top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-09

Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

https://www.brandons.me/blog/libraries-not-frameworks

6 years ago

1044 upvotes – 327 comments

Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

https://github.com/yemount/pose-animator/

6 years ago

★ 8.8k JavaScript Apache-2.0
719 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

https://github.com/rxi/lite

6 years ago

★ 8.1k Lua MIT
607 upvotes – 256 comments

First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier

https://kamerontanseli.ghost.io/first-it-was-craiglist-next-its-zapier/

6 years ago

453 upvotes – 142 comments

Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-40-will-get-new-modernized-lightmapper

6 years ago

409 upvotes – 134 comments

Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C

https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid

6 years ago

★ 4.2k C MIT
389 upvotes – 155 comments

Iridescent Tempered Chocolate

https://twitter.com/samykamkar/status/1259173832620830722

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 34 comments

The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter

https://twitter.com/sylefeb/status/1258808333265514497

6 years ago

320 upvotes – 101 comments

Little Richard has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/09/little-richard-dies-aged-83-rock-n-roll-pioneer

6 years ago

295 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at the shell

https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp

6 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT
285 upvotes – 42 comments

Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software

https://alicevision.org/#meshroom

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 76 comments

James Damore and three others end Google suit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-09/ex-google-engineer-who-became-right-wing-hero-quietly-ends-suit

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 921 comments

Secessio plebis

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

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 97 comments

A casino card shark’s first time getting caught

https://narratively.com/a-casino-card-sharks-first-time-getting-caught/

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 122 comments

Carbon: Create and share images of source code

https://carbon.now.sh/

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 111 comments

We Are Trying Out PeerTube

https://boilingsteam.com/we-are-trying-out-peertube/

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 137 comments

If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/ask-questions-during-interviews/?hn

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 136 comments

StreetComplete asks questions, with answers used to improve OpenStreetMap data

https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete

6 years ago

★ 4.5k Kotlin GPL-3.0
217 upvotes – 40 comments

X-37b space plane’s microwave power beam experiment

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33339/x-37b-space-planes-microwave-power-beam-experiment-is-a-way-bigger-deal-than-it-seems

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 167 comments

Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/elon-musk-too-many-smart-people-go-into-finance-and-law.html

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 278 comments

'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19#

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 227 comments

Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip

http://www.righto.com/2020/05/tiny-transformer-inside-decapping.html

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 18 comments

Why are some people better at working from home than others?

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200506-why-are-some-people-better-at-working-from-home-than-others

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 164 comments

EnTT: Gaming meets Modern C++

https://github.com/skypjack/entt

6 years ago

★ 12.6k C++ MIT
169 upvotes – 37 comments

The Case for Stanislaw Lem

https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-stanislaw-lem-one-of-science-fictions-unsung-giants-94aee43db04f

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 274 comments

Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS

https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikipedia-ipfs

6 years ago

★ 174 JavaScript MIT
143 upvotes – 48 comments

The links between mental disorders

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00922-8

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 124 comments

EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management system

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden

6 years ago

★ 6.8k Rust GPL-2.0
139 upvotes – 31 comments

My Job Interview at Google (2008)

https://catonmat.net/my-job-interview-at-google

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 155 comments

Gimp-ML – Machine Learning Python plugins for GIMP

https://github.com/kritiksoman/GIMP-ML

6 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT
118 upvotes – 14 comments

The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 114 comments

Recovering Iran’s NOUR 01 ‘Military Satellite’

https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/recovering-irans-nour-01-military-satellite/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

A commit history of BERT and its forks

https://amitness.com/2020/05/git-log-of-bert/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Bolt: A research language with finer-grained concurrency than Rust

https://github.com/mukul-rathi/bolt

6 years ago

★ 601 OCaml MIT
103 upvotes – 24 comments

Understanding Raft Consensus

https://www.micahlerner.com/2020/05/08/understanding-raft-consensus.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 3 comments

Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/IsStatenIsland/diary/392994

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Flight Attendants and Covid-19

https://confessionsfromaflightattendant.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/flight-attendants-and-covid-19/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 139 comments

How Long Was Venus Habitable?

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-long-was-venus-habitable#.XralmVMHBZM.twitter

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body estimation

https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose

6 years ago

★ 34k C++
98 upvotes – 12 comments

The Lord of the Flies: when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Can we escape from information overload?

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/can-we-escape-from-information-overload

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

ImPlot: Advanced 2D Plotting for Dear ImGui

https://github.com/epezent/implot

6 years ago

★ 6k C++ MIT
94 upvotes – 6 comments

Seven Bridges of Königsberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

How I Turned an Idea into $7K by Teaching Online

https://leerob.io/blog/teach-online

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

Proton pump inhibitors (heartburn meds) linked with increased risk of dementia

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12113

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21246229/pc-gaming-cheating-aimbots-wallhacks-hacking-tools-developer-response-problem

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 157 comments

How Payments Providers Screw You (2015)

https://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/how-payments-providers-screw-you

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments
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