top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-15

A warning about Glassdoor

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/jbod57/a_warning_about_glassdoor/

5 years ago

1262 upvotes – 329 comments

Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH

https://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-letting-all-employees-work-from-home-permanently-2020-10

5 years ago

855 upvotes – 465 comments

Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54552101

5 years ago

780 upvotes – 1664 comments

Google disabled my husband's account

https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1315749803041619981

5 years ago

763 upvotes – 483 comments

Congress should invest in open-source software

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/why-congress-should-invest-in-open-source-software/

5 years ago

692 upvotes – 164 comments

Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-waypoint

5 years ago

549 upvotes – 135 comments

Hum to Search Song

https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search

5 years ago

524 upvotes – 214 comments

The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 301 comments

Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

https://twitter.com/ryan_caldbeck/status/1316730252295454720

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 148 comments

40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/14/lag/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 97 comments

Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/BHqzGLNyQHjDXhEc8/is-stupidity-expanding-some-hypotheses

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 295 comments

What if we had Local-First Software?

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-if-we-had-local-first

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 144 comments

Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786721

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 240 comments

How We Institutionalized Incompetence

https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-we-institutionalized-incompetence.html

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 238 comments

ReactOS

https://reactos.org/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 133 comments

Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/spreadsheet-excel-errors

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 186 comments

What is expected of a engineering manager?

http://blog.rlmflores.me/2020/10/14/what_is_expected_of_an_engineering_manager/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 127 comments

Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’

https://daringfireball.net/2020/10/telegram_apple_belarus

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 136 comments

Beware the Casual Polymath

https://applieddivinitystudies.com/2020/09/28/polymath/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 104 comments

SpaCy v3.0 Nightly

https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-v3-nightly

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 29 comments

A toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for tech

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 130 comments

Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-2020-CUPS-Git

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 234 comments

Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/15/stripe-acquires-nigerias-paystack-for-200m-to-expand-into-the-african-continent/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 33 comments

Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kubernetes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-introduces-high-availability-micro-kubernetes/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 117 comments

How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)

https://blog.robertelder.org/switch-statements-statement-expressions/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 132 comments

Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop

https://www.newsweek.com/hacked-billboards-can-make-teslas-see-phantom-objects-1539478

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 257 comments

Tasmota: Cloud-free open source smart home firmware for ESP8266 devices

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/About/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 38 comments

The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher

https://twitter.com/stewfortier/status/1316431056430657536

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 48 comments

Media buyer: Facebook updates have ‘wrecked the ad platform on the backend’

https://digiday.com/marketing/confessions-of-media-buyer-facebook-updates-have-wrecked-the-ad-platform-on-the-backend/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 140 comments

'Person in jetpack' spotted flying again near LA airport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54552380

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 156 comments

What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-if-a-pill-can-change-your-politics-or-religious-beliefs/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 272 comments

A Family of Better Random Number Generators

https://www.pcg-random.org

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 118 comments

FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230

https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 248 comments

LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction

https://keleshev.com/ldm-my-favorite-arm-instruction/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 127 comments

Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars

https://medium.com/cruise/its-time-to-drive-change-f447f27cb353

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 149 comments

Proprietary Grapes Come with Draconian End User License Agreement

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jm4y/proprietary-grapes-come-with-draconian-end-user-license-agreement

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 96 comments

A family of CRDTs supporting both State and Op based replication in Rust

https://github.com/rust-crdt/rust-crdt

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation Beta

https://blog.cloudflare.com/browser-beta

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

Reverse Engineer Amazon's Whispersync

https://ptbrowne.github.io/posts/whispersync-reverse-engineering/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

How to put machine learning models into production

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/10/12/how-to-put-machine-learning-models-into-production/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19092-2

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac

https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/download/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 114 comments

Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc-in-nim.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 57 comments

Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/10/why-are-so-many-unprofitable-companies-the-best-performing-stocks-this-year/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 137 comments

Breach at Dickey’s BBQ Smokes 3M Cards

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/breach-at-dickeys-bbq-smokes-3m-cards/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 83 comments

A 40KB Optimization Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth

https://crisp.chat/blog/fastest-live-chat/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 59 comments

SciTer, HTML/CSS Engine, May Go Open Source via Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sciter-engine

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

Starlink Packet Routing

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/starlink-packet-routing/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Malloc as a Service

https://wingolog.org/archives/2020/10/13/malloc-as-a-service

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments
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