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

Google Maps Hacks

http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html

6 years ago

1410 upvotes – 382 comments

Old CSS, New CSS

https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

6 years ago

1018 upvotes – 244 comments

Palindrome Day 20200202

https://blog.sumymus.de/palindrome-day-20200202

6 years ago

723 upvotes – 173 comments

Game AI Pro

http://www.gameaipro.com/

6 years ago

389 upvotes – 60 comments

China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-cenbank/china-to-inject-174-billion-of-liquidity-on-monday-as-markets-reopen-idUSKBN1ZW074

6 years ago

370 upvotes – 526 comments

Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017)

https://fs.blog/2017/03/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-time/

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 91 comments

Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-01/amateur-radio-skills-prove-useful-during-bushfires/11903200

6 years ago

290 upvotes – 143 comments

Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)

https://culture.pl/en/article/tips-from-poland-on-old-school-zero-waste

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 221 comments

Just 29k Western Monarch butterflies are left in California

https://www.kqed.org/science/1956190/just-29000-western-monarch-butterflies-are-left-in-california-thats-down-from-millions

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 75 comments

5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 167 comments

HTTP 402: Payment Required

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 135 comments

ThinkPad Mods, Done Right

https://thinkmods.store/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 108 comments

Postgresqlco.nf: a PostgreSQL configuration guide

https://postgresqlco.nf/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 34 comments

Exploit custom codecs to write inline C in Python

https://github.com/georgek42/inlinec

6 years ago

★ 482 Python Apache-2.0
190 upvotes – 48 comments

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction (2016) [video]

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg-on-Modern-Compiler-Construction

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 40 comments

Verlan: French slang that inverses words

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

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 240 comments

Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/02/02/last-week-on-my-mac-is-catalina-a-good-upgrade-yet/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 190 comments

“Google Drive” would like to receive keystrokes from any application

https://i.imgur.com/Gi60T9T.png

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Where do you find software development freelance work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22215941

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 26 comments

Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers

https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/pwfeedback.html

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 160 comments

Jonathan Blow on Rust

https://np.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/evgl81/jonathan_blow_on_rust/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 47 comments

Pointer Compression in V8

https://blog.infosectcbr.com.au/2020/02/pointer-compression-in-v8.html

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 71 comments

Streaming: a skill gap?

https://charemza.name/blog/posts/streaming/data/streaming-not-just-for-big-data/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 36 comments

Leila Janah, CEO and entrepreneur who wanted to end global poverty, dies at 37

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/us/leila-janah-obit-trnd/index.html

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 28 comments

A Mathematician’s Apology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: VRWorkout – A VR calisthenics rhythm game made with Godot

http://www.vrworkout.at

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 34 comments

Royal Mail's new video game stamp set

https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/graphic-design/story-behind-royal-mails-new-video-game-stamp-set/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy

https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/the-cup-of-coffee-pricing-fallacy/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 96 comments

311 years ago, Alexander Selkirk was rescued on a desert island

https://anniversary7.blogspot.com/2020/02/311-years-ago-alexander-selkirk-was.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

‘McMillions’: ex-cop orchestrated $24M McDonald’s Monopoly scam

https://nypost.com/2020/02/01/mcmillions-how-ex-cop-orchestrated-24-million-mcdonalds-monopoly-scam/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

BBC: How to generate random numbers in 1971 [video]

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1016305638735073/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Germany eyes new offshore wind farms dedicated to green hydrogen production

https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/germany-eyes-new-offshore-wind-farms-dedicated-to-green-hydrogen-production/2-1-748198

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 119 comments

What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income?

https://www.perell.com/fellowship-essays/universal-basic-income

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 228 comments

Hippos have become an invasive species in Colombia

https://www.cnet.com/news/pablo-escobars-hippos-have-become-an-invasive-species-in-colombia/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 54 comments

Too much locality for stores to forward

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2020/02/01/too-much-locality-for-store-forwarding/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64 (2018)

http://brokenbytes.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-48khz-digital-music-player-for.html

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

New Intel Microcodes for Windows 10 Released to Fix CPU Bugs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-intel-microcodes-for-windows-10-released-to-fix-cpu-bugs/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments
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