top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-05

The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

6 years ago

Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/hong-kong-books-by-pro-democracy-activists-disappear-from-library-shelves

6 years ago

UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/uasp-makes-raspberry-pi-4-disk-io-50-faster

6 years ago

China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887239225/china-suppression-of-uighur-minorities-meets-u-n-definition-of-genocide-report-s

6 years ago

Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/florida-becomes-first-state-to-enact-dna-privacy-law-blocking-insurers-from-genetic-data

6 years ago

I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH

6 years ago

Bible API

http://bible-api.com/

6 years ago

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/stop_tracking_increase_revenue_effectiveness/

6 years ago

Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)

https://observer.com/2019/05/internet-mob-justice-innocent-lives/

6 years ago

Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/07/03/2133201/linus-torvalds-i-do-no-coding-any-more

6 years ago

Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust

https://www.codeslow.com/2020/07/writing-winning-4k-intro-in-rust.html

6 years ago

Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code

https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hk7d5v/onyx_is_violating_the_linux_kernels_license/

6 years ago

A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time

https://carolchen.me/blog/jits-intro/

6 years ago

I Got My Attention Back (2017)

https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/

6 years ago

Rich Tables in the Terminal

https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich#tables

6 years ago

The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design

https://applypixels.com/blog/comeback

6 years ago

How McKinsey helps companies avoid responsibility

https://slate.com/business/2020/06/mckinsey-companies-avoid-responsibility-management-consulting.html

6 years ago

The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law

https://ark-invest.com/analyst-research/ai-training/

6 years ago

Beginner's Guide to Abstraction

https://jesseduffield.com/beginners-guide-to-abstraction/

6 years ago

Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/504/why-im-writing-a-book-on-cryptography/

6 years ago

Ridiculous Math Problems

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2020/Ridiculous.html

6 years ago

My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards

https://thehustle.co/phone-scam-gift-cards/

6 years ago

When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-thums-up

6 years ago

JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/

6 years ago

Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say current plan threatens lives

https://www.gpbnews.org/post/georgia-tech-professors-revolt-over-reopening-say-current-plan-threatens-lives-students-staff

6 years ago

Tell HN: Giving away my homebrew windmill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737970

6 years ago

An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types

https://lars.hupel.info/topics/crdt/01-intro.html

6 years ago

Formula 1 2020: The secret aerodynamicist – are capes the key?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/51739796

6 years ago

Dolphin Progress May and June 2020

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2020/07/05/dolphin-progress-report-may-and-june-2020/

6 years ago

Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?

http://theorangeduck.com/page/reproduce-their-results

6 years ago

Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml

https://github.com/prismlab/parallel-programming-in-multicore-ocaml/tree/draft

6 years ago

Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (2013)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a8937/our-intellectual-property-laws-are-out-of-control-15467970/

6 years ago

Rust on the ESP32 (2019)

https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp32-rust/

6 years ago

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

http://newpascal.org/assets/modern_pascal_introduction.html

6 years ago

A crash course in just-in-time compilers (2017)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-crash-course-in-just-in-time-jit-compilers/

6 years ago

Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine

https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine

6 years ago

Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-jl-telemetry-should-be-opt-in/

6 years ago

A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath, Oj for Go

https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/blob/master/design.md

6 years ago

Scann: Scalable Nearest Neighbors

https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/scann

6 years ago

DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/04/duckduckgo-has-been-blocked-by-multiple-indian-isps/

6 years ago

Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/podcast-ep-003-paul-davis-on-fixing-big-linux-audio-issues

6 years ago

Choosing a Rust web framework

https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-07-04-choosing-a-rust-web-framework-2020-edition/

6 years ago

Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids

https://datarevenue.com/en-blog/pandas-vs-dask-vs-vaex-vs-modin-vs-rapids-vs-ray

6 years ago

Contrarian view on closing files

https://coady.github.io/posts/closing-files/

6 years ago

The Triplebyte data download doesn’t give you all your data

https://www.linestarve.com/blog/post/triplebyte-data-download/

6 years ago

Show HN: A simple Poker API to calculate the winning hand/s

https://www.pokerapi.dev/

6 years ago

Show HN: Getting fit in virtual reality with open source and Godot

https://vrworkout.at

6 years ago

Andrew Wilkinson and Tiny Capital

https://colinkeeley.com/blog/andrew-wilkinson-tiny-capital-operating-manual

6 years ago

The Purpose of Persuasion

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-purpose-of-persuasion

6 years ago

Transport makes up only 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions from food

https://blog.yeticheese.com/eating-local-has-tiny-environmental-impact/

6 years ago

A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines

https://www.wired.com/story/a-startup-is-testing-the-subscription-model-for-search-engines/

6 years ago

Place for Open and Interactive Mathematics

https://imaginary.org/

6 years ago