top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-04-11

John Conway has died

https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249038195880341505

6 years ago

2305 upvotes – 178 comments

YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

https://medium.com/@alexhowlett/youtube-accidentally-permanently-terminated-my-account-4b5852c80679

6 years ago

674 upvotes – 263 comments

John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx2tpcdKZY

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 60 comments

Moving Away from Gmail

https://rolisz.ro/2020/04/11/moving-away-from-gmail/

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 278 comments

IBM will offer free COBOL training

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-training-to-address-overloaded-unemployment-systems

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 227 comments

After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light

https://www.wired.com/story/after-50-years-of-effort-researchers-made-silicon-emit-light/

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 97 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

6 years ago

297 upvotes – 170 comments

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 143 comments

Don't Make Students Use Eclipse

https://nora.codes/post/stop-making-students-use-eclipse/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 249 comments

Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)

https://fashion-incubator.com/sleeve_cap_ease_is_bogus/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 39 comments

Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 31 comments

John Conway: A Life in Games (2015)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conways-life-in-games-20150828/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 1 comments

Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)

https://smalldata.tech/blog/2017/03/27/questions-to-ask-at-the-end-of-a-technical-interview

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 108 comments

Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors

https://semiengineering.com/why-its-so-hard-to-create-new-processors/

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 121 comments

Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python

https://github.com/twintproject/twint

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 63 comments

Guédelon Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 40 comments

Ways to surf some of the decentralized web

https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/all-the-ways-you-can-surf-the-decentralized-web-today-bf8e7a42fa27

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 98 comments

Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia

https://github.com/saasify-sh/twitter-search

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser

https://party.mookerj.ee

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 41 comments
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