top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-05

GitHub Source Code Leak

https://resynth1943.net/articles/github-source-code-leak/

5 years ago

1013 upvotes – 403 comments

Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel

https://newatlas.com/energy/bavarian-brewery-carbon-free-renewable-iron-fuel/

5 years ago

751 upvotes – 252 comments

SVG Path Editor

https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

5 years ago

618 upvotes – 63 comments

San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/san-francisco-voters-approve-taxes-on-ceos-big-businesses

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 720 comments

AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review

https://www.anandtech.com/print/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-dive-review-5950x-5900x-5800x-and-5700x-tested

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 254 comments

Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-overtakes-java-to-become-the-second-most-popular-programming-language/

5 years ago

431 upvotes – 347 comments

Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s

https://github.com/erebe/personal-server/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 218 comments

Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux

https://platform.uno/

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 197 comments

U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdgz8/us-feds-seize-1-billion-in-bitcoin-from-wallet-linked-to-silk-road

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 349 comments

Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/05/proctorio-dmca-copyright-critical-tweets/

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 116 comments

Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests

https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-targets-critical-cuties-tweets-with-copyright-takedown-requests-201105/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 148 comments

Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots

https://datadome.co/bot-detection/how-facebook-was-used-as-a-proxy-by-web-scraping-bots/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 119 comments

CERN Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November

https://home.cern/news/announcement/computing/online-introductory-lectures-quantum-computing-6-november

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 36 comments

OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail

https://twitter.com/GuerrillaMail/status/1324190197580328961

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 114 comments

U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-visa-lawsuit-plaid/u-s-sues-visa-to-block-its-acquisition-of-plaid-idUSKBN27L26S

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 105 comments

Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in Europe in 2021

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volvo-electric/volvo-trucks-to-launch-full-range-of-electric-trucks-in-europe-in-2021-idUSKBN27L0SI

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 151 comments

Programs are a prison: Rethinking the building blocks of computing interfaces

https://djrobstep.com/posts/programs-are-a-prison

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 189 comments

Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricing-plan-threw-wrench-my-open-source-works

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 142 comments

Switching from Vim to Intellij

https://browntreelabs.com/from-vim-to-intellij/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 258 comments

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 64 comments

JetBrains Compose

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 52 comments

Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema

https://anu.dev/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 139 comments

About the security content of iOS 12.4.9

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211940

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 171 comments

Hosting Provider Leaked 63M Records Including Magento and WordPress Credentials

https://securethoughts.com/hosting-provider-exposed-63-million-customer-records/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 51 comments

We are building a CLI first PaaS without a web frontend

https://crufter.com/cli-first-paas

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 101 comments

Western Digital SweRV RISC-V Core

https://github.com/chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 59 comments

Update on MuseScore 3.6 and 4.0

https://musescore.org/en/node/312563

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 67 comments

IPv6 Is a Nightmare

https://teknikaldomain.me/post/ipv6-is-a-total-nightmare/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 214 comments

The polls messed up

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/04/dont-kid-yourself-the-polls-messed-up-and-that-would-be-the-case-even-wed-forecasted-biden-losing-florida-and-only-barely-winning-the-electoral-college/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 237 comments

The Linux Commands HandBook

https://openbootcamps.com/the-linux-commands-handbook/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

The Unreasonable Syntactic Expressivity of RNNs

https://nlp.stanford.edu/~johnhew/rnns-hierarchy.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 34 comments

Echo/printf to write images in 5 LoC with zero libraries or headersnetpbm

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=904

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 23 comments

A guide to live chat tools for startups

https://satchel.com/live-chat/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 61 comments

Prestige in US Today

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/11/what-makes-prestige.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 81 comments

San Francisco voters approve first-in-the-nation CEO tax that targets income gap

https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/11/san-francisco-ceo-tax-income-gap

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 2 comments

PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano

https://pymc-devs.medium.com/the-future-of-pymc3-or-theano-is-dead-long-live-theano-d8005f8a0e9b

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

Two Workers Are Quadratically Better Than One

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/queueing-prism/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

A Pedometer in the Real World (2015)

http://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-pedometer-in-the-real-world.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 12 comments

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=29687

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 10 comments

Adverse Market Refinance Fee Implementation now December 1

https://www.fhfa.gov/mobile/Pages/public-affairs-detail.aspx?PageName=Adverse-Market-Refinance-Fee-Implementation-Now-December-1.aspx

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 93 comments

What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy of happiness

https://theconversation.com/what-day-of-the-dead-tells-us-about-the-aztec-philosophy-of-happiness-147552

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 74 comments

Anatomy of a Binary Executable

https://oswalt.dev/2020/11/anatomy-of-a-binary-executable/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Election Battleground State Changes

https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 90 comments

Confusing Grep Mistakes I've Made

https://blog.robertelder.org/top-5-grep-mistakes/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 47 comments

Account Takeover via IDOR in Starbucks Singapore

http://www.kamilonurozkaleli.com/posts/starbucks-singapore-account-takeover/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Social Media Usage and the Level of Depressive Symptoms in the US [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x8icCMCMWcBS2H2mc48bQgm-ZfkQwTEQ/view

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

In Chicago, 90% of voters agreed the internet should be a public utility

https://qz.com/1927596/90-percent-of-chicago-voters-say-the-internet-should-be-a-public-utility/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

A one hundred thousand-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of silicon

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-thousand-fold-nonlinearity-silicon.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

gRPC on Node.js with Buf and TypeScript

https://slavovojacek.medium.com/grpc-on-node-js-with-buf-and-typescript-part-1-5aad61bab03b

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Whistleblower: UN actively passing names of Uighur dissidents to Chinese regime

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/1604309404-un-actively-passing-names-of-uighur-dissidents-to-chinese-regime-whistleblower

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

It's official: Intel lost the single-threaded desktop performance crown to AMD

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/hands-on-zen-3-testing-with-amds-ryzen-9-5900x-and-5950x/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

IAM whatever you say IAM

https://eng.lyft.com/iam-whatever-you-say-iam-febce59d1e3b

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Google disables all G Suite accounts in our university due to spamming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24999762

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

A Kit that converts a Classic Mini into 80kw electric Mini [pdf]

https://swindonpowertrain.com/documents/Classic_Mini_Kit.pdf

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 90 comments
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