Most popular stories from last week [2020-04-19 – 2020-04-26].
Ask HN: I’m a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980
Shirt Without Stripes
https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes
Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements on Its Customers’ Websites
https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/
Career advice for people with bad luck
https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad
Things I wished more developers knew about databases
https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge/
If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/363933/182292
Seinfeld Adventure
98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52388586
When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-look-up-call-back/
Valve’s Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
https://boilingsteam.com/proton-brought-about-6000-games-to-linux-so-far/
Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
A Third Solution
https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-third-solution.html
In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms
Oil plunges below $5 with traders fleeing expiring contract
Agile’s early evangelists wouldn’t mind watching Agile die
https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/lean-agile-methodology-software-engineering
Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04
https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/
Time is the only real currency we have
https://blog.theboringtech.io/2020/04/16/time_is_the_real_currency.html
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/magic-leap-announces-layoffs-amid-covid-19-slowdown/
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes
A possible new back end for Rust
https://jason-williams.co.uk/a-possible-new-backend-for-rust