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

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

https://blog.ltse.com/the-long-term-stock-exchange-opens-for-business-38b13f51e87b

6 years ago

896 upvotes – 535 comments

Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429635/amazon-keith-alexander-board-of-directors-nsa-cyber-command

6 years ago

625 upvotes – 436 comments

AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/atts-current-5g-is-slower-than-4g-in-nearly-every-city-tested-by-pcmag/

6 years ago

513 upvotes – 203 comments

Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/dozens-scientific-journals-have-vanished-internet-and-no-one-preserved-them

6 years ago

474 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

https://mimestream.com

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 272 comments

New Zealand is about to test long-range wireless power transmission

https://singularityhub.com/2020/08/30/new-zealand-is-about-to-test-long-range-wireless-power-transmission/

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 317 comments

Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/09/sign-in-with-apple-epic-games-disabled/

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 614 comments

AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-for-enhanced-security-at-a-cost/

6 years ago

342 upvotes – 254 comments

Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/why-is-there-a-normal-galaxy-sitting-at-the-edge-of-the-universe

6 years ago

335 upvotes – 240 comments

The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017)

https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 177 comments

Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”

https://nitter.net/jason_koebler/status/1303383712160190469#m

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 282 comments

I'm a Coffin Confessor

https://www.newsweek.com/coffin-confessor-tell-secrets-beyond-grave-1529381

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 147 comments

How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02558-0

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 151 comments

Getting Fiber to My Town [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 126 comments

Kubernetes YAML Generator

https://k8syaml.com/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 121 comments

The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages

https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/the-fed-now-owns-nearly-one-third-of-all-us-mortgages

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 331 comments

NSA chief who oversaw sweeping domestic phone surveillance joins Amazon board

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/longtime-nsa-chief-who-oversaw-illegal-domestic-surveillance-joins-amazon-board-directors

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 29 comments

WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 73 comments

Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting

https://news.yale.edu/2020/09/08/portable-mri-can-detect-brain-abnormalities-bedside

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 84 comments

.NET Memory Performance Analysis

https://github.com/Maoni0/mem-doc/blob/master/doc/.NETMemoryPerformanceAnalysis.md

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 39 comments

Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview

https://evrone.com/evan-you-interview

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 123 comments

Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/515772-portland-adopts-landmark-facial-recognition-ordinance

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 191 comments

Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods

https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2020/8/16/why-bayesian-stats-need-monte-carlo-methods

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 98 comments

Assange Hearing Day 7

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-7/

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 142 comments

Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) performance better than expected

http://www.supergoodcode.com/funday/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 90 comments

K-9 Mail removed from Google Play Store due to listing description

https://twitter.com/obra/status/1303442579107831809

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 56 comments

State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020

https://sprune.com/blog/state-of-self-serve-website-building-in-2020/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 121 comments

Async Views in Django 3.1

https://testdriven.io/blog/django-async-views/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 81 comments

Promoted Add-ons Pilot

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/09/introducing-the-promoted-add-ons-pilot/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 130 comments

Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language

https://elv.sh

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

Dune Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 91 comments

Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24423463

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 64 comments

Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ip-over-fibre-channel-hack

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity

https://effectiviology.com/napoleon/

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 62 comments

Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ireland-to-order-facebook-to-stop-sending-user-data-to-u-s-11599671980

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 79 comments

How to escape from an erupting volcano

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-escape-from-erupting-volcano/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

Classes are a way of writing higher order functions

https://stopa.io/post/250

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 146 comments

Apple II and Apple IIe emulators written in JavaScript and HTML5

https://github.com/whscullin/apple2js

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 55 comments

More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy

https://protonmail.com/blog/searches-increase-for-email-privacy/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 116 comments

Using a Raspberry Pi to Add MIDI to a CV Synthesizer

https://schollz.com/raspberrypi/monotron/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 60 comments

Latin in the Voynich Manuscript

https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2020/03/latin-in-the-voynich-manuscript.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

Fluid framework, for building distributed, real-time collaborative web apps

https://fluidframework.com/

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 14 comments

Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Made with Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/36274/tesla-model-y-owners-find-cooling-system-cobbled-together-with-home-depot-grade-fake-wood

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 97 comments

No-Code vs. Pro-Code: A New Hope

https://journeyapps.com/engineering-blog/no-code-vs-pro-code-a-new-hope/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API

https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot/blob/master/README_PYTHON.md

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 59 comments

OpenSSL Raccoon Attack (CVE-2020-1968)

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20200909.txt

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Apple accuses Epic of “Willful, brazen, and unlawful” conduct

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/475308825/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-ihvcnd8DjMlZZ1lZfrOW

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 86 comments

Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03393

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

How WebAssembly Changes Software Distribution

https://desiatov.com/why-webassembly/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-why-arent-death-rates-rising-with-case-numbers-145865

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter Kit and eBook

https://ChromeExtensionKit.com?ref=showhn

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/09/slack_q2fy2021/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

GitPals – Find team for cooperative development

https://www.gitpals.com/

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a

https://richardlewis.org/blog/2020/7/31/opus-compiling-word-for-windows-1-1a

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept according to TIOBE

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/c-is-now-the-fastest-growing-programming-language/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 108 comments

The end of dispersed camping?

https://www.hatchmag.com/blog/end-dispersed-camping/7715118

6 years ago

68 upvotes – 84 comments
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