HackerNews most popular stories from Jul 12, 2020 to Jul 19, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
https://www.coindesk.com/hackers-take-over-prominent-crypto-twitter-accounts-in-simultaneous-attack
[1] Grant Imahara Has Died
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101
[2] Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
[3] Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
https://www.roguelazer.com/2020/07/etcd-or-why-modern-software-makes-me-sad/
[4] When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/
[5] Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-i-actually-used-day-to-day/
[6] You’ve only added two lines – why did that take two days?
https://www.mrlacey.com/2020/07/youve-only-added-two-lines-why-did-that.html
[7] Cloudflare was down
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?hn=2020
[8] Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
https://domainnamewire.com/2020/07/16/fadi-chehade-is-now-co-ceo-of-ethos-capital/
[9] German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24F1T5
[10] NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
[11] Things I wish I’d known about CSS
https://cssfordesigners.com/articles/things-i-wish-id-known-about-css
[12] I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
http://iknowwhatyoudownload.com
[13] On Trouser Pockets
https://sambleckley.com/writing/pockets.html
[14] Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
[15] Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
[16] Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-unverified-takeover/
[17] Orthodox Privilege
http://paulgraham.com/orth.html
[18] Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
[19] I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBrbdU_y0s
[20] OpenAI’s GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/
[21] Riot is now Element
https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
[22] Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard
[23] The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
https://thehftguy.com/2020/07/09/the-most-remarkable-legacy-system-i-have-seen/
[24] An update on our security incident
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html
[25] Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/
[26] Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress
https://psyche.co/ideas/lets-avoid-talk-of-chemical-imbalance-its-people-in-distress
[27] UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/ufo-vpn-data-exposure/
[28] The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
https://annoying.technology/posts/abea6876cf4f2e13/
[29] Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat
https://blog.zulip.com/2020/07/16/zulip-3-0-released/