top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-09

Reasons not to become famous

https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/

6 years ago

850 upvotes – 408 comments

Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-56-features&num=1

6 years ago

714 upvotes – 246 comments

I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca

https://twitter.com/meslin/status/1225834920611848192

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 190 comments

Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/09/horizonta/

6 years ago

410 upvotes – 220 comments

Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/01/how-we-built-picture-in-picture-in-firefox-desktop/

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 124 comments

Living without a SIM card

https://habd.as/post/living-without-sim-card/

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 281 comments

Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=859

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280939

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 91 comments

Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Dopamine-and-temporal-difference-learning-A-fruitful-relationship-between-neuroscience-and-AI

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 26 comments

Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)

https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html

6 years ago

279 upvotes – 194 comments

Blender GIS

https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 46 comments

Learning technical writing using the engineering method (2016) [pdf]

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/learn.pdf

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 7 comments

Who Did This? (2017)

https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 37 comments

Contextualise: Manage your knowledge

https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 50 comments

How to grip a pen?

https://mlu.red/muse/52609266310.html

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 101 comments

Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 30 comments

Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust

https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/stacked-borrows/

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 26 comments

Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-canada-expansion-analysis-1.5455122

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 253 comments

Frankenstein Veto

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

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 87 comments

How the JPL works to secure its missions from adversaries

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/09/the-war-against-space-hackers-how-the-jpl-works-to-secure-its-missions-from-nation-state-adversaries/

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 35 comments

Rollerball pens that use fountain pen ink

https://unsharpen.com/rollerball-pen-fountain-pen-ink/

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 110 comments

Alpine.js: A minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup

https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

What does happiness at work mean?

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-does-happiness-at-work

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 99 comments

A moon landing in 2024? NASA says it'll happen

https://www.wclk.com/post/moon-landing-2024-nasa-says-itll-happen-others-say-no-way

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 226 comments

An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Pipe-Parallel-Job-Opt

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 42 comments

Single div Sierpinski triangle

https://yuanchuan.dev/single-div-sierpinski-triangle

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 13 comments

Flashsort

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

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video]

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/llvm_flang/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 96 comments

Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51433720

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 117 comments

Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/whos-in-charge-at-amazon-moves-on-secretive-s-team-signal-tech-giants-priorities/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 129 comments

Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/librem-5-phone-hands-on-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-open-source-smartphone/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 80 comments

How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13611/how-much-better-was-dec-alpha-than-contemporary-x86

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 117 comments

Diffing Coronaviruses

https://jameshfisher.com/2020/02/09/diffing-coronaviruses/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 17 comments

Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice

https://200ok.ch/posts/2020-02-09_creating_org_mode_sparse_trees_in_emacs_and_organice.html

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

How to detect web bots?

https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2020/02/09/detecting-web-bots.html

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 75 comments

A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/a-half-century-ago-better-transistors-and-switching-regulators-revolutionized-the-design-of-computer-power-supplies

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 50 comments

Clang vs. other open-source compilers

https://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

The Eiffel programming language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22282205

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 89 comments

A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11

https://github.com/google/marl

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Debian 10.3

https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200208

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture – an alternative to SPAs

http://roca-style.org/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How do I find investors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22284025

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 100 comments

Jupyter Notebooks to Web App

https://github.com/ChristianFJung/NotebookToWebApp/blob/master/article.md

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Thinking About Recursion

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThinkingAboutRecursion.html

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors (2016)

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

Technical debt and tacking into the wind (2013)

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/technical-debt-and-tacking-into-the-wind

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Cyborgs and Space (1960) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/Documents/Chapter1/cyborgs.pdf

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 10 comments

Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/352249/nontrivially-fillable-gaps-in-published-proofs-of-major-theorems

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 49 comments

Wrestling Python into LLVM Intermediate Representation (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99bqotoBKu4

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Simlish, the language that defined The Sims

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21126705/the-sims-simlish-language-history-20th-anniversary-game

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Interview with Simon Peyton Jones (2018)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/functional-programming-languages-pursuit-laziness-dr-simon-peyton-jones/

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 82 comments
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