top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-18

Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features/

5 years ago

1858 upvotes – 1025 comments

Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

https://umami.is/

5 years ago

820 upvotes – 227 comments

If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

https://software.rajivprab.com/2020/08/18/if-founders-treated-their-investors-the-same-way-they-treated-their-employees/

5 years ago

679 upvotes – 266 comments

Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/canon-websites-held-to-ransom-by-hackers

5 years ago

646 upvotes – 399 comments

Modeling a Wealth Tax

http://paulgraham.com/wtax.html

5 years ago

645 upvotes – 1705 comments

Laying the foundation for Rust’s future

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-for-rusts-future.html

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 186 comments

Dear Apple: Your Services Are No Longer Required

https://lowendmac.com/2020/dear-apple-your-services-are-no-longer-required/

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 216 comments

Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world

https://news.ubc.ca/2020/07/21/popular-seafood-species-in-sharp-decline-around-the-world/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 379 comments

The Death of Corporate Research Labs

https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html?m=1

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 178 comments

Architecture of the Nintendo DS

https://www.copetti.org/projects/consoles/nintendo-ds/

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 103 comments

Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook

https://kowainik.github.io/posts/haskell-mini-patterns

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196433

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 308 comments

Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)

https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 89 comments

2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company

https://securethoughts.com/medical-data-of-auto-accident-victims-exposed-online/

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 142 comments

Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-batman-effect-how-having-an-alter-ego-empowers-you

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 198 comments

Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk

https://twitter.com/jensvoid/status/1295357952480751616

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 92 comments

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q2-2020/

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 119 comments

Graphical Linear Algebra

https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 82 comments

Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo

https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-added-ryan-goslings-face-to-this-photo/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js#README.md

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 80 comments

Kotlin 1.4

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/08/kotlin-1-4-released-with-a-focus-on-quality-and-performance/

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 235 comments

Show HN: Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem

https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 58 comments

An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/g19a1w/heres_a_brand_thats_building_its_reviews_steadily/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 131 comments

Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps

https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 38 comments

1-Euro Houses

https://1eurohouses.com/case-a-1-euro-houses/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 190 comments

How to deploy a React app for free

https://blog.logrocket.com/8-ways-to-deploy-a-react-app-for-free/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 66 comments

Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph

https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2020/08/18/accused-spy-alexander-yuk-ching-ma-evidently-beat-the-polygraph-to-penetrate-the-fbi/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 186 comments

Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 19 comments

Graphics Programming Projects

http://graphicscodex.com/projects/projects/index.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 8 comments

Humanly Traversable Wormholes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 129 comments

The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015)

https://theconversation.com/the-life-changing-love-of-one-of-the-20th-centurys-greatest-physicists-51229

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 47 comments

Lost Advanced Civilizations

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/08/lost-advanced-civilizations.html

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 128 comments

APL386 Unicode – An APL Font

https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 65 comments

Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report

https://www.zillow.com/research/2020-urb-suburb-market-report-27712/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 105 comments

Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198114

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 48 comments

Slate, create beautiful, responsive API documentation

https://github.com/slatedocs/slate

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 25 comments

ANSI Z535 Compliant Safety Sign Generator

https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigations-opioids/u-s-states-seek-2-2-trillion-from-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-filings-idUSKCN25D2EG

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 129 comments

Ts-migrate: tool to automatically migrate JavaScript projects to TS

https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 26 comments

Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/828761/6d8c7ddc142a67a0/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 8 comments

How many pieces can a puzzle have?

https://gottwurfelt.com/2020/08/17/how-many-pieces-can-a-puzzle-have/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/cities-sue-netflix-hulu-disney-claim-they-owe-cable-franchise-fees/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 124 comments

The Consortium for Python Data API Standards

https://data-apis.org/blog/announcing_the_consortium/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line

https://github.com/cheat/cheat

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Is a SaaS provider expected to have a trademark in every country?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24195375

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Impossible Figures Library

https://im-possible.info/english/library/index.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans

https://www.axios.com/filecoin-blockchain-delay-3b5e6b9a-bcc8-41cf-81cf-563f6cebb2c4.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 114 comments

SpaceX raises $1.9B

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/18/spacex-raises-1-9-billion-in-largest-funding-found-to-date/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 79 comments

Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53816511

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 175 comments

Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-black-silicon-photodetector-efficiency-limit.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments
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