top 50% 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

An attempt to make a font look more handwritten

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/08/handwritten-font/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 47 comments

Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.02307.pdf

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 53 comments

Real Time Machine Learning (2019) [pdf]

https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/Real%20Time%20Machine%20Learning%20Proposers%20Day_v3.pdf

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 17 comments

The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)

https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints

https://dylanmeeus.github.io/posts/audio-from-scratch-pt7/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO

https://github.com/Manawyrm/pata-gpio

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53692545

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 319 comments

Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom

https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 95 comments

Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT

http://www.weaselhat.com/2020/08/07/formulog-ml-datalog-smt/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 21 comments

Cheap FPGA Development Boards

https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 61 comments

Haskell In New Clothes

https://github.com/serras/hinc

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 127 comments

GPT-3 Explorer

https://belay-labs.github.io/gpt-explorer/introducing-gpt-explorer

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money [pdf]

http://library.cust.edu.pk/teacher_resources/Cases&Articles/Entrepreneurship/BootstrapFinance-TheArtofStart-Ups.pdf

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/kuniko-tsurita-literary-manga-history-gender/614971/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)

https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/38770

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/21/2002655117

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 188 comments

A website to make 3D geometry shapes out of paper

https://felixboiii.github.io/paper-plotter/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/spacex-and-ula-win-2022-pentagon-rocket-launch-contracts.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 147 comments

Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/07/coronavirus-live-news-africa-passes-1-million-cases-checkpoints-outside-new-york-city

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer

http://warpseq.com

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000)

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0011122

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Why the U.S. government is allowing bears, wolves to be hunted in their dens

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/08/new-hunting-rules-alaska-national-preserves/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-tiktok-have-held-preliminary-talks-about-possible-combination-11596925449

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 104 comments

Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24089601

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: A simple FOSS and self-hosted budgeting app

https://github.com/inoda/ontrack

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-being-swallowed-alive-water-beetle-stages-backdoor-escape-from-frogs-gut/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984)

https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Language

https://newrepublic.com/article/158761/learned-worst-novelist-english-language

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

'Music is as good as gold or oil': A man spending billions on old hits

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/08/music-hits-elton-john-beyonce-merck-mercuriadis

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 93 comments

Excessive phone use linked to problems with productivity, relationships, health

https://cognitiontoday.com/2020/08/phone-addiction-coping-solutions-research-statistics/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments
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