top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-22

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624

5 years ago

845 upvotes – 420 comments

OAuth 3

https://oauth.net/3/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 208 comments

The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human

https://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/13/4/298

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 270 comments

Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-security-snowden-russia-int-idUSKBN2771Q3

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 214 comments

Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea

https://fair.org/home/media-owned-by-wealthy-are-quick-to-tell-you-wealth-taxes-are-a-bad-idea/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 465 comments

Debian donation for Peertube development

https://bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian-donation-peertube.html

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 125 comments

Google Antitrust Notes

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/10/20/Google-Antitrust

5 years ago

308 upvotes – 217 comments

A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication

https://betterexplained.com/articles/matrix-multiplication/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 90 comments

Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/uber-drivers-sue-company-over-pressure-to-support-prop-22

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 190 comments

iSH Shell

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 131 comments

First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/first-multilingual-machine-translation-model/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 90 comments

Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53214783

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 169 comments

Whose Computer Is It?

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it.html

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 167 comments

iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/features/story/iphone-12-pro-so-expensive-in-india-that-you-can-fly-to-dubai-to-buy-it-come-back-and-still-save-money-1733722-2020-10-21

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 250 comments

Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 263 comments

Rust-GPU

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/releases/tag/v0.1

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 58 comments

Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2016)

https://www.mathventurepartners.com/blog/2016/9/15/startup-financial-modeling-part-1-what-is-a-financial-model

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 49 comments

Building replacement proprietary battery packs

https://www.hallaminventions.com/projects/minidisc-obsession

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 122 comments

Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/logs-tails-long-tails/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 59 comments

I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg4AoophFZWZ7Llifowo-1WGMVICq-mfw

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 30 comments

FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-Q3-2020-Report

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 108 comments

Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in damages

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/sacklers-who-made-11-billion-off-opioid-crisis-to-pay-225-million-in-damages/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 99 comments

A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal

https://github.com/icexin/eggos

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 42 comments

AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections

https://www.niels-ole.com/cloud/aws/linux/2020/10/18/nlb-resets.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 66 comments

Mood and cognition after low LSD doses: A placebo controlled dose-effect study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924977X20309111

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 130 comments

Emacs Survey

https://emacssurvey.org

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 125 comments

An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9zjy/an-exam-surveillance-company-is-trying-to-silence-critics-with-lawsuits

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 45 comments

Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/22/trump-twitter-hacked-dutch-researcher-password

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 100 comments

Writing Is Thinking (2014)

https://alistapart.com/article/writing-is-thinking/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 19 comments

Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/10/22/lets-build-a-high-performance-fuzzer-with-gpus/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 22 comments

Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-rds-on-graviton2-processors/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 89 comments

Logs Seized from F-Secure’s VPN Must Be Destroyed, Court Rules

https://torrentfreak.com/logs-seized-from-f-secures-vpn-must-be-destroyed-court-rules-201022/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 3 comments

Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Intel-Undervolt-Kernel

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 76 comments

How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)

https://by.graffino.com/how-google-obliterated-my-24k-users-chrome-extension-eeb14c040a39#.13m3awp18

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 124 comments

Halide Mark II

https://halide.cam/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 96 comments

Rust core team promotes Linux on 64-bit Arm to Tier-1 supported platform status

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959#issuecomment-714786434

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 15 comments

The Story Behind Markdown

https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 123 comments

PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos

https://joinpeertube.org/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

Which McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are Broken?

http://mcbroken.com

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 6 comments

Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/how-chefs-are-adapting-their-menus-for-chilly-outdoor-dining

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 104 comments

The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]

https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Reesman_PhysicsWarSpace_20201001.pdf

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 93 comments

GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-hummer/gm-sells-out-first-year-of-electric-hummer-production-idUSKBN27639J

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 267 comments

76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space

https://fortune.com/2020/10/22/76-of-american-ceos-say-they-may-shrink-office-space/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 102 comments

GitHub Certifications (Beta)

https://github.com/certifications

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 120 comments

The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/caspian-sea-monster-ekranoplan/index.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 61 comments

The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices

https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=news.ycombinator.com

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoUMXMpUK8KlCIosvQB0f-oq3k/edit

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 72 comments

Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source

https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/22/Firefox-the-embarassment-of-FOSS.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 93 comments

KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-10-21-2.6.2-released/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24859111

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 160 comments

The Citroën Ami and the future of urban transportation

https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/blog/ami-and-future-of-transportation/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 125 comments

Publishing an F-Droid Repo using a Hardware Security Module

https://f-droid.org/en/2020/10/05/ntrokey-signing.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 19 comments

Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/dutch-ethical-hacker-logs-into-trump-s-twitter-account~badaa815/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 73 comments

Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/replacing-ansible-with-salt-ssh-for-speed-and-for-good/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-google-site-data-special-treatment

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3276490

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 114 comments

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/papers/w27972.pdf

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 155 comments

We Were Builders Once, and Strong

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/10/we-were-builders-once-and-strong.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 81 comments

Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years

https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/10/19/sweden-embarks-on-its-largest-military-build-up-for-decades

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 96 comments

Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens

http://sonyaddict.com/2020/10/20/f-0-95-autofocus-on-any-camera-with-lidar/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

Spaced Repetition (2019)

https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

President Trump’s Twitter doesn't have 2FA, password “maga2020 ”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/dutch-hacker-trump-twitter-account-password/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Step-by-Step: Programming Incrementally

https://ourmachinery.com/post/step-by-step-programming-incrementally/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

XMHell: Handling 38GB of UTF-16 XML with Rust

http://usethe.computer/posts/14-xmhell.html

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 63 comments

What can a pipe wrench teach us about software engineering?

https://mokacoding.com/blog/pipe-wrench/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Rediscovering Lotus Agenda (MS-DOS, 1989)

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/lotusagenda.html

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise

https://www.coindesk.com/ban-all-ransomware-payments-bitcoin

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 98 comments

Custom domains now available on Substack

https://blog.substack.com/p/new-add-a-custom-domain-to-your-substack

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Former Google CEO Calls Social Networks ‘Amplifiers for Idiots’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/former-google-ceo-calls-social-networks-amplifiers-for-idiots

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 60 comments

A Kubernetes operator to sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager

https://www.contentful.com/blog/2020/10/20/open-source-kube-secret-syncer/

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space

https://www.quantamagazine.org/vint-cerfs-plan-for-building-an-internet-in-space-20201021/

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments
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