top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-12

Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

http://cs-online.club

5 years ago

878 upvotes – 317 comments

Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3

http://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3

5 years ago

769 upvotes – 140 comments

Biohacking Lite

https://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/

5 years ago

731 upvotes – 362 comments

New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/

5 years ago

519 upvotes – 486 comments

Async Python is not faster

http://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html

5 years ago

472 upvotes – 353 comments

Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?

https://kevq.uk/is-dark-mode-such-a-good-idea/

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 537 comments

California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers (2019)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-prisons-idUSKBN1WQ2Q9

5 years ago

431 upvotes – 122 comments

Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers

https://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/1271185023744397312

5 years ago

429 upvotes – 280 comments

Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15846/jim-keller-resigns-from-intel-effective-immediately

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 200 comments

Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-protests-firing/facebook-fires-employee-who-protested-its-inaction-on-trump-tweets-idUSKBN23J35Y

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 313 comments

Design electronics like it is 70s at CERN

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNjVlcaYM4Fre6F_AGtX6Jw0K1BIylWILAPAXds9WwPalniCJwPFOX5v8h1T-CtoQ?key=OVBmbGlwa2dXUXg1a2JBUnpvYWotNVB6cUdyTkVR

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 79 comments

Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-health-sex/young-u-s-men-having-a-lot-less-sex-in-the-21st-century-study-shows-idUSKBN23J2LI

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 691 comments

Twilio Super Sim – Public Beta

https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot/supersim

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 142 comments

The Book of Shaders

https://thebookofshaders.com/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 26 comments

Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects

https://www.reaktor.com/blog/forecasting-method/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 131 comments

Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99

https://androidrookies.com/pine64-launches-the-cheapest-linux-tablet-ever-priced-at-just-99-99/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 114 comments

Best practices for managing and storing secrets like API keys and credentials

https://blog.gitguardian.com/secrets-api-management/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups

https://www.axios.com/facebook-establishing-a-venture-arm-to-invest-in-startups-91d9ee71-2282-4032-8f31-45b861a6ba9c.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 155 comments

The relationship between mindset and age (2017)

http://aging.nautil.us/feature/218/why-you-cant-help-but-act-your-age

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 81 comments

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 87 comments

Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump

https://craigmod.com/essays/software_slump/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 97 comments

How to implement search-by-color when all you have is a good coffee

https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/how-to-implement-search-by-color-when-all-you-have-is-a-good-coffee

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497756

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 61 comments

I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook-pro-raspberry-pi-4-8gb-day

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 216 comments

GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 243 comments

Ask HN: Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503947

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 108 comments

Venmo and Paypal Are Stalling Urgent Efforts to Bail People Out of Jail

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qbnz/venmo-paypal-freeze-transfer-limits-bail-funds

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 109 comments

Forth implemented in Rust trait system

https://github.com/Ashymad/fortraith

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 84 comments

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick

https://web.archive.org/web/20080125030037/http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 117 comments

Fountain pen ink properties

https://crlf.site/log/notes/200430-inks/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 119 comments

Minimizing Rust Binary Size

https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Tips for students before starting their first job

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497026

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 175 comments

The Sickness in Our Food Supply

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/covid-19-sickness-food-supply/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 60 comments

Lamphone: Real-Time Passive Sound Recovery from Light Bulb Vibrations

https://www.nassiben.com/lamphone

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 30 comments

Hermes – package manager and deployment tool for Linux

https://acha.ninja/blog/introducing_hermes/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

A survey of recent iOS kernel exploits

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-survey-of-recent-ios-kernel-exploits.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 69 comments

Hot-swapping Python 3 code

https://github.com/say4n/hotreload

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 58 comments

Go 1.15 – Draft release notes

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.15

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

The blissfully escapist comic novels of PG Wodehouse

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200602-the-man-who-wrote-the-most-perfect-sentences-ever-written

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 57 comments

Map of Computing Architectures for AWS

https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/~hello-world/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 8 comments

How I made $3,300 on a short niche philosophy book

https://theotherlifenow.com/how-i-made-3300-on-a-short-niche-philosophy-book/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 51 comments

Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20200527a/full/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 60 comments

New research helps unravel how vast amounts of plastic particles travel

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thousands-of-tons-of-microplastics-are-falling-from-the-sky/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple’s Mac Chip Switch Is Double Trouble for Intel

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-09/apple-s-mac-chip-switch-is-double-trouble-for-intel

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 116 comments

Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/12/disney-twitter-bob-iger

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 37 comments

Tim Bray told a union meeting Amazon should be broken up

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-engineer-tim-bray-calls-for-antitrust-breakup-2020-6

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 119 comments

Senator Josh Hawley's Open Letter to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-zoom-pick-side-american-principles-and-free-speech-or-short-term-global-profits-and

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 57 comments

The coronavirus pandemic isn’t ending – it’s surging

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/06/11/coronavirus-pandemic-isnt-ending-its-surging/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments
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