top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-25

Google backtracks on search results design

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/24/google-backtracks-on-search-results-design/

6 years ago

Am I Unique?

https://amiunique.org/

6 years ago

The Era of the Trident Engine

https://schepp.dev/posts/today-the-trident-era-ends/

6 years ago

Linode launches free DDoS protection

https://www.linode.com/press_release/linode-launches-free-advanced-ddos-protection-across-its-global-network/

6 years ago

Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?

https://superuser.com/q/1519893/529428

6 years ago

New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/new-coronavirus-spreading-between-humans-how-it-started/

6 years ago

Vine founder launches TikTok competitor

http://Byte.co

6 years ago

Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1

6 years ago

Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site

https://userbase.com/

6 years ago

Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

https://github.com/massung/r-cade/

6 years ago

★ 290 Racket

PinePhone Misconceptions

https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straight-pinephone-misconceptions/

6 years ago

What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?

http://nautil.us/issue/81/maps/what-happens-to-google-maps-when-tectonic-plates-move

6 years ago

AWS Graviton2

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2020/01/aws-graviton2/

6 years ago

An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience

http://m.nautil.us/issue/81/maps/an-existential-crisis-in-neuroscience

6 years ago

Normalization of Deviance (2015)

https://danluu.com/wat/

6 years ago

Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/retail-companies-are-testing-out-facial-recognition-at

6 years ago

One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article239079858.html

6 years ago

Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (2018)

https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs-https/

6 years ago

Restack: Full-Stack ReasonML

https://github.com/dysinger/restack/#restack-full-stack-reasonml

6 years ago

★ 231 OCaml

Snowmobiler finds family of five stuck in frozen wilderness

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/family-rescued-snowmobile-manitoba-1.5439399

6 years ago

GPT-2 and the Nature of Intelligence

https://thegradient.pub/gpt2-and-the-nature-of-intelligence/

6 years ago

Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News

https://kevq.uk/why-lobste-rs-is-better-than-hacker-news/

6 years ago

Why the Sorbet type checker is fast

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/why-sorbet-is-fast/

6 years ago

5/3nm Wars Begin

https://semiengineering.com/5-3nm-wars-begin/

6 years ago

Belyayev's Fox Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)#Belyayev%27s_fox_experiment

6 years ago

Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00191-5

6 years ago

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

https://numinous.productions/ttft/#why-not-more-work

6 years ago

Who’s Watching Your Porch?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/style/ring-video-doorbell-home-security.html

6 years ago

JetBrains to reimagine IntelliJ as text editor, add machine learning

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/01/intellij-based-ide-features-roadmap-for-2020/

6 years ago

Writing a Polyglot Script

https://nkanaev.github.io/posts/polyglot/

6 years ago

A Reply to “Let’s stop copying C”

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2020/01/25/a-reply-to-lets-stop-copying-c/

6 years ago

Using floating-point numbers for money

https://www.evanjones.ca/floating-point-money.html

6 years ago

A Directory of High Quality, Real-Time Event Sources

https://github.com/todsac/eventsources

6 years ago

★ 11.2k JavaScript

Arduino-copilot makes it easy to use Haskell to program an Arduino

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/announcing_arduino-copilot/

6 years ago

Coronavirus Infections–More Than Just the Common Cold

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2759815

6 years ago

Gmail of an old man with 0 mails blocked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146082

6 years ago

The Trapper Keeper (2017)

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52726/history-trapper-keeper

6 years ago

AR Comparison Guide: ARCore vs. ARKit vs. Vuforia vs. AR Foundation

https://circuitstream.com/blog/augmented-reality-guide/

6 years ago

Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin? (2017)

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-cotton-gin

6 years ago

Chord Transformations and Beethoven (2011) [pdf]

https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/55613/KnaufSpr11.pdf?sequence=1

6 years ago

Wealth is what you don't spend

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/gains/

6 years ago

Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/coyotes-infiltrate-south-america-180974016/

6 years ago