top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-25

LSD chemist William Pickard to be released from prison

https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/william-leonard-pickard-lsd/

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 375 comments

Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq

https://gopiandcode.uk/logs/log-bloomfilters-debunked.html

5 years ago

472 upvotes – 126 comments

Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196636

5 years ago

467 upvotes – 214 comments

Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/07/stupid-github-actions/

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

https://github.com/plant99/felicette

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947818

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 77 comments

Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 130 comments

Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dhs-was-destined-to-become-a-secret-police-force

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 255 comments

Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them

http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/06/banks-are-slow-to-increase-rates-on.html

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 176 comments

What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/coronavirus-testing-delays-backlog

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 288 comments

Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/07/22/new-covid-19-test-returns-results-45-minutes-without-nasal-swab

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 78 comments

Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the camera on iOS 14

https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/25/instagram-promises-to-fix-bug-after-being-exposed-by-always-accessing-the-camera-on-ios-14/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

https://textdb.dev

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23951850

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 157 comments

“The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-far-side-returns-to-a-weird-world

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 120 comments

Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/25/smartphone-contact-tracing-has-failed-everywhere/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 195 comments

Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors

https://pavelfatin.com/typometer/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 102 comments

D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/d-e-shaw-the-first-great-quant-hedge-fund.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 141 comments

Noprocrast (2010)

http://web.archive.org/web/20100423003857/http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/03/noprocrast.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 102 comments

A browser plugin for Unity

https://blog.mozvr.com/a-browser-plugin-for-unity/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 38 comments

Cryptography is not magic

http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/crypto-is-not-magic

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 69 comments

Ansible-Defined Homelab

https://0xc45.com/blog/ansible-defined-homelab/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool

https://memordo.com

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Ozymandias

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 95 comments

Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/sun-ra-everything-nothing/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 13 comments

Machu Picchu was purposely built on intersecting fault lines: research (2019)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/machu-picchu-was-purposely-built-top-intersecting-fault-lines-180973216/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 69 comments

Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage

http://www.righto.com/2020/07/inside-8086-processor-tiny-charge-pumps.html

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 47 comments

A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers in mice

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512151941.htm

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money – a.k.a. “FU, Money”

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/07/independently-poor-twist-on-fu-money.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 144 comments

Re-Frame: Build web apps in ClojureScript and React

http://day8.github.io/re-frame/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 56 comments

Wayland and LVGL on PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch

https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-mynewt/articles/wayland

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

Audio from Scratch with Go: Stereo Panning

https://dylanmeeus.github.io/posts/audio-from-scratch-pt4/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's type system

https://thephp.website/en/issue/php-type-system/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 66 comments

ICE Confirms New Foreign Students Can't Take Online-Only Course Loads in the US

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/24/895223219/ice-confirms-new-foreign-students-cant-take-online-only-course-loads-in-the-u-s

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 90 comments

How Iceland got teens to say no to drugs (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/teens-drugs-iceland/513668/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 104 comments

Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode – Linux Support Lands

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Gen12-Xe-AV1-Decode-Media

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

Open-Source Version Control System for Machine Learning Projects

https://dvc.org/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Mozilla sending political ads via Firefox push notification

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/hx8737/why_did_i_just_receive_an_ad_for_mozillas_blog/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

Blackbaud hack: More UK universities confirm breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53528329

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68089-w

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/americas-looming-primary-care-crisis

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 92 comments

In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech

https://jayriverlong.github.io/2020/07/24/gpt3.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 79 comments

Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007243995/portland-protests-federal-government.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

US universities under pressure to cut fees because of remote learning

https://www.ft.com/content/41bdaca1-1988-4fac-9204-4ff4e70b36cc

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 72 comments

Teaching isn’t about managing behavior

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/07/reality-pedagogy-teaching-form-protest/614554/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

How LSD Almost Became the 13th Step (2019)

https://prohbtd.com/read/alcoholics-anonymous-how-lsd-almost-became-the-13th-step/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vision API

https://itnext.io/convert-paper-based-notes-to-html-content-with-google-vision-api-e398fdb45cb9

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Redux Overview and Concepts – Reimagined Redux Tutorial

https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-concepts

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

https://www.iDoRecall.com/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

55% Yelp businesses that were temp closed are now perm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/23/permanent-business-closures-yelp/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

Goethe’s Colors: A Visual Catalogue

https://www.c82.net/work/?id=380

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

Acorn Archimedes – A Technical Introduction (1987) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTa54UikgE

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments
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