top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-14

Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54146718

6 years ago

775 upvotes – 373 comments

I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

https://github.com/Niek/Niek/blob/master/facebook-scam/README.md

6 years ago

614 upvotes – 405 comments

Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/hints-life-venus

6 years ago

497 upvotes – 265 comments

How HTTPS Works

https://howhttps.works/

6 years ago

466 upvotes – 64 comments

A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whitstleblower-memo

6 years ago

434 upvotes – 200 comments

Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/09/376084137/trapped-in-his-body-for-12-years-a-man-breaks-free

6 years ago

404 upvotes – 133 comments

Project Oberon

http://www.projectoberon.com/

6 years ago

370 upvotes – 236 comments

Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

https://cri.dev/posts/2020-09-12-Raspberry-Pi-as-a-local-server-for-self-hosting-applications/

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 314 comments

Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype-was-rolling-downhill-in-promotional-video/

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 241 comments

Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468533

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 248 comments

Repl.it Database

https://blog.repl.it/database

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 115 comments

Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement

https://luketully.ca/macbook-screen-replacement-costs-as-much-as-a-brand-new-model/

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 280 comments

Google says its carbon footprint is now zero

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54141899

6 years ago

310 upvotes – 329 comments

Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/britains-co2-emissions-have-fallen-to-levels-last-seen-in-1890

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 151 comments

Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2020/09/14/feds-ibm-did-discriminate-against-older-workers-in-making-layoffs/

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 193 comments

Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/13/21435637/us-cbp-counterfeit-airpods-oneplus-buds-mixup

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 274 comments

Instant.page

https://instant.page/

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 122 comments

Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-arm-holdings-m-a-nvidia-industry-anal/nvidias-arm-deal-sparks-quick-backlash-in-chip-industry-idUKKBN2650GT

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 190 comments

Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml

https://github.com/davesnx/query-json

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 192 comments

The compositor is evil

https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/2020/09/13/compositor-is-evil.html

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 175 comments

Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/naming-heatwaves-custodians-vs-covid-19-nba-barbers-online-moderators-jesse-owens-granddaughter-and-more-1.5719784/advocates-want-to-name-heatwaves-like-hurricanes-to-raise-awareness-of-their-dangers-and-save-lives-1.5719800

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 143 comments

How I stay motivated working on my long-term project

https://durmonski.com/self-improvement/the-three-year-rule/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 61 comments

Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species extinction

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54118769

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 132 comments

Oblique Strategies

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

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 54 comments

Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help?

https://bzg.fr/en/org-mode-9.4-is-out-can-you-help.html

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 112 comments

U.S. Customs at JFK Seizes Counterfeit Apple Airpod Earbuds

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-jfk-seizes-counterfeit-apple-airpod-earbuds

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 3 comments

Old, Good Database Design

https://relinx.io/2020/09/14/old-good-database-design/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 165 comments

Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline

https://80000hours.org/articles/research-questions-by-discipline/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 169 comments

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics

https://medium.com/@bellmar/a-software-engineers-guide-to-cybernetics-d57c7def1453

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 59 comments

WebRTC Samples

https://webrtc.github.io/samples/

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 42 comments

Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 64 comments

Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 55 comments

Things Come Apart

https://www.toddmclellan.com/thingscomeapart

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 40 comments

How to Be Helpful Online

https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/202009/how_to_be_helpful_online.html

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 57 comments

Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit

https://tika.apache.org/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 27 comments

Designing an Overkill workbench for home office

https://www.techprowd.com/home-office-project-overkill-workbench-series/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 99 comments

Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification

https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_8aRb3bDu

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 144 comments

Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eLRSCC7r4KinuxqZX/comparative-advantage-and-when-to-blow-up-your-island

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 112 comments

Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/09/09/going-to-elite-indian-colleges-improves-earnings-but-not-test-scores

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 91 comments

At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/at-jpmorgan-productivity-falls-for-younger-employees-at-home

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 258 comments

The State of SwiftUI

https://steipete.com/posts/state-of-swiftui/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 112 comments

Data from Experian breach found on the internet

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2020-09-13-data-from-huge-experian-breach-found-on-the-internet/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 40 comments

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912644819/long-before-cambridge-analytica-and-facebook-simulmatics-linked-data-and-politic

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 66 comments

Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

ByteDance won't sell TikTok U.S. operations to Oracle or Microsoft: CGTN

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bytedance-tiktok-cgtn-idUSKBN2650MC

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 168 comments

Julia Child Cooks Primordial Soup (1973) [video]

https://massasoit.instructure.com/courses/346438/pages/video-the-primordial-soup-with-julia-child

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century

https://thebrave.substack.com/p/11-the-thin-end-of-the-wedge

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t4g-instances-burstable-performance-powered-by-aws-graviton2/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools

https://www.grouparoo.com

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Algorithms are changing what we read online

https://thewalrus.ca/how-algorithms-are-changing-what-we-read-online/

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: O'Doyle Rules – a new rules engine for Clojure

https://github.com/oakes/odoyle-rules

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg897a/hate-speech-on-facebook-is-pushing-ethiopia-dangerously-close-to-a-genocide

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 154 comments

Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436035/tiktok-oracle-deal-bytedance-president-trump-safety

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 69 comments

Home Server Room Power Upgrade and Multi-Room UPS

https://blog.networkprofile.org/home-server-room-power-upgrade-multi-room-ups/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 85 comments

Debian-installer, mdadm configuration and the Bad Blocks Controversy

http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2020/09/13/debian-installer-mdadm-configuration-and-the-bad-blocks-controversy/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

Save ARM

https://savearm.co.uk

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

California Businesses Leave the State by the Thousands

https://www.hoover.org/research/california-businesses-leave-state-thousands

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 197 comments

Keeping Time at NIST

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/keeping-time-nist

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54144434

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Aboriginal Languages

https://mobtranslate.com

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm

https://pwacker.com/CG.html

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Due Diligence That Money Can’t Buy

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/due-diligence-that-money-cant-buy/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/addicted-losing-how-casino-apps-have-drained-people-millions-n1239604

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 99 comments

Free hosting providers for static websites in 2020

https://devandgear.com/posts/18-free-hosting-providers-for-your-static-website-in-2020/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Clouddraw – draw cloud architecture diagrams with ease

https://clouddraw.app/

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

Airtable Apps

https://blog.airtable.com/airtable-platform-launch-automations-sync-apps

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)

https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/2018/01/10/apprentice-journeyman-and-master-the-medieval-guild/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Who invented the lightbulb?

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/who-invented-the-lightbulb/

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 55 comments

Eleanor Roosevelt's son authored mysteries in which his mother solves murders

https://crimereads.com/eleanor-roosevelts-son-authored-twenty-mysteries-in-which-his-mother-solves-murders/

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Memory Pill

https://www.hackster.io/nickbild/memory-pill-9f6b2e

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-September/092680.html

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments
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