top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-20

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/technology/google-antitrust.html

5 years ago

Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082

5 years ago

Early Work

http://paulgraham.com/early.html

5 years ago

Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

5 years ago

Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos

https://orca.security/cybersecurity-community-transparency/

5 years ago

Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon

https://www.reuters.com/article/nokia-nasa-moon-idUSKBN2741JR

5 years ago

I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/i-miss-microsoft-encarta/

5 years ago

America's True Unemployment Rate

https://www.axios.com/americas-true-unemployment-rate-6e34decb-c274-4feb-a4af-ffac8cf5840d.html

5 years ago

My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes

https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/#

5 years ago

Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/why-deep-learning-works-even-though-it-shouldnt/

5 years ago

Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/expanding-ais-impact-with-organizational-learning

5 years ago

Firefox 82

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/82.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/

5 years ago

Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-to-acquire-intel-nand-memory-business/

5 years ago

Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim

https://github.com/arturo-lang

5 years ago

Discipline Doesn’t Scale

https://www.sicpers.info/2020/10/discipline-doesnt-scale/

5 years ago

The Accelerating Adoption of Julia

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834571/e8d7adc0d9b669bc/

5 years ago

Just Write the Parser

https://tiarkrompf.github.io/notes/?/just-write-the-parser/

5 years ago

Fast UTF-8 validation

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/10/20/ridiculously-fast-unicode-utf-8-validation/

5 years ago

Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia

https://retool.com/blog/retool-raises-50-million-led-by-sequoia/

5 years ago

Implementation plan for speeding up CPython

https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/plan.md

5 years ago

Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

https://pitch.com/blog/pitch-launches

5 years ago

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/

5 years ago

A brief introduction to BEAM

https://blog.erlang.org/a-brief-BEAM-primer/

5 years ago

Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

https://www.matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors

5 years ago

Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default

https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx

5 years ago

Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy

https://www.som.uci.edu/news_releases/Retinal-visual-function-restored-with-gene-therapy.asp

5 years ago

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/google_cookie_wipe/

5 years ago

Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds

https://formito.com/tools/favicon

5 years ago

AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses

https://toonk.io/aws-and-their-billions-in-ipv4-addresses/index.html

5 years ago

The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

5 years ago

The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance

https://hakibenita.com/sql-medium-text-performance

5 years ago

My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work

http://blog.alinelerner.com/ive-been-an-engineer-and-a-recruiter-hiring-is-broken-heres-why-and-heres-what-it-should-be-like-instead/

5 years ago

My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too

https://azumbrunnen.me/blog/my-chatbot-is-dead-%C2%B7-why-yours-should-probably-be-too/

5 years ago

Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?

https://twitter.com/jontyusborne/status/1318630035780071424

5 years ago

Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

https://medium.com/@sasha_f/why-mmap-is-faster-than-system-calls-24718e75ab37

5 years ago

Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/energy/renewables/why-does-the-us-have-three-electrical-grids

5 years ago

Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors

https://www.consolechat.io

5 years ago

Letter from Raspberry Pi Foundation over trademark use

https://twitter.com/RPiSpy/status/1318461482196176896

5 years ago

Galileo's Ground Segment Problem

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileos-ground-segment-problem/

5 years ago

Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54431056

5 years ago

NYC’s new digital subway map

https://www.curbed.com/2020/10/first-look-new-yorks-digital-subway-map-comes-alive-today.html

5 years ago

Julia GPU

https://notamonadtutorial.com/julia-gpu-98a461d33e21

5 years ago

Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nzs-newest-billionaire-covid-stranded-american-gaming-ceo-gabe-newell-applies-nz-residency

5 years ago

The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (2015)

https://pando.com/2015/07/01/cia-foia-google-keyhole/

5 years ago

FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/FermiNet

5 years ago

Differential Dataflow

https://timelydataflow.github.io/differential-dataflow/introduction.html

5 years ago

Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837200

5 years ago

HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you

https://hnreplies.com/

5 years ago

Report on Investigation of Twitter’s July 15, 2020 Cybersecurity Incident

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/Twitter_Report

5 years ago

Python 3.9

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390/

5 years ago

Building Netflix's Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

https://netflixtechblog.com/building-netflixs-distributed-tracing-infrastructure-bb856c319304?source=rss----2615bd06b42e---4

5 years ago

Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Google

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-file-long-awaited-antitrust-suit-against-google-11603195203

5 years ago

The Long Road to HTTP/3

https://scorpil.com/post/the-long-road-to-http3/

5 years ago

Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain

https://www.propublica.org/article/investors-extracted-400-million-from-a-hospital-chain-that-sometimes-couldnt-pay-for-medical-supplies-or-gas-for-ambulances

5 years ago

DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federal antitrust law today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/google-antitrust-doj-lawsuit/

5 years ago

Why build another website builder?

https://www.makeswift.com/blog/why-build-another-website-builder

5 years ago

Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (1969)

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/

5 years ago

PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts

https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument

5 years ago

We’ve Already Defunded the Police. But Only the Ones Policing the Rich

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/irs-doj-sec-defunding-bipartisan-support

5 years ago