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

1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777

6 years ago

Ennio Morricone has died

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ennio-morricone-dead-prolific-italian-composer-was-91-858358

6 years ago

Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53303364

6 years ago

H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)

https://newsletter.fraunhofer.de/-viewonline2/17386/465/11/14SHcBTt/V44RELLZBp/1

6 years ago

Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/PlayStation-s-secret-weapon-a-nearly-all-automated-factory

6 years ago

Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

https://brython.info/

6 years ago

Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2020/07/06/how-two-young-scientists-built-a-250-million-business-using-yeast-to-clean-up-wastewater/#591ecf777802

6 years ago

Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year

https://www.fas.harvard.edu/fas-decision-2020-2021-academic-year

6 years ago

Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel

https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/283

6 years ago

Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929

6 years ago

Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13493.html

6 years ago

SymPy - a Python library for symbolic mathematics

https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html

6 years ago

US online grocery sales hit record $7.2B in June

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/06/u-s-online-grocery-shopping-hits-record-7-2-billion-in-june/

6 years ago

EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator

https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui

6 years ago

ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online courses in Fall 2020

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during

6 years ago

Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (1975)

https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/resources/everything-i-know

6 years ago

Code only says what it does

http://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html

6 years ago

Dopamine is not addictive (2017)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive

6 years ago

Algorithms Are Now Commodities

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/07/05/algorithms-are-now-commodities/

6 years ago

I made a macro keypad with 3D-printed switches

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/3pct-keyboard.html

6 years ago

Don't bet on the most likely winner

https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/p/relatively-speaking-the-billionaire

6 years ago

Exciting Days for ARM Processors

https://smist08.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/exciting-days-for-arm-processors/

6 years ago

The machine learning community has a toxicity problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hiv3vf/d_the_machine_learning_community_has_a_toxicity/

6 years ago

Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10B deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/05/warren-buffetts-berkshire-buys-dominion-energy-natural-gas-assets-in-10-billion-deal.html

6 years ago

Bullshit Jobs (2018)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-15/bullshit-jobs-by-david-graeber-review

6 years ago

M60 – Open-Source USB&BLE, Hot-Swappable Mechanical Keyboard Powered by Python

https://makerdiary.com/pages/m60-mechanical-keyboard

6 years ago

Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/division-by-zero-in-type-theory-a-faq/

6 years ago

“Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber

https://www.roelpeters.be/industrial-society-and-its-future-the-intelligent-yet-angry-writings-of-a-terrorist/

6 years ago

Icdiff: Side-by-side highlighted command line diffs

https://www.jefftk.com/icdiff

6 years ago

Autodesk and coal mining

https://autodesk.earth/

6 years ago

The magnetic universe begins to come into view

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-magnetic-universe-begins-to-come-into-view-20200702/

6 years ago

Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/06/giant-flywheel-project-in-scotland-could-prevent-uk-blackouts-energy

6 years ago

Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59956670/parsing-city-of-origin-destination-city-from-a-string

6 years ago

H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/26/h-1b-government-issues-first-ever-official-estimate-of-visa-population-in-u-s/

6 years ago

Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview

https://fs.blog/2020/07/job-interviews/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23746156

6 years ago

The Fed now owns Walmart debt

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html

6 years ago

From the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy

https://sariazout.substack.com/p/check-your-pulse-48

6 years ago

Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems

https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars

6 years ago

Walking Dream – single-player adventure game for the Oculus Quest

http://walkingdre.am/

6 years ago

Abusing linear regression to make a point

http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2020/07/06/abusing-linear-regression-to-make-a-point/

6 years ago

The Super Duper Universal Binary

https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-super-duper-universal-binary.html

6 years ago

In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not

https://reason.com/2020/07/03/silence-is-violence-george-floyd-protests-arson-is-not/

6 years ago

Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-elite-discuss-journalists-having-too-much-power-in-private-app

6 years ago

No one is safe in Hong Kong anymore. Leave when you still can

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/06/breaking-hong-kong-security-law-police-handed-power-to-do-warrantless-searches-freeze-assets-intercept-comms-control-internet/

6 years ago

ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country If Their Schools Are Online-Only

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/ice-tells-foreign-students-to-leave-the-country-if-their-schools-are-going-online-only/

6 years ago

Building a CT Scan Covid-19 Classifier Using PyTorch

https://blog.paperspace.com/fighting-coronavirus-with-ai-building-covid-19-classifier/

6 years ago