top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-03

Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057411

5 years ago

666 upvotes – 222 comments

Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

https://www.stephnass.com/blog/startup-financial-model

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 41 comments

What would you do if you lost your Google account?

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/losing-google-account/

5 years ago

558 upvotes – 489 comments

A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

https://thehustle.co/the-man-feeding-a-remote-alaska-town-with-a-costco-card-and-a-ship

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 225 comments

Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot

https://stanfordstudentrobotics.org/pupper

5 years ago

422 upvotes – 77 comments

Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective

https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 432 comments

So I reverse engineered two dating apps

https://push32.com/post/dating-app-fail/

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 131 comments

Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14545

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 25 comments

Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 389 comments

YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

https://www.newsweek.com/david-icke-man-behind-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-has-youtube-channel-shuttered-sharing-1501641

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 870 comments

Making Rust as Fast as Go

https://www.christianfscott.com/making-rust-as-fast-as-go/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 200 comments

US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/sunday-morning-quarterbacking/

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 255 comments

Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost

https://erikbern.com/2020/03/10/never-attribute-to-stupidity-that-which-is-adequately-explained-by-opportunity-cost.html

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 91 comments

Signs that a business idea will probably fail

https://dannorris.me/9-signs-that-your-business-idea-will-probably-fail/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 86 comments

Popcorn Linux

http://popcornlinux.org/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 75 comments

Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

https://horizon-eda.org/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 103 comments

Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-29/covid-19-oil-collapse-is-geopolitical-reset-in-disguise

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 213 comments

Intel Virtualisation: How VT-X, KVM and QEMU Work Together

https://binarydebt.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/intel-virtualisation-how-vt-x-kvm-and-qemu-work-together/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 23 comments

Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52458765

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 94 comments

Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 124 comments

RustBoyAdvance-NG: GameBoy Advance emulator and debugger, written in rust

https://github.com/michelhe/rustboyadvance-ng

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 28 comments

Jetson AGX Xavier

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-agx-xavier/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 92 comments

How I recovered a lost email from my email client’s memory

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/restore-lost-email-from-ram.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 82 comments

Judge approves Facebook's settlement with FTC over ‘stunning’ privacy violations

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/federal-judge-stunned-by-facebooks-unscrupulous-violation-of-the-law-warns-of-much-deeper-problems

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 76 comments

Ply: A Visual Web Inspector (2018) [slides]

https://slim.computer/ply-uist-2018/#/title-slide

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: No formal software education – is there hope for me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23061236

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 157 comments

Intel to buy smart urban transit startup Moovit for $1B for its car division

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/03/intel-to-buy-smart-urban-transit-startup-moovit-for-1b-to-boost-its-autonomous-car-division/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 86 comments

Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017)

https://hiepph.github.io/post/2017-11-24-emacs-org-syncthing/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

Hideo Kojima’s Video-Game Worlds

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/magazine/hideo-kojima-death-stranding-video-game.html

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 77 comments

We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/02/virtual-worlds-video-games-coronavirus-social-networks-fortnite-animal-crossing/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 108 comments

How Recursion Got into Programming (2014)

https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 47 comments

Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2020042900453/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 98 comments

Computational Category Theory in Python III: Monoids, Groups, and Preorders

http://www.philipzucker.com/computational-category-theory-in-python-3-monoids-groups-and-preorders/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Strike: A web-based, 1-bit paint tool

https://amorphous.itch.io/strike

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 22 comments

Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012)

http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-quality.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: AvionDB: A Decentralised Database with MongoDB-like Developer Interface

https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/nasa-will-pay-a-staggering-146-million-for-each-sls-rocket-engine/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 59 comments

The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

What Makes a Good Teacher? (2001)

https://www.unicef.org/teachers/teacher/teacher.htm

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (2017)

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-windows-10-ads-taskbar-file-explorer

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 102 comments

Is the Cloud Recession-Proof?

https://interconnected.blog/is-the-cloud-recession-proof/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 111 comments

Dining Cryptographers Problem

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

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 9 comments

Docker Swarm Cluster Complete Guide

https://knowledgepill.it/posts/docker_swarm_compendium/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Comparing Software Engineer Salaries Across Cities

https://javednissar.ca/comparing-software-engineer-salaries-across-cities/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 86 comments

LibrePCB 0.1.4 Released

https://librepcb.org/blog/2020-05-03_release_0.1.4/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Saudi stocks slump as minister warns of ‘painful’ measures ahead

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-03/saudi-stocks-slump-as-minister-warns-of-painful-measures-ahead

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 86 comments
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