top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-31

Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/829858/281103f9c6fd0dc2/

5 years ago

648 upvotes – 354 comments

App Review process updates

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=84w3e5bm

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 639 comments

Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1300137812872765440

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 264 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

https://aosabook.org/en/index.html

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 67 comments

Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy

https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/highway-interchange-houston-same-size-city-italy/

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 544 comments

Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/08/do-we-really-travel-through-time-with.html

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 201 comments

PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

https://www.pine64.org/2020/08/31/pinephone-manjaro-community-edition/

5 years ago

349 upvotes – 166 comments

The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/09/the-surreal-art-of-unnatural-lighting/

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 87 comments

Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/21c62fb670b1646c5051a46d29081523cd782f11

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 131 comments

Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)

https://petersmagnusson.org/2009/09/15/why-are-there-5280-feet-in-a-mile/

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 440 comments

Motivation – Keli Language

https://keli-language.gitbook.io/doc/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 290 comments

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 317 comments

Blender 2.90

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-90/

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 90 comments

Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage

https://blog.cloudflare.com/analysis-of-todays-centurylink-level-3-outage/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 62 comments

Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)

http://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook

https://dafriedman97.github.io/mlbook/content/introduction.html

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 54 comments

I sold my side-project for $30k

https://marc.io/tweet-photo-acquired

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 100 comments

Italian Ruby

https://github.com/Pluvie/italian-ruby

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 170 comments

FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/industries/logistics/2020/08/28/fedex-plane-autonomous-flight-reliable-robotics/5655258002/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 177 comments

Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24334657

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 145 comments

Cloth masks do protect the wearer

https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 187 comments

Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-report-new-discovery-about-the-dodecahedron-20200831/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 69 comments

How NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon

https://jatan.space/how-nasa-and-chandrayaan-discovered-water-on-the-moon/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 35 comments

Don't Be a Sucker

https://archive.org/details/0022_Dont_Be_a_Sucker_22_33_53_00

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 132 comments

3D face: fast, accurate and stable reconstruction

https://github.com/cleardusk/3DDFA_V2

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 21 comments

I just lost 1,400 BTC

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecomment-683356052

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 157 comments

FreeCol: Turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization

https://github.com/FreeCol/freecol

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 57 comments

Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Pinterest-terminate-SF-office-lease-88-Bluxome-15525421.php

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 117 comments

PNG and Hidden Pixels

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/894-PNG-and-Hidden-Pixels.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 42 comments

Intel MKL on AMD Zen

https://danieldk.eu/Posts/2020-08-31-MKL-Zen.html

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 51 comments

Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response

https://news.yale.edu/2020/08/26/sex-differences-covid-19-immune-responses-affect-patient-outcomes?

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 84 comments

How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?

https://increment.com/apis/how-we-should-build-apis-tomorrow/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 47 comments

Sum Types in Julia and Rust

https://andreaskroepelin.de/blog/sum_types/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: I've built self-opening trash bin, I relax myself feeding garbage to it

https://github.com/ivanilves/arduino-sketches/tree/master/basurito

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/china-again-boosts-rd-spending-more-10

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 104 comments

Understanding How the Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm Works

https://blog.digitalbunker.dev/2020/08/27/how-do-time-based-one-time-password-totp-services-work/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Bits of History, Words of Advice

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 132 comments

Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste

https://www.wired.com/story/are-radioactive-diamond-batteries-a-cure-for-nuclear-waste/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 96 comments

2020's Existentialist Turn

https://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/carmen-lea-dege-2020s-existentialist-turn

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

NewLisp

http://www.newlisp.org/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

A California wildfire nearly destroyed the historic Lick observatory

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/a-california-wildfire-nearly-destroyed-the-historic-lick-observatory/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/Ubuntu

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2350

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 135 comments

Bevy: A Game Engine in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 42 comments

Effective testing for machine learning systems

https://www.jeremyjordan.me/testing-ml/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 2 comments

When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? (2018)

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/publications/youraba/2018/december-2018/when-is-it-okay-for-a-lawyer-to-lie--/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 142 comments

MIT Drake

https://drake.mit.edu/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

The Puzzle Toad

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/puzzle/index.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Nim – version 1.2.6 and 1.0.8 released

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/07/30/versions-126-and-108-released.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Writing a Lisp to x86-64 compiler

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24328998

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics

https://www.ecorax.net/as-above-so-below-2/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/ubuntu-20-04s-zsys-adds-zfs-snapshots-to-package-management/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 89 comments

Don't Get Stuck

https://stitcher.io/blog/dont-get-stuck

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs

https://slack.engineering/tracing-at-slack-thinking-in-causal-graphs/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/the-easy-ones-three-bugs-hiding-in-the-open/

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Common Mistakes to Avoid in HTML

https://iamshadmirza.com/5-common-mistakes-to-avoid-in-html

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 78 comments

Self – Fun Through Simplicity

https://selflanguage.org/

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/identifying_peo_9.html

5 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments
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