top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-03

A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

https://www.wired.com/story/nameless-hiker-mostly-harmless-internet-mystery/

5 years ago

624 upvotes – 341 comments

GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2070&can=2&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary&cells=ids

5 years ago

624 upvotes – 145 comments

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/03/voyager_2_back_online/

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 116 comments

Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 123 comments

Why do printers still suck?

https://www.wired.com/story/why-do-printers-still-suck/

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 503 comments

eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement”

https://twitter.com/lbhq/status/1323482627681198080

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 305 comments

Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs

https://blog.discogs.com/en/20-years-of-discogs-2020/

5 years ago

440 upvotes – 89 comments

Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

https://github.com/curlpipe/ox

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 336 comments

We made our SaaS home page cookie-free

https://blog.leavemealone.app/no-more-cookies/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 181 comments

Dark’s new backend will be in F#

https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 257 comments

Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting

https://termux.com/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 208 comments

So you want to buy a farm?

https://zenx.medium.com/so-you-want-to-buy-a-farm-c56af5d85a7e

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 197 comments

Scientist David Sinclair on why we age and why he thinks we don’t have to (2019)

https://www.outsideonline.com/2404642/lifespan-david-sinclair-book-review

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 175 comments

Bevy 0.3: game engine built in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-3/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 55 comments

Shanghai stock exchange suspends Ant Group's A-share IPO

https://de.reuters.com/article/ant-group-ipo/shanghai-stock-exchange-suspends-ant-groups-a-share-ipo-idUSP8N2HK04R

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 113 comments

Leaving OCaml

https://blog.darklang.com/leaving-ocaml/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 182 comments

Remove auto renew from my account

https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/General-Questions-EN/remove-auto-renew-from-my-account/m-p/51971/highlight/true#M25385

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 113 comments

AWS pre-announces public container image registry

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/advice-for-customers-dealing-with-docker-hub-rate-limits-and-a-coming-soon-announcement/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 126 comments

Banks, QE, and Money-Printing

https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 235 comments

Document your code just by hitting “record”

https://paircast.io

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 97 comments

Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map

https://stemlounge.com/muddy-america-color-balancing-trumps-election-map-infographic/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 58 comments

DahliaOS operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS

https://github.com/dahlia-os

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 143 comments

Doubts over a ‘possible sign of life’ on Venus

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/venus-phosphine-possible-sign-life-doubts-how-science-works

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Kord – Python tool for displaying guitar chords/scales on your terminal

https://github.com/synestematic/kord

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 39 comments

U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/climate/plastic-pollution-oceans.html

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 127 comments

Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-scipio/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 88 comments

The Untimely Demise of Workstations

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-untimely-demise-of-workstations/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 197 comments

A divorce in Italy destroyed my researcher career

https://interessesuperioredelminore.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/the-business-of-divorce/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 106 comments

Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54790483

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 99 comments

I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

https://www.a8b.io/posts/10k-karma-reddit-bot/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 98 comments

When Computers Were Cool

https://datagubbe.se/coolcomp.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 80 comments

Programming R at native speed using Haskell (2015)

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2015-09-08-programming-r-at-native-speed-in-haskell/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Google patches second Chrome zero-day in two weeks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-patches-second-chrome-zero-day-in-two-weeks/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

NoisePage – Self-Driving Database Management System

https://noise.page/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

The rise of platonic co-parenting

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/31/i-wanted-to-meet-a-mate-and-have-a-baby-without-wasting-time-the-rise-of-platonic-co-parenting

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 178 comments

Cloud Devs – Hire top% Latin am and EU devs for 35USD/hour

https://clouddevs.com/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 1 comments

React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning

https://buaiscia.github.io/posts/learning-on-epic-react-fundamentals

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

Bitchute Has Been Deplatformed

https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1323741461972594688

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

MI5 moves UK Terrorism threat level to “SEVERE”

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 76 comments

Malicious NPM package opens backdoors on programmers' computers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/malicious-npm-package-opens-backdoors-on-programmers-computers/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?

http://quant.am/statistics/2020/10/11/taleb-silver-feud/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: What can replace my iPod for podcast listening?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24978090

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 150 comments

EME, CDM, AES, CENC, and Keys – Building Blocks of DRM

https://ottverse.com/eme-cenc-cdm-aes-keys-drm-digital-rights-management/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 48 comments

Google Play bans third-party app for YouTube alternative BitChute

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-bans-bitchute-app/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 31 comments

Two Charged in SIM Swapping, Vishing Scams

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11/two-charged-in-sim-swapping-vishing-scams/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 67 comments

Prjoxide: Documenting Lattice's 28nm FPGA parts

https://github.com/daveshah1/prjoxide

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/03/h1b_wage_hike/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 59 comments

Talon – scriptable voice/gaze input

https://talonvoice.com

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Mind-Melting Decision Proves a Dialer Can Never Be Too Old to Be an ATDS

https://tcpaworld.com/2020/11/03/heres-your-tcpa-distraction-for-a-normal-tuesday-with-nothing-else-going-on-mind-melting-decision-proves-a-dialer-can-never-be-too-old-to-be-an-atds/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Kraken – P2P Docker Registry

https://github.com/uber/kraken

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

DigitalOcean Container Registry Now GA

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Is the Internet Different?

https://stratechery.com/2020/is-the-internet-different/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

https://futurism.com/the-byte/starlink-beta-outperformed-most-internet-us

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 90 comments

AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen

https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/aws-hearts-multi-cloud-its-gonna

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

Tad, a desktop application for viewing and analyzing tabular data

https://github.com/antonycourtney/tad

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Scary Outage Stories from CTOs

https://thenewstack.io/6-scary-outage-stories-from-ctos/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Decision Journal in Notion

https://optemization.com/decision-journal-notion

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments
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