top 50% 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

Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-publication-cryptocurrency-enforcement-framework

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 158 comments

Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse

https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/feature-store-vs-data-warehouse

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 56 comments

Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in admissions

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-yale-university-illegal-discrimination-practices-undergraduate

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 137 comments

Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/privacy-badger-changing-protect-you-better

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 97 comments

AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16148/amd-ryzen-5000-and-zen-3-on-nov-5th-19-ipc-claims-best-gaming-cpu

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 4 comments

Multicore OCaml: September 2020

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-september-2020/6565

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 43 comments

Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db

https://github.com/Debdut/names.io#readme

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

Rich Comment Blocks in Clojure

https://betweentwoparens.com/rich-comment-blocks

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 45 comments

So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000)

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/email.html

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 78 comments

A city with a thousand eyes: mass surveillance in Belgrade

https://aboutintel.eu/mass-surveillance-serbia/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, had been free for years

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21506995/apple-forced-in-app-purchase-protonmail-ceo-wordpress-iap

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 25 comments

NYU DS-GA 1008 – Deep Learning

https://atcold.github.io/pytorch-Deep-Learning/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 25 comments

Using a Piece of Paper as a Display Terminal – Ed vs. Vim

https://blog.robertelder.org/paper-display-terminal-ed-vim/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What are the pros / cons of using monorepos?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719525

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 95 comments

Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market

https://mjbizdaily.com/vermont-becomes-11th-state-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana-market/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 46 comments

5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer over ‘Apolitical’ Stance

https://www.coindesk.com/60-coinbase-employees-take-apolitical-severance-package

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 2 comments

Grid: AI platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning

https://www.grid.ai/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 61 comments

SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 75 comments

Guide to Visual Storytelling

https://humanparts.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-visual-storytelling-59e3028fcd8c

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 10 comments

Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.05.20207100v1

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 156 comments

Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/amid-an-embarrassment-of-riches-ransom-gangs-increasingly-outsource-their-work/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs

https://splitsearch.netlify.app/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

New York City thinks up to half of restaurants will close permanently [pdf]

https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/reports/osdc/pdf/nyc-restaurant-industry-final.pdf

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 136 comments

ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/ResEditReference.pdf

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: I built a site to compare Presidential Candidates speeches side-by-side

https://biden-trump-speeches-search.typesense.org/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 48 comments

Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective against Covid-19

https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/07/eli-lilly-monoclonal-antibody-cocktail-covid-19/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

FBI arrests militia members plotting to kidnap Michigan governor

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-whitmer-idUSKBN26T2ZF

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Three years of Metal

https://blog.roblox.com/2020/05/3-years-metal/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments
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