top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-27

One hour of slow breathing changed my life

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/26/every-breath-you-take-the-lost-art-of-breathing

5 years ago

550 upvotes – 321 comments

Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/21/first-class-and-priority-mail-delayed-in-favor-of-amazon-parcels-according-to-portland-letter-carriers/

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 426 comments

Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/3708017?hl=en

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 285 comments

Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

http://vocodes.com

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 165 comments

Google to keep employees home until summer 2021

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-keep-employees-home-until-summer-2021-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-11595854201

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 376 comments

How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations

https://jalammar.github.io/how-gpt3-works-visualizations-animations/

5 years ago

398 upvotes – 98 comments

Double Entry Accounting for Developers

https://django-hordak.readthedocs.io/en/latest/accounting-for-developers.html

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 233 comments

ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-alleges-google-misled-consumers-about-expanded-use-of-personal-data

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 79 comments

Apache Arrow 1.0

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2020/07/24/1.0.0-release/

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 132 comments

How to pay your rent with your open source project

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 168 comments

Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

https://www.businessinsider.com/airbus-completes-autonomous-taxi-take-off-and-landing-tests-2020-7

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 318 comments

Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

https://blog.carlosgaldino.com/writing-a-file-system-from-scratch-in-rust.html

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 59 comments

The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-code-im-still-ashamed-of-e4c021dff55e/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 172 comments

The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with

https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 329 comments

How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05847

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 393 comments

It’s easier to manage four people than one person

https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/07/24/Managing-One-Person.html

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 90 comments

Are we in an AI Overhang?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6vZEnCn6A95Xn39p/are-we-in-an-ai-overhang

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 274 comments

We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-need-to-work-so-much

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 360 comments

Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-unbound/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 155 comments

Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments

http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2020/07/15/quiet-route-planning-for-pedestrians-in-traffic-noise-polluted-environments/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 132 comments

Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 172 comments

Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy

https://fs.blog/2020/07/appearances-vs-experiences/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 97 comments

Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-facebook-antitrust/facebook-sues-eu-antitrust-regulator-for-excessive-data-requests-idUSKCN24S2BN

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 148 comments

Highlights from Git 2.28

https://github.blog/2020-07-27-highlights-from-git-2-28/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 143 comments

The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes

https://www.nisos.com/white-papers/rise_synthetic_audio_deepfakes

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 42 comments

Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

https://news.sky.com/story/garmin-obtains-decryption-key-after-ransomware-attack-12036761

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 119 comments

Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS

https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 86 comments

Next.js 9.5

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-5

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 36 comments

Ted Williams's Strike Zone

http://tedwilliams.com/_data/hzone.htm

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 63 comments

Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35106/check-out-this-sailor-holding-a-laser-dazzler-rifle-aboard-nuclear-submarine-uss-minnesota

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 141 comments

GnuTLS audit: passive cleartext recovery attack

https://anarc.at/blog/2020-06-10-gnutls-audit/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine

http://stinaflodstrom.com/projects/osm/osm.html

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 29 comments

Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/docker-ecs-plugin/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 109 comments

How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/straight-dope/article/20854121/how-did-anyone-do-math-in-roman-numerals

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 124 comments

Imperial Wars Always Come Home

https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/imperial-wars-always-come-home

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 65 comments

A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 40 comments

Bread, How Did They Make It?

https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

Sony’s wearable air conditioner is pretty cool

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/22/21333837/sony-reon-pocket-hands-on-wearable-air-conditioner-japan

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 53 comments

Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process, CPUs Could Be TSMC 3nm

https://wccftech.com/intel-ponte-vecchio-gpu-tsmc-6nm/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 141 comments

The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-24/the-electric-car-atop-europe-s-sales-charts-isn-t-a-tesla-or-vw

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 170 comments

DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

A new way to control experimentation with dreams

http://news.mit.edu/2020/targeted-dream-incubation-dormio-mit-media-lab-0721

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2

https://blog.michielborkent.nl/2020/07/26/remote-wsl2-clojure/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 86 comments

Google proposes user threads for Linux

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Reading Hard-to-Read Gravestones (2014)

https://organizeyourfamilyhistory.com/reading-hard-read-gravestones/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Your DevOps Control Plane, in Slack

https://cto.ai/blog/slack-control-plane-for-devops-workflows/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

ADLPlug: FM Chip Synthesizer

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments
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