top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-09

Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

https://dystroy.org/broot/

6 years ago

BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x/

6 years ago

Linus: Don't Use ZFS

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841

6 years ago

Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python

https://www.python-httpx.org/

6 years ago

Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

https://status.gandi.net/timeline/events/2109

6 years ago

Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/seeing-through-the-sea/

6 years ago

Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019

https://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2020/1/6/gary-starkweather-passed-away-dec-26-2019-inventor-problem-solver-who-persevered-mentor-for-the-next-generation

6 years ago

After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free

http://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/download.shtm

6 years ago

Why are some things darker when wet?

https://aryankashyap.com/why-are-some-things-darker-when-wet

6 years ago

The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjd8j3/the-mta-is-going-after-an-etsy-artist-over-a-new-york-subway-map-it-didnt-make

6 years ago

Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-jussie-smollett-special-prosecutor-investigation-20200108-j3j3p2dypvf5vbbo5jpxrvcjsq-story.html

6 years ago

Managing my personal knowledge base

https://tkainrad.dev/posts/managing-my-personal-knowledge-base/

6 years ago

The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city

6 years ago

Hacker News Classics (2018)

http://jsomers.net/hn

6 years ago

The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3

6 years ago

★ 6.1k Assembly Apache-2.0

Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/01/remote-iphone-exploitation-part-2.html

6 years ago

U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794772148/alcohol-related-deaths-have-doubled-study-says

6 years ago

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/

6 years ago

Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100

https://www.axios.com/e-scooter-startup-lime-shuts-in-12-markets-lays-off-around-100-d25d44e4-c0f1-4713-9a89-868f4da40e03.html

6 years ago

Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3beea/facebook-moderators-lawsuit-ptsd-trauma-tracking-bathroom-breaks

6 years ago

An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-idea-from-physics-helps-ai-see-in-higher-dimensions-20200109/

6 years ago

Things that I think will be important in the next decade

https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10111311886191191/

6 years ago

Ring fired employees for watching customer videos

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data

6 years ago

Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution

https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555

6 years ago

Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers

https://srvaroa.github.io/paas/infrastructure/platform/kubernetes/cloud/2020/01/02/talk-how-to-build-a-paas-for-1500-engineers.html

6 years ago

Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages

https://size-of-npm.netlify.com/

6 years ago

Fireflies (2017)

https://ncase.me/fireflies/

6 years ago

Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

https://www.ryeboard.com/

6 years ago

A Croatian fisherman caught a new NASA device while fishing

http://alugy.com/europe/a-croatian-fisherman-caught-a-misterious-nasas-device-while-fishing/

6 years ago

Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer

http://symbolflux.com/luciditystory.html

6 years ago

Work on these things

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/work-on-these-things.html

6 years ago

Accelerating Photosynthesis

http://rubyplants.com/

6 years ago

Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement

6 years ago

Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia (2018)

https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/05/they-want-docile/how-nursing-homes-united-states-overmedicate-people-dementia

6 years ago

Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02611

6 years ago

Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-biological-scientists-pathways-lifespan.html

6 years ago

Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python

https://github.com/emeryberger/scalene

6 years ago

★ 238 JavaScript Apache-2.0

Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API

https://www.interline.io/blog/mtc-regional-gtfs-feed-release/

6 years ago

Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's boom looks like a crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/09/san-francisco-gentrification-second-wave

6 years ago

Leaving Pittsburgh because of industrial air pollution

https://www.publicsource.org/when-better-isnt-good-enough-why-i-tell-my-google-co-workers-and-industry-peers-to-avoid-pittsburgh/

6 years ago

A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots

http://blog.eladgil.com/2019/05/a-brief-guide-to-startup-pivots-4-types.html

6 years ago

Open Source, SaaS and Monetization

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2019/11/4/open-source-and-saas/

6 years ago

San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/3/20993251/san-francisco-bay-area-vacant-homes-per-homeless-count

6 years ago

Apple's auto layout and visual format language for JavaScript (2016)

http://ijzerenhein.github.io/autolayout.js/

6 years ago

Hummingbird – AirVPN's free and open source OpenVPN 3 client

https://gitlab.com/AirVPN/hummingbird/tree/master

6 years ago

The Oldschool PC Font Pack

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

6 years ago

Shifting Careers to Autonomous Vehicles

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-found-my-current-job-3fb22e511a1f

6 years ago

Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

https://blog.getpostman.com/2020/01/06/announcing-updated-postman-plans-and-pricing/

6 years ago

Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/google-research-looking-back-at-2019.html

6 years ago

Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox

https://web.dev/workbox-share-targets/

6 years ago

Show HN: Ilograph – interactive architecture diagrams as code

https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request

6 years ago

A review of the effects of installing air filters in classrooms

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/no-i-dont-think-that-this-study-offers-good-evidence-that-installing-air-filters-in-classrooms-has-surprisingly-large-educational-benefits/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How many of you are rolling your own auth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001918

6 years ago

Show HN: Look Busy fills your work calendar with secretly fake events

https://lookbusy.app

6 years ago

Health and Wealth in the Roman Empire (2019)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X18302600?via%3Dihub

6 years ago