top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-13

Deno 1.0

https://deno.land/v1

5 years ago

2081 upvotes – 583 comments

Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires-in-14-days-or-they-kill-our-extension/

5 years ago

1915 upvotes – 788 comments

A first look at Unreal Engine 5

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/a-first-look-at-unreal-engine-5

5 years ago

1734 upvotes – 676 comments

Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881

5 years ago

1336 upvotes – 2248 comments

92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gitwbo/pointing_out_how_much_power_few_people_have_gets/

5 years ago

1077 upvotes – 626 comments

Show HN: SHA-256 Animation

https://github.com/in3rsha/sha256-animation

5 years ago

1053 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

5 years ago

956 upvotes – 342 comments

Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/gin79z/i_made_an_alt_because_this_is_sketchy_so_i_can

5 years ago

659 upvotes – 190 comments

Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/senate-warrant-americans-web-browsing-data/

5 years ago

566 upvotes – 271 comments

Linux containers in a few lines of code

https://zserge.com/posts/containers/

5 years ago

458 upvotes – 85 comments

Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

https://janet-lang.org

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 269 comments

OTP 23

http://www.erlang.org/news/140

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 119 comments

Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on reducing signup friction

https://bbirnbaum.com/two-lessons-on-reducing-sign-up-friction/

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 199 comments

The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/HTTPSNoOldServers

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 450 comments

Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/13/854014403/your-boss-is-watching-you-work-from-home-boom-leads-to-more-surveillance

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 296 comments

Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs

https://github.com/spacerace/romfont

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 65 comments

The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you

https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/tower/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 157 comments

America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies still struggle to profit

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-stuck-at-home-but-food-delivery-companies-still-struggle-to-profit-11589374801

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 424 comments

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-tony-evers-coronavirus-orders/5179205002/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 577 comments

My New Old Apple IIe Computer

https://www.charlieharrington.com/my-new-old-apple-iie-computer

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 101 comments

Reason React 0.8

https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/blob/master/HISTORY.md#080-042020

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 82 comments

Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/optimising-for-concurrency-comparing-and-contrasting-the-beam-and-jvm-virtual-machines.html

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 106 comments

Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (2014) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 101 comments

Announcing TypeScript 3.9

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-9/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 95 comments

Error messages in Haiku?

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 39 comments

Role of Vitamin D in the prevention of Coronavirus 2019 infection and mortality

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-21211/v1

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 116 comments

Subinterpreters for Python

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/820424/172e6da006687167/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 139 comments

How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/handling-2x-traffic-in-a-week.htm

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 94 comments

Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX

https://psychology.design/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 41 comments

Moths have 'secret role' as crucial pollinators

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52630991

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 26 comments

A Short History of Color Theory

https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/a-short-history-of-color-theory/index.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 52 comments

The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 127 comments

White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a system

https://ramon.dev/business/2020/05/11/become-an-admin.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 36 comments

Are There Laws of History?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-history-was-more-like-science-would-it-predict-the-future

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 135 comments
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