top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-10

Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362460/uber-lyft-drivers-employees-california-court-ruling

5 years ago

769 upvotes – 747 comments

Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/10/planet-ceres-ocean-world-sea-water-beneath-surface

5 years ago

637 upvotes – 252 comments

Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/Article/3323627/Microsoft-President-Brad-Smith-Why-We-Urgently-Need-a-Hippocratic-Oath-for-Software-Engineers?src=hn

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 515 comments

G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109809

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 135 comments

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-security/hk-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-under-national-security-law-top-aide-idUSKCN25600L

5 years ago

445 upvotes – 337 comments

Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG-116-JU05-20190716-SD015.pdf

5 years ago

435 upvotes – 265 comments

How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?

https://woodgears.ca/heating/freezer.html

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 370 comments

We Can Do Better Than SQL

https://edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql/

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 461 comments

PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 357 comments

Celebrate Woz's 70th

https://www.wozbday.com

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 162 comments

Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip

https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-big-peril/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 114 comments

Emacs 27.1

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00237.html

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 200 comments

The Clean Network – United States Department of State

https://www.state.gov/5g-clean-network/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 391 comments

CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/opinion/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-gig-workers-deserve-better.html

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 668 comments

What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 162 comments

The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 141 comments

That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think

https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/09/that-ups-you-bought-for-your-home-server-may-not-be-as-useful-as-you-think/

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 412 comments

The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut

https://www.wired.com/story/tragic-physics-deadly-explosion-beirut/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 175 comments

I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India

https://superr.in/economy/i-tried-starting-a-manufacturing-unit-in-india/

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 183 comments

Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s (2019)

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/inside-bell-labs-datacenter-1960s/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 71 comments
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