top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-06

New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881451/the-golden-gate-bridge-sounds-like-a-david-lynch-movie-now

5 years ago

952 upvotes – 332 comments

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

673 upvotes – 266 comments

The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

5 years ago

592 upvotes – 361 comments

eBay is port scanning visitors to their website

https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 461 comments

Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science

https://jurassicparkterror.net/jurassic-park-dinosaurs/

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 35 comments

Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/building-the-most-inaccessible-site-possible-with-a-perfect-lighthouse-score/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 78 comments

Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/humanities-arent-a-science-stop-treating-them-like-one/

5 years ago

320 upvotes – 228 comments

How we use HashiCorp Nomad

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 160 comments

Avoiding the Global Lobotomy

https://www.meta-nomad.net/avoiding-the-global-lobotomy/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 158 comments

We’ve built a towering pile of shite

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06/weve-built-a-towering-pile-of-shite/

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 199 comments

Blender 2.83 LTS

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-83/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 134 comments

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/06/06/al-jaffee-mad-magazine-retires/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 25 comments

Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 44 comments

Why I Use Suckless Tools

https://christine.website/blog/why-i-use-suckless-tools-2020-06-05

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 207 comments

USB-C is still a mess

https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 204 comments

Peer-to-Peer Communications with WebRTC

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/WebRTC/Peer-to-peer_communications_with_WebRTC

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 74 comments

Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/114806/belgian-man-has-been-receiving-pizzas-he-never-ordered-for-years/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 220 comments

Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in one week

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/06/americans-views-police-drop-significantly-amid-protests-survey/3159072001/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 250 comments

A guide to writing a DNS Server from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/EmilHernvall/dnsguide

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 21 comments

Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu

https://techtudor.blogspot.com/2020/06/four-reasons-why-snaps-are-anti-pattern.html

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 194 comments

I made a font based on my handwriting

https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/06/pythonfontforgeorg-i-made-a-font-based-on-my-handwriting/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 113 comments

All-in-One DNS block list

https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 55 comments

Cingulata: Run C++ code over encrypted data with fully homomorphic encryption

https://github.com/CEA-LIST/Cingulata

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 42 comments

Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)

https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 172 comments

13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number

https://androidrookies.com/a-whopping-13500-vivo-smartphones-found-running-on-same-imei-number/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 76 comments

Helium shortage has ended, at least for now

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20200605a/full/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 98 comments

Editors (Vim)

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/editors/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Offset – Credit card powered by trust between people

https://www.offsetcredit.org

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 108 comments

Facebook Novi and Surveillance Finance

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/novi.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

Larder.io – Bookmarking for Developers

https://larder.io/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hs451PfFzQ

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 36 comments

Why the developers who use Rust love it so much

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/05/why-the-developers-who-use-rust-love-it-so-much/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 165 comments

What is Electricity? (1996)

http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 46 comments

There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance after Moore’s law

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/mit-if-chips-cant-get-smaller-then-coders-have-to-get-smarter/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 122 comments

Patent on displaying SQL data in HTML, granted to IBM in 1998

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5737592A/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 89 comments

Free user space for non-graphics drivers

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/821817/d2e8e5c253b68ce6/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

A Future Without MPEG

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-future-without-mpeg/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

A new project: multi-track audio editing (2005)

http://www.1014.org/index.php?article=283

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Xs: a concatenative array language inspired by kdb+ and FORTH

https://cryptm.org/xs/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Canada for tech jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440346

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 113 comments
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