top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-27

ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

https://remarkable.com/#What_Is_New

5 years ago

1410 upvotes – 685 comments

Scrollbar Blindness

https://svenkadak.com/blog/scrollbar-blindness

5 years ago

877 upvotes – 563 comments

Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

https://twitter.com/SpencerDailey/status/1299063704483438593

5 years ago

697 upvotes – 321 comments

Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/27/facebook_ios_ads/

5 years ago

611 upvotes – 244 comments

The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36016/the-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-officially-breaks-cover

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 246 comments

Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/satellite-images-investigation-xinjiang-detention-camps

5 years ago

487 upvotes – 294 comments

Zoom still don't understand GDPR

https://www.threatspike.com/blog/zoom_cookies.html

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 251 comments

Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 285 comments

Rust 1.46

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/27/Rust-1.46.0.html

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 150 comments

Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

https://www.carbonbrief.org/wind-and-solar-are-30-50-cheaper-than-thought-admits-uk-government

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 370 comments

On All That Fuckery

https://www.tinykat.cafe/on-all-that-fuckery

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 205 comments

The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet

https://electrek.co/2020/08/27/tesla-hack-control-over-entire-fleet/

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 183 comments

A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)

https://meiert.com/en/blog/minimal-web-development/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad

https://launch-preview.museapp.com/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 188 comments

Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/personal-website-hunting.html

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 78 comments

The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 76 comments

New case studies about Google’s use of Go

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/08/new-case-studies-about-googles-use-of-go.html

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 264 comments

Hard work vs. Long work (2011)

https://seths.blog/2011/05/hard-work-vs-long-work/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 59 comments

Band-Limiting Procedural Textures

https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/bandlimiting/bandlimiting.htm

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 31 comments

Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvskDoP09Ao&feature=emb_logo

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 203 comments
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