top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-18

OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/

6 years ago

1079 upvotes – 526 comments

Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

https://domainnamewire.com/2020/07/16/fadi-chehade-is-now-co-ceo-of-ethos-capital/

6 years ago

989 upvotes – 135 comments

On Trouser Pockets

https://sambleckley.com/writing/pockets.html

6 years ago

769 upvotes – 390 comments

An update on our security incident

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html

6 years ago

547 upvotes – 287 comments

Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds

https://richsoil.com/hugelkultur/

6 years ago

401 upvotes – 148 comments

NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch

6 years ago

390 upvotes – 90 comments

Designing a New Old Home: Part 1

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/designing-a-new-old-home-part-1-cf298b58ed41

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 237 comments

Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know

http://250bpm.com/blog:161

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 241 comments

Krita, OpenGL and Qt

https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/krita-opengl-and-qt/

6 years ago

295 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking

https://simpleops.io/

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 109 comments

Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban

https://www.propublica.org/article/hospitals-are-suddenly-short-of-young-doctors-because-of-trumps-visa-ban

6 years ago

276 upvotes – 197 comments

Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64

https://micouy.github.io/posts/low-level-pt-1/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 36 comments

John Lewis has died

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/john-lewis-obit-civil-rights-congress-036212

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 24 comments

Samsung Blu-ray players bricked because of an XML config file

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/18/samsung_bluray_mass_dieoff_explained/

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 175 comments

How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah

https://marker.medium.com/how-mormons-built-the-next-silicon-valley-while-no-one-was-looking-c50add577478

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 243 comments

Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

https://hbr.org/2020/07/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 75 comments

I lost my boyfriend to cancer 'conspiracy theories’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/72396917-47b0-4aac-856f-e213c3a0c3fa

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 255 comments

Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic

https://www.fastcompany.com/90520298/how-dixie-cups-became-the-breakout-startup-of-the-1918-pandemic

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 134 comments

Stripe Is Holding 25% of Our Funds, Indefinitely

https://hackernoon.com/stripe-is-holding-25percent-of-our-funds-indefinitely-rw1c3uc1

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 75 comments

The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

http://www.righto.com/2020/07/the-intel-8086-processors-registers.html

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 38 comments

Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-institutional-economics/article/institutions-the-social-capital-structure-and-multilevel-marketing-companies/D9F67620E7B64D6B473A348C0C2273FA#

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: Cookie Recipe Generator

https://thecookie.website/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 98 comments

Oregon, Journalists Sue U.S. over Portland Arrests, Violence

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-17/u-s-agents-are-added-to-suit-alleging-attack-by-portland-police

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 191 comments

Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M

https://iblnews.org/coursera-valued-at-2-5-billion-after-a-finance-round-of-additional-130-million/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 115 comments

Vue v3.0.0-RC.1

https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/releases/tag/v3.0.0-rc.1

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 27 comments

Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app

https://github.com/notable/notable

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 101 comments

Windows on Raspberry

https://www.worproject.ml/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 108 comments

How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/science/ultra-black-fish.html

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Reactive Resume, a free and open source resume builder

https://rxresu.me

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 1 comments

WebTorrent Desktop 0.23

https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v0230---2020-07-15

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Translate Any Text to Emojis

https://emojitype.space

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 1 comments

How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jul/14/nespresso-coffee-capsule-pods-branding-clooney-nestle-recycling-environment

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 283 comments

The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/the-emergence-of-modern-astronomy-a-complex-mosaic-part-xl/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 56 comments

Levandowski files suit against Uber [pdf]

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/Qmd9PTEtuSrKKtJQw36aNzpjJwZAdCdwCmUn4w21mmq74z/Levandowski-Uber-Complaint-1.pdf

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 91 comments

Computation Graphs and Graph Computation

http://breandan.github.io/2020/06/30/graph-computation/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 37 comments

Typed Lisp, a Primer (2019)

https://alhassy.github.io/TypedLisp.html

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness (2017)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531450-200-the-brains-7d-sandcastles-could-be-the-key-to-consciousness/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 96 comments

Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/methane-emissions-record.html

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

Views on Error Handling

https://dannas.name/error-handling

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?

https://login.land/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 108 comments

Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04929

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: I made an elegant SwiftUI timeline

https://github.com/ThasianX/ElegantTimeline-SwiftUI

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

PIFuHD: High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization

https://shunsukesaito.github.io/PIFuHD/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

U.S. Ranked Worst for Workers’ Rights Among Major Economies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-18/u-s-ranked-worst-for-workers-rights-among-major-economies

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Ancient human ancestors carved handaxe from a hippo femur 1.4M years ago: study

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/17/world/ancient-tool-hippo-handaxe-scn-trnd/index.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Could IPOs be replaced by blank check acquisitions (SPAC)?

https://www.quora.com/Could-IPO-s-be-replaced-by-blank-check-acquisitions-SPAC?share=1

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments

The US military is using online gaming to recruit teens

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/military-recruitment-twitch/

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 161 comments

John Gilmore: History of Cygnus's Growth

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-May/021225.html

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02140-8

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 82 comments

Kubectl – Configuration Guide

https://knowledgepill.it/posts/kubernetes-kubectl-client-config/

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012)

https://pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org/174323.html

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 110 comments
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