top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-07

Most tech content is bullshit

https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer

6 years ago

709 upvotes – 461 comments

Cloudflare TV

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-tv/

6 years ago

696 upvotes – 261 comments

America is giving up on the pandemic?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/06/america-giving-up-on-pandemic/612796/

6 years ago

514 upvotes – 968 comments

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

6 years ago

459 upvotes – 282 comments

Ideas That Changed My Life

https://www.perell.com/blog/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life

6 years ago

422 upvotes – 158 comments

C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf

https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

6 years ago

★ 2.5k C GPL-3.0
377 upvotes – 82 comments

VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

6 years ago

★ 32.8k Shell MIT
369 upvotes – 200 comments

Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

6 years ago

329 upvotes – 124 comments

Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department

https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 375 comments

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

6 years ago

★ 27.4k Python BSD-3-Clause
325 upvotes – 266 comments

$1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/07/forrest-fenn-treasure-rocky-mountains-found

6 years ago

320 upvotes – 172 comments

Collapse OS – Why Forth?

https://collapseos.org/forth.html

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 166 comments

Largest Known Maya Structure Found

https://www.insidescience.org/news/largest-known-maya-structure-found-more-4000-feet-long-and-nearly-3000-years-old

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 102 comments

Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/06/vuln-spotlight-zoom-code-execution-june-2020.html

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 188 comments

MiniCouchDB in Rust

https://www.garrensmith.com/blogs/mini-couch-hack-week

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 46 comments

Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising death toll

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52952686

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 158 comments

Bookmarklets I Use

https://www.ph-uhl.com/0010-Bookmarklets/

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 65 comments

Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/forced-social-isolation-causes-neural-craving-similar-to-hunger/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 134 comments

Reminder of Complexity

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/01/16/memento-complexitatis/

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 39 comments

Zipline: Drone delivery of medical supplies

https://flyzipline.com/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 54 comments

Faster than radix sort: Kirkpatrick-Reisch sorting

https://sortingsearching.com/2020/06/06/kirkpatrick-reisch.html

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23446627

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 176 comments

Show HN: Puree – Password-based Uniform-Random-Equivalent Encryption

http://puree.cc/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 82 comments

Microservices Considered Harmful (2019)

https://blog.matthieud.me/2019/microservices-considered-harmful/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 176 comments

Helvetica, a documentary

https://www.hustwit.com/helvetica

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 54 comments

Grid – A Lua Game Engine

https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 77 comments

Prologue: Full-Stack Web Framework Written in Nim

https://github.com/planety/prologue

6 years ago

★ 1.3k Nim Apache-2.0
166 upvotes – 55 comments

How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (1967)

http://www.risacher.org/rocket/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 44 comments

5G and Shannon’s Law

https://www.waveform.com/blogs/main/5g-and-shannons-law

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 157 comments

Getting Hands-on with io_uring using Go

https://developers.mattermost.com/blog/hands-on-iouring-go/

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33866/manned-fighter-to-face-an-autonomous-drone-next-year-in-a-sci-fi-movie-like-showdown

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 187 comments

Pycopy – a minimalist and memory-efficient Python implementation

https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy

6 years ago

★ 821 C MIT
135 upvotes – 52 comments

Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage

https://blog.min.io/intel_vs_gravitron/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Is it too late to start creating content on YouTube?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444750

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 110 comments

The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard

https://github.com/abstracthat/dactyl-manuform

6 years ago

★ 1.6k Clojure AGPL-3.0
98 upvotes – 66 comments

‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/smart-toilet-monitors-for-signs-of-disease.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 90 comments

Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight's Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/start-ups/quantum-dots-shift-sunlights-spectrum-to-speed-plant-growth

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450110

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 174 comments

Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

https://thestateindia.com/2020/06/06/amuls-account-suspended-for-tweeting-boycott-of-chinese-goods-and-provoking-users/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Protests about police brutality are met with wave of police brutality across US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/police-violence-protests-us-george-floyd

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 71 comments

Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: A library to add a command promp (and telnet) to your programs

https://github.com/buserror/libmish

6 years ago

★ 148 C
82 upvotes – 60 comments

A New Cold War Has Begun (2019)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/07/a-new-cold-war-has-begun/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments
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