top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-11

How to Understand Things

https://nabeelqu.co/understanding

6 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

6 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

6 years ago

482 upvotes – 426 comments

Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmuYc8rW_H4aQG4DsJzho=F+djd68fp7mzmBp3-wY--Uw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

6 years ago

468 upvotes – 491 comments

CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]

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

6 years ago

404 upvotes – 124 comments

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

https://trailrouter.com/

6 years ago

402 upvotes – 128 comments

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

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

6 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/

6 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

6 years ago

268 upvotes – 262 comments

Announcing The Zig Software Foundation

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

6 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

6 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

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 75 comments

PureDarwin – Darwin-based open source OS

https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 105 comments

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

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

6 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

6 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/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 39 comments

Commander X16 8 bit computer now has its own website

https://www.commanderx16.com/

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments

Linus Torvalds on 'Linux kernel in-tree Rust support'

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/10/1261

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 2 comments

Migrating Away from Google Analytics

https://freshman.tech/google-analytics-to-plausible/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 42 comments

The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/frink/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/buy-or-wait-intel-apple-silicon-mac/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 278 comments

A Typology of Dumplings (2019)

https://borstell.github.io/dumplings.html

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

Scraping Isn't Hacking

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/scraping-isn-t-hacking-261438

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 62 comments

A doctor who championed hand-washing and briefly saved lives (2015)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 88 comments

An aerospace engineer explains fireworks

https://datagenetics.com/blog/july12020/index.html

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more than half upgradable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802521

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio [pdf]

http://www.harc.net/programs/wb8elk-balloon-tracking.pdf

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Refined Hacker News

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: HN Demetricator – An extension that removes upvote and comment counts

https://github.com/brian-yu/hn-demetricator

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 63 comments

Soup.io Will Be Discontinued

https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 140 comments

Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brains/scientists-warn-of-potential-wave-of-covid-linked-brain-damage-idUSKBN24837S

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 92 comments

Aquarius builds an engine others only dreamed of

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-little-startup-that-could-aquarius-builds-an-engine-others-only-dreamed-of-1.8984355

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 54 comments

Favorite Problems: A Practical Framework for Discovering Your Purpose

https://joebalcom.blog/2020/07/11/12-favorite-problems/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

Comet streaking past Earth, providing spectacular show

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-comet-streaking-earth-spectacular.html

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

The Modern-Day Mind-Killer

https://www.keaganstokoe.com/post/the-modern-day-mind-killer

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-07-02/california-sues-cisco-bias-indian-caste-system

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 56 comments

Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems

https://coda.io/@shishir/eigenquestions-the-art-of-framing-problems

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

The Rise of the “Liberaltarian”

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rise-liberaltarian

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 153 comments

Complete Guide to Buying Lumber (2015)

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/primer-on-lumber/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

The illusion of control, and how to give it up

http://nautil.us/issue/87/risk/what-i-learned-from-losing-200-million-rp

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

A voice separation model that distinguishes multiple speakers simultaneously

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-new-state-of-the-art-voice-separation-model-that-distinguishes-multiple-speakers-simultaneously

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/the-world-is-drinking-less-coffee-while-office-workers-stay-home/ar-BB16BZzj

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

The only catfish native to the Western U.S. is running out of water

https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.7/fish-the-only-catfish-native-to-the-western-u-s-is-running-out-of-water

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

A long-lost perfume got a second life after 150 years underwater

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/shipwreck-perfume-bermuda-mary-celestia

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments
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