top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-16

Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court

https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/amazon-liable-for-defective-third-party-products-rules-ca-appelate-court/

6 years ago

Web by Google (TM)

https://landshark.io/2020/08/16/web-by-google.html

6 years ago

Factorio and Software Engineering

https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/

6 years ago

Mutt email client 25 years old

http://mutt.org

6 years ago

Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-snowden/trump-says-hes-considering-pardon-for-leaker-edward-snowden-idUSKCN25B10Z

6 years ago

USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System

https://heraldsheets.com/us-postal-service-usps-files-patent-for-blockchain-based-voting-system/

6 years ago

Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync

https://screenplaysubs.com/

6 years ago

Pure Skill Minesweeper

https://github.andrewt.net/mines/

6 years ago

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

https://deponysum.com/2020/01/16/recent-advances-in-natural-language-processing-some-woolly-speculations/

6 years ago

SQLite 3.33

https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_33_0.html

6 years ago

Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js

https://ctjs.rocks/

6 years ago

Show HN: GradientMagic

https://www.gradientmagic.com/

6 years ago

How Purism avoids Intel’s Active Management Technology

https://puri.sm/learn/avoiding-intel-amt/

6 years ago

Do I Need Kubernetes?

https://mbird.biz/writing/do-i-need-kubernetes.html

6 years ago

Art of chording

https://www.artofchording.com

6 years ago

In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/fff3c28052e6b0750d6218e00acacd2fded4991a/Lib/logging/handlers.py#L802

6 years ago

Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths

https://theconversation.com/major-quantum-computational-breakthrough-is-shaking-up-physics-and-maths-136634

6 years ago

Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?

https://blog.kevinjahns.de/are-crdts-suitable-for-shared-editing/

6 years ago

Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/08/16/Hiding-messages-in-x86-binaries-using-semantic-duals

6 years ago

Reversing Mental Age with Psychedelics

https://mad.science.blog/2020/08/16/the-phoenix-effect-reversing-mental-age-with-psychedelics/

6 years ago

A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/a-look-at-the-j-language-the-fine-line-between-genius-and-insanity/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176774

6 years ago

Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language

https://nim-lang.org/

6 years ago

A CRISPR first produces squid as clear as glass

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02242-3

6 years ago

Every Day 10k People Die Due to Air Pollution from Fossil Fuels

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/03/10/every-day-10000-people-die-due-to-air-pollution-from-fossil-fuels/

6 years ago

Professional sporting events increase seasonal influenza mortality in US cities

https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3628649

6 years ago

Landmark math proof clears hurdle in top Erdős conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-math-proof-clears-hurdle-in-top-erdos-conjecture-20200803/

6 years ago

WebAssembly without the browser

https://alexene.dev/2020/08/17/webassembly-without-the-browser-part-1.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24175924

6 years ago

The machines USPS is removing can sort more than 36,000 pieces of mail per hour

https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-mail-sorting-machines-how-they-work-in-photos-2020-8

6 years ago

Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended

https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232

6 years ago

It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=mtr

6 years ago

There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)

https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/

6 years ago

Kapton: Miracle Material with a Tragic History

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/04/kapton-miracle-material-with-a-tragic-history/

6 years ago

AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine

https://audiojive.com/akai-mpc-3000/

6 years ago

Show HN: Use React to build G Suite dialogs and add-ons

https://github.com/enuchi/React-Google-Apps-Script

6 years ago

How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world

https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/around-other-pond

6 years ago

TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM

https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak

6 years ago

Mosaic HIV Vaccines in Late-Stage Trials

https://www.verywellhealth.com/mosaic-hiv-vaccine-sparks-hope-4173079

6 years ago

San Francisco exodus is real, and historic, report shows

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/2020-San-Francisco-exodus-is-real-and-historic-15484785.php

6 years ago

The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors

http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/the-strange-costumes-of-plague-doctors.html

6 years ago

Why did the A-level algorithm say no?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53787203

6 years ago

Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults

https://www.iospress.nl/ios_news/body-weight-has-surprising-alarming-impact-on-brain-function/

6 years ago

Solr 8.6.1

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/202008.mbox/%3CCAD4GwrP%2B8r8W2GDDwaFb%3DXbP%2BQGfrbkS_kOhTAdjDRbPkS2%3DAw%40mail.gmail.com%3E

6 years ago

Debian turns 27

https://bits.debian.org/2020/08/debian-turns-27.html

6 years ago

The Market for Discontinued Photographic Film

https://leejo.github.io/2020/08/14/the_market_for_discontinued_film/

6 years ago

OpenRCT2 0.3

https://openrct2.org/downloads/releases/latest

6 years ago