top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-08

My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

6 years ago

Time.gov was upgraded today

http://time.gov

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22273224

6 years ago

Debt is coming to the tech industry

https://alexdanco.com/2020/02/07/debt-is-coming/

6 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22279051

6 years ago

Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/dangerous-domain-corp-com-goes-up-for-sale/

6 years ago

Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/dogs-poop-in-alignment-with-earths-magnetic-field-study-finds

6 years ago

The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mormon-church-amassed-100-billion-it-was-the-best-kept-secret-in-the-investment-world-11581138011

6 years ago

Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good

https://search.lycos.com/

6 years ago

A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

https://blog.robertelder.org/find-command-wildcard-globbing/

6 years ago

Colab Pro

https://colab.research.google.com/signup

6 years ago

System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations

https://system76.com/threadripper

6 years ago

Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs

https://github.com/hdl-util/hdmi

6 years ago

★ 1.2k SystemVerilog

Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code

https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/become-a-better-developer-by-reading-source-code

6 years ago

Lasersaur – open-source laser cutter

https://github.com/nortd/lasersaur

6 years ago

★ 391

Tools you’d miss if you left a company

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/08/miss/

6 years ago

Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/scientists-discover-virus-no-recognizable-genes

6 years ago

Inori/GPCS4: A Playstation 4 emulator just begin

https://github.com/Inori/GPCS4

6 years ago

★ 2k C++ GPL-3.0

How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists (2000) [pdf]

http://www.foundationwebsite.org/Guitar.pdf

6 years ago

Swiss journalist re-implements ClearViewAI in two weeks with OS software

https://twitter.com/grssnbchr/status/1225846790093725696

6 years ago

Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51425702

6 years ago

Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record supply

https://pitchfork.com/news/devastating-manufacturing-plant-fire-threatens-worldwide-vinyl-record-supply/

6 years ago

Drop.lol – copy files over the network with WebRTC or TURN relays

https://drop.lol/

6 years ago

Say Goodbye to CoreOS

https://thenewstack.io/say-goodbye-to-coreos/

6 years ago

Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog

6 years ago

★ 31.2k C++

McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France

https://twitter.com/koba_des_neiges/status/1225926716926963713

6 years ago

Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything

https://jwmza.com/polymath/

6 years ago

Cotton Candy (2010)

http://www.cottoncandy.net/

6 years ago

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3990x-threadripper-linux&num=1

6 years ago

Analyzing the attacks on my website

https://dev.to/pluralsight/analyzing-the-attacks-on-my-website-30jf

6 years ago

Negative Feedback Is Positive

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/negative-feedback-is-positive/

6 years ago

The comfortable life is killing us

https://medium.com/@erikrittenberry/the-comfortable-life-is-killing-you-61cae61622e7

6 years ago

Modern cloud architecture on AWS: server fleets and databases

https://start.jcolemorrison.com/understanding-modern-cloud-architecture-on-aws-server-fleets-and-databases/

6 years ago