top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-11

We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology

https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-company-switched-to-hyped-technology/

5 years ago

1224 upvotes – 200 comments

Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/

5 years ago

677 upvotes – 199 comments

Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891

5 years ago

571 upvotes – 1177 comments

Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/000000000000000000024bead8df69990852c202db0e0097c1a12ea637d7e96d

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 661 comments

New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity

https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2020/05/07/JCM.00941-20

5 years ago

490 upvotes – 265 comments

Encouraging a culture of written communication

https://www.mcls.io/blog/encouraging-a-culture-of-written-communication

5 years ago

473 upvotes – 188 comments

Scraping Recipe Websites

https://www.benawad.com/scraping-recipe-websites/

5 years ago

463 upvotes – 196 comments

Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse

https://webrecorder.io/

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 90 comments

Age Reduction Breakthrough?

https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/05/11/age-reduction-breakthrough/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 405 comments

NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitting 7 reopening criteria

https://forward.ny.gov/regional-monitoring-dashboard

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 161 comments

Deep Learning for Guitar Effect Emulation

https://teddykoker.com/2020/05/deep-learning-for-guitar-effect-emulation/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 159 comments

Teensy 4.1 Development Board

https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 210 comments

Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-4

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 169 comments

2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]

https://sigact.org/prizes/knuth/citation2020.pdf

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 33 comments

Apache NiFi

http://nifi.apache.org/index.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 135 comments

My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycDx69px8U

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 52 comments

Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence

https://psyarxiv.com/aru3f/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 154 comments

John Peel Sessions

https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 107 comments

Artbreeder – Extend Your Imagination with GANs

https://artbreeder.com/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 73 comments

ESLint 7.0

https://eslint.org/blog/2020/05/eslint-v7.0.0-released

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 90 comments

KH-11 spysat design revealed by NRO’s telescope gift to NASA (2012)

https://www.americaspace.com/2012/06/06/top-secret-kh-11-spysat-design-revealed-by-nros-twin-telescope-gift-to-nasa/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 113 comments

Redfin: Vacation real-estate ‘toast’ as Airbnb owners rush to offload homes

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vacation-real-estate-markets-are-toast-because-of-the-pandemic-as-airbnb-owners-rush-to-offload-their-homes-redfin-ceo-says-2020-05-11?mod=home-page

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 205 comments

What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

https://leontrolski.github.io/dom-syntax.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript

https://fl7b8.csb.app/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 35 comments

Tesla restarting production defying local order

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-to-restart-production-elon-musk-says-11589230278

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-user-activity

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 55 comments

Launch HN: Data Mechanics (YC S19) – The Simplest Way to Run Apache Spark

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142831

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

The Power of Prolog [video]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFeNyzCEQDS4KCecugmotg/videos

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 19 comments

New math proves that a special kind of space-time is unstable

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-prove-that-anti-de-sitter-space-time-is-unstable-20200511/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distribution

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.202000033

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 55 comments

Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power (2013)

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 50 comments

It’s 25 years since Sega of America made its biggest mistake

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgardner1/2020/05/11/its-25-years-since-sega-of-america-made-its-biggest-ever-mistake/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 117 comments

Tracy Profiler – a real-time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler

https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

Ray Tracing Essentials Part 7: Denoising for Ray Tracing

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ray-tracing-essentials-part-7-denoising-for-ray-tracing/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 123 comments

Visualizing Electricity

https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/how-to-visualize-electricity

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 88 comments

I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses were opening in Dallas

https://blogmaverick.com/2020/05/07/i-hired-a-team-of-secret-shoppers-to-find-out-how-businesses-were-opening-in-dallas-its-not-good/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 150 comments

U.S. Senators Advocate H-1B Freeze for 60 Days or Longer

https://insights.dice.com/2020/05/11/u-s-senators-advocate-h-1b-freeze-60-days/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 153 comments

How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes#

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 47 comments

Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights (2018)

https://blog.jldc.me/posts/ryan-air?ref=hnm20

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World

https://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/2020/05/08/letter-results-of-finlands-basic-income-experiment-will-help-us-build-the-post-pandemic-society/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 176 comments

Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/08/microsoft-surface-go-2-review/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 180 comments

The open source DIY laptop for hacking, customization, and privacy

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one

https://thesunbest.com/not-quite-a-car-not-quite-a-motorcycle-a-vehicle-built-for-one/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 191 comments

Rust concurrency: the single-writer principle

https://medium.com/@polyglot_factotum/rust-concurrency-the-single-writer-principle-applied-aada2cdc6fb0

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 0 comments

America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200429-americas-fried-chicken-war

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

The coming disruption of colleges and universities

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/scott-galloway-future-of-college.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN

http://raganwald.com/2020/05/03/fractran.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

In Further Praise of Dependent Types

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/05/in_further_praise_of_dependent.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 89 comments

U.S. FTC indicates it is looking at Zoom privacy woes

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-ftc/u-s-ftc-indicates-it-is-looking-at-zoom-privacy-woes-idUSKBN22N2MJ

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments
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