top 50% 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

Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444705

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 249 comments

Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/09/10/vinyl-lps-sell-more-than-cds-for-the-first-time-in-3-decades/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 220 comments

BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy

https://microship.com/behemoth/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 48 comments

Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges

https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/how-get-away-murder

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 156 comments

The technical interview is an ego trip

https://blog.kowsheek.com/the-technical-interview-is-an-ego-trip/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 193 comments

Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup

https://helenmin.com/blog/first-head-of-marketing

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 74 comments

Noise.sh – a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design

https://noise.sh

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 8 comments

Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911658041/fortnite-maker-tim-sweeney-on-apple-and-google-these-monopolies-need-to-be-stopp

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 452 comments

Update on My Situation

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 125 comments

EWW: Emacs Web Wowser

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 51 comments

Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/10/debian_project_address/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 117 comments

Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/203853/imperial-mathematician-scoops-3m-breakthrough-prize/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 103 comments

What's wrong with social science and how to fix it

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 101 comments

IBAHRI condemned UK treatment of Julian Assange in US extradition trial

https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=c05c57ee-1fee-47dc-99f9-26824208a750

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: How are online communities established?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24442569

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

Ex-Theranos CEO Holmes puts mental state at issue

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-theranos-holmes/ex-theranos-ceo-holmes-puts-mental-state-at-issue-to-be-examined-by-u-s-experts-idUSKBN2612Q3

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 119 comments

Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men

https://www.city-journal.org/family-instability-fuels-violence-among-young-men

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 129 comments

I don’t have time for coding challenges

https://css-irl.info/why-i-dont-have-time-for-your-coding-challenge/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 234 comments

Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/10/dji_local_data_mode_us_potential_ban/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 102 comments

Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)

http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-biggest-mistake/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 317 comments

How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-04-15-probabilistic-distsys/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature

https://samsieber.tech/posts/2020/09/registry-structure-influence/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 191 comments

A controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02545-5

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Bit Serial CPU

https://github.com/howerj/bit-serial

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

New Hubble data suggests an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-hubble-ingredient-current-dark-theories.html

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 81 comments

To manage wildfire, California looks to what tribes have known all along

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 102 comments

Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types

https://medium.com/roblox-tech-blog/how-to-plan-a-luau-augmenting-luas-syntax-with-types-7751a790f0d8

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 49 comments

Peter Thiel Met with the Racist Fringe as He Went All in on Trump

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story

https://medium.com/@glaubercosta_11125/c-vs-rust-an-async-thread-per-core-story-28c4b43c410c

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

The sad state of PDF-Accessibility of LaTex Documents (2016)

https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-accessibility-of-latex-documents/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 74 comments

USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI Are Both SCSI

https://www.devever.net/~hl/usbuas

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations (2020): $750k to Organizations Worldwide

https://spreadprivacy.com/2020-duckduckgo-donations/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

New species of “supergiant” isopod uncovered

https://news.nus.edu.sg/research/new-species-supergiant-isopod-uncovered

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments
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