top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-01-26

Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/15/access-to-wikipedia-restored-in-turkey-after-more-than-two-and-a-half-years/

6 years ago

Responsive Pixel Art

http://essenmitsosse.de/pixel/

6 years ago

Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

https://www.usb-hubs.org/

6 years ago

In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx

6 years ago

GNU Recutils

https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/

6 years ago

SQLite Is Serverless

https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack

https://github.com/codeforequity-at/botium-speech-processing

6 years ago

★ 943 JavaScript MIT

The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-all-you-can-eat-buffets/

6 years ago

South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/amazonb_icann_spat/

6 years ago

The Infinite Loop That Wasn't

https://mgba.io/2020/01/25/infinite-loop-holy-grail/

6 years ago

State of Independent SaaS [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6fd1b92a7aeb00017966dd/t/5e291fc7d2e9fa1df81e2a8c/1579753464656/sois

6 years ago

Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22152408

6 years ago

UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ubc-study-links-living-near-highways-to-risk-of-neurological-disorders

6 years ago

Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation

https://ieftimov.com/post/make-resilient-golang-net-http-servers-using-timeouts-deadlines-context-cancellation/

6 years ago

Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed

https://umbra-db.com/

6 years ago

Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-01-21-initramfs-from-scratch-golang/

6 years ago

Report on the Bezos Phone Hack [pdf]

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6668313/FTI-Report-into-Jeff-Bezos-Phone-Hack.pdf

6 years ago

Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C

https://cicero.oslo.no/no/posts/nyheter/carbon-capture-and-storage-is-necessary-to-keep-global-warming-below-2c

6 years ago

Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate

https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

6 years ago

Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm

http://abstractions.nautil.us/article/508/how-pi-connects-colliding-blocks-to-a-quantum-search-algorithm

6 years ago

Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (2014)

https://github.com/arjun024/mkeykernel

6 years ago

★ 665 C GPL-2.0

Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s?

https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/11227/why-does-the-wuhan-coronavirus-genome-end-in-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

6 years ago

PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax

https://www.outsideonline.com/2408206/nordic-skiing-fluorinated-wax-swix

6 years ago

Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin-engine jet completes first flight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51253066

6 years ago

If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610886/if-we-werent-the-first-industrial-civilization-on-earth-would-we-ever-know/

6 years ago

Ambitions for a Unix Shell

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/ambitions.html

6 years ago

Entropy in the Universe

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/01/25/entropy-in-the-universe/

6 years ago

Linux 5.5 to Offer Mainline Support for SGI's Octane MIPS Workstations

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.5-MIPS-SGI-Octane

6 years ago

Revolution Pi – The Industrial Raspberry Pi

https://revolution.kunbus.com/

6 years ago

India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/india-surpassed-usa-become-second-largest-smartphone-market-world-reaching-158-million-shipments-2019/

6 years ago

En svensk tiger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger

6 years ago

Gravity: Upstream Kubernetes packaging tools

https://github.com/gravitational/gravity

6 years ago

★ 1k Go Apache-2.0

MSL: A New Programming Language for Text Editing and Fact Verification [pdf]

https://mimix.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MSL-Specifications-2020.pdf

6 years ago

David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/how-david-rosenhans-fraudulent-thud-experiment-set-back-psychiatry-for-decades/

6 years ago

iOS First Impressions (2018)

https://basicbitch.software/posts/2018-11-20-iOS-First-Impressions.html

6 years ago

Sonos’ frantic flailing illustrates the stupidity of smart tech

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/305263-sonos-frantic-flailing-illustrates-the-stupidity-of-smart-tech

6 years ago

This week in KDE: Converging towards something special

https://pointieststick.com/2020/01/26/this-week-in-kde-converging-towards-something-special/

6 years ago

Understanding the Power of Data Types

http://postgres-data-types.pvh.ca/

6 years ago

Awesome-ld-preload: List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD

https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload

6 years ago

★ 915

Night train connecting Amsterdam to Scandinavian capitals under consideration

https://nltimes.nl/2020/01/24/night-train-connecting-amsterdam-scandinavian-capital-consideration

6 years ago

Correct SRGB Dithering

http://www.thetenthplanet.de/archives/5367

6 years ago

List of Epidemics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

6 years ago

Aurora is finally ready to show the world what it’s been up to

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/24/21080298/aurora-self-driving-car-announcement-2020-plan-waymo-ford-general-motors

6 years ago