top 20 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

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

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

Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/19/mexico-kids-junk-food-ban/

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 282 comments

'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903505983/coup-53-tells-the-true-story-of-the-cia-s-campaign-to-oust-iran-s-leader

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 273 comments

Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial

https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-begins-universal-basic-income-trial-three-years-2020-8

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 336 comments

What harm do minimum wages do?

https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/15/what-harm-do-minimum-wages-do

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 755 comments

Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base

https://theheadless.dev/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 99 comments

Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine

https://netflix.github.io/conductor/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 79 comments

Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/rust-and-c-interoperability

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 138 comments

The dual PhD problem of today’s startups

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/19/the-dual-phd-problem-of-todays-startups/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 120 comments

Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/18/implementing--focus-and-reply--for-fastmail/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 47 comments

California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzeza/california-dmv-data-private-investigators

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 120 comments
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