top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-12

Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

https://lettersofnote.com/2015/10/23/do-not-remain-nameless-to-yourself/

5 years ago

782 upvotes – 122 comments

Just Too Efficient

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Efficient

5 years ago

570 upvotes – 296 comments

Text-Only Social Network

https://subreply.com/trending

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 230 comments

WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

https://window-swap.com/

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 69 comments

July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy

https://twitter.com/beadmomsw/status/1282305932140130304

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 121 comments

IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

https://intellijobs.ai/job/IBMCloud-Native-Infrastructure-Engineer-Architect-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 254 comments

Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

https://mondaynote.com/apple-silicon-the-passing-of-wintel-79a5ef66ad2b

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 600 comments

Tour of Rust

https://tourofrust.com/

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 195 comments

Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/10/self-updating-profile-readme/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 55 comments

US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China

https://m.dw.com/en/us-citizens-warned-they-face-arbitrary-arrest-in-china/a-54144205

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 230 comments

The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized

https://yarmo.eu/post/future-online-identity-decentralized

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 194 comments

Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 142 comments

An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34762/this-lecture-by-an-f-22-test-pilot-on-the-raptors-flight-control-system-is-bonkers

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 131 comments

Dealing with Insomnia

https://jacquesmattheij.com/dealing-with-insomnia/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 166 comments

Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1385

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 97 comments

SAS Rescue 3 Trapped British Diplomats in Albania

https://www.mydiplomaticlife.com/sas-rescue-trapped-diplomats-in-albania/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 76 comments

Wt – C++ Web Toolkit

https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Sed to C translator written in sed

https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 14 comments

The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-people-burn-blueberry-fields

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 70 comments

The company that sells lost airplane luggage

https://thehustle.co/unclaimed-baggage-store-that-sells-lost-luggage/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 84 comments

Linus Torvalds on AVX512

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 121 comments

All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997)

https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/sameAge.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

Haproxy 2.2

https://www.haproxy.com/#

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 60 comments

MariaDB Temporal Data Tables

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/temporal-data-tables/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 43 comments

How companies became addicted to debt

https://www.ft.com/content/c732fded-5252-4333-a3f8-80b767508bbc

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 143 comments

The growing short case on Facebook and Google

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1281630456807452677

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 169 comments

Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront

https://www.sankalpjonna.com/posts/hosting-your-entire-web-application-using-s3-cloudfront

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 122 comments

WireGuard as VPN Server on Kubernetes with AdBlocking

https://codingcoffee.dev/blog/wireguard_on_kubernetes_with_adblocking/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/canada-single-use-plastics-ban-2021/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 129 comments

Tesla may call warranty repairs goodwill due to lemon laundering

https://insideevs.com/news/433383/tesla-warranty-repairs-goodwill-lemon-laundering/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 100 comments

Rust for JavaScript Developers – Pattern Matching and Enums

http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-for-javascript-developers-pattern-matching-and-enums

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

ELF Statifier, self-contained dynamically linked executables

http://statifier.sourceforge.net/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Notado – Content-First Bookmarking

https://notado.app/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=49decddd39e5f6132ccd7d9fdc3d7c470b0061bb

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 472 comments

Robot Game: Comparing 6502 C, Assembly, and Forth

http://calc6502.com/RobotGame/summary.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Cockroachdb/copyist: Mocking an SQL database in Go tests

https://github.com/cockroachdb/copyist

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 37 comments

Sandboxie-Plus – a fork of Sandboxie with improved functionality

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases/tag/v0.3

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Candy Land was invented for polio wards (2019)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/07/how-polio-inspired-the-creation-of-candy-land/594424/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

Creating randomness Without Math.random

https://healeycodes.com/creating-randomness/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Ruby lib/irb/easter-egg.rb

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/a0c7c23c9cec0d0ffcba012279cd652d28ad5bf3/lib/irb/easter-egg.rb

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Help HN: Laid off due to Covid, almost out of runway

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23813149

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school

https://worthypatterns.substack.com/p/soul-meets-body

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments
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