top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-08

Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/

5 years ago

771 upvotes – 333 comments

Oatly: The New Coke?

https://divinations.substack.com/p/oatly-the-new-coke#

5 years ago

456 upvotes – 410 comments

Firefox Voice

https://voice.mozilla.org/firefox-voice/

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 154 comments

Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)

https://hndex.org/7798063

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 391 comments

Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091577

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 214 comments

UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface

https://the-other-side.blog/upi-the-basics/

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 178 comments

How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-chinese-officials-hijacked-my-company-11596233617

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 249 comments

Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091707

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 529 comments

Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands

https://www.protocol.com/google-smart-speaker-alarm-adt

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 274 comments

Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript

https://romefrontend.dev/blog/2020/08/08/introducing-rome.html

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 136 comments

Typing Is Hard

https://typing-is-hard.ch/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 79 comments

So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 124 comments

Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/snapdragon-chip-flaws-put-1-billion-android-phones-at-risk-of-data-theft/

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 118 comments

IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach

https://twitter.com/kmcquade3/status/1291801858676228098

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 122 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register

http://www.righto.com/2020/08/latches-inside-reverse-engineering.html

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 55 comments

C.I.A. Lacing (2014)

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/cialacing.htm

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 89 comments

Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/drivers-who-keep-their-windows-down-are-exposed-80-percent-more-air-pollution

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 228 comments

Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/debt-collector-profits-soar-with-people-flush-and-easy-to-find

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 181 comments

Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/143865832

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24088582

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 327 comments
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