top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-19

Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/07/19/silentpatch-mass-effect/

5 years ago

562 upvotes – 178 comments

The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1282731020647895043

5 years ago

543 upvotes – 281 comments

Tired of note-taking apps

https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 465 comments

Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test

http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 234 comments

Worms Armageddon 3.8

https://worms2d.info/Worms_Armageddon_3.8_Features

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 142 comments

Things Unexpectedly Named After People

https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 289 comments

Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/uw-micro-camera

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 185 comments

Low-Background Steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 107 comments

Why OKRs might not work at your company

https://svpg.com/team-objectives-overview/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 135 comments

MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (2016)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-for-applications-fall-2016/lecture-slides/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 37 comments

Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)

https://marker.medium.com/why-its-hard-to-kill-the-bloomberg-terminal-61073482e496

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 227 comments

Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API

https://minimaxir.com/2020/07/gpt3-expectations/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 189 comments

The Passport Payment (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20031002153020/http://www.doublewide.net/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 52 comments

All of us test in production all the time (2019)

https://increment.com/testing/i-test-in-production/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 156 comments

Pine64 announce the Pinecil, TS100 compatible RISC-V soldering iron

https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-orders-and-new-pinephone-version/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 75 comments

The Zen of Erlang (2016)

https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 79 comments

Why companies lose their best innovators (2019)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kmehta/2019/07/11/why-companies-lose-their-best-innovators/#72eade2032e1

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 163 comments

Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster

https://github.com/scandum/binary_search

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 54 comments

Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/07/peter-thiels-new-man-defense-department/166851/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 102 comments

Clear explanation of Rust’s module system

http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-module-system/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments
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