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Stories from October 22, 2020
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1. I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API (twitter.com/rashiq)
845 points by swyx on Oct 22, 2020 | 420 comments
2. Quibi Is Shutting Down (wsj.com)
479 points by jaredwiener on Oct 21, 2020 | 528 comments
3. A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication (betterexplained.com)
299 points by sebg on Oct 22, 2020 | 90 comments
4. Notes on My Colon Cancer (charlieharrington.com)
516 points by whatrocks on Oct 21, 2020 | 291 comments
5. Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF (bbc.com)
247 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Oct 22, 2020 | 169 comments
6. OAuth 3 (oauth.net)
413 points by andyroid on Oct 22, 2020 | 208 comments
7. Building replacement proprietary battery packs (hallaminventions.com)
225 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 22, 2020 | 122 comments
8. /* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018) (cadence.com)
321 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 21, 2020 | 118 comments
9. Google Antitrust Notes (tbray.org)
308 points by headalgorithm on Oct 22, 2020 | 217 comments
10. Whose Computer Is It? (tinyapps.org)
241 points by miles on Oct 22, 2020 | 167 comments
11. Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2016) (mathventurepartners.com)
229 points by aaronbski on Oct 22, 2020 | 49 comments
12. I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction (youtube.com)
213 points by hboismylife on Oct 22, 2020 | 30 comments
13. iSH Shell (apps.apple.com)
263 points by tech234a on Oct 22, 2020 | 131 comments
14. Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22 (bloomberglaw.com)
279 points by ra7 on Oct 22, 2020 | 190 comments
15. Debian donation for Peertube development (debian.org)
345 points by edward on Oct 22, 2020 | 125 comments
16. The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human (ersjournals.com)
392 points by luu on Oct 22, 2020 | 270 comments
17. Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job (fone.net.nz)
166 points by danielfone on Oct 21, 2020 | 74 comments
18. Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs (trailofbits.com)
153 points by galapago on Oct 22, 2020 | 22 comments
19. Halide Mark II (halide.cam)
140 points by jmorgan on Oct 22, 2020 | 96 comments
20. No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov (firstthings.com)
114 points by diaphanous on Oct 21, 2020 | 33 comments
21. Diolkos (wikipedia.org)
167 points by diodorus on Oct 21, 2020 | 28 comments
22. Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens (sonyaddict.com)
87 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 22, 2020 | 15 comments
23. The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices (seleniumbase.io)
104 points by seleniumbase on Oct 22, 2020 | 27 comments
24. AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections (niels-ole.com)
175 points by nielsole on Oct 22, 2020 | 66 comments
25. A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal (github.com/icexin)
177 points by Lealen on Oct 22, 2020 | 42 comments
26. The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf] (aerospace.org)
125 points by sohkamyung on Oct 22, 2020 | 93 comments
27. FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues (phoronix.com)
200 points by URfejk on Oct 22, 2020 | 108 comments
28. Nginx Service Mesh (nginx.com)
90 points by bhaavan on Oct 21, 2020 | 22 comments
29. Tone-Deafness Test (themusiclab.org)
115 points by parisianka on Oct 21, 2020 | 132 comments
30. Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (2016) (brainpickings.org)
95 points by Hooke on Oct 21, 2020 | 39 comments

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