Donald Trump suggests delay to 2020 US presidential election

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53597975

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 120 comments

Facebook reports second quarter results

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-results/facebook-quarterly-revenue-beats-estimates-idUSKCN24V3H5

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Gomp – a tool for comparing Git branches

https://github.com/MarkForged/GOMP

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: An alternative RSS reader and search engine for news and content

https://newsandrumors.com/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

CodiMD, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown notes

https://github.com/codimd/server

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Pending Postal Service Changes Could Delay Mail and Deliveries

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/894799516/pending-postal-service-changes-could-delay-mail-and-deliveries-advocates-warn

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 68 comments

An Open Version of WordNet

https://en-word.net/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Moufette – an open-source tool to capture user feedback

https://github.com/moufette-tools/moufette

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects

https://hcie.csail.mit.edu/research/curveboard/curveboard.html

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language

https://github.com/dafny-lang/dafny

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments
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