top 50% 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

tilde.town: A social network over SSH

https://tilde.town/

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 82 comments

Malloc Geiger Counter

https://github.com/laserallan/malloc_geiger

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 81 comments

Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405140/apple-rejects-facebook-update-30-percent-cut

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email

https://www.serialliterature.com/

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 77 comments

Using Microsoft Word with Git

https://blog.martinfenner.org/2014/08/25/using-microsoft-word-with-git/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 134 comments

Objective-Rust

https://belkadan.com/blog/2020/08/Objective-Rust/

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 33 comments

Arizona DMV Sells Drivers' Photos and SSNs to Private Investigators

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pky8a8/dmv-mvd-sell-photo-ssn-private-investigators

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 51 comments

Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/boeing-pulls-eight-787s-from-service-over-structural-issue/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 135 comments

The Joy of Cryptography

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~rosulekm/crypto/

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 23 comments

Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf]

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3181-adams.pdf

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 48 comments

Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 311 comments

C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps

https://github.com/ultralight-ux/Ultralight

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 110 comments

OCaml Workshop 2020 Online Conference is live now

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-workshop-2020-online-conference-is-live-now/6287/9?u=mseri

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 23 comments

Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012)

https://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 162 comments

Redis Labs Raises $100M

https://redislabs.com/press/redis-labs-raises-100-million-series-f-financing/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 107 comments

Is Cyberpunk Dead? A Conversation with Bruce Bethke

https://www.markeverglade.com/iscyberpunkdead

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 156 comments

A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018)

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-last-barrier-to-ultra-miniaturized-electronics-is-broken-thanks-to-a-new-type-of-inductor-eb5c1a2c7460

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 52 comments

GoodRx S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1809519/000119312520234662/d949310ds1.htm

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 131 comments

Apple Removes Epic Games Account from App Store

https://nintendosmash.com/apple-removes-epic-games-account-from-app-store-will-not-affect-unreal-engine-support/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 7 comments

GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-evergreen-update-mold-and-milestones/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform

https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

Why I’m Willing to Pay a Premium for Security, Privacy, and Peace of Mind

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2020/Aug-28.html

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 95 comments

Firefox 80 and my confusion over its hardware accelerated video on Linux

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/Firefox80VideoAccelConfusion

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 68 comments

Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02483-2

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 139 comments

First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-skeleton-ready-closeup.html

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month

https://bookmarkos.com/growing-side-project-1k-month/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 23 comments

ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model

https://www.arangodb.com/2020/08/arangodb-3-7-a-big-step-forward-for-multi-model/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/waymo-tests-autonomous-trucks-texas

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 93 comments

The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 158 comments

Convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/magazine/sex-offender-operation-net-nanny.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 123 comments

New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20200827a.htm

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 136 comments

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

https://mathstodon.xyz/web/statuses/104765289307010207

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 1 comments

Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/08/28/graphtage/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/us-tech-stocks-are-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-european-stock-market.html

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 92 comments

Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here

https://back7.co/home/back7co-mil-plastic

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 73 comments

How close are computers to automating mathematical reasoning?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-close-are-computers-to-automating-mathematical-reasoning-20200827/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 97 comments

Testing Database Transactions in Go

https://marvinblum.de/blog/testing-database-transactions-in-go-jEaOGXravM

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

Squad Wealth

https://otherinter.net/squad-wealth/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

GH Archive

https://www.gharchive.org/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple to start requiring written consent for third party API usage in apps

https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/27/apple-rejects-watch-for-tesla-app-as-it-starts-requiring-written-consent-for-third-party-api-use/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

The World of Legacy IT Systems

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/inside-hidden-world-legacy-it-systems

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Launch HN: SuperTokens (YC S20) – Securely manage session tokens

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24306572

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments
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