top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-27

ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

https://remarkable.com/#What_Is_New

6 years ago

Scrollbar Blindness

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Zoom still don't understand GDPR

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Rust 1.46

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

On All That Fuckery

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)

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

6 years ago

Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad

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

6 years ago

Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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

6 years ago

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

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

6 years ago

New case studies about Google’s use of Go

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

6 years ago

Hard work vs. Long work (2011)

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

6 years ago

Band-Limiting Procedural Textures

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

6 years ago

Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

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

6 years ago

Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine

https://www.coywolf.news/seo/apple-search-engine/

6 years ago

When Asbestos Was a Gift Fit for a King

https://daily.jstor.org/when-asbestos-was-a-gift-fit-for-a-king/

6 years ago

Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclearpower-terrapower/bill-gates-nuclear-venture-plans-reactor-to-complement-solar-wind-power-boom-idUSKBN25N2U8

6 years ago

SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up

https://testmy.net/hoststats/spacex_starlink

6 years ago

How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02480-5

6 years ago

FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/hurricane-laura-fema-grants-aren-t-focused-on-climate-change

6 years ago

A leap of faith: Committing to open source

https://github.com/readme/henry-zhu

6 years ago

Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21403202/google-engineers-privacy-settings-lawsuit-arizona-doubleclick

6 years ago

Show HN: Olaf – Acoustic Fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser

https://0110.be/posts/Olaf_-_Acoustic_fingerprinting_on_the_ESP32_and_in_the_Browser

6 years ago

Knuth versus Email (1999)

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

6 years ago

Architecture Playbook

https://nocomplexity.com/documents/arplaybook/introduction.html

6 years ago

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/27/tiktok-ceo-kevin-mayer-to-leave-the-company.html

6 years ago

Civilization VI UI, but made in Webflow (a no-code tool)

https://webflow.com/website/Civilization

6 years ago

TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16040/tsmc-and-graphcore-prepare-for-ai-acceleration-on-3nm

6 years ago

Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish – Microsoft plays their hand

https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/27/Microsoft-plays-their-hand.html

6 years ago

Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors warn

https://www.studyfinds.org/antibiotics-double-ibd-risk/

6 years ago

Nitrokey

https://www.nitrokey.com/

6 years ago

Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes

http://hazel.org/

6 years ago

Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data

https://goshippo.com/usps-data-2020/

6 years ago

Show HN: Computer Music with Python

https://github.com/luvsound/pippi

6 years ago

Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/technology/walmart-tiktok-deal.html

6 years ago

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report

6 years ago

The time it takes to run a paid newsletter

https://simonowens.substack.com/p/the-exact-time-commitment-it-takes

6 years ago

We'll be stuck in this recession for years, economists say

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/42532778/well-be-stuck-in-this-recession-for-years-economists-say

6 years ago

Parabola on ReMarkable: A Guide [pdf]

http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/install-guide-latest.pdf

6 years ago

Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-computers-solve-the-collatz-conjecture-20200826/

6 years ago

Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/confessions-of-an-id-theft-kingpin-part-ii/

6 years ago

Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle

https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-build-army-of-1-million-microrobots-that-can-fit-inside-a-hypodermic-needle/

6 years ago

Fox Two: The Story of the Aim-9 Sidewinder (2014)

http://www.donhollway.com/foxtwo/

6 years ago