Most popular stories from last week [2020-05-17 – 2020-05-24].
[0] MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
[1] Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/19190975?hl=en
[2] Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-suspends-podcast-addict/
[3] Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
[4] Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837
[5] Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
https://nullsweep.com/why-is-this-website-port-scanning-me/
[6] New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-advertising-792b3cd6-4bdb-47c3-9817-36601211a79d.html
[7] Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/lisa19_maheshwari.pdf
[8] Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
https://kodfabrik.com/journal/why-am-i-shutting-down-kozmos
[9] Notion for everyone
https://www.notion.so/personal
[10] Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
[11] EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
[12] New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
[13] Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your ‘to watch’ list?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456
[14] It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/its-time-to-get-back-into-rss/
[15] A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
[16] Siri, What Time Is It in London?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/22/what-time-is-it-in-london
[17] John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158965652915344&w=2
[18] Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html
[19] Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/
[20] Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52777365
[21] US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
[22] Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data
[23] Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
[24] I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
https://twitter.com/kaydo/status/1259747848502960130
[25] DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
[26] Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
[27] Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory
https://snowbrains.com/everest-visible-kathmandu-nepal-first-time/
[28] What Is Nix?
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/what-is-nix
[29] The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/