top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-22

Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-or-choose-another-viewer

6 years ago

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

https://www.zdnet.com/article/indias-ancient-caste-system-is-ruining-lives-in-the-valley/

6 years ago

Linux Journal Is Back

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-back

6 years ago

The Era of Visual Studio Code

https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-studio-code/

6 years ago

Firefox 81.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/81.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors

https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-113/sections.html#section1

6 years ago

X-COM

https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/x-com/

6 years ago

China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT

6 years ago

Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed

https://me.shodan.io/

6 years ago

Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180

6 years ago

DOS Subsystem for Linux

https://github.com/haileys/doslinux

6 years ago

Swift on Windows

https://swift.org/blog/swift-on-windows/

6 years ago

Small Tech

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/small-tech/

6 years ago

Tables: Tracking work for teams

https://blog.google/technology/area-120/tables/

6 years ago

Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/acrorn-woodpecker-wars

6 years ago

No script is too simple

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/no-script-is-too-simple

6 years ago

A Picture of Java in 2020

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/09/a-picture-of-java-in-2020/

6 years ago

Americans don't feel they can get justice when wronged by their ISP – survey

https://fairshake.com/consumer-news/survey-americans-no-justice-against-isps/

6 years ago

Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee

https://www.kleinbottle.com/guarantee.htm

6 years ago

Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-gets-exclusive-license-for-openais-gpt-3-language-model/

6 years ago

Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-22/apple-ceo-impressed-by-remote-work-sees-permanent-changes

6 years ago

Remove first 300M lines from 700 GB file on 1TB disk

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/610494/how-do-i-remove-the-first-300-million-lines-from-a-700-gb-txt-file-on-a-system-w

6 years ago

Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

https://themarkup.org/blacklight/

6 years ago

Assange Hearing Day 14

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-14/

6 years ago

Almost 90 percent of NYC bars and restaurants couldn’t pay August rent

https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/almost-90-percent-of-nyc-bars-and-restaurants-couldnt-pay-august-rent/

6 years ago

.NET 5.0 – New APIs

https://blog.ndepend.com/top-10-net-5-0-new-apis/

6 years ago

New JSX Transform

https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/09/22/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform.html

6 years ago

Bypassing ESP32 Encrypted Secure Boot

https://raelize.com/posts/espressif-esp32-bypassing-encrypted-secure-boot-cve-2020-13629/

6 years ago

Universe in a Nutshell App

https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/universe-in-a-nutshell-app

6 years ago

Older people have become younger

https://www.jyu.fi/en/current/archive/2020/09/older-people-have-become-younger-physical-and-cognitive-function-have-improved-meaningfully-in-30-years

6 years ago

2020 Bundles

https://stratechery.com/2020/2020-bundles/

6 years ago

A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services

https://killedbymozilla.com

6 years ago

Paris hails victory over short-stay rents

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54246005

6 years ago

Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/22/facebook-says-it-may-quit-europe-over-ban-on-sharing-data-with-us

6 years ago

A device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for clinical trials

https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/opening-eyes-to-a-frontier-in-vision-restoration

6 years ago

Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gana/activists-are-protesting-against-palantir-across-the-country-this-week

6 years ago

The Fairphone 3+ is a repairable dream that takes beautiful photos

https://gizmodo.com/the-fairphone-3-is-a-repairable-dream-that-takes-beaut-1845124835

6 years ago

How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

https://www.zdnet.com/article/commentary-how-indias-ancient-caste-system-is-ruining-lives-in-silicon-valley/

6 years ago

‘Copyright Troll’ Loses Legal Battle and Must Pay $172k

https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-troll-loses-legal-battle-and-must-pay-172173-200920/

6 years ago

The case for comments in code

https://notes.eatonphil.com/the-case-for-comments-in-code.html

6 years ago

Designing Up Banking

https://up.com.au/blog/the-evolutionary-design-of-up/

6 years ago

Really Atari ST?

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/really-atari-st/

6 years ago

Next-Level SSD Performance – Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Review

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/storage/samsung_980_pro_1tb_review/1

6 years ago

Pinegrow: Multi Platform HTML / CSS / JavaScript GUI

https://pinegrow.com/

6 years ago

You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English

https://literaryreview.co.uk/tawk-of-the-town

6 years ago

Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic

https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog/2020/9/22/faster-better-earlier-catch-breaking-changes-by-diffing-api-behavior

6 years ago

Advancing NLP with Efficient Projection-Based Model Architectures

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/09/advancing-nlp-with-efficient-projection.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Play Battleships on PostgreSQL

https://github.com/Firemoon777/sql-battleships

6 years ago

The Expression Problem

https://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem

6 years ago

Mainline Linux on the MikroTik RB3011

https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2020/09/rb3011-mainline.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: So I Hired a Homeless Guy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24560119

6 years ago

New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/09/new-schemaorg-support-for-retailer.html

6 years ago

How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53640382

6 years ago

Tesla says its battery innovations will deliver its goal of a $25,000 car

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/tesla-says-its-battery-innovations-will-deliver-its-goal-of-a-25000-mass-market-electric-car/

6 years ago

In Defence of Half-Arsing

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-half-arsing

6 years ago

Why should I do production support?

https://devenbhooshan.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/why-should-i-do-production-support/

6 years ago

Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/

6 years ago

The Power and Paradox of Bad Software

https://www.wired.com/story/power-paradox-bad-software/

6 years ago

Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-perspective/

6 years ago