top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-08

Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

https://twitchroulette.net/

6 years ago

732 upvotes – 202 comments

Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com

https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-redesign/

6 years ago

655 upvotes – 470 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23118940

6 years ago

566 upvotes – 522 comments

The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)

https://baekdal.com/thoughts/the-original-cookie-specification-from-1997-was-gdpr-compliant/

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 181 comments

4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020

https://marctenbosch.com/news/2020/05/siggraph-2020-technical-paper-n-dimensional-rigid-body-dynamics/

6 years ago

429 upvotes – 97 comments

There is one, and only one strain of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.virology.ws/2020/05/07/there-is-one-and-only-one-strain-of-sars-cov-2/

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 208 comments

Fast or Slow

https://www.fastorslow.com/

6 years ago

359 upvotes – 121 comments

U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 526 comments

On responses to “Bye, Amazon”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/05/06/Answers

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 193 comments

OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers

https://aralroca.com/blog/opencv-in-the-web

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 38 comments

Intel accused by workers of prioritizing chip output over safety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/intel-accused-by-workers-of-prioritizing-chip-output-over-safety

6 years ago

313 upvotes – 181 comments

Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/orca

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 74 comments

How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61672829/how-does-chrome-decide-what-to-highlight-when-you-double-click-japanese-text/61673028#61673028

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 117 comments

Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/07/the-way-forward/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management

https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten

6 years ago

★ 541 Rust GPL-2.0
236 upvotes – 62 comments

Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19

http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 122 comments

April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%

https://www.wsj.com/articles/april-jobs-report-coronavirus-2020-11588888089

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 240 comments

Analysis of dev agencies with hourly rates, team size and tech stack

https://devquarterly.com/report/q2_2020

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 83 comments

Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash-busted-a-broker-s-computers-and-inflicted-huge-losses

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 176 comments

For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 236 comments

In-person DEF CON 28 cancelled

https://forum.defcon.org/node/232005

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 86 comments

Revisiting the Business Card Raytracer

https://fabiensanglard.net/revisiting_the_businesscard_raytracer/index.html

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 52 comments

Finland to abandon school subjects in favour of phenomenon-based learning (2016)

https://curiousmindmagazine.com/goodbye-subjects-finland-taking-revolution-education-step/

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 128 comments

Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-05-uber-billion-offloads-bike-scooter.html

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 132 comments

0xF Rules

http://fabiensanglard.net/ilike/index.html

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 106 comments

Google, Facebook make statements to staff about working from home for 2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/internet-giants-to-staff-plan-to-work-from-home-for-the-year

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 172 comments

The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 169 comments

TempleOS

https://templeos.org/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 73 comments

I just recevied an DMCA takedown from GitHub because upstream is “unopensourced”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23113226

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 33 comments

School districts are sending WiFi-equipped buses to poor and rural neighborhoods

https://thehustle.co/05082020-wifi-school-busses/

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 120 comments

Async-GraphQL: A GraphQL server framework

https://github.com/async-graphql/async-graphql

6 years ago

★ 3.6k Rust Apache-2.0
134 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: What are the other websites you visit daily?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23118993

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 39 comments

Power Bends Light (2019)

https://honkathon.com/2019-08-18-power-bends-light/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

Welcome to Auroville

https://www.auroville.org/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 78 comments

Goircd: Minimalistic simple IRC server written on Go

https://git.cypherpunks.ru/cgit.cgi/goircd.git/tree/README

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 66 comments

Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity [pdf]

https://joshuatdean.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NoiseCognitiveFunctionandWorkerProductivity.pdf

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

PCSX2 PS2 Emulator: Progress report Q3 2019 to Q1 2020

https://pcsx2.net/292-progress-report-q3-2019-to-q1-2020.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 54 comments

Holocene Extinction

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

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 124 comments

MNT Reform: The Campaign Is Live

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/the-campaign-is-live

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

BLS Reports 14.7% Unemployment Rate

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Fun Facts on Producing Minimal HTML

https://blog.notryan.com/013.txt

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 88 comments

How Roam Research analyzes product design and team building

https://thetwentyminutevc.com/conorwhitesullivan/

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 39 comments

We are not mostly empty space

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/you-are-not-mostly-empty-space-b836ca510313

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 102 comments

The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01583

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Metaphors in Man Pages

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/05/08/metaphors-in-man-pages/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

What's Intel SGX Good For?

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/05/07/three-paper-thursday-whats-intel-sgx-good-for/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 55 comments

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]

https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Google expects its staff to work from home until 2021

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-expects-its-staff-to-work-from-home-until-2021-and-its-not-alone/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 2 comments

I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world

http://nautil.us/issue/84/outbreak/dont-fear-the-robot

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 61 comments

Think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s

https://spectator.us/bloody-decade-1970s-susan-rosenberg/

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 82 comments

Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic

https://durkan.seattle.gov/2020/05/mayor-durkan-urges-residents-to-continue-to-stay-home-and-announces-stay-healthy-streets-pilot-will-become-permanent-bike-projects-will-be-expedited-in-2020/

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Static Hoisting

https://rauchg.com/2020/static-hoisting

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments
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