top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-01

Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36096/airline-pilots-landing-at-lax-report-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on

6 years ago

900 upvotes – 473 comments

Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/09/01/nvidia-ceo-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus/

6 years ago

856 upvotes – 927 comments

Htop 3.0

https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/master/ChangeLog

6 years ago

604 upvotes – 103 comments

Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats

6 years ago

518 upvotes – 440 comments

Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

https://lunar.fyi

6 years ago

468 upvotes – 137 comments

Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993

https://medium.com/@andrewghobrial/why-has-college-gotten-so-expensive-in-the-last-30-years-3505af9aded8

6 years ago

440 upvotes – 562 comments

Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work

6 years ago

440 upvotes – 241 comments

Applebot

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 304 comments

The database I wish I had

https://euandre.org/2020/08/31/the-database-i-wish-i-had.html

6 years ago

375 upvotes – 228 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342498

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 697 comments

Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-the-general-availability-of-bottlerocket-an-open-source-linux-distribution-purpose-built-to-run-containers/

6 years ago

347 upvotes – 129 comments

GitHub Container Registry

https://github.blog/2020-09-01-introducing-github-container-registry/

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 88 comments

A Saudi prince's attempt to silence critics on Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/mohammed-bin-salman-twitter-investigation/

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 96 comments

Why we are suing the Administration

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 462 comments

Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code

https://github.com/connorferster/handcalcs

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 51 comments

Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow

https://masterwiki.how/

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 81 comments

Why Privacy Matters

https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/privacy-security-roundup

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 91 comments

Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-research-browsing-histories-are-unique-enough-to-reliably-identify-users/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 125 comments

Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser

https://www.radsix.com/

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 90 comments

Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations

https://blog.ardy.io/2020/8/geraet-32620/

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments

Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7q55x/police-across-canada-are-using-predictive-policing-algorithms-report-finds

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342496

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 340 comments

An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/changes-to-facebooks-services-in-australia/

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 158 comments

RxDB – a real-time database on top of PouchDB

https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 47 comments

Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising content

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53979625

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 521 comments

Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-approved-malware-macos-notarization-shlayer/

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 130 comments

CERN at Home: Building a Particle Detector

https://clanhouse.com/cern-at-home-building-a-particle-detector

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 25 comments

Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-01/new-aus-research-finds-honey-bee-venom-kills-breast-cancer-cells/12618064

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

Algebra Driven Design

https://algebradriven.design/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 144 comments

Platforms' current attempts to regulate misinformation amplify opinion power

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2020.1773888

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 146 comments

New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/new-federal-court-rulings-find-geofence-warrants-unconstitutional-0

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazon job ad for an intelligence analyst to track 'labor organizing threats'

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 11 comments

Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime

https://www.cnet.com/news/walmart-plus-takes-on-amazon-prime-with-98-a-year-membership-fee/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 144 comments

Feline coronavirus drug inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18096-2

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

Transit Costs Project

https://transitcosts.com/about/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Oysters That Knew What Time It Was

https://www.wired.com/story/oysters-that-knew-what-time-it-was/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons

https://palant.info/2020/08/31/a-grim-outlook-on-the-future-of-browser-add-ons/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 96 comments

Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/01/amazon_staff_spying/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

AWS Boilerplate

https://github.com/apptension/aws-boilerplate

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

https://www.aristotlemetadata.com/blog/2020/08/first-impressions-github-codespaces.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 93 comments

Best Practices for Testing in Java (2019)

https://phauer.com/2019/modern-best-practices-testing-java/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 95 comments

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

https://www.cambus.net/modernizing-the-openbsd-console/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

# of days since the last alg=none JWT vulnerability

https://www.howmanydayssinceajwtalgnonevuln.com

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 55 comments

Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Mind Emulation Foundation

https://mindemulation.org/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 132 comments

JITSploitation I: A JIT Bug

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/09/jitsploitation-one.html

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 10 comments

The Sony “Star Eater” (2017)

http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/SonyA7S/sonystareater.html

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

Deep Learning for Compilers

https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/36866

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats.html

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 1 comments

Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther

https://www.cbr.com/drive-in-show-42-disney-prevents-black-panther/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

‘Five Eyes’ Nations Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/five-eyes-nations-release-joint-cybersecurity-advisory/

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/first-modular-nuclear-reactor-design-certified-in-the-us/

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Nvidia CEO Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/09/01/nvidia-ceo-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus/

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 1 comments

Hypothesis: Bipolar disorder is an Epstein–Barr virus‐driven disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7133420/

6 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments
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