top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-08

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

https://samcurry.net/hacking-apple/

5 years ago

1454 upvotes – 308 comments

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recycling-was-a-lie-a-big-lie-to-sell-more-plastic-industry-experts-say-1.5735618

5 years ago

1008 upvotes – 415 comments

AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iuiO6rqYV4o

5 years ago

761 upvotes – 674 comments

IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ibm-divestiture/ibm-to-break-up-109-year-old-company-to-focus-on-cloud-growth-idUSKBN26T1TZ

5 years ago

645 upvotes – 426 comments

Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/googles-supreme-court-faceoff-with-oracle-was-a-disaster-for-google/

5 years ago

643 upvotes – 748 comments

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

https://kalzumeus.com/2020/10/09/four-years-at-stripe/

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 262 comments

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/

5 years ago

421 upvotes – 193 comments

Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR

https://stdw.github.io/cm-sdr/

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 70 comments

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-break-traveling-salesperson-record-20201008/

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 173 comments

Rust 1.47

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/10/08/Rust-1.47.html

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 203 comments

A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-follow-up-to-coinbase-as-a-mission-focused-company-6e7545e9aea2?gi=3b2f95a28669

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 733 comments

New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/new-study-suggests-handwriting-engages-the-brain-more-than-typing-1.5132542

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 151 comments

Swift Algorithms

https://swift.org/blog/swift-algorithms/

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 72 comments

Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in Phoenix

https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-driverless.html

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 211 comments

Why I stopped reading HN (2010)

https://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-i-stopped-reading-hn/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 289 comments

Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/921285470/judge-orders-twitter-to-unmask-fbi-impersonator-who-set-off-seth-rich-conspiracy

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 224 comments

Purism – Fund Your App

https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 118 comments

Apple forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors

https://decrypt.co/44339/telegram-forced-to-close-channels-run-by-belarus-protestors

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 53 comments

Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719722

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 134 comments

Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water

https://www.ineffableisland.com/2020/10/chemist-uses-co2-to-convert-seawater.html

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 49 comments
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