top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-03

Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

https://www.zettlr.com/

5 years ago

675 upvotes – 261 comments

Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight

https://blog.mapbox.com/openstreetmap-a-global-map-for-worldwide-insight-4e041cbf1ec1

5 years ago

518 upvotes – 163 comments

The Silence Is Deafening

https://devonzuegel.com/post/the-silence-is-deafening

5 years ago

438 upvotes – 225 comments

Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

https://twitter.com/immunda/status/1278783894683336704

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 111 comments

Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725734

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 113 comments

Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech

https://medium.com/@sarahadowney/this-politically-correct-witch-hunt-is-killing-free-speech-and-we-have-to-fight-it-7ced038d33ae

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 294 comments

2+1=4, by quinoa

https://www.efavdb.com/quinoa%20packing

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 168 comments

Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs

https://github.com/alfiopuglisi/guietta

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 163 comments

Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-google-apple/google-backed-groups-criticize-apples-new-warnings-on-user-tracking-idUKKBN2440VG

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 217 comments

Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1

https://monokh.com/posts/bitcoin-from-scratch-part-1

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 69 comments

EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-airlines-eu/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months-idUSKBN2412MT

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 162 comments

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image

http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leonardos-the-last-supper-digitized-by-google.html

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 56 comments

Debubble

http://debubble.me

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722680

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 85 comments

GPT-3 Creative Fiction

https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 97 comments

Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 52 comments

Sphere Eversion

https://rreusser.github.io/explorations/sphere-eversion/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 45 comments

Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system

https://www.orgroam.com/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 54 comments

QuickBasic64: Basic for the Modern Era

https://www.qb64.org/portal/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 47 comments

Botswana: Lab tests to solve mystery of hundreds of dead elephants

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53273361

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 74 comments

A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/nathan-tankus-s-newsletter-subscribers-don-t-care-about-diplomas

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 127 comments

The Walkman, Forty Years On

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-walkman-forty-years-on

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 126 comments

TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/tabert-a-new-model-for-understanding-queries-over-tabular-data/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: The Book of Minecraft Modding

https://thebookofmodding.ml/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 19 comments

Göbekli Tepe

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

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 99 comments

Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/reddit-and-linkedin-apps-also-caught-copying-and-pasting-clipboard-contents/?aff=202007B

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 94 comments

A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/actual-1950s-proposal-nuke-alaska

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 144 comments

Photo Requests from Solitary

http://photorequestsfromsolitary.org/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

Things You Should Never Do (2000)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 83 comments

Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption

http://blog.higashi.tech/2020/06/16/fhe_01.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 30 comments

Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/coronavirus-college-professors.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 141 comments

The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/a-case-for-turning-empty-malls-into-housing

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 141 comments

“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/07/itll-all-be-over-by-christmas-.html

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 195 comments

Extracting video and audio from used police body cam

https://twitter.com/d0tslash/status/1278414895487365121

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-science-of-mask-wearing-hasnt-changed-so-why-have-our-expectations/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 283 comments

It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/its-time-to-abolish-single-family-zoning/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 158 comments

Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors

https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-power-balls-triso-fuel/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 69 comments

The Millennium Falcon (2016)

https://kitbashed.com/blog/a-complete-history-of-the-millennium-falcon

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 12 comments

Queues are Databases (1995)

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701158

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

There are more streaming choices than ever – why are prices going up?

https://www.theverge.com/21310442/tv-streaming-youtube-fubo-price-increases-carrier-fees-disputes-costs-cable-television

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 131 comments

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownworstenemy.pdf

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review

https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-se-2020-camera-review/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 91 comments

Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism

https://warontherocks.com/2020/07/thrones-wreathed-in-shadow-tacitus-and-the-psychology-of-authoritarianism/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Beware the Google Password Manager

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/beware-the-google-password-manager

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

American businesses have the power to change China’s behavior

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/03/american-businesses-have-power-change-chinas-behavior-time-step-up/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15794

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles

https://blog.janestreet.com/really-low-latency-multipliers-and-cryptographic-puzzles/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1094.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform

https://livablesoftware.com/lessons-learned-building-commercial-oss-bot-platform/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style

https://able.bio/kerrishotts/building-a-basic-interpreter-80s-style--79a9d703

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016)

https://joshsharp.com.au/blog/never-been-an-easier-time-to-write-a-language.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

Open letter calling for the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

https://defend.wikileaks.org/2020/07/03/open-letter-calling-for-the-release-of-wikileaks-publisher-julian-assange/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 5 comments

Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52650856

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas

https://github.com/naver/tamgu/wiki/tamgucalc-(en)

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Neural supersampling for real-time rendering

https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/07/introducing-neural-supersampling-for-real-time-rendering/

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments
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