top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-01

Software Disenchantment (2018)

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

6 years ago

934 upvotes – 488 comments

Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

6 years ago

590 upvotes – 54 comments

Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

https://hyperallergic.com/535370/the-books-films-and-songs-entering-the-public-domain-in-2020/

6 years ago

492 upvotes – 119 comments

Hard deadlines are not user-first

http://jatins.gitlab.io/me/why-deadline/

6 years ago

467 upvotes – 246 comments

What Will Happen in the 2020s

https://avc.com/2020/01/what-will-happen-in-the-2020s/

6 years ago

462 upvotes – 650 comments

Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future

https://godotengine.org/article/retrospective-and-future

6 years ago

435 upvotes – 162 comments

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/

6 years ago

407 upvotes – 70 comments

Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust

http://cliffle.com/blog/m4vga-in-rust/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21928170

6 years ago

363 upvotes – 68 comments

Guide to speaking at tech conferences

https://www.cfpland.com/guides/speaking/

6 years ago

362 upvotes – 60 comments

I'm not feeling the async pressure

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2020/1/1/async-pressure/

6 years ago

337 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript

https://pakastin.github.io/car/

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 88 comments

Happy New Year HN!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21927866

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 67 comments

How to stay private when using Android

https://protonmail.com/blog/android-privacy/

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 170 comments

Alone in a Crowded Milky Way

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alone-in-a-crowded-milky-way/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 260 comments

How I automate my home

https://japaniot.github.io/2020/01/01/how-i-automate-my-home-en/

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 175 comments

Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head

http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 65 comments

Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API

https://github.com/socialpoint-labs/sheetfu

6 years ago

★ 851 Python MIT
224 upvotes – 28 comments

Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance

https://medium.com/@CM30/putting-devs-before-users-how-frameworks-destroyed-web-performance-6b2c2a506aab

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 152 comments

The dark side of GraphQL: performance

https://twitter.com/benawad/status/1212392789637521410

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 78 comments

The NRO Issues Inspection Request to ICANN Concerning .ORG Sale

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191231_nro_issues_inspection_request_to_icann_for_dot_org_sale/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 22 comments

Event Sourcing (2017)

https://arkwright.github.io/event-sourcing.html

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 77 comments

Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-talks-tech-san-francisco-sam-altman-fundraiser-2019-11

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 429 comments

What Happened in the 2010s

https://avc.com/2019/12/what-happened-in-the-2010s/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads

https://github.com/mayeaux/nodetube

6 years ago

★ 2.3k JavaScript MIT
151 upvotes – 78 comments

A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13213

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 13 comments

Bubble talk (2015)

https://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

Viaweb's First Business Plan (1995)

http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 54 comments

Don't Shave That Yak (2005)

https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 81 comments

RISC-V Stumbling Blocks

https://x86.lol/generic/2020/01/01/riscv-intro.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 85 comments

Reasons to Learn Redux as a JavaScript Developer

https://www.robinwieruch.de/redux-javascript

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 145 comments

What Makes a Successful Founder?

https://www.basisset.ventures/founder-superpowers

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases

http://blog.diffbot.com/the-economics-of-building-knowledge-bases/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 9 comments

Reiser5

https://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&m=157780043509663&w=2

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Vusic – A Simple Web Player for Apple Music Built with Vue and Vuex

https://github.com/falcon78/Vusic

6 years ago

★ 382 Vue
102 upvotes – 32 comments

Tree rings show the Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/warning-ancient-tree-rings-americas-are-prone-catastrophic-simultaneous-droughts

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

100 years ago, prohibition went into effect

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/100-years-ago-the-booziest-january-suddenly-dried-up.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 91 comments

A Next-Generation Trash Can

https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/12/nyc-garbage-trash-can-design-contest-plastic-metal/603352/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 92 comments

Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript engine, with a focus on portability

https://duktape.org/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

Lies vs. Statistics: VPN Virtual Server Locations

https://restoreprivacy.com/virtual-server-locations/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments
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