top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-07

US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/Trump-to-ban-transactions-with-ByteDance-and-Tencent-in-45-days

5 years ago

734 upvotes – 1265 comments

I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base

https://www.troyhunt.com/im-open-sourcing-the-have-i-been-pwned-code-base/

5 years ago

722 upvotes – 133 comments

Microsoft Fast Design

https://www.fast.design/docs/introduction

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 204 comments

Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-indefinitely.html

5 years ago

567 upvotes – 448 comments

Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

https://hndex.org/

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 78 comments

To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/08/07/google-documents-show-taboo-words-antitrust

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 304 comments

Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language

https://github.com/liljencrantz/crush

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 212 comments

Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-explains-why-xbox-game-pass-is-not-on-iphone-2020-8

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 378 comments

Mac keyboard shortcuts

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 550 comments

Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 388 comments

Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/federal-circuit-affirms-limits-on-how-government-uses-pacer-fees

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 149 comments

Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal3.html

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 76 comments

Why is this idiot running my engineering org?

https://medium.com/@bellmar/why-is-this-idiot-running-my-engineering-org-c6e815790cdb

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 167 comments

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/07/toshiba_sells_last_dynabook_shares/

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 154 comments

Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291509746000855040.html

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 73 comments

Infinity: open-source search engine

https://infinitysearch.co

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 96 comments

Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/06/magazine/fashion-sweatpants.html

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 355 comments

Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code

https://engineering.fb.com/security/pysa/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 26 comments

The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)

https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hypercard/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 109 comments

Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/tiktok-surveillance-social-media-trump

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 162 comments

Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/ucl-dei062620.php

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 84 comments

JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready

https://bkamins.github.io/julialang/2020/08/07/production-ready.html

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 120 comments

P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free

https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/08/06/improve-your-remote-collaboration-with-p2/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 40 comments

I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/jesboard.html

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/apple-explains-how-it-uses-machine-learning-across-ios-and-soon-macos/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 208 comments

One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/survey-exposes-america-s-looming-rent-crisis

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 276 comments

Launch HN: Nestybox (YC S20) – Containers beyond microservices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24084758

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 111 comments

A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/08/04/how-bad-is-covid-really-a-swedish-doctors-perspective/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 320 comments

Awesome-sysadmin: A curated list of amazingly open source sysadmin resources

https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 18 comments

CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/after-nearly-a-century-elusive-cno-neutrinos-are-finally-seen-from-the-sun

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 65 comments

Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 83 comments

How much things can change

http://rodneybrooks.com/how-much-things-can-change/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 95 comments

Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9958187

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 118 comments

Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/alzheimers-dementia-rates.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 157 comments

On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines

https://inside.java/2020/08/07/loomperformance/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 62 comments

They Just Don’t Listen': SF Kimchi Maker Saw 'Food Tech' Practices Up Close

https://www.kqed.org/news/11831806/they-just-dont-listen-sf-kimchi-maker-saw-food-tech-practices-up-close-in-her-kitchen

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 119 comments

Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced

https://blog.popcorncomputer.com/2020/08/05/pocket-p-c-open-sourced/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 62 comments

Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/08/exploiting-android-messengers-part-3.html?m=1

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-849-geometric-folding-algorithms-linkages-origami-polyhedra-fall-2012/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]

https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/godelbook/GodelBookLM.pdf

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

Is the US about to split the internet?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53686390

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 188 comments

What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/08/what-is-minimal-set-of-optimizations.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

DEF Con 28: Safe Mode

http://defcon.outel.org/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 44 comments

Most Americans don’t have enough assets to withstand 3 months without income

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/study-most-americans-don’t-have-enough-assets-withstand-3-months-without-income

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

Beyond KrØØk: Even more Wi‑Fi chips vulnerable to eavesdropping

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2020/08/06/beyond-kr00k-even-more-wifi-chips-vulnerable-eavesdropping/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 11 comments

Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/australia-fast-tracks-plan-to-send-solar-power-to-singapore

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 130 comments

How to become a good theoretical physicist

https://www.goodtheorist.science/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

REBOL Shell Interface

http://www.rebol.com/docs/shell.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is

https://meaningness.com/eggplant/formal-logic

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

On Using Twitter

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-using-twitter-84fbd80c8919

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 141 comments
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