top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-18

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87

5 years ago

1738 upvotes – 1452 comments

The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr

5 years ago

874 upvotes – 369 comments

Vue.js 3

https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0

5 years ago

768 upvotes – 305 comments

Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/28

5 years ago

672 upvotes – 261 comments

FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD

5 years ago

619 upvotes – 268 comments

Use long flags when scripting (2013)

https://changelog.com/posts/use-long-flags-when-scripting

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 189 comments

What happened to Firefox Send?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 258 comments

rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor

https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rg3d

5 years ago

398 upvotes – 134 comments

Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-provided-source-for-democratic-emails-lawyer-says-idUSKBN2691VW

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 404 comments

The benefits of note-taking by hand

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200910-the-benefits-of-note-taking-by-hand

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 136 comments

It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2546992/why-christopher-nolan-actually-blew-up-a-real-plane-for-tenet

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 217 comments

Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/facebook-accused-of-watching-instagram-users-through-cameras

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 203 comments

The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a33995147/tom-pritchard-bike-mystery/

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python

https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 30 comments

Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial

https://dissenter.substack.com/p/khaled-el-masri-survivor-of-cia-torture

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 214 comments

John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmY26pOE-Y

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 166 comments

Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/apple-ends-epics-ability-to-offer-fortnite-save-the-world-on-mac

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 553 comments

Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/09/commerce-department-prohibits-wechat-and-tiktok-transactions-protect

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 381 comments

Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-mining/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 68 comments

CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/09/17/ceo-of-cyber-fraud-startup-ns8-arrested-by-fbi-facing-fraud-charges/#702a4e3062ed

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 157 comments

Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/six-indicted-connection-multi-million-dollar-scheme-bribe-amazon-employees-and

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 152 comments

US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns

https://apnews.com/a439ead01b75fc958c722daf40f9307c

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 288 comments

How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?

https://cmhb.de/web-design-and-carbon-impact

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 391 comments

How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter

https://www.astrocamel.com/web/2020/09/04/how-i-bypassed-cloudflares-sql-injection-filter.html

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 101 comments

Giant Pacific Octopus

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/g/giant-pacific-octopus/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 190 comments

Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21443851/death-ransomware-attack-hospital-germany-cybersecurity

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 228 comments

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150219020855/http://exittheapple.com/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 56 comments

Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders

https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 63 comments

Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/bill-to-tear-down-federal-courts-paywall-gains-momentum-in-congress/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 31 comments

Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19

https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/news/60119

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 192 comments

Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU Driver Development

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/18/arm-officially-supports-panfrost-open-source-mali-gpu-driver-development/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 81 comments

Visualize Data Structures in VSCode

https://addyosmani.com/blog/visualize-data-structures-vscode/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 16 comments

OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

http://www.openscad.org/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 61 comments

SiFive to Debut RISC-V PC for Developers Based on Freedom U740 Next-Gen SoC

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/15/sifive-to-debut-risc-v-pc-for-developers-based-on-freedom-u740-next-gen-soc/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 59 comments

All the jobs I failed to get

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/all-the-jobs-i-didnt-get/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 173 comments

A patient died after ransomware attackers hit a German hospital

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/18/1008582/a-patient-has-died-after-ransomware-hackers-hit-a-german-hospital/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 4 comments

How the US Hacked ISIS

http://npr.org/2019/09/26/763545811/how-the-u-s-hacked-isis

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 114 comments

Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan

https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-report-joe-rogan-transphobia-fight-employees2020-9

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 308 comments

Actix Web 3.0

https://paper.dropbox.com/published/Announcing-Actix-Web-v3.0-QOXXb1lXgTubzXHzUq9ONY5

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 108 comments

Writing an x86 bootloader in Rust that can launch vmlinux

https://vmm.dev/en/rust/krabs.md

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 52 comments

Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/09/reinventing-virtualization-with-aws-nitro.html

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 35 comments

Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

https://news.mit.edu/2020/flat-fisheye-lens-0918

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 38 comments

CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

Playwright CLI – Open/inspect/emulate pages, generate screenshots, record users

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 21 comments

RTX3080 TensorFlow and NAMD Performance on Linux

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/RTX3080-TensorFlow-and-NAMD-Performance-on-Linux-Preliminary-1885/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 89 comments

Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/facebook-democracy.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 72 comments

Lua in the Kernel?

https://lwn.net/Articles/830154/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 45 comments

120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/these-120000-year-old-footprints-offer-early-evidence-humans-arabia

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 54 comments

TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday

https://www.ft.com/content/c460ce4c-c691-4df5-af49-47a395429fe8

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 136 comments

Piratebay.org Now Being Used to Crowdsource “The Torrent Man” Film

https://torrentfreak.com/piratebay-org-now-being-used-to-crowdsource-the-torrent-man-film-200918/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture [pdf]

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/ampere/pdf/NVIDIA-ampere-GA102-GPU-Architecture-Whitepaper-V1.pdf

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/flights-to-nowhere-qantas/index.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-china/bytedance-plans-tiktok-ipo-to-win-u-s-deal-as-deadline-looms-sources-idUSKBN2682NL

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 111 comments

Trials begin for a new weapon against Parkinson’s: light

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/trials-begin-new-weapon-against-parkinson-s-light

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments
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