top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-03

David Graeber has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/03/david-graeber-anthropologist-and-author-of-bullshit-jobs-dies-aged-59

6 years ago

749 upvotes – 263 comments

The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764

6 years ago

552 upvotes – 390 comments

React is becoming a black box

https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box

6 years ago

439 upvotes – 370 comments

Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

https://grumpygamer.com/thirty_years_ago

6 years ago

435 upvotes – 165 comments

U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying/u-s-court-mass-surveillance-program-exposed-by-snowden-was-illegal-idUSKBN25T3CK

6 years ago

409 upvotes – 99 comments

Modern C

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/

6 years ago

399 upvotes – 165 comments

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)

https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html

6 years ago

387 upvotes – 332 comments

Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days

https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html

6 years ago

337 upvotes – 192 comments

Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202008/what-if-certain-mental-disorders-are-not-disorders-all

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 259 comments

The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/the-joys-of-owning-an-og-email-account/

6 years ago

314 upvotes – 276 comments

Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN25U2JU

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 236 comments

Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9#issuecomment-683417436

6 years ago

290 upvotes – 224 comments

Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents

https://www.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 116 comments

Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/01/ci-minutes-update-free-users/

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 170 comments

Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/google-antitrust-justice-department.html

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 168 comments

EMule 0.60a

https://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=165281

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 183 comments

Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/it-s-not-just-cars-make-pollution-it-s-roads-they-drive-too

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 177 comments

Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24364811

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 68 comments

Using Vim for C++ Development

https://gist.github.com/p1v0t/42a34744b5e4f5980e5f4e1c980ec859

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: ORM for TypeScript with no query-builder, supporting full SQL queries

https://github.com/Seb-C/kiss-orm

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 119 comments

9th Circuit Rules Apple Owes Retail Workers for Time Spent Security Screening

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/03/apple-owes-retail-workers-time-spent-bag-checks/

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 262 comments

Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs

https://ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/the-new-contender-to-gans-score-matching-with-langevin-sampling/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 56 comments

Introduction to Ada

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/index.html

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 184 comments

A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/275734/a-word-for-a-value-between-0-and-1-inclusive

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 305 comments

30-35 percent of Covid-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis

https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 152 comments

iPhone audio detectable with AM radio

https://twitter.com/doctorcube/status/1300953606221422594

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Skia-canvas, a browserless implementation of the Canvas API for Node.js

https://github.com/samizdatco/skia-canvas

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 65 comments

US sanctions International Criminal Court officials

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/us-icc-sanctions/index.html

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 168 comments

Home Office Projects Series: Air conditioner setup

https://www.techprowd.com/home-office-projects-series-air-conditioner-setup/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 170 comments

Understanding Daemons

https://blog.digitalbunker.dev/2020/09/03/understanding-daemons-unix/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 88 comments

Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/goldman-backed-startup-optimizely-to-be-acquired-by-episerver

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 183 comments

Automatic SSL Certificates for internal IP's for home k8 setup using LetsEncrypt

https://www.techprowd.com/automatic-ssl-certificates-for-home-microk8s-setup-using-letsencrypt/

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: A proactive way of securing your Linux server

https://github.com/prashantgupta24/firewalld-rest

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 107 comments

Coping with Cats

https://acesounderglass.com/2020/09/02/coping-with-cats/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 158 comments

How to Be Indistractable

https://psyche.co/guides/to-become-indistractable-recognise-that-it-starts-within-you

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 58 comments

Threema Goes Open Source

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/open-source-and-new-partner

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 46 comments

Hermann Hauser: ‘It’s in Nvidia’s Interests to Destroy Arm’

https://tech.newstatesman.com/business/hermann-hauser-nvidia-destroy-arm

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 113 comments

India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries

https://www.electricmotorengineering.com/india-sale-of-electric-vehicles-without-batteries/

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 124 comments

Eulerian Video Magnification

https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 42 comments

Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

https://nissan.com/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 102 comments

Writing an Efficient Vulkan Renderer

https://zeux.io/2020/02/27/writing-an-efficient-vulkan-renderer/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Automated Health Dashboard

https://github.com/TwinProduction/gatus

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

They told you not to reply (2008)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/03/they_told_you_not_to_reply.html

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 48 comments

Pachyderm Hub: data science without the hassle of managing infrastructure

https://www.pachyderm.com/blog/pachyderm-hub-is-now-in-production/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoConcurrencyStillNotEasy

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 122 comments

NASA Funded Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Propellantless Propulsion

https://www.wired.com/story/mach-effect-thrusters-interstellar-travel/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 91 comments

NSA spying exposed by Snowden didn't stop a single terrorist attack, judge finds

https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-court-finds-2020-9

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 2 comments

The Unix `Who` Command

https://gauthier.uk/blog/who/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

GPT-3 pricing for API usage announced to beta users to go in effect from October

https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/ikorgs/oa_api_preliminary_beta_pricing_announced/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4xR7LMCGY

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

Earth's mountains form in millions of years, Moon ones near instantaneously

https://jatan.space/exploring-moon-mountains/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Regular cannabis use were associated with poorer cognitive performance

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.15207

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 87 comments

Chrome anchors are broken, Google has locked and is ignoring bug thread

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/11993079?hl=en

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

PR won't be merged because the contributor is an Israeli

https://github.com/armancodes/laravel-download-link/pull/9

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

All forms of signing email are generally solving the wrong problem

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SignedEmailWrongProblem

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Software supply chain security

https://github.blog/2020-09-02-secure-your-software-supply-chain-and-protect-against-supply-chain-threats-github-blog/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas (2019)

https://avichal.com/2019/02/24/heuristics-to-generate-startup-ideas/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/september-2020/time-flies-relatively-speaking/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 63 comments

Saying No to unjust computing even once is help

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.en.html

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 74 comments

Picasso, Schoenberg, Moss: how humans unlock social capital and spark progress

https://blog.leonardofederico.com/2020/08/how-humans-unlock-social-capital.html

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (By David Graeber)

https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up to 3.3x

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Auto-Parallel-Compilation

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Floating Under a Levitating Liquid

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2643-8.epdf?sharing_token=yTk6lTlqDGIs_PGThH9cjNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MwZOxupaqM4-XdEa58MnIMnociJCpeFT74qmZpdkBfQsOEGacWBuJVGlK7x2n_V2ehIOOuhUHiCEoP4j_3xphjnOTN6LST0krmG5xsfE_2rXlaiaDxdQV-qUMozmzmKfDcqEMtdt-xQrQM9qxlKA2zSgS8-UAADNlZezqqT5uG2emSLeMYk_FhrvuQRWaWPeo_htSnjzE62PMXq0JcbPvZdxWuYLXf2V-aJU3EZwHeteTuPaFfQ8Ymk_3X9vN3-fNvtn8bOWUyi3m3MvxM7SBdy0YTssfv-3uYr8wWGbAngw2yThpmrTDEFfsdFkUpWD8%3D&tracking_referrer=www.theguardian.com

6 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments
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