top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-08-19

Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208958

5 years ago

1403 upvotes – 644 comments

Can't you just right click?

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html

5 years ago

1169 upvotes – 746 comments

How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL

https://offensi.com/2020/08/18/how-to-contact-google-sre-dropping-a-shell-in-cloud-sql/

5 years ago

639 upvotes – 98 comments

Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09

5 years ago

552 upvotes – 1242 comments

Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53835079

5 years ago

508 upvotes – 251 comments

Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/08/most-mandatory-requirements-in.html

5 years ago

469 upvotes – 392 comments

Open Problems in Robotics

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/open-problems-in-robotics/

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 227 comments

Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/apple-reaches-2-trillion-market-cap.html

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 353 comments

Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras

https://driesdepoorter.be/24h-sunrise-sunset/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 90 comments

My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/kindergartener-virtual-education/615316/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 448 comments
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