top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-03

Which Emoji Scissors Close?

https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

6 years ago

1545 upvotes – 126 comments

EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

https://forums.lutris.net/t/ea-banning-dxvk-on-battlefield-v/7810/#

6 years ago

814 upvotes – 484 comments

What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

https://www.kqed.org/news/11791667/what-are-those-grids-of-glass-in-the-sidewalk-and-why-are-they-purple

6 years ago

803 upvotes – 116 comments

When good ideas make bad business

https://tjcx.me/posts/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-idea/

6 years ago

735 upvotes – 341 comments

Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code

https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace

6 years ago

★ 6.7k C MIT
720 upvotes – 116 comments

Dive into Deep Learning

https://d2l.ai/

6 years ago

528 upvotes – 89 comments

Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment

https://blog.codemagic.io/flutter-vs-ios-android-reactnative-xamarin/

6 years ago

370 upvotes – 178 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21949997

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 139 comments

The Light Phone

https://www.thelightphone.com/

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 277 comments

Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Is-Fry-s-Electronics-in-trouble-Company-denies-14945559.php

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 372 comments

Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q4-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 323 comments

E-bikes could be the electric revolution cities need

https://www.routefifty.com/infrastructure/2019/12/e-bikes-cities-infrastructure-changes/162151/

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 234 comments

Microsoft Edge (Chromium) – Elevation of Privilege to Potential RCE

https://leucosite.com/Edge-Chromium-EoP-RCE/

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: I combined Milligram, Skeleton, and Normalize into a single CSS project

https://sscaffold-css.com/

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 33 comments

U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy

https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/19926/U-Haul-To-Implement-Nicotine-Free-Hiring-Policy-For-Healthier-Workforce/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 341 comments

Chrome OS has stalled out

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/02/chrome-os-has-stalled-out/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 199 comments

Scammers registering date-based domain names

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/scammers-registering-date-based-domain-names/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 165 comments

Clear and Present Leadership

https://blog.davidtate.org/clear-and-present-leadership/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 39 comments

Cryptocurrency in the 2020s

https://blog.coinbase.com/what-will-happen-to-cryptocurrency-in-the-2020s-d93746744a8f

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 266 comments

Neumorphism in User Interfaces

https://uxdesign.cc/neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf3a6

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 61 comments

How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-write-a-book-in-emacs

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 37 comments

Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

http://hackeducation.com/2019/12/31/what-a-shitshow

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 121 comments

curl receives $10K USD donation

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/03/curl-receives-10k-usd-donation/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing

https://medium.com/@tom.kubik/get-rich-slow-in-software-57001f41f3a9

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 72 comments

Australia wildfires: 500M animals and plants killed as glaciers turn black

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-animals-plants-glaciers-sydney-koalas-nsw-a9267316.html

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 75 comments

One Medical S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404123/000119312520001429/d806726ds1.htm

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

First evidence found of tool use by seabirds

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-tool-seabirds.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

Have Aliens Found Us? (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/have-aliens-found-us-a-harvard-astronomer-on-the-mysterious-interstellar-object-oumuamua

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 155 comments

IBM Selectric Bug

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Neural networks tutorial series with code

https://github.com/gokadin/ai-simplest-network

6 years ago

★ 402 Go
107 upvotes – 11 comments

Why “Gradient” Descent?

https://scienceofdata.org/2019/11/24/why-gradient-descent/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 26 comments

Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale)

https://wh0.github.io/2018/03/15/windows-size.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 79 comments

Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [pdf]

https://www.bea.gov/system/files/papers/WP2019-4_4.pdf

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228461-a-computer-made-from-dna-can-compute-the-square-root-of-900/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

IRS stops firms like TurboTax from hiding free tax-filing products in searches

https://www.cnet.com/news/irs-blocks-companies-like-turbotax-from-hiding-free-tax-filing-products-in-searches/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments
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