top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-17

I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]

https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/015127.pdf

6 years ago

985 upvotes – 357 comments

Dependency

https://xkcd.com/2347/

6 years ago

808 upvotes – 294 comments

Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th

https://twitter.com/EpicNewsroom/status/1295430127455596544

6 years ago

699 upvotes – 945 comments

What’s Flying Above Us?

https://skycircl.es/donate/

6 years ago

544 upvotes – 164 comments

Apple, Epic, and the App Store

https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-epic-and-the-app-store/

6 years ago

508 upvotes – 762 comments

Google: Open Letter to Australians

https://about.google/intl/ALL_au/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/

6 years ago

452 upvotes – 415 comments

Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/apple-expands-its-independent-repair-program-to-mac-after-us-antitrust-investigation-examined-companys-repair-policies/

6 years ago

439 upvotes – 220 comments

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years/

6 years ago

436 upvotes – 169 comments

Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10-Processor

6 years ago

377 upvotes – 260 comments

Response to Google open letter

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/response-to-google-open-letter

6 years ago

375 upvotes – 318 comments

Karpathy's MinGPT

https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT

6 years ago

374 upvotes – 102 comments

Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/16/death-valley-heat-record/

6 years ago

353 upvotes – 223 comments

Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251840-mindfulness-and-meditation-can-worsen-depression-and-anxiety/

6 years ago

340 upvotes – 288 comments

Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/15/this-smartphone-has-physical-kill-switches-for-its-cameras-microphone-data-bluetooth-and-wi-fi/

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases

https://www.dropbase.io/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 114 comments

Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01156-0

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 139 comments

A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD

http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patch-found-in.html

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 32 comments

How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-expanding-fishing-fleet-is-depleting-worlds-oceans

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 180 comments

Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT

https://www.nerves-project.org/

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 53 comments

Spinning Up in Deep RL

https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/user/introduction.html

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 50 comments
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