top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-28

Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481

6 years ago

1313 upvotes – 935 comments

Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/apple-terminates-epic-games-developer-account/

6 years ago

1169 upvotes – 1474 comments

Ethereum Is a Dark Forest

https://medium.com/@danrobinson/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest-ecc5f0505dff

6 years ago

553 upvotes – 447 comments

Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

https://github.com/hediet/vscode-debug-visualizer/tree/master/extension

6 years ago

509 upvotes – 61 comments

Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6

6 years ago

500 upvotes – 104 comments

Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=kuswih5l

6 years ago

443 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

https://healthcareisdumb.com/

6 years ago

441 upvotes – 283 comments

China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims

6 years ago

424 upvotes – 390 comments

Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41

6 years ago

411 upvotes – 148 comments

Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310778

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 139 comments

Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for-4k-now-streaming-47b516b10bbb

6 years ago

348 upvotes – 196 comments

Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/08/27/zoom-is-now-critical-infrastructure-thats-a-concern/

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 225 comments

Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/08/powells-says-it-wont-sell-books-on-amazon-anymore-we-must-take-a-stand.html

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 201 comments

Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving

http://k0lwc.com/ham-radio-is-dying-no-its-not-its-evolving/

6 years ago

311 upvotes – 211 comments

RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2020/08/28/for_the_users

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML

https://pantel.is/projects/css3d/

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 92 comments

I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF

https://archive.org/details/nasa-workmanship-standards

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 55 comments

Neuralink Progress Update [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvmgjBL74w&hn=1

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 373 comments

One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

https://drikerf.com/one-year-with-thinkpad-and-linux-from-macbook-pro/

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 364 comments

Game Design Curriculum

https://www.riotgames.com/en/urf-academy/curriculum-guide

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 116 comments
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