top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-28

Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/

5 years ago

737 upvotes – 332 comments

ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53573294

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 449 comments

1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

5 years ago

556 upvotes – 155 comments

GitHub Public Roadmap

https://github.com/github/roadmap

5 years ago

483 upvotes – 142 comments

Hiring Without Whiteboards

https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

5 years ago

481 upvotes – 450 comments

Not an Amazon Problem

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/23/Not-an-Amazon-Problem

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 366 comments

Google’s top search result is Google

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 304 comments

Firefox 79

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/firefox-79/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 188 comments

Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975807

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 167 comments

A new funding model for open source software

https://vriad.com/essays/a-modest-proposal-for-oss-sustainability

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 175 comments

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 293 comments

Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)

https://davidwalsh.name/pornhub-interview

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 214 comments

The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 214 comments

We thought it was just a respiratory virus

https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 150 comments

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 225 comments

The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-socialist-microcomputer

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 81 comments

Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template

https://github.com/robinsloan/perfect-edition

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 69 comments

OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/9699

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 100 comments

WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing

https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 106 comments

The worst tool for the job

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the-job/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 191 comments

11M households could be evicted over the next four months

https://www.fastcompany.com/90532305/11-million-households-could-be-evicted-over-the-next-four-months

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 227 comments

Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/fewer-premature-preterm-babies-born-during-pandemic-calgary-around-the-world-1.5665089

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 175 comments

Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

https://n-o-d-e.net/datarunner.html

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 50 comments

Banned math book

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/22/banned-math-book/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 108 comments

The Regular Expression Visualizer, Simulator and Cross-Compiler Tool

https://blog.robertelder.org/regular-expression-visualizer/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 43 comments

U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-july-19-2020-1.5647948/u-s-citizens-no-longer-have-access-to-most-of-the-world-the-global-south-never-had-it-1.5648022

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 256 comments

Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/remington-arms-declares-bankruptcy-despite-surging-gun-demand-11595903187

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 329 comments

Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 60 comments

Iroquois Nationals, barred from World Games, gave gift of lacrosse to the world

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5664460/iroquois-nationals-barred-from-world-games-say-their-people-gave-gift-of-lacrosse-to-the-world-1.5664618

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 25 comments

MI6 tried to intervene independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/28/mi6_investigatory_powers_tribunal_interference/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 14 comments

Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life

https://puri.sm/posts/dogwood-thermals-and-battery-life/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 90 comments

The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever

https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-of-mass-surveillance-will-not-last-forever/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 88 comments

Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook

https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/malware-reverse-engineering-handbook/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 3 comments

Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Creative_Think.txt

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/statement-by-jeff-bezos-to-the-u-s-house-committee-on-the-judiciary

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 135 comments

The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc&list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSpkiseTHzWj6vu

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 36 comments

Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling

https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-clutch-the-open-source-platform-for-infrastructure-tooling-143d00de9713

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Stop Abusing Semver

https://samver.org/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 158 comments

Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/07/28/ceo-quarterly-blog-post-3-series-e-funding/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 133 comments

Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344751/facial-recognition-face-masks-accuracy-nist-study

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 111 comments

Kissat SAT Solver

http://fmv.jku.at/kissat/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-announces-broad-language-support/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23976172

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3094604/did-fish-sauce-vietnam-come-ancient-rome-silk-road

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 111 comments

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 12 comments

Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money

https://support.google.com/pay/answer/9868649?hl=en

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 113 comments

Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins

https://www.density.io/blog/kleiner/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

All-you-can-eat study shows body copes well with one-off calorie indulgence

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/all-you-can-eat-pizza-study-shows-body-copes-surprisingly-well-with-one-off-calorie-indulgence/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 85 comments

Goldman warns on inflation threat to dollar as reserve currency

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/goldman-warns-dollar-s-role-as-world-reserve-currency-is-at-risk

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 133 comments

Riding the Rays (1992)

https://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-08-a.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene

https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2020/07/28/move_over_graphene_here_comes_borophene.html

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

UTF-8 bit by bit (2001)

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/UTF%2D8+bit+by+bit

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable status

https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/wiki/Performance-comparison

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Otto: Friendly Machine Learning Assistant

https://github.com/KartikChugh/Otto

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Nuclear Fusion Project, Iter begins assembly

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/28/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-project-under-assembly-in-france

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments
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