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

Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk

5 years ago

1055 upvotes – 384 comments

YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0mMOHrftgU

5 years ago

775 upvotes – 554 comments

Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

https://markosaric.com/gdpr-consent/

5 years ago

651 upvotes – 446 comments

A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack

https://slack.engineering/a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-at-slack-dfe05b485f82

5 years ago

631 upvotes – 270 comments

Searchable PPP Loan Data

https://pppreport.org/

5 years ago

477 upvotes – 342 comments

Help Message for Shell Scripts

https://samizdat.dev/help-message-for-shell-scripts/

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

https://sheetui.com

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 147 comments

Ron Graham has died

https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=6244

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

https://www.balena.io/blog/show-tell-a-steampunk-desktop-background-radiation-monitor/

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 63 comments

Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls

http://inviterick.com

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 96 comments

Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 694 comments

Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02479

5 years ago

328 upvotes – 122 comments

Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ZdcHSFGv0&t=10s

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 166 comments

Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23759547

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 114 comments

Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems

https://ncase.me/loopy/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 26 comments

Int. students may need to leave US if classes are 100% Remote

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/international-college-students-ice-online-learning/index.html

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 218 comments

Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nokia-5g-idUSKBN2480S0

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 32 comments

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 332 comments

Firefox Android: Camera remains active even when the phone is locked

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564451

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 110 comments

The Slack Social Network

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-slack-social-network/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 147 comments

Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server

https://jewjewjew.com/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 217 comments

Google Common Lisp style guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js

https://map33.openbloc.com

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 46 comments

Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch

https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-cloudflare-tv-from-scratch/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 40 comments

Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003)

http://ledmeister.com/dunexref.htm

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: Continuous Machine Learning – CI/CD for Machine Learning Projects

http://cml.dev

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 38 comments

Turn your phone into a wireless webcam

https://www.kinoni.com/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 54 comments

Building Domain Driven Microservices

https://medium.com/walmartlabs/building-domain-driven-microservices-af688aa1b1b8

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 140 comments

Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interesting-the-goodharts

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

Caffenol: Developing Photos with Coffee and Vitamin C [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bhOtTUtPhg

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments

Classifying 200k articles in 7 hours using NLP

https://salt.agency/blog/nlp-and-stuff/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 31 comments

Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming

http://coconut-lang.org/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 63 comments

Keeping your Go modules compatible

https://blog.golang.org/module-compatibility

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 52 comments

U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-china-pompeo/pompeo-says-u-s-looking-at-banning-chinese-social-media-apps-including-tiktok-fox-idUSKBN2480DF

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 158 comments

Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media

https://oonwoye.com/2020/07/06/diversity-and-big-tech-media/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 95 comments

Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23758188

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 170 comments

Germany to meet EU guidelines to ban single-use plastics by 2021

https://mymodernmet.com/germany-single-use-plastic-ban/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 65 comments

A REST View of GraphQL

https://hasura.io/blog/rest-view-of-graphql

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 67 comments

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 122 comments

Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984)

https://archive.org/details/Whole_Earth_Software_Catalog_1984_Point/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 44 comments

Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26316.pdf

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 105 comments

The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly

https://speccy.xyz/rom/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: ScotusWars – see your state's win rate in state vs. state court cases

https://scotuswars.gilslotd.com/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Reclaim – an adaptive calendar app that plans time for your routines

https://reclaim.ai/daily-habits/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank

https://news.mit.edu/2020/csail-robot-disinfects-greater-boston-food-bank-covid-19-0629

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-google-cloud-a2-vm-family-based-on-nvidia-a100-gpu

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 79 comments

I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist

https://www.lunadio.com/blog/i-got-400-signups-with-a-video-of-a-product-that-didnt-exist/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

The Giant Ghibli Clock (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-giant-ghibli-clock-tokyo-japan

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019

https://ammar-alyousfi.com/2020/youtube-trending-videos-analysis-2019-us

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 45 comments

Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

https://www.france24.com/en/20200707-brazil-s-president-bolsonaro-tests-positive-for-coronavirus

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 143 comments

Parallel ray tracing benchmark for functional programming languages

https://github.com/athas/raytracers

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Weird Constants in Math Problems

https://blog.plover.com/math/odd-constants.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Work on Unimportant Problems (2012)

http://yosefk.com/blog/work-on-unimportant-problems.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Tracking App

https://github.com/HSEIreland

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

Mcfly – neural-network powered directory and context-aware shell history search

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 28 comments

Browser Font Rendering Inconsistencies

https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2020/06/browser-fonts/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 48 comments

Europe's recession will be even deeper than expected

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_cf9744f2a6542445f3e4adfb1dce24c5

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

Snapchat Detection on iOS (2019)

https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-iOS/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

The rise and fall of Adobe Flash

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/the-rise-and-fall-of-adobe-flash/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 62 comments

Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-discovery-oldest-arrow-technology-eurasia.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

Quantum Bayesianism Explained by Its Founder

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-bayesianism-explained-by-its-founder-20150604/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments
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