top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-21

Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests

5 years ago

824 upvotes – 530 comments

Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book

https://www.fast.ai/2020/08/21/fastai2-launch/

5 years ago

799 upvotes – 81 comments

Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better

5 years ago

745 upvotes – 305 comments

Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 211 comments

WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1296879217297113088

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 339 comments

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?

https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 336 comments

ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)

http://www.davisr.me/projects/remarkable-microsd/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 129 comments

An Update on MDN Web Docs

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/08/an-update-on-mdn-web-docs/

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 205 comments

Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/activists-find-camera-inside-mysterious-box-power-pole-near-union-organizers-home/5WCLOAMMBRGYBEJDGH6C74ITBU/

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 184 comments

AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/ai-slays-top-f-16-pilot-in-darpa-dogfight-simulation/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 423 comments

Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/the-flying-train-moma/

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 130 comments

The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets

https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/data-delivery-network-launch

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 95 comments

Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

https://nintendosmash.com/over-three-billion-people-worldwide-now-play-video-games-study-reports/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 370 comments

Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/leaked-s-1-screenshots-show-palantir-losing-579m-in-2019/

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 187 comments

College Notebook of Isaac Newton

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 69 comments

Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication

https://matrix.org/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 96 comments

Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014)

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/event-queue.html

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 123 comments

Linux from Scratch

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 86 comments

No Hello (2013)

https://www.nohello.com/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 210 comments

‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/electric-mud-teems-new-mysterious-bacteria

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 66 comments

Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun

https://www.space.com/citizen-scientists-discover-95-brown-dwarfs.html

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 126 comments

Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

https://sempervirens.org/wildfires-in-big-basin-redwoods-state-park/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 94 comments

F (2006)

http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 56 comments

University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang

https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-utah-pays-457000-to-ransomware-gang/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 196 comments

How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France

https://christianpetroske.com/how-i-got-the-french-tech-visa-to-start-my-company-in-france/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 203 comments

MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue

https://julieyoung.substack.com/p/insane-companies-no-one-talks-about

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 100 comments

Trust Models

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/08/20/trust.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 30 comments

Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoox-lawsuit-idUSKBN25G2TB

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 170 comments

Uber and Lyft competitors ready if service is suspended in California

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/uber-and-lyft-competitors-prepare-to-grab-market-share-in-california.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 187 comments

Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management

https://tech.okcupid.com/why-we-decided-against-graphql-for-local-state-management/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 95 comments

Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (2018)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-parkinsons-begin-in-the-gut/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management

https://zach.bloomqu.ist/blog/2020/08/pilo-raspberry-pi-lights-out-management.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 19 comments

Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24237818

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 65 comments

FBI release a report on Russian Linux Malware called Drovorub [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Aug/13/2002476465/-1/-1/0/CSA_DROVORUB_RUSSIAN_GRU_MALWARE_AUG_2020.PDF

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 51 comments

Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/why-a-slack-backlash-is-inevitable

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 148 comments

Hotel in Tokyo installs flight simulator in room (2019)

https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2019/07/31/hotel-in-tokyo-installs-flight-simulator-in-room/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

Development of Warajevo: ZX Spectrum Emulator Made During the Bosnian War

https://worldofspectrum.net/features/warajevo/Story.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/apple-says-epic-games-ceo-wanted-a-side-deal-for-fortnite.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 187 comments

RustConf 2020 Links

https://github.com/poteto/rustconf-2020

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 20 comments

Partying like it’s 1999 – Initial public offerings are back in Silicon Valley

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/08/22/initial-public-offerings-are-back-in-silicon-valley

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Corsair Gaming S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1743759/000119312520227100/d507744ds1.htm

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 101 comments

Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering Mysterious Cave at S. China Sea Base

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35837/image-shows-chinese-submarine-entering-mysterious-cave-facility-at-south-china-sea-base?

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42 TFLOPs of FP32 Performance

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16018/intel-xe-hp-graphics-early-samples-offer-42-tflops-of-fp32-performance

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 95 comments

Myths About Failure

https://greylock.com/reid-hoffman-myths-about-failure/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/19/coronavirus-albion-security-flaws-app/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 86 comments

Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

https://github.com/pelias/placeholder

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

Python Hash Tables: understanding dictionaries

http://thepythoncorner.com/dev/hash-tables-understanding-dictionaries/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

‘DiceKeys’ creates a master password for life with one roll

https://www.wired.com/story/dicekeys-cryptography/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 86 comments

Why did a hedge fund manager worth $700M take a $630k job managing an oil fund?

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1mr3g654h58lp/Why-Did-a-Hedge-Fund-Manager-Worth-700-Million-Take-a-630-000-a-Year-Job-Managing-an-Oil-Fund

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

How the world’s largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/nyregion/freshkills-garbage-dump-nyc.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

PHP 8.0.0 beta 2

https://www.php.net/index.php#id2020-08-21-1

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 99 comments

TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-trump-exclusive/exclusive-tiktok-to-challenge-u-s-order-banning-transactions-with-the-video-app-idUSKBN25H2QG

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 133 comments

Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal

https://apnews.com/1a29c754044d8f2a593911368e86d028

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 93 comments
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