top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-21

Invert, always, invert

https://www.anup.io/2020/07/20/invert-always-invert/

6 years ago

India, Jio, and the Four Internets

https://stratechery.com/2020/india-jio-and-the-four-internets/

6 years ago

Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366070/what-are-the-benefits-of-writing-vector-inner-products-as-langle-u-v-rangle/366118#366118

6 years ago

How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/10/psychotherapy-childhood-mental-health

6 years ago

Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

https://serhack.me/articles/monitoring-infrastructure-grafana-influxdb-connectd/

6 years ago

Wiki.js

https://wiki.js.org/

6 years ago

Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-harvards-star-computer-science-professor-built-a-distance-learning-empire

6 years ago

The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]

https://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_USPSPrivatization_July2020.pdf

6 years ago

LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53484764

6 years ago

Svelte and TypeScript

https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-and-typescript

6 years ago

How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser

https://dataswamp.org/~lich/musings/links-browser.html

6 years ago

It's Time to Start Writing (2019)

https://alexnixon.github.io/2019/12/10/writing.html

6 years ago

Open-Source Music Production Tools

https://midination.com/free-music-production-software/

6 years ago

Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

https://datagridxl.com

6 years ago

Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/facebook-overrides-fact-checks-when-climate-science-is-opinion/

6 years ago

Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/

6 years ago

Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?

https://forgottenarbiter.github.io/Is-Every-Seed-Winnable/

6 years ago

Brick Block (2016)

https://oskarstalberg.com/game/house/index.html

6 years ago

Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-us-digital-service-academy-2020-7

6 years ago

MagiCan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagiCan

6 years ago

The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup

https://medium.com/craft-ventures/the-cadence-how-to-operate-a-saas-startup-436aa8099e8

6 years ago

Safely Reviving Shared Memory

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-memory/

6 years ago

SpaceX successfully catches both fairing for the first time

https://www.engadget.com/space-x-falcon-9-005622474.html

6 years ago

Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral for supply chain and products by 2030

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-commits-to-be-100-percent-carbon-neutral-for-its-supply-chain-and-products-by-2030/

6 years ago

FounderPool: A community for founders to share risk and diversify their equity

http://www.founderpools.com

6 years ago

Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)

https://medium.com/acolytefight/elo-sucks-better-multiplayer-rating-systems-for-smaller-games-8ca588ee652f

6 years ago

Common mistakes writing React components with hooks

https://www.lorenzweiss.de/common_mistakes_react_hooks/

6 years ago

With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/18/with-oil-cheap-arab-states-cannot-balance-their-books

6 years ago

The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language

http://jakob.space/blog/thoughts-on-lisps.html

6 years ago

AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15921/amd-launches-12-desktop-renoir-ryzen-4000g-series-apus-but-you-cant-buy-them

6 years ago

Remark42: Self-Hosted, Lightweight Comment Engine

https://github.com/umputun/remark42

6 years ago

Simple Made Easy (2011)

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

6 years ago

An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/WhyNoMainFunction

6 years ago

Volcanoes on Venus are still active

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-scientists-volcanoes-venus.html

6 years ago

Don't Create Chaos

https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/07/07/dont-create-chaos.html

6 years ago

Life without line numbers for 6% smaller Go binaries

https://commaok.xyz/post/no-line-numbers/

6 years ago

Turing and Wittgenstein on Logic and Mathematics [pdf]

https://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/lectures/Turing-and-Wittgenstein-on-Logic-and-Mathematics.pdf

6 years ago

Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-2-worlds-smallest-android-10-4g-smartphone

6 years ago

Machine Learning for a Better Developer Experience

https://netflixtechblog.com/machine-learning-for-a-better-developer-experience-1e600c69f36c

6 years ago

NeurIPS 2020 “English to Bash” Competition Goes Live

http://nlc2cmd.us-east.mybluemix.net/#/

6 years ago

Ford’s electric car engineers go crazy with 1,400hp Mustang Mach-E

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/07/check-out-this-bonkers-1400-horsepower-ford-mustang-mach-e/

6 years ago