top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-15

Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/twilco/kosmonaut

5 years ago

721 upvotes – 447 comments

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc

5 years ago

662 upvotes – 403 comments

Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53637463

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 303 comments

To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-occupants-of-my-office-at-the-mit-media-lab/

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 180 comments

A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode

https://github.com/labuladong/fucking-algorithm/tree/english

5 years ago

455 upvotes – 204 comments

Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public

https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/machine-learning-course-free-online-from-amazon-machine-learning-university

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 48 comments

Ghost.org deleted my website

https://postapathy.substack.com/p/i-was-building-a-new-website-for

5 years ago

421 upvotes – 345 comments

Mozilla’s Uncertain Future

https://civilityandtruth.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-future/

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 394 comments

Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/videos/chernobyl-fungus-eats-nuclear-radiation-via-radiosynthesis-338464

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 104 comments

Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors

https://voshart.com/ROMAN-EMPEROR-PROJECT

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 128 comments

The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-control-is-not-to-exercise-it-at-all

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 272 comments

MicroPython

https://micropython.org/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 147 comments

Write Your Own Virtual Machine

https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 42 comments

Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams

https://isoflow.io/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 54 comments

Oh Shit, Git?

https://ohshitgit.com/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 156 comments

Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fastest-star.html

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 186 comments

NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver

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

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 112 comments

SEC Enforcement of Insider Trading Dropped to Lowest Point in Decades

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/901862355/under-trump-sec-enforcement-of-insider-trading-dropped-to-lowest-point-in-decade

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 98 comments

Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-domain-and-3-character-fqdn-for-15/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 118 comments

Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17794-1

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 315 comments

The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/the-brilliance-of-all-gas-no-brakes

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 113 comments

Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-arctic-idUSKCN25A2X3

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 236 comments

Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24168902

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 255 comments

Instagram faces $500B in fines alleging it harvested biometric data

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-facing-500-billion-in-fines-in-facial-recognition-lawsuit-2020-8

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 104 comments

Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research

https://time.com/5876614/circadian-rhythm-study/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 177 comments

India announces plan to connect 600k villages with optical fiber in 1000 days

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/independece-day-2020-speech-next-1000-days-6-lakh-villages-optical-fibre-pm-modi-6555511/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 117 comments

Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository

https://willschenk.com/articles/2020/using_askgit/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 30 comments

XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/xcsset-mac-malware-infects-xcode-projects-performs-uxss-attack-on-safari-other-browsers-leverages-zero-day-exploits/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 53 comments

Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (2010)

https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 74 comments

The BEAM Has Spoiled Me

https://gvaughn.github.io/2020/08/08/beam_spoiled_me.html

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 86 comments

Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA

https://news.yale.edu/2020/08/15/yales-rapid-covid-19-saliva-test-receives-fda-emergency-use-authorization

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 48 comments

J Notation as a Tool of Thought

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/j-notation/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 59 comments

Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/scribd-acquires-slideshare/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 46 comments

We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/08/14/jobs/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 113 comments

How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally

http://www.righto.com/2020/08/how-8086-processor-handles-power-and.html

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/insidertrading?hn=2

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 35 comments

LFE: Lisp Flavored Erlang

https://lfe.io/books/tutorial/index.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 31 comments

Psychedelic drugs reduce depressive symptoms by helping people accept emotions

https://www.psypost.org/2020/08/psychedelic-drugs-reduce-depressive-symptoms-by-helping-individuals-to-accept-of-their-emotions-study-suggests-57654

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 31 comments

The Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids

https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/08/15/why-the-baltic-states-are-reconfiguring-their-electric-grids

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 77 comments

The Illustrated TLS Connection

https://tls.ulfheim.net/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 7 comments

US plans to produce ‘Iberian’ ham in Texas and Georgia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/15/fury-in-spain-at-us-plans-to-produce-iberian-ham-in-texas-and-georgia

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 133 comments

Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, has died

https://petapixel.com/2020/08/13/russell-kirsch-inventor-of-the-pixel-passed-away-this-week/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 17 comments

California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/902781690/california-issues-first-rolling-blackouts-since-2001-as-heat-wave-bakes-western-

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 237 comments

My One Day at Recurse Center

http://cadlag.org/posts/on-showing-up-to-school-in-your-underwear.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 119 comments

Ordeal by Title IX

https://quillette.com/2020/08/13/ordeal-by-title-ix/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 136 comments

Brain Oriented Programming

https://tobeva.com/articles/brain-oriented-programming/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 79 comments

ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks

https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hackers-jackpotting-remote-malware/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 50 comments

Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/08/13/types-as-axioms-or-playing-god-with-static-types/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi

https://metalbabble.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/the-final-frontier-connecting-a-macintosh-se-to-the-internet-with-a-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 47 comments

MiniFB: Small cross platform library to create framebuffer to draw pixels in

https://github.com/emoon/minifb

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 23 comments

Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH or Telnet terminal

https://rqsall.com/posts/using-an-old-blackberry-as-a-portable-ssh-terminal

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 53 comments

Mystery of superior Leeuwenhoek microscope solved after 350 years (2018)

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-mystery-superior-leeuwenhoek-microscope-years.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

It’s strange what people put up with in C#

https://gist.github.com/dsyme/32de0d1bb0799ca438477c34205c3531

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 76 comments

OpenVMS on x86

https://vmssoftware.com/updates/state-of-the-port/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 80 comments

Study: Cheap gas, not renewables, caused nuclear woes (2018)

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/mit-cheap-gas-not-renewables-caused-nuclear-woes/514310/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 104 comments

The Mozilla Manifesto

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments
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