top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-04

Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

https://storycreatorapp.com

6 years ago

In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/

6 years ago

Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366765/issue-update-in-graph-theory-different-definitions-of-edge-crossing-numbers

6 years ago

1Password for Linux development preview

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/114964/

6 years ago

SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJR4gZBLMNw

6 years ago

Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/04/anthony-levandowski-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-as-new-4b-lawsuit-against-uber-is-filed

6 years ago

We quit our jobs to build a cabin

https://www.outsideonline.com/2415766/friends-diy-cabin-build-washington

6 years ago

The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html

6 years ago

Let's build a full-text search engine

https://artem.krylysov.com/blog/2020/07/28/lets-build-a-full-text-search-engine/

6 years ago

Django 3.1

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2020/aug/04/django-31-released/

6 years ago

27-inch iMac gets a major update

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/

6 years ago

TikTok and the Sorting Hat

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat

6 years ago

Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)

https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-largest-and-most-terrifying-simcity/

6 years ago

Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-hosts-file-blocking-telemetry-is-now-flagged-as-a-risk/

6 years ago

Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing

https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

6 years ago

Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations

https://kodkodgames.gitlab.io/rotation_matrices/

6 years ago

Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT

https://twitter.com/sinabooeshaghi/status/1290727092884299778

6 years ago

Endless Doom Scroller

https://endlessdoomscroller.com/

6 years ago

Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354367/apple-phil-schiller-fellow-greg-joswiak-head-marketing-store-events

6 years ago

Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-broccoli--syncing-faster-by-syncing-less

6 years ago

What is 5D chess?

https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-on-earth-is-5d-chess

6 years ago

Show HN: Royalty-Free SVG Illustrations and Animations

https://www.pixeltrue.com/free-illustrations

6 years ago

Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/twitter-faces-ftc-probe-likely-fine-over-use-of-phone-numbers-for-ads/

6 years ago

Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning

https://twitter.com/charlieMonroe/status/1290509083288764428

6 years ago

EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53647570

6 years ago

Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905383/twitter-phone-numbers-email-addresses-targeted-advertising

6 years ago

London traders hit $500M jackpot when oil went negative

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-04/oil-s-plunge-below-zero-was-500-million-jackpot-for-a-few-london-traders

6 years ago

Crux SQL

https://juxt.pro/blog/crux-sql

6 years ago

Chrome Music Lab

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

6 years ago

Introduction to Statistical Learning

http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/

6 years ago

SIMD Everywhere: 0.5.0

https://simd-everywhere.github.io/blog/announcements/release/2020/06/21/0.5.0-release.html

6 years ago

The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals-revolutionising-indias-renewable-energy

6 years ago

Show HN: Visualize Graph Theory

https://treksit.netlify.app/

6 years ago

Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/08/04/gitlab-support-no-longer-processing-mfa-resets-for-free-users/

6 years ago

Motherboard Specifications on MotherboardDB

https://motherboarddb.com

6 years ago

TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock

https://500ish.com/tiktok-and-microsofts-clock-c4c9fd082b89

6 years ago

Launch HN: Virtually (YC S20) – Build live online trainings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24049421

6 years ago

Syntax changes from C++11 to C++20

https://www.bfilipek.com/2020/08/lambda-syntax.html

6 years ago

Large explosion in Beirut

https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1290675854767513600

6 years ago

The World of Competitive Lockpicking

https://www.cnet.com/news/inside-the-hidden-world-of-competitive-lockpicking/

6 years ago

Planning for My Kidnapping

https://blog.luap.info/planning-for-my-kidnapping.html

6 years ago

Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8589497/Coca-Colas-work-scientists-low-point-history-public-health.html

6 years ago

Cloudflare Network Interconnect

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-network-interconnect/

6 years ago

UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00601

6 years ago

Turkish Lira Rates Blow Out to 1000% After Currency Intervention

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-04/turkish-lira-rates-blow-out-to-1000-after-currency-intervention

6 years ago

In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/new-englands-trees-capturing-more-carbon-says-25-year-study/

6 years ago

You may finally use JSHint for evil

http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/jshint-watching-the-ship-sink/

6 years ago

Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators

https://github.com/cyluxx/robula-plus

6 years ago

System on Chip wrapping the SERV RISC-V soft processor

https://www.rotwang.co.uk/projects/serv.html

6 years ago