top 50% 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

React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features

https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/08/10/react-v17-rc.html

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 118 comments

C will never stop you from making mistakes

https://thephd.github.io/your-c-compiler-and-standard-library-will-not-help-you

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 213 comments

Why Software Should Be Free (2002)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 143 comments

Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go

https://github.com/buraksezer/olric/releases/tag/v0.3.0-beta.1#=

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 27 comments

Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative

https://unherd.com/2020/08/anti-colonialists-must-tell-the-truth-about-empire/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 288 comments

U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme

https://txauction.com/auctions/911/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 172 comments

The Three Bay Areas (2017)

https://thebolditalic.com/the-three-bay-areas-b09aa2c4d727

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 86 comments

EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas

https://www.wsj.com/articles/epa-to-rescind-methane-regulations-for-oil-and-gas-11597051802

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 201 comments

Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109523

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 87 comments

One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail elections in New Jersey

https://www.njspotlight.com/2020/06/one-in-10-ballots-rejected-in-last-months-vote-by-mail-elections/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 439 comments

The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element

https://twitter.com/olivertlord/status/1292562140776271872

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 76 comments

Wiki Bankruptcy

https://critter.blog/2020/08/10/wiki-bankruptcy/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 139 comments

Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/10/boeing_747_floppy_drive_updates_walkthrough/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 162 comments

Cloud Traffic

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/08/09/Service-Fabric-News

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53717843

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 28 comments

How We Got the Favicon (2017)

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/how-we-got-the-favicon/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/if-its-a-nice-problem-to-have-dont-solve-it-now

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 69 comments

Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam

https://repl.it/talk/announcements/Programming-Language-Jam-Let-the-hacking-begin/49105

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 72 comments

NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You

https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-tips-smartphone-data-canon-ransomware-twitter-bug-security-news/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 95 comments

UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists

https://nickdewilde.substack.com/p/the-keyring-zac-halbert-on-ux-design

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 6 comments

The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor

http://www.cpushack.com/2020/08/09/the-forgotten-ones-hp-nanoprocessor/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 19 comments

Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network

https://www.newscabal.co.uk/wiltshire-valley-locals-build-their-own-mobile-phone-network/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 26 comments

Spacetime wave packets: New class of laser defies laws of light physics

https://newatlas.com/physics/spacetime-wave-packets-laser-light-refraction/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ data’ vs Facebook, Google

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-ad-network-gets-special-privileges-that-facebook-google-wont-on-ios14/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 73 comments

Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/08/09/lib/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

A man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb (2015)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33755182

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 131 comments

Codata in action, or how to connect FP and OOP

https://www.javiercasas.com/articles/codata-in-action/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments
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