top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-03

A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]

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

5 years ago

785 upvotes – 131 comments

The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

5 years ago

683 upvotes – 474 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038520

5 years ago

592 upvotes – 826 comments

Thomas Sowell interview

https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture

5 years ago

575 upvotes – 424 comments

The Art of Not Thinking

http://tiffanymatthe.com/not-thinking

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 162 comments

Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot

https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 250 comments

The UX of Lego Interface Panels

https://www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 38 comments

Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)

https://www.thelawproject.com.au/insights/attractiveness-bias-in-the-legal-system

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 386 comments

System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution

https://systemuicons.com/

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 84 comments

Why is America stuck with bad headlights?

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/a33447381/why-is-america-stuck-with-bad-headlights/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 471 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038518

5 years ago

359 upvotes – 408 comments

Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/3/21352032/google-pixel-5-4a-5g-price-release-date-specs

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 582 comments

Autodesk criticised by architects

http://extranetevolution.com/2020/07/autodesk-criticism-extends/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 379 comments

Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 279 comments

Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037118

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 116 comments

Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-stingrays-dirtboxes-phone-tracking/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 204 comments

Julia 1.5 Highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2020/08/julia-1.5-highlights/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 148 comments

One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/nyc-small-businesses-closing-coronavirus.html

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 462 comments

Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-adt-stake-idUSKBN24Z1A6

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 299 comments

PostgreSQL beginner guide

https://knowledgepill.it/posts/postgresql-basics-guide/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 67 comments

Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/08/03/treating-children-for-worms-yields-long-term-benefits-says-new-study/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 168 comments

Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200731-the-saboteurs-you-can-hire-to-end-your-relationship

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 143 comments

OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/08/openjdk-win10-arm

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 120 comments

Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53598965

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 125 comments

Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-trump-exclusive-idUSKBN24Y0UD

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 373 comments

Justice Department is scrutinizing takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit

https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-is-scrutinizing-takeover-of-credit-karma-by-intuit-maker-of-turbotax

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 81 comments

Racket 7.8

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2020/08/racket-v7-8.html

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 30 comments

New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation

https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 39 comments

Thoughts on Voice Interfaces

https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/08/thoughts-on-voice-interfaces.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 64 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust

https://thenewstack.io/c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-weighs-in-on-distributed-systems-type-safety-and-rust/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 228 comments

U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-idUSKCN24Z2HK

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 248 comments

A gentle intro to assembly with Rust

https://lfn3.net/2020/08/03/a-gentle-intro-to-assembly-with-rust/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 16 comments

Astronomers solve the missing baryon problem

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/06/half-the-matter-in-the-cosmos-was-missing-but-astronomers-found-it

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 43 comments

TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs

https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e8162647a

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 119 comments

Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers

https://fox17.com/news/local/trump-fires-tennessee-valley-authority-chair-citing-hiring-of-foreign-workers

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 123 comments

OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation

https://github.com/ossf

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

How to build great products (2013)

https://www.defmacro.org/2013/09/26/products.html

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques

https://blog.roboflow.ai/pp-yolo-beats-yolov4-object-detection/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence

https://www.cebm.net/2020/08/screening-for-covid-19-with-infrared-thermometers-more-marketing-than-medical-evidence/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 87 comments

An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits

https://formcake.com/blog/how-an-email-got-us-five-thousand-aws-credits

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 62 comments

DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/deepdream-how-alexander-mordvintsev-excavated-the-computers-hidden-layers/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics

https://blog.stephenmarz.com/2020/07/24/risc-v-os-using-rust-graphics/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks

https://syncedreview.com/2020/08/03/google-bigbird-achieves-sota-performance-on-long-context-nlp-tasks/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool

https://cuchi.me/posts/go-vs-rust

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 88 comments

MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison

https://brendancahill.io/brensblog/danariely

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

OpenDyslexic: A Typeface for Dyslexia

https://opendyslexic.org/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

Court ruling clears way for energy storage on the grid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/edhirs/2020/08/02/court-ruling-clears-way-for-energy-storage-on-the-grid-who-benefits/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 86 comments

KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19

https://kokpitherald.com/klm-to-lay-off-5000-employees-due-to-covid-19-crisis/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Google Pixel 4a

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4a

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 1 comments

Brexit fuels brain drain as skilled Britons head to the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/brexit-fuels-brain-drain-as-skilled-britons-head-to-the-eu

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 140 comments

Coronavirus ravages California’s Central Valley, following a cruel familiar path

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-28/coronavirus-ravages-californias-central-valley-following-a-cruel-and-familiar-path

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 127 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038519

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 153 comments

Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/08/live-hdr-and-dual-exposure-controls-on.html

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments
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