top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-06

Coronavirus and Credibility

http://paulgraham.com/cred.html

6 years ago

724 upvotes – 917 comments

Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792829

6 years ago

686 upvotes – 364 comments

IKEA Frekvens LED box hack

http://spritesmods.com/?art=frekvens

6 years ago

574 upvotes – 82 comments

A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-overload.html

6 years ago

544 upvotes – 245 comments

This Video Has X Views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

6 years ago

493 upvotes – 174 comments

How SEO Ruined the Internet

https://www.superhighway98.com/seo

6 years ago

479 upvotes – 286 comments

Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers

https://github.com/rclone/rclone

6 years ago

★ 56.9k Go MIT
448 upvotes – 100 comments

Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shipping-delays-out-of-stock-items-amazon-isnt-the-only-shop-online-11586165400

6 years ago

405 upvotes – 484 comments

Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia

6 years ago

★ 1.5k Rust
398 upvotes – 104 comments

QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

http://www.quakejs.com/

6 years ago

357 upvotes – 158 comments

Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 128 comments

What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 140 comments

WhyTheName

https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 70 comments

Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)

https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-philosophy-lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology-bac7257d8f4

6 years ago

274 upvotes – 174 comments

PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9zk/paypal-and-venmo-are-letting-sim-swappers-hijack-accounts

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 146 comments

Microservices [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 52 comments

Free System Programming Textbook (Illinois CS241)

http://cs241.cs.illinois.edu/coursebook/index.html

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 12 comments

Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

https://khn.org/news/mysterious-heart-damage-not-just-lung-troubles-befalling-covid-19-patients/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 188 comments

Ask HN: Must Read from ACM Library?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794984

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 46 comments

Unverified.email

https://kerestey.net/writing/2020-04-05-announcing-unverified-dot-email.html

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 63 comments

Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

https://theia-ide.org/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 183 comments

Foursquare Merges with Factual

https://www.wsj.com/articles/foursquare-merges-with-factual-another-location-data-provider-11586193000

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 115 comments

Crafting Interpreters Is Complete

http://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 1 comments

Io_uring By Example: cat, cp and a web server with io_uring

https://unixism.net/2020/04/io-uring-by-example-article-series/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 37 comments

Code is Engineering; Types are Science

https://www.tweag.io/posts/2020-03-05-peirce.html

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 84 comments

Lean Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Logical Verification [pdf]

https://github.com/blanchette/logical_verification_2020/raw/master/hitchhikers_guide.pdf

6 years ago

★ 96 Lean
177 upvotes – 19 comments

Google allows G Suite administrators to monitor and audit user emails

https://www.goldyarora.com/how-you-can-access-your-users-email-without-knowing-their-password-in-google-apps/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 172 comments

Tesla Ventilator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZbDg24dfN0

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 135 comments

For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends (2018)

https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-labor-policy

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 174 comments

StarCharter – CLI tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky

https://github.com/dcf21/star-charter

6 years ago

★ 384 C GPL-3.0
160 upvotes – 11 comments

Play social games with friends over Zoom

https://netgames.io/games/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 66 comments

Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative

https://codeberg.org/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 90 comments

Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dangerous

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/899-Userdir-URLs-like-httpsexample.orgusername-are-dangerous.html

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 131 comments

Work Is Work

https://codahale.com/work-is-work/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 44 comments

Tips for Founders Sales: Lessons from Starting Two B2B Startups

http://philstrazzulla.com/2020/04/06/tips-for-founders-sales-lessons-from-starting-two-b2b-startups/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

Common templates to help you say “no”

https://www.starterstory.com/how-to-say-no

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

A Little Clojure

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/06/ALittleClojure.html

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 114 comments

New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/05/zoom-new-york-city-schools/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 59 comments

Libcsp: a fast C concurrency library influenced by the CSP model

https://github.com/shiyanhui/libcsp

6 years ago

★ 1.3k C MIT
138 upvotes – 24 comments

The Io Language

http://iolanguage.org/

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 24 comments

Free CS Courses – Amazon Future Engineer

https://www.amazonfutureengineer.com/free-courses

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 119 comments

Swedish hospital suspends Covid-19 treatment with chloroquine

https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/sahlgrenska-stoppar-behandling-med-malariamedicin-mot-covid-19-1.26236140

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required

https://rootshirechess.glitch.me/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroquine+Azithromycin

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X20300858

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 99 comments

Krustlet, the WebAssembly Kubelet

https://deislabs.io/posts/introducing-krustlet/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 19 comments

VHDL support for open-source FPGA toolchain YoSys

https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl-yosys-plugin

6 years ago

★ 359 VHDL GPL-3.0
116 upvotes – 14 comments

The Age of M-Pesa

https://owaahh.com/the-age-of-mpesa/

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

New test of the gravitational 1/r2 law at separations down to 52μm

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101101

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 42 comments

Brim: Open-source desktop app to analyze large pcaps through the lens of Zeek

https://github.com/brimsec/brim

6 years ago

★ 1.9k TypeScript
104 upvotes – 16 comments

Spain to Roll Out Permanent Universal Basic Income ‘Soon’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/04/06/spain-to-roll-out-permanent-universal-basic-income-soon/#707afb2b316f

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

Principle of Least Astonishment

https://wiki.c2.com/?PrincipleOfLeastAstonishment

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 46 comments

Timely Dataflow and Total Order

http://justinjaffray.com/timely-dataflow-and-total-order/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 2 comments

Git alias for printing recently-used branches

https://ses4j.github.io/2020/04/01/git-alias-recent-branches/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52155008

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Synthesizing Optimal 8051 Code

https://lab.whitequark.org/notes/2020-04-06/synthesizing-optimal-8051-code/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Do other people have days in which they're dumber than usual?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795677

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 63 comments

Time-restricted feeding can reset disrupted clock rhythm, protect against cancer

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874391920300130

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

What Are Spomeniks?

https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/what-are-spomeniks

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Musth

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

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Hydroxychloroquine Update for April 6

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/06/hydroxychloroquine-update-for-april-6

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 94 comments

A chat protocol for remote lectures

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20200406/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments
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