Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2020-08-29

top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-29

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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

https://aasm.org/american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-calls-for-elimination-of-daylight-saving-time/

6 years ago

1600 upvotes – 486 comments

1383

668

I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-thought-i-would-have-accomplished-a-lot-more-today-and-also-by-the-time-i-was-thirty-five

6 years ago

1383 upvotes – 668 comments

510

196

Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps

https://hackerone.com/reports/783877

6 years ago

510 upvotes – 196 comments

465

Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

http://www.flexboxdefense.com/

6 years ago

465 upvotes – 47 comments

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Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation

https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-of-the-brains-behind-tesla-found-a-new-way-to-make-electric-cars-cheaper-11598673630

6 years ago

421 upvotes – 272 comments

346

164

Life Is Short (2016)

http://paulgraham.com/vb.html

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 164 comments

301

194

Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers

https://twitter.com/getify/status/1299569045348454401

6 years ago

301 upvotes – 194 comments

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123

The Legend of GayBlade

https://blog.archive.org/2020/08/28/the-legend-of-gayblade/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 123 comments

210

161

Metcalf Sniper Attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 161 comments

201

DearPyGui

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 71 comments

199

146

Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/sendgrid-under-siege-from-hacked-accounts/

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 146 comments

199

147

Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Pinterest-cancels-huge-SF-office-lease-in-unbuilt-15523170.php

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 147 comments

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Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-quantum-paradox-throws-the-foundations-of-observed-reality-into-question

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 152 comments

174

Literate DevOps

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 87 comments

173

Unusual Maps

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002yI

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 19 comments

171

Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech

https://time.com/5883993/india-facebook-hate-speech-bjp/

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 95 comments

163

Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture [pdf]

https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 13 comments

149

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Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design

https://github.com/iam4722202468/ThinkpadBattery

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 100 comments

148

Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game

https://supertuxkart.net/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 66 comments

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Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

https://gizmodo.com/the-tech-my-dad-banned-from-our-house-1844777825

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 261 comments

139

Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji

https://ncase.me/sim/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 20 comments

139

115

Don't trust default timeouts

https://robertovitillo.com/default-timeouts/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 115 comments

130

SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 39 comments

128

122

Inventing Monads

https://stopa.io/post/247

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 122 comments

127

The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35674/the-bizarre-mystery-of-unexplained-aerial-incursions-over-loring-air-force-base

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 48 comments

126

The Dark Core of Personality (2018)

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dark-core-of-personality/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 80 comments

123

Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/former_cisco_engineer_aws_webex_teams/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

123

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Apple blocked Facebook's attempt to tell users about 30% App Store 'tax'

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-blocked-facebooks-attempt-to-tell-users-about-30-app-store-tax/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 142 comments

113

Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/facebook-says-apple-blocked-it-from-informing-about-app-store-30-fee-2020-08-28#:~:text=Facebook%20Says%20Apple%20Blocked%20It%20From%20Informing%20About%20App%20Store%2030%25%20Fee,-Contributor&text=Facebook%20(NASDAQ%3A%20FB)%20is,to%20impart%20to%20its%20users.&text=According%20to%20Facebook%2C%20it%20asked,Image%20source%3A%20Getty%20Images.

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 78 comments

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What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery health?