top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-08

EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]

https://www.statewatch.org/media/1434/eu-council-draft-declaration-against-encryption-12143-20.pdf

5 years ago

Alex Trebek has died

https://twitter.com/Jeopardy/status/1325490106329751553

5 years ago

About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store

https://ish.app/app-store-removal

5 years ago

AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore

5 years ago

Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/70006808?hl=en

5 years ago

WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS

https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps

5 years ago

DaVinci Resolve – A high-end video editing/post-production software program

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

5 years ago

PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans

https://postgresqlco.nf/en/doc/param/

5 years ago

Clues to identify a destructive leader

https://articles.tilt365.com/identify-destructive-leadership-patterns/

5 years ago

One Week of NixOS

https://jae.moe/blog/2020/11/one-week-of-nixos/

5 years ago

Transmit Radio Signals via Ethernet

https://github.com/sq5bpf/etherify

5 years ago

Stack Videos Horizontally, Vertically, in a Grid With FFmpeg

https://ottverse.com/stack-videos-horizontally-vertically-grid-with-ffmpeg/

5 years ago

Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvmkdd/counterfeit-iphone-x-review-and-teardown

5 years ago

Using Pokémon to detect scientific misinformation

https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-using-pokmon-to-detect-scientific-misinformation-68098

5 years ago

Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization

https://probablydance.com/2020/11/08/looking-for-voter-fraud-in-old-elections-with-data-visualization/

5 years ago

The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone

https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker

5 years ago

Making a programming language using Rust

https://arzg.github.io/lang/

5 years ago

Problem Solving Techniques

https://denvaar.github.io/articles/problem_solving_example.html

5 years ago

How Python bytecode is executed

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-4-how-python-bytecode-is-executed/

5 years ago

Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html

5 years ago

Stop using RSA (2019)

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/

5 years ago

Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app

https://ballertodo.com/

5 years ago

A Pico-8 story: How the fantasy console unlocked Frédéric Souchu’s dreams

https://nanark.medium.com/a-pico-8-story-how-the-fantasy-console-unlocked-frédéric-souchus-dreams-56bce77bcdc5

5 years ago

RansomEXX Trojan attacks Linux systems

https://securelist.com/ransomexx-trojan-attacks-linux-systems/99279/

5 years ago

Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard

https://blog.opsdisk.com/restoring-a-37-year-old-ibm-model-f-mechanical-keyboard.html

5 years ago

Send Payments in India with WhatsApp

https://blog.whatsapp.com/send-payments-in-india-with-whatsapp/?lang=en

5 years ago

Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects

https://mysideproject.rocks

5 years ago

Digital sound processing tutorial

http://yehar.com/blog/?p=121

5 years ago

App lets banks lock your financed phone if you default on payment

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-device-lock-controller-banks-payments/

5 years ago

Why Concurrency Is Hard

https://medium.com/oreillymedia/why-concurrency-is-hard-f93104cad54b

5 years ago

Big Ass Fan’s Clean Air System

https://www.bigassfans.com/air-disinfection/

5 years ago

Sustainable Transport Planning with R

https://github.com/ropensci/stplanr

5 years ago

Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes – and they bragged about it

https://theconversation.com/only-the-richest-ancient-athenians-paid-taxes-and-they-bragged-about-it-147249

5 years ago

Composing Programs

http://composingprograms.com/

5 years ago

Slack stores browser cookies without user consent

https://twitter.com/yazijys/status/1325431870780268544

5 years ago

Zig 0.7.0 tagged

https://ziglang.org

5 years ago

BGP Lego Bricks

https://blog.cynthia.re/post/bgp-lego

5 years ago

P.L. Deshpande

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/1gWB3H6KKgnS-g

5 years ago

macOS file diff app, Kaleidoscope, acquired by Letter Opener GmbH

https://kaleidoscope.app/release-notes

5 years ago

Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (2017)

http://www.digitalmedia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/UC_report_final_171213.pdf

5 years ago

The accidental genius of Yo

https://capiche.com/e/yo-atomized-communication

5 years ago

Becoming a magician (2018)

https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a-magician/

5 years ago

Using Alfred to open your GitHub repositories in the browser

https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2020-09-28-alfred-github-repos/

5 years ago

When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/11/05/the-great-kosher-meat-war-of-1902/ideas/essay/

5 years ago

Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor

http://www.righto.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-carry-lookahead.html

5 years ago

Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

5 years ago

I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript

https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/

5 years ago

Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Community

http://techrights.org/2020/11/08/faking-communities/

5 years ago

Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by science

https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/10/20-passwordpolicy.html

5 years ago

The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map)

https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343441

5 years ago

Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75M on Targeted Anti-Trump Ads

https://www.fastcompany.com/90570689/acronym-james-barnes-facebook-2020-campaign-advertising

5 years ago

Cdecl – C gibberish ↔ English

https://cdecl.org/

5 years ago