top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-02-12

Gears

https://ciechanow.ski/gears/

6 years ago

2760 upvotes – 222 comments

No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia

6 years ago

687 upvotes – 247 comments

GitHub CLI is now in beta

https://github.blog/2020-02-12-supercharge-your-command-line-experience-github-cli-is-now-in-beta/

6 years ago

669 upvotes – 188 comments

Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom

https://zephony.com/remote-software-developer-productivity

6 years ago

641 upvotes – 300 comments

Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

https://www.kqed.org/news/11801138/apple-engineer-killed-in-tesla-crash-had-previously-complained-about-autopilot

6 years ago

606 upvotes – 889 comments

OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React

https://openchakra.app

6 years ago

604 upvotes – 75 comments

Rotary Cellphone

http://justine-haupt.com/rotarycellphone/

6 years ago

572 upvotes – 165 comments

Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200210/14173343897/appeals-court-rules-that-people-cant-be-locked-up-indefinitely-refusing-to-decrypt-devices.shtml

6 years ago

451 upvotes – 173 comments

Why are we so bad at software engineering?

https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 292 comments

OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android

https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/03/openpush-talk.html

6 years ago

347 upvotes – 95 comments

SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/11/music-streaming-pioneer-soundcloud-raises-75m-from-pandora-owner-siriusxm

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 218 comments

Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers

https://simpleanalytics.com/open

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 120 comments

Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day

https://blog.ndepend.com/mythical-man-month-10-lines-per-developer-day/

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 207 comments

A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

https://github.com/marcpaq/b1fipl

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 84 comments

US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-gave-allies-evidence-that-huawei-can-snoop-on-phone-networks-wsj-says/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 276 comments

Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/12/lets-encrypt-an-automated-certificate-authority-to-encrypt-the-entire-web/

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 109 comments

Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

https://handshake.org/

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

https://autocode.com/

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 78 comments

Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone

https://9to5google.com/2020/02/12/essential-shutting-down/

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 275 comments

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 80 comments
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