top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-11

John Conway has died

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

6 years ago

YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Moving Away from Gmail

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

6 years ago

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

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

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

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

6 years ago

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

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

6 years ago

Don't Make Students Use Eclipse

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

6 years ago

Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

John Conway: A Life in Games (2015)

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

6 years ago

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

Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors

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

6 years ago

Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python

https://github.com/twintproject/twint

6 years ago

★ 16.3k Python MIT

Guédelon Castle

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia

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

6 years ago

★ 352 TypeScript MIT

Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser

https://party.mookerj.ee

6 years ago

I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data

https://jonas-schuermann.name/projects/dvcs-for-structured-data/blog/2020-03-22-manifesto.html

6 years ago

Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/optimizing-ruby-lazy-initialization-in-truffleruby-with-deoptimization

6 years ago

Show HN: Redsand.io – Find partners for software projects

https://redsand.io/

6 years ago

Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sleep-a-tale-of-institutional-failure/

6 years ago

Surprisingly Turing-Complete

https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

6 years ago

Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tablist/eagbohciligljbgpbdbflaloangiodhe

6 years ago

France rules Google must pay news firms for content

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-france/france-rules-google-must-pay-news-firms-for-content-idUSKCN21R14X

6 years ago

Asciiflow in VS Code

https://github.com/zenghongtu/vscode-asciiflow2

6 years ago

★ 401 JavaScript

How often does Rust change?

https://words.steveklabnik.com/how-often-does-rust-change

6 years ago

Pinephone – Community Edition: UBports

https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-community-edition-ubports-limited-edition-linux-smartphone

6 years ago

Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=qSKBtEBRWi4

6 years ago

Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z29hLZHiVt7W2uss2uMpSZquAX5T6vaeSF6Cy

6 years ago

The formula for pi buried in a hydrogen atom

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/discovery-of-classic-pi-formula-a-cunning-piece-of-magic-128002/

6 years ago

ReactOS 0.4.13

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0413-released/

6 years ago

Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients

https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d

6 years ago

“Hello world” from scratch on a 6502 (2019) [video]

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

6 years ago

Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3

https://github.com/aaronjanse/3mux

6 years ago

★ 1.8k Go MIT

Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13273986

6 years ago

Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of SARS coronavirus (2004)

https://jvi.asm.org/content/79/3/1966

6 years ago

Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA's Perseverance Rover

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mars-helicopter-attached-to-nasas-perseverance-rover

6 years ago

List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore (2018)

https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history

6 years ago

★ 2.9k

Programming Servo: My own private runtime

https://medium.com/programming-servo/programming-servo-my-own-private-runtime-8a5ba74c63c8

6 years ago

Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System

https://d7y.io/en-us/

6 years ago

The first two years of my PhD

https://rachitnigam.com/post/first-two-years/

6 years ago

Get started with computer science papers

https://developer.sh/posts/computer-science-papers

6 years ago

Forecasting with uncertainty

https://www.causal.app/blog/forecasting-with-uncertainty

6 years ago