top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-02

Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

6 years ago

908 upvotes – 437 comments

Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019

https://twitter.com/andershartmann/status/1212465415743512576

6 years ago

864 upvotes – 505 comments

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065

6 years ago

815 upvotes – 297 comments

Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

6 years ago

815 upvotes – 1096 comments

The Polygons of Another World

http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html

6 years ago

704 upvotes – 125 comments

Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system

https://pulsar.apache.org/

6 years ago

587 upvotes – 237 comments

Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/magic-mushroom-depression-psilocybin-trials-kcl-mental-health-addiction-a9251451.html

6 years ago

447 upvotes – 223 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936440

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 694 comments

Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon

https://onezero.medium.com/authoritarian-nations-are-turning-the-internet-into-a-weapon-10119d4e9992

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 327 comments

Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/31/google-veterans-the-company-has-become-unrecognizable.html

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 349 comments

Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?

https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/7357/any-way-to-find-a-lost-kindle-inside-a-house

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 115 comments

Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)

http://blog.fogus.me/2015/04/27/six-works-of-computer-science-fiction/

6 years ago

371 upvotes – 93 comments

One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/china-swine-fever.html

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 296 comments

Just Build the Product

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/just-build-the-product/

6 years ago

343 upvotes – 102 comments

Programming Language Checklist

https://famicol.in/language_checklist.html

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 164 comments

BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-kill-cord-dead-man-switch/

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 261 comments

Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

https://www.cunicode.com/works/confusing-coleopterists/#StyleGAN

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 47 comments

How strong is your knot?

http://news.mit.edu/2020/model-how-strong-knot-0102

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 132 comments

Recover HD Using a Magnet

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/recover-hd/text.html

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 85 comments

On Privacy versus Freedom

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/02/01/on-privacy-versus-freedom/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 201 comments

How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pokemon-canada-military-bases-1.5393774

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 95 comments

Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills from other people's homes

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/eine1m/when_i_load_the_xiaomi_camera_in_my_google_home/

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 49 comments

RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python

https://github.com/rq/rq

6 years ago

★ 10.6k Python
222 upvotes – 106 comments

Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)

https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-from-the-bottom-up

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 30 comments

Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs

https://evertpot.com/h2-parallelism/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 71 comments

Exploiting Wi-Fi Stack on Tesla Model S

https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/2020/01/02/exploiting-wifi-stack-on-tesla-model-s/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 69 comments

Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-merged-quality-didnt-improve-11577916000

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 232 comments

C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1371r1.pdf

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 212 comments

Interpol issues 'red notice' for Carlos Ghosn's arrest

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50972149

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 227 comments

How the Digg team was acquihired

https://lethain.com//digg-acquihire/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 116 comments

Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50830944

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 148 comments

Philosophy as a public service

http://nautil.us/issue/79/catalysts/philosophy-is-a-public-service

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 95 comments

Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/cerebrass-giant-chip-will-smash-deep-learnings-speed-barrier

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934736

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 180 comments

Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia

https://time.com/5753584/bushfires-australia-catastrophic-fire-alert/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 202 comments

Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS

https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/dynamic-vector-tiles-from-postgis

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA

https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-bullying-a-security-company-with-a-dangerous-dmca-lawsuit

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 168 comments

Things and Stuff of 2019

http://blog.fogus.me/2019/12/30/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2019/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 11 comments

Signal Creator on Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies

https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/12be5396-2a25-4ec8-a92a-674b1cb6b270

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 72 comments

A tiny RISC-V MCU board selling for $3

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/01/02/polos-gd32v-alef-tiny-risc-v-mcu-board/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: An infinitely nested task manager where progress bubbles up to the top

https://discotask.com

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 86 comments

Predicting where AI is going in 2020

https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/02/top-minds-in-machine-learning-predict-where-ai-is-going-in-2020/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 84 comments

A single character code change

https://blog.pitest.org/how-i-once-saved-half-a-million-dollars-with-a-single-character-code-change/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 135 comments

Finnish PM Marin calls for 4-day-week and 6-hours working day in the country

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/finnish-pm-marin-calls-for-4-day-week-and-6-hours-working-day-in-the-country/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 80 comments

A 160k-year-old jaw in a Tibetan cave might explain high altitude living

https://www.businessinsider.com/160000-year-old-jaw-from-human-ancestor-in-tibet-cave-2019-5

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

WebAssembly is easy – a hello world example

https://fodor.org/blog/webassembly-hello-world/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3044637/secret-phone-network

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate, workers say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/02/amazon-threatened-fire-employees-speaking-out-climate-change-workers-say

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 87 comments
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