HackerNews most popular stories from last week [2020-05-24 – 2020-05-31]. In one blogpost.
[0] SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
[1] The Day AppGet Died
https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/
[2] AWS services explained in one line each
https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html
[3] Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
https://twitter.com/zenexer/status/1265633022709301249
[4] Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
[5] Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
[6] Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
[7] Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037
[8] Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
https://bhavukjain.com/blog/2020/05/30/zeroday-signin-with-apple/
[9] AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor
[10] Tools for Better Thinking
[11] Htmx – high power tools for HTML
[12] Trump threatens to ‘close’ down social media platforms
[13] Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
https://twitter.com/bjoewolf/status/1266268435647852553
[14] I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/05/26/I-Was-Blackmailed-Any-YouTuber-Could-Be-Next.aspx
[15] Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
[16] Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/29/why-kubernetes-getting-so-popular/
[17] Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
[18] The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)
https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/
[19] I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/
[20] Software will eat software in a remote-first world
https://themargins.substack.com/p/software-will-eat-software-in-a-remote
[21] Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned
[22] I’ve collected over 600 pitch decks
[23] Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of ‘blacklisted’ URLs
https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper
[24] The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html
[25] The US Army’s earth-shaking, off-road land trains
[26] Speed.cloudflare.com
[27] How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?
https://blog.leavemealone.app/how-does-the-gmail-unsubscribe-button-work/
[28] Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster
https://abramov.io/rust-dropping-things-in-another-thread
[29] Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion
https://www.wired.com/story/remote-work-perks-until-want-promotion/