top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-09

ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

https://www.techspot.com/news/87043-protonmail-ceo-calls-apple-forced-app-purchases-mafia.html

5 years ago

Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/business/matt-levine-bloomberg.html

5 years ago

Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/10/09/twilio-to-acquire-cloud-startup-segment-for-3-billion/

5 years ago

Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/9/21508964/microsoft-remote-work-from-home-covid-19-coronavirus

5 years ago

If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/if-worker-pay-had-kept-pace-productivity-gains-1968-todays-minimum-wage-would-be-24

5 years ago

“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditads/comments/ikfmln/3550_of_clicks_on_reddit_ads_are_fraudulent/

5 years ago

Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

5 years ago

Y Combinator Failed Startups

https://www.failory.com/blog/y-combinator-failures

5 years ago

Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyper/

5 years ago

Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/house-antitrust-committee-facebook-monopoly-buys-kills-competitors.html

5 years ago

Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

https://www.vrfinal.com/report-from-the-house-of-representatives-may-suggest-that-the-facebook-login-requirement-for-the-oculus-quest-2-is-anticompetitive/

5 years ago

Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

https://petapixel.com/2020/10/06/nvidia-uses-ai-to-slash-bandwidth-on-video-calls/

5 years ago

Bash Error Handling

https://wizardzines.com/comics/bash-errors/

5 years ago

Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/issues/482

5 years ago

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-the-julia-programming-language/

5 years ago

JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

https://juliamono.netlify.app/

5 years ago

Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science

5 years ago

A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival

http://holistics.io/blog/quel-vs-sql/?

5 years ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24730450

5 years ago

Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/10/09/ergo-rabbit-hole.html

5 years ago