HackerNews most popular stories from Jul 19, 2020 to Jul 26, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249
[1] Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
[2] Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
https://robertheaton.com/2020/04/06/systems-design-for-advanced-beginners/
[3] Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
[4] Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna-privacy
[5] First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/?lang
[6] Invert, always, invert
https://www.anup.io/2020/07/20/invert-always-invert/
[7] The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
[8] Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/
[9] Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
https://3d-book-css.netlify.app/
[10] Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917131
[11] Nubank acquires Cognitect
https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nubank
[12] Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
[13] When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
[14] Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
[15] Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/07/19/silentpatch-mass-effect/
[16] The Four Quadrants of Conformism
http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
[17] Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers
[18] Medium is not the home for your ideas
https://hulry.com/medium-vs-own-blog/
[19] The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1282731020647895043
[20] DIY Video Hosting
https://tyler.io/diy-video-hosting/
[21] Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
[22] LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/william-leonard-pickard-lsd/
[23] Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/
[24] Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder’s perspective
https://twitter.com/AdamNeumannsCoS/status/1285651161723342848
[25] Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/07/any-claim-without-a-uri-should-be-treated-as-suspicious/
[26] Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/goals-perseverance
[27] On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863
[28] OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
[29] Tired of note-taking apps
https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/