top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-05-25

Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037

5 years ago

1030 upvotes – 649 comments

I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/

5 years ago

827 upvotes – 102 comments

Software will eat software in a remote-first world

https://themargins.substack.com/p/software-will-eat-software-in-a-remote

5 years ago

619 upvotes – 431 comments

I've collected over 600 pitch decks

https://starthouse.xyz?ref=hn

5 years ago

606 upvotes – 87 comments

A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

https://twitter.com/rkoutnik/status/1255505362733674499

5 years ago

594 upvotes – 282 comments

The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33645/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-armys-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 115 comments

GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code

https://torrentfreak.com/github-reinstates-popcorn-time-code-despite-mpa-threat-200520/

5 years ago

512 upvotes – 345 comments

Two capacitor paradox

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

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305111

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 258 comments

I bought netflix.soy

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_bought_netflix_dot_soy

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 256 comments

Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 232 comments

Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/court-decision_companies-must-pay-share-of-rent-for-employees-working-from-home/45781126

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 252 comments

Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-removes-over-5-million-reviews-from-play-store-to-improve-tiktok-rating-1681721-2020-05-25

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 103 comments

Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?

https://www.type-driven.org.uk/edwinb/why-is-idris-2-so-much-faster-than-idris-1.html

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 81 comments

Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2020/05/23/Solving-the-Miracle-Sudoku-in-Prolog/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres

https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 88 comments

A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/arts/music/poland-chart-song-removed.html

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303562

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 45 comments

I/O library 6x faster than fmt, 10x faster than stdio.h and iostream

https://github.com/expnkx/fast_io

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 118 comments

Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated

https://afridigest.substack.com/p/why-super-apps-are-proliferating

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 130 comments

Intelligent disobedience

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

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 84 comments

The Vanishing Of Ashlar: 4kb demo using GPU for sound and pathtracing

https://demozoo.org/productions/278629/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 44 comments

Pelorus Jack

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

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 30 comments

A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers

https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-threat-modelling.html

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 17 comments

Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation

https://tanay.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-stock-based

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 46 comments

Thai Database Leaks 8.3B Internet Records

https://rainbowtabl.es/2020/05/25/thai-database-leaks-internet-records/?=may-23-2020

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 74 comments

eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ebay-port-scans-visitors-computers-for-remote-access-programs/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 51 comments

A day using money in Cuba

http://boazsobrado.com/blog/2020/05/22/a-day-using-money-in-cuba/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 173 comments

Bahamas Company Registry Leaked

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/25/mafia-logic/#ddosecrets

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 73 comments

Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/joe-rogan-spotify-podcast.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 382 comments

Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”

https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/05/25/hardware-fix-for-dell-ac-power-adapter-could-not-be-determined/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 119 comments

Duff's device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 59 comments

Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)

https://the-eye.eu/public/Software/Old%20Apps/DOS%20Resources/Undocumented%20dos%20tips.txt

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 53 comments

Highly available Kubernetes with batteries for small business

https://cinaq.com/post/2020/05/25/highly-available-kubernetes-with-batteries-for-small-business/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 67 comments

The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism

https://aeon.co/essays/the-china-tea-trade-was-a-paradox-of-global-capitalism

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 175 comments

Guilemacs – Emacs with Guile Scheme

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Beyond Remote

https://vimota.me/writing/beyond-remote

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01543-x

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

SONiC – An Open Source Network Operating System

https://azure.github.io/SONiC/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Did Reddit ever end up giving equity to any of its users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23298611

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 51 comments

Russian Espionage and Electromagnetic Fields: The Story of the Theremin (2017)

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/theremin-instrumental-instruments

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 24 comments

A Developer Culture Test

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-developer-culture-test/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/ancient-egyptian-coffins-and-mystery-of-black-goo/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 54 comments

Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2020/05/22/examining-windows-1-0-hello-c/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 49 comments

An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007)

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/sine-wave-speech/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments