top 50% 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

681 upvotes – 370 comments

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

650 upvotes – 191 comments

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

533 upvotes – 93 comments

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

525 upvotes – 268 comments

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

486 upvotes – 438 comments

“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

483 upvotes – 378 comments

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

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

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 95 comments

Y Combinator Failed Startups

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

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 184 comments

Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet

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

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 204 comments

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

399 upvotes – 174 comments

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

370 upvotes – 174 comments

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

293 upvotes – 192 comments

Bash Error Handling

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

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 100 comments

Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network

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

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 182 comments

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

284 upvotes – 212 comments

JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

https://juliamono.netlify.app/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 68 comments

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

266 upvotes – 388 comments

A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival

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

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 123 comments

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

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

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 259 comments

Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole

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

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 184 comments

Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-election-changes.html

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 351 comments

Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/10/faith-in-government-declines-when-mobile-internet-arrives

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 152 comments

Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself

https://acoup.blog/2020/10/09/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-iva-steel-yourself/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 30 comments

Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-09/robinhood-users-had-accounts-looted-say-there-s-no-one-to-call

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 168 comments

Compiler for the M language of the French DGFiP

https://gitlab.inria.fr/verifisc/mlang

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 63 comments

Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second

https://twitter.com/pervognsen/status/1265582295575982080

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 200 comments

How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33030138/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 147 comments

Sid Meier's Memoir

https://sidmeiersmemoir.com/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 59 comments

The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/08/the-fbi-team-sent-to-exploit-protesters-phones-in-portland/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 140 comments

1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ep4ykn/a-thousand-years-before-darwin-islamic-scholars-were-writing-about-natural-selection

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 126 comments

GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and development has been paused

https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger/issues/849#issue-710863256

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 79 comments

Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-disinformation-facebook-twitter/facebook-twitter-dismantle-global-array-of-disinformation-networks-idUSKBN26T2XO

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 245 comments

Last Resort Font

https://github.com/unicode-org/last-resort-font/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 47 comments

Some onions were too sexy for Facebook

https://www.bbc.com/news/54467384

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 175 comments

AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amd-is-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-xilinx-11602205553

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 111 comments

Machine Learning Engineering Book

http://mlebook.com

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 16 comments

The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/entangled-life-book-review-mushrooms-fungi-biology-science

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 37 comments

Reversing the technical interview (2017)

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 35 comments

Common Causes of Bad Decisions

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/bad-decisions/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 24 comments

A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups

https://firstround.com/review/drive-growth-by-picking-the-right-lane-a-customer-acquisition-playbook-for-consumer-startups/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

Complete BBC Micro Games Archive

http://bbcmicro.co.uk//about.php

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 48 comments

Raspberry Pi 4: Hardware accelerated video decoding (GPU) in Chromium

https://lemariva.com/blog/rss/raspberry-pi-4-video-acceleration-decode-chromium

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 68 comments

Asterisk

https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2020/press-release/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 109 comments

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/france-thousands-of-protesters-wrongly-punished-under-draconian-laws-in-pre-and-post-covid19-crackdown/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

Free Email Templates for Developers

https://codedmails.com/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments
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