top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-22

MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/

5 years ago

2031 upvotes – 998 comments

Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456

5 years ago

1006 upvotes – 669 comments

Siri, What Time Is It in London?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/22/what-time-is-it-in-london

5 years ago

728 upvotes – 748 comments

I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

https://twitter.com/kaydo/status/1259747848502960130

5 years ago

649 upvotes – 246 comments

Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-healing-power-of-proper-breathing-11590098696

5 years ago

571 upvotes – 281 comments

Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/multi-node-petabyte-scale-time-series-database-postgresql-free-tsdb/

5 years ago

482 upvotes – 215 comments

FBI cannot even look at your phone lock screen without a warrant, rules judge

https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/22/phone-lock-screen/

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 103 comments

Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/21/gitlab_phishing_pentest/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 254 comments

What Unity Is Getting Wrong

https://garry.tv/unity-2020

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 297 comments

Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23272054

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 163 comments

Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-plandemic/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 208 comments

Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/22/gamegan-research-pacman-anniversary/

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 149 comments

GitLab 13.0

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/05/22/gitlab-13-0-released/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 84 comments

On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/copyright-bots-and-classical-musicians-are-fighting-online-the-bots-are-winning/2020/05/20/a11e349c-98ae-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 127 comments

Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support

https://rbitr.github.io/ChartS.css/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 50 comments

110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 77 comments

Employers are rethinking open-plan office design

https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/05/open-office-design-coronavirus-risk-safe-workplace-health/611299/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 236 comments

Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness

https://chrismorgan.info/blog/make-and-git-diff-test-harness/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 46 comments

Back of the envelope estimation hacks

https://robertovitillo.com/back-of-the-envelope-estimation-hacks/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 77 comments

The economics of cheaper batteries

https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/05/the-story-of-cheaper-batteries-from-smartphones-to-teslas/

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 158 comments

Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos

https://simonwillison.net/2020/May/21/dogsheep-photos/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270429

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 234 comments

If your product is great, it doesn't need to be good (2010)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 49 comments

Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms

https://www.quantamagazine.org/out-of-sync-loners-may-secretly-protect-orderly-swarms-20200521/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 36 comments

Programming Inside a Container

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/05/22/programming-inside-a-container/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 114 comments

What a typical serverless architecture looks like in AWS

https://medium.com/serverless-transformation/what-a-typical-100-serverless-architecture-looks-like-in-aws-40f252cd0ecb

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites

https://github.com/hkgumbs/multi

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 44 comments

One-pass Compiler

https://keleshev.com/one-pass-compiler-primer

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 43 comments

On GraphQL-to-SQL

https://productionreadygraphql.com/blog/2020-05-21-graphql-to-sql/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 66 comments

China to Allow State-Security Agents to Police Hong Kong

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-allow-state-security-agents-to-police-hong-kong-11590145427

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 75 comments

Should I Block Ads?

https://shouldiblockads.com/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 157 comments

Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270970

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/05/22/perovskite-solar-cells-pass-strict-international-tests.html

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 76 comments

Good coders borrow, great coders steal

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/20/good-coders-borrow-great-coders-steal/?cb=1

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 53 comments

Differential Forms and Integration (2008) [pdf]

https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/forms.pdf

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: React Native scrollable bottom sheet native animations gestures 60FPS

https://github.com/rgommezz/react-native-scroll-bottom-sheet

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 97 comments

Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 15 comments

Picture Hanging Knot (2017)

http://blog.ukpictureframingsupplies.co.uk/picture-framing-information/picture-framing-a-picture-cord-knot/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 51 comments

My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-05-22-my-new-FreeBSD-laptop-Dell-7390.html

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 2 comments

Grieving for Apple

https://wincent.com/blog/grieving-for-apple

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 96 comments

To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/17/broken-internet-ad-system-makes-it-easy-to-earn-money-with-plagiarism.html

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

Things I wish I knew before making a paid extension (2019)

https://www.amie-chen.com/blog/making-paid-extension/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

Python Generated Sequence Diagrams

https://dragonquest64.blogspot.com/2020/05/python-generated-sequence-diagrams.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/21/858155045/she-gets-calls-and-texts-meant-for-elon-musk-some-are-pretty-weird

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 100 comments

PGCon 2020 is free and will stream beginning May 26th

https://www.pgcon.org/2020/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

PIA Airbus 320 Crashes near Karachi

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52766904

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 87 comments

Joe Rogan got ripped off

https://www.supercast.com/blog/joe-rogan-got-ripped-off

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 136 comments

SpaceX’s first crewed spacecraft launch cleared to proceed for May 27 target

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/22/spacexs-first-crewed-spacecraft-launch-is-officially-cleared-to-proceed-on-may-27/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 56 comments

Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs

https://sphuff.com/self-hosting-a-blog-for-cheap-and-lazy-devs/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 70 comments

Video Game Heritage and Preservation

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/56680/videogame-preservation/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Why our economy may be headed for a decade of depression

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-the-economy-is-headed-for-a-post-coronavirus-depression-nouriel-roubini.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 127 comments

Show HN: Turn your fancy, expensive computer into a stupid typewriter

https://couchto50k.club/write-only/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments
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