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

1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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

5 years ago

885 upvotes – 197 comments

Ennio Morricone has died

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

5 years ago

701 upvotes – 132 comments

Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

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

5 years ago

519 upvotes – 274 comments

H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)

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

5 years ago

463 upvotes – 426 comments

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

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

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 272 comments

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

https://brython.info/

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 214 comments

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

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 64 comments

Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year

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

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 505 comments

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

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

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 167 comments

Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites

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

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 199 comments

Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines

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

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 129 comments

SymPy - a Python library for symbolic mathematics

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

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 51 comments

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/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 149 comments

EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator

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

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 35 comments

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

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 151 comments

Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (1975)

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

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 16 comments

Code only says what it does

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

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 114 comments

Dopamine is not addictive (2017)

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

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

Algorithms Are Now Commodities

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

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 72 comments

I made a macro keypad with 3D-printed switches

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

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 37 comments

Don't bet on the most likely winner

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

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 83 comments

Exciting Days for ARM Processors

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

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 182 comments

The machine learning community has a toxicity problem

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

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 187 comments

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

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 129 comments

Bullshit Jobs (2018)

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

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 157 comments

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

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

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 46 comments

Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ

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

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 82 comments

“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/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 187 comments

Icdiff: Side-by-side highlighted command line diffs

https://www.jefftk.com/icdiff

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

Autodesk and coal mining

https://autodesk.earth/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 100 comments

The magnetic universe begins to come into view

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

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

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

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 110 comments

Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string

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

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

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/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 132 comments

Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview

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

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 180 comments

Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees?

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

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 153 comments

The Fed now owns Walmart debt

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

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 132 comments

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

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

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems

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

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

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

http://walkingdre.am/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Abusing linear regression to make a point

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

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 48 comments

The Super Duper Universal Binary

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

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

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

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

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 72 comments

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

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 80 comments

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/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

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/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

Building a CT Scan Covid-19 Classifier Using PyTorch

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

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments
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