top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-11

Security by obscurity is underrated

https://utkusen.com/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-underrated.html

5 years ago

939 upvotes – 510 comments

How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

5 years ago

687 upvotes – 313 comments

'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task

https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/ugh-fields-or-why-you-can-t-even-bear-to-think-about-that-task-5941837dac62

5 years ago

543 upvotes – 135 comments

Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/ami-the-tiny-cube-on-wheels-that-french-14-year-olds-can-drive

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 405 comments

Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54091048

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 265 comments

Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#unacceptable

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 259 comments

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/minitel-the-online-world-france-built-before-the-web

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 196 comments

Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 468 comments

Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp [pdf]

https://codesync.global/uploads/media/activity_slides/0001/03/f2292f201aa6b04db8c4e0b9cfa191dd07c9ee14.pdf

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 96 comments

I built an app to fix my depression

http://blog.elifiner.com/how-i-built-an-app-to-fix-my-depression/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 176 comments

Let employees sell their equity

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/let-employees-sell-equity/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 276 comments

Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust

https://www.redox-os.org/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query

https://octoproject.github.io/octo-cli/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 58 comments

In-App Purchase Rules

https://marco.org/2020/09/11/app-review-changes

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 82 comments

Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 32 comments

Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming

https://twitter.com/oskargroth/status/1301502690409709568

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 109 comments

How to stream audio from your phone to your laptop with PulseAudio

https://bash-prompt.net/guides/pulse-audio-bluetooth-streaming/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 125 comments

Raccoon Attack

https://raccoon-attack.com/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 51 comments

Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54108336

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 395 comments

If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion

https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 125 comments
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