We Chat, They Watch — and Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default

Issue #32 — May 09, 2020

You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can if you prefer.

1

We Chat, They Watch citizenlab.ca \| points: 1282 \| comments: 476

2

Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default matrix.org \| points: 583 \| comments: 166

3

Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone twitchroulette.net \| points: 581 \| comments: 159

4

Making Emacs Popular Again lwn.net \| points: 496 \| comments: 700

5

The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019) baekdal.com \| points: 452 \| comments: 165

Your side-project here? Contact us for more info

6

Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com engineering.fb.com \| points: 429 \| comments: 380

7

Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal rachelbythebay.com \| points: 374 \| comments: 259

8

There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2 virology.ws \| points: 344 \| comments: 183

9

NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps github.com \| points: 322 \| comments: 126

10

On responses to “Bye, Amazon” tbray.org \| points: 306 \| comments: 182

11

Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety bloomberg.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 162

12

Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15% stackoverflow.blog \| points: 229 \| comments: 180

13

OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers aralroca.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 31

14

April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7% wsj.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 219

15

U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients npr.org \| points: 218 \| comments: 353

16

The Patent Office is “adjusting” to a Supreme Court ruling by ignoring it eff.org \| points: 211 \| comments: 58

17

Analysis of dev agencies with hourly rates, team size and tech stack devquarterly.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 77

18

Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management github.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 55

19

4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020 marctenbosch.com \| points: 200 \| comments: 33

20

Zork source code, 1977 github.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 76

This digest was generated for you on 9 May, 6:08am for delivery at 7:00am and contains the top 20 stories between 8 May, 2:00am and 9 May, 2:00am

Your next delivery is on Sunday, 10 May at 7:00am. .

Privacy Policy \| \| \| hello@hndigest.com

Zoom Acquires Keybase — Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More — and Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Issue #31 — Top 20 stories of May 08, 2020 Issue #31 — May 08, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Zoom

GitHub Codespaces — and No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Issue #30 — Top 20 stories of May 07, 2020 Issue #30 — May 07, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 GitHub

Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help — and Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Issue #29 — Top 20 stories of May 06, 2020 Issue #29 — May 06, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Extremely

Bye, Amazon — Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers — and New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Monday, May 4, 2020

Issue #28 — Top 20 stories of May 05, 2020 Issue #28 — May 05, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Bye, Amazon

Awk in 20 Minutes (2015) — Medium-hard SQL interview questions — and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Issue #26 — Top 20 stories of May 03, 2020 Issue #26 — May 03, 2020 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1 Awk in 20

We Chat, They Watch — and Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default

Older messages

Zoom Acquires Keybase — Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More — and Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?

GitHub Codespaces — and No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help — and Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

Bye, Amazon — Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers — and New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Awk in 20 Minutes (2015) — Medium-hard SQL interview questions — and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

You Might Also Like

Youre Overthinking It

eBook: Software Supply Chain Security for Dummies

The 5 biggest AI prompting mistakes

An interactive tour of Go 1.24

Spyglass Dispatch: Bromo Sapiens

The $1.9M client

⚙️ Federal data centers

Post from Syncfusion Blogs on 01/15/2025

The Sequence Engineering #469: Llama.cpp is The Framework for High Performce LLM Inference

3 Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws Patched in Microsoft's Latest Security Update