top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-11

How to Understand Things

https://nabeelqu.co/understanding

5 years ago

816 upvotes – 116 comments

Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23803539

5 years ago

537 upvotes – 1500 comments

PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1282052801347100675

5 years ago

482 upvotes – 426 comments

Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmuYc8rW_H4aQG4DsJzho=F+[email protected]/T/#u

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 491 comments

CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/07/06/crdt-hard-parts-hydra.html

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

https://trailrouter.com/

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 128 comments

How much your computer can do in a second (2015)

http://computers-are-fast.github.io

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 180 comments

Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/testing-firefox-more-efficiently-with-machine-learning/

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 31 comments

Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/science/windows-street-noise.html

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 262 comments

Announcing The Zig Software Foundation

https://ziglang.org/news/announcing-zig-software-foundation.html

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 84 comments

Beware of Being “Right”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201401/beware-being-right

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 148 comments

The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating up

https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/the-battle-to-outlaw-end-to-end-encryption-is-heating-up

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 75 comments

PureDarwin – Darwin-based open source OS

https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 96 comments

Why are toys such a bad business?

https://diff.substack.com/p/why-are-toys-such-a-bad-business

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 155 comments

Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3091404/britain-give-3-million-hongkongers-residency-rights-and-path

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 217 comments

Researchers create air filter that can kill the coronavirus

https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/july-2020/07072020ren-coronavirus-filter.php

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 105 comments

Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798347

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 131 comments

LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-lawsuit/linkedin-sued-over-allegation-it-secretly-reads-apple-users-clipboard-content-idUSKBN24C010

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 89 comments

Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective (2013)

http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medians-and-means-an-unifying-perspective/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 39 comments

Commander X16 8 bit computer now has its own website

https://www.commanderx16.com/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments
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