top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-21

I no longer build software

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477

6 years ago

Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B

https://bethesda.net/en/article/1iLtcvwY6Nb1GeKADyDUEX/why-microsoft-is-the-perfect-fit

6 years ago

Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/why-are-amnesty-international-monitors-not-able-to-observe-the-assange-hearing/

6 years ago

Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/no-moving-your-ssh-port-isnt-security-by-obscurity/

6 years ago

My least favorite Rust type

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/least-favorite-rust-type.html

6 years ago

Things we learned running Postgres 13

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres13-better-performance-monitoring-usability

6 years ago

New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/New-Steve-Jobs-recordings-from-the-80s-released-15572216.php

6 years ago

Domains for the Rest of Us

https://www.domainsfortherestofus.com/

6 years ago

I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/2433/i-asked-online-tracking-company-all-my-data-and-heres-what-i-found

6 years ago

Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts

https://newatlas.com/robotics/amaran-coconut-harvesting-robot/

6 years ago

We need young programmers; We need old programmers

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2020/09/14/we-need-young-programmers-we-need-old-programmers/

6 years ago

Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/cws-payments-deprecation

6 years ago

Is revenue model more important than culture?

https://somehowmanage.com/2020/09/20/revenue-model-not-culture-is-the-dominant-term/

6 years ago

HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-vast-sums-of-dirty-money-after-paying-record-laundering-fine/

6 years ago

How to take meeting notes

https://barehands.substack.com/p/how-to-take-meeting-notes

6 years ago

Pricing Low-Touch SaaS

https://stripe.com/en-in/atlas/guides/saas-pricing

6 years ago

Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Accepted)

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282

6 years ago

Boeing whistle-blower says proposed 737 Max fixes aren't enough

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/boeing-whistle-blower-says-proposed-737-max-fixes-aren-t-enough

6 years ago

Why books don't work (2019)

https://andymatuschak.org/books/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539445

6 years ago

Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/companies-can-track-your-phones-movements-to-target-ads/

6 years ago

Nikola’s founder steps down from board as company faces fraud allegations

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/21448729/nikola-electric-hydrogen-truck-fraud-allegations-executive-chairman-founder-trevor-milton

6 years ago

Creating a Home IPv6 Network

https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/creating-a-home-ipv6-network/

6 years ago

Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

https://annotate.tv

6 years ago

The Kivaloo Data Store

http://www.tarsnap.com/kivaloo.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Compile Ruby to C

https://github.com/agrafix/rubyspeed

6 years ago

How to catch a spy that is using a numbers station – The KGB Experience

https://www.numbers-stations.com/how-to-catch-a-spy-who-uses-numbers-stations-the-kgb-experience/

6 years ago

John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Monty Python, and Artichokes

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-cleese-discusses-creativity-political-correctness-monty-python-and-artichokes

6 years ago

Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked search algorithms

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/21/amazon_fraud_bribery_charges/

6 years ago

Haskell language features and standard libraries in pure Python

https://github.com/billpmurphy/hask

6 years ago

The future of .NET Standard

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-future-of-net-standard/?WT.mc_id=DOP-MVP-4025064

6 years ago

CIA Labs

https://www.cia.gov/offices-of-cia/science-technology/cia-labs.html

6 years ago

Update on Mozilla WebThings

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/an-important-update-on-mozilla-webthings/67764

6 years ago

Sktime: A Unified Python Toolbox for Machine Learning with Time Series

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime

6 years ago

Cobaul: A COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler

https://github.com/cloudflare/cobaul

6 years ago

FinCEN Files: HSBC moved Ponzi scheme millions despite warning

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54225572

6 years ago

A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02215

6 years ago

Jet Fuel Is Now So Cheap It’s Being Blended for Use by Ships

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-20/jet-fuel-is-now-so-cheap-it-s-being-blended-for-use-by-ships

6 years ago

World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-richest-1-cause-double-co2-emissions-of-poorest-50-says-oxfam

6 years ago

Trevor Milton Out of Nikola Motors

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-news-trevor-milton-out-of-nikola

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are your instruments for investment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539605

6 years ago

EU seeks new powers to penalize tech giants

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/eu-seeks-new-powers-to-penalize-tech-giants/

6 years ago

Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity

6 years ago

V8 Release v8.6

https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-86

6 years ago