top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-02

Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727

5 years ago

1722 upvotes – 472 comments

Most-favorited Hacker News posts

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis

5 years ago

1266 upvotes – 259 comments

Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33896110/tiny-nuclear-reactor-government-approval/

5 years ago

703 upvotes – 541 comments

Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards

5 years ago

608 upvotes – 435 comments

Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 306 comments

Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

5 years ago

469 upvotes – 147 comments

How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors

https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 228 comments

Bardcore

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

5 years ago

454 upvotes – 164 comments

Lesser-known Web APIs

https://blog.greenroots.info/10-lesser-known-web-apis-you-may-want-to-use-ckejv75cr012y70s158n85yhn

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 128 comments

India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53998205

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 251 comments

Programming with Categories

http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats.html

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 108 comments

Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation

https://blog.patreon.com/patreon-series-e-announcement

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 319 comments

Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351111

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 354 comments

Law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping proceeds

https://kstp.com/news/controversial-law-allows-police-to-seize-and-sell-cars-of-non-lawbreakers-keeping-the-proceeds-august-24-2020/5838303/

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 208 comments

TSA tries out another biometric system

https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/09/01/tsa-tries-out-another-illegal-biometric-id-verification-system/

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 247 comments

Lo-Fi Player

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/lofi-player

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 43 comments

Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53884401

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 364 comments

On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap

https://probablydance.com/2020/08/31/on-modern-hardware-the-min-max-heap-beats-a-binary-heap/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 43 comments

Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy

https://www.axios.com/health-bankruptcy-fears-poll-ce3c4905-53c6-4f43-ba4f-fde22f4ef849.html

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 355 comments

Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets [pdf]

https://www.sec.gov/files/Algo_Trading_Report_2020.pdf

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 87 comments

Linux from Scratch 10.0

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 49 comments

Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year

https://onezero.medium.com/leaked-salary-spreadsheet-reveals-microsoft-employee-earnings-for-a-second-year-d1466132d309

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 245 comments

Why is OOP still so widely spread?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/09/02/if-everyone-hates-it-why-is-oop-still-so-widely-spread/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 476 comments

Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern Hemisphere

https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/news/2020/massive-release-of-methane-gas-from-the-seafloor-linked-to-global-warming-discovered-for-the-first-time-in-the-southern-hemisphere/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 126 comments

Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake

https://www.anandtech.com/print/16063/intel-launches-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-processors-and-evo-branding

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 208 comments

Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/09/01/against-online-tooling/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 164 comments

To design and develop an interactive globe

https://stripe.com/blog/globe

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 66 comments

Essential C (2003) [pdf]

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/EssentialC.pdf

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 82 comments

The Hash Monster: ESP-32 Tamagotchi for WiFi Cracking

https://telescope.ac/petazzoni/the-hash-monster-esp32-tamagotchi-for-wifi-cracking

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 28 comments

Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter

https://github.com/cmod/craigstarter

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 35 comments

To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’

https://psyche.co/ideas/to-be-creative-chinese-philosophy-teaches-us-to-abandon-originality

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 73 comments

Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka

https://www.karimarttila.fi/clojure/2020/09/01/using-clojure-in-command-line-with-babashka.html

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 36 comments

Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (2014)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/research/accidentalcameras/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 33 comments

Unix Wars (2000)

https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_war.htm

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 87 comments

What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old

https://tieshunroquerre.com/blog/yc-learnings

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 142 comments

Git-Based Wiki

https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2020/09/git-based-wiki/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 83 comments

Inside the HP Nanoprocessor

http://www.righto.com/2020/09/inside-hp-nanoprocessor-high-speed.html

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Multiple Western Digital 5400RPM drives are actually 7200RPM drives

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ikk0rv/psa_multiple_wd_5400rpm_drives_are_actually/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 60 comments

Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits

https://erickhun.com/posts/kubernetes-faster-services-no-cpu-limits/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 107 comments

Hints and Principles for Computer System Design [pdf]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4cex542zznbjh7b/AADM59pqAb9YBy4eeT1uw0t8a?dl=0&preview=Hints+190+full.pdf

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 11 comments

Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span in mice

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/bodybuilding-supplement-promotes-healthy-aging-and-extends-life-span-least-mice

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 80 comments

XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis

https://google.github.io/xls/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3160/3160-h/3160-h.htm

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 116 comments

A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2020/icml_topology_roundup/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 4 comments

Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to be impossible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-black-hole-so-big-it-should-not-exist-20200902/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Tips for stable and portable software

https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-08-31-portable-stable-software.html?hn=3

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments
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