top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-27

Someone has stolen my Instagram account

https://twitter.com/dannyjhall/status/1310231730591346689

5 years ago

[email protected]

https://www.bar.com/

5 years ago

Universal Split Screen

https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/

5 years ago

Adequate Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk of Dying from Covid-19 in Half, Study Finds

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marlamilling/2020/09/26/adequate-vitamin-d-levels-cuts-risk-of-dying-from-covid-19-in-half-study-finds/#39db917b5285

5 years ago

Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews

https://loyaltylobby.com/2020/09/27/american-hotel-guest-in-thailand-arrested-jailed-for-defamation-after-posting-bad-online-reviews/?omhide=true

5 years ago

Things I Was Wrong About: Types

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/things-i-was-wrong-about/1-types/

5 years ago

Won’t Subscribe

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/25/Subscription-Overload

5 years ago

French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave

https://www.vogue.com/article/french-fathers-paternity-leave-doubled/

5 years ago

Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html

5 years ago

Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-office-future-employee-on-sites-sundar-pichai-2020-9

5 years ago

Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54211450

5 years ago

Law firms pay Supreme Court clerks $400k bonuses – what are they buying?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/politics/supreme-court-clerk-bonuses.html

5 years ago

Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605807

5 years ago

Create system diagrams with Go

https://github.com/blushft/go-diagrams

5 years ago

Cloudflare keeps sending emails over a year after account was cancelled

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/dont-trust-cloudflare-with-your-personal-data/

5 years ago

Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24604291

5 years ago

Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844

5 years ago

Amazon restricts how rival device makers buy ads on its site

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-restricts-advertising-competitor-device-makers-roku-arlo-11600786638

5 years ago

VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library

https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT

5 years ago

Show HN: Keyboard Simulator – virtual keyboard designer

https://keyboardsimulator.xyz/

5 years ago

Investigating TLS Blocking in India

https://ooni.org/post/2020-tls-blocking-india/

5 years ago

Parametric lamp design using circle packings

https://stuffmatic.com/blog/parametric-lamp-design-using-circle-packings/

5 years ago

Tips for immersive video calls

https://www.benkuhn.net/vc/

5 years ago

Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

https://github.com/muesli/duf

5 years ago

Caramel: an Erlang back end for OCaml

https://github.com/AbstractMachinesLab/caramel

5 years ago

Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14

https://blog.timac.org/2020/0927-state-of-swift-ios14/

5 years ago

Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54313110

5 years ago

The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gaaa/the-long-lost-manual-for-the-worlds-oldest-preserved-computer-has-been-found

5 years ago

Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enabled in Bitcoin Core

https://www.btctimes.com/news/hal-finneys-proposal-for-optimizing-bitcoin-to-be-enabled-in-bitcoin-core

5 years ago

It used to be simpler to teach Unix

https://jpmens.net/2020/09/27/it-used-to-be-simpler/

5 years ago

Mastering PostgreSQL Administration [pdf]

https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/administration.pdf

5 years ago

Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200923-the-hinge-of-history-long-termism-and-existential-risk

5 years ago

Coinbase is a mission focused company

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804

5 years ago

Picat 3.0 released (logic-based multi-paradigm programming language)

http://picat-lang.org/updates.txt

5 years ago

PyPy 7.3.2 triple release: Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2020/09/pypy-732-triple-release-python-27-36.html

5 years ago

Automatic layout algorithms compute layouts for diagrams

https://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/elklive/

5 years ago

Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/09/26/hercule-poirot-turns-100

5 years ago

Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200916/15162045323/make-him-suspect-documents-show-rochester-pds-response-to-officers-killing-unarmed-black-man.shtml

5 years ago

Sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector

https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth

5 years ago

Pac-Man Maze Generation

https://shaunlebron.github.io/pacman-mazegen/

5 years ago

Show HN: Life Calendar – Your Life in Weeks

https://life-calendar-in-weeks.vercel.app

5 years ago

Something funny is about to happen to some prices

http://blog.ifost.org.au/2020/09/something-funny-is-about-to-happen-to.html

5 years ago

United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf]

https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf

5 years ago

Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 (2019)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/sum-of-three-cubes-problem-solved-for-stubborn-number-33-20190326/

5 years ago

Which colour scheme is better?

https://stitcher.io/blog/why-light-themes-are-better-according-to-science

5 years ago

New Google ChromeOS updates cause 100% CPU usage, heating issues

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/new-google-chromeos-updates-cause-100-percent-cpu-usage-heating-issues/

5 years ago

Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy's blasphemy jail term

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26H0OH

5 years ago

Compiling to Assembly from Scratch: the book, released

https://keleshev.com/cas

5 years ago