top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-24

Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes

https://appfairness.org/

5 years ago

913 upvotes – 1013 comments

Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/

5 years ago

679 upvotes – 377 comments

$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/1-hearing-aid-could-treat-millions-hearing-loss

5 years ago

633 upvotes – 191 comments

Mathematics for Programmers [pdf]

https://yurichev.com/writings/Math-for-programmers.pdf

5 years ago

589 upvotes – 115 comments

PostgreSQL 13

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2077/

5 years ago

563 upvotes – 121 comments

Work on What Matters

https://staffeng.com/guides/work-on-what-matters

5 years ago

493 upvotes – 125 comments

Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%

https://www.thecattlesite.com/news/55890/new-company-to-reduce-cows-methane-using-feed-additive-made-from-the-seaweed/

5 years ago

475 upvotes – 314 comments

An update to the Timescale license

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-business-in-cloud-era-v2

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 206 comments

Assange Hearing Day 16

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-16/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 204 comments

Escaping the Dark Forest

https://samczsun.com/escaping-the-dark-forest/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 139 comments

Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/20/leak-reveals-2tn-of-possibly-corrupt-us-financial-activity

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 123 comments

Luna – Cloud gaming service

https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 285 comments

Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall

https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/09.24.20%20CPC%20Witness%20Testimony_Kendall.pdf

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 195 comments

Mark in the Middle

https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 555 comments

Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54269144

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 359 comments

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

https://tabloid.vercel.app/

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 37 comments

Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579699

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 72 comments

A Few Rules

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/a-few-rules/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Headless Recorder

https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 23 comments

We cancelled standups and let the team build

https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/we-cancelled-standups-and-let-the-team-build-heres-what-happened

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 258 comments

First Evidence of a Planet in Another Galaxy

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/first-evidence-of-a-planet-in-another-galaxy

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 189 comments

NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customization [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/15/2002497594/-1/-1/0/CTR-UEFI-SECURE-BOOT-CUSTOMIZATION-20200915.PDF/CTR-UEFI-SECURE-BOOT-CUSTOMIZATION-20200915.PDF

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 91 comments

TamaGo – bare metal Go for ARM SoCs

https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/tamago

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 28 comments

Physicists argue that black holes from the Big Bang could be the dark matter

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-from-the-big-bang-could-be-the-dark-matter-20200923/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 103 comments

How far into the Americas did the Vikings travel?

https://aeon.co/essays/did-indigenous-americans-and-vikings-trade-in-the-year-1000

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 111 comments

Handshake – A Namespace for the Decentralized Web

https://meowis.ms/handshake.html

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 92 comments

AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2020/Sep-24.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 120 comments

A Pipeline Made of Airbags

https://ferd.ca/a-pipeline-made-of-airbags.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 57 comments

IPFS 0.7.0, the SECIO retirement edition

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-09-24-go-ipfs-0-7-0/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 44 comments

Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2020.1807517

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 152 comments

Compiling a Lisp: Reader

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-6/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Rocket Internet has come down to earth

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/09/24/why-rocket-internet-has-come-down-to-earth

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 88 comments

Regenerative Dentistry Breakthrough: Biological Therapy for Damaged Teeth

https://scitechdaily.com/regenerative-dentistry-breakthrough-biological-therapy-for-damaged-teeth/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 11 comments

Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds

https://247sports.com/college/colorado/Article/Colorado-Buffaloes-football-Boulder-prohibits-gatherings-of-any-size-for-18-22-year-olds-for-14-days-151892574/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 252 comments

Hootsuite CEO terminating contract with ICE

https://twitter.com/hootsuite/status/1309181535208247296

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 138 comments

How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/09/23/how-expensive-is-integer-overflow-trapping-in-c/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 192 comments

Database Version Control with Liquibase

https://www.turtle-techies.com/database-version-controler-with-liquibase/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 79 comments

The missing harm of manual dispatch in Julia

https://andreaskroepelin.de/blog/manual_dispatch/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-22/reliance-is-said-to-plan-big-smartphone-push-after-google-deal

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Simple WireGuard Docker network setup

https://www.eisfunke.com/article/docker-wireguard-systemd.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

Important non-programming skills for programmers

https://welearncode.com/most-important-nonprogramming/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 70 comments

Bean Machine – A Declarative Probabilistic Programming Language

https://ericlippert.com/2020/09/23/introducing-bean-machine/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n411/mode/2up

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 44 comments

Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (2016)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1384

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

Smart Cow Collars

https://halterhq.com/smart-cow-collars

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 74 comments

What happened to the Semantic Web? (2017) [pdf]

https://ht.acm.org/ht2017/images/MikaPeterACM%20Hypertext%202017-WhatHappenedSemanticWeb.pdf

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Bush Did North Dakota

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 70 comments

A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5942

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 9 comments

Impact of xenoestrogens on male fertility: a systematic review (2019)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601394/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

For Camus, It Was Always Personal

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/for-camus-it-was-always-personal/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete with YouTube?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24578603

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 72 comments

Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after Covid

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Universal-basic-income-gains-support-in-South-Korea-after-COVID

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 37 comments

SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41303780/why-is-this-sse-code-6-times-slower-without-vzeroupper-on-skylake

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/09/drive-trash-auto-delete-30-days.html

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 71 comments
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