top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-05

Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380969

6 years ago

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

https://personal.jatan.space/2020/09/05/ubuntu-snap-obsession-has-snapped-me-off-of-it/

6 years ago

Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing

https://github.com/vasanthv/talk

6 years ago

Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383180

6 years ago

Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

6 years ago

8086 Microcode Disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/8086-microcode-disassembled/

6 years ago

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore

https://palladiummag.com/2020/08/13/the-true-story-of-lee-kuan-yews-singapore/

6 years ago

Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/traffic-prediction-with-advanced-graph-neural-networks

6 years ago

Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other

http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/why-mathematicians-should-stop-naming-things-after-each-other

6 years ago

The User Always Loses

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joanne-mcneil-lurking-review/tnamp

6 years ago

The Stack Monoid

https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2020/09/05/stack-monoid.html

6 years ago

AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac

https://airmessage.org/

6 years ago

Geometric Algebra for Python

https://github.com/pygae/clifford

6 years ago

Apple (Pro) Mouse (2014)

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/apple-pro-mouse

6 years ago

Growing a Language (1998) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

6 years ago

Post-Covid heart damage in some children: study

https://news.uthscsa.edu/post-covid-syndrome-severely-damages-childrens-hearts-immense-inflammation-causing-cardiac-blood-vessel-dilation/

6 years ago

Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network Discovery

https://radicle.xyz/radicle-link.html

6 years ago

How can you make subjective time go slower?

http://theoryengine.org/life/tips-for-a-longer-life/

6 years ago

OnlyOffice is an alternative to LibreOffice

https://personal.jatan.space/2020/04/18/onlyoffice-better-than-libreoffice/

6 years ago

Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change

https://theconversation.com/chess-is-taking-over-the-online-video-game-world-and-both-are-changing-from-this-unlikely-pairing-143790

6 years ago

One in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence – study

https://www.sciencealert.com/around-90-percent-of-your-medical-treatments-isn-t-backed-by-high-quality-evidence

6 years ago

Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: primitive functions

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-4/

6 years ago

Northwestern Point of the Lake of the Woods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_point_of_the_Lake_of_the_Woods

6 years ago

I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

6 years ago

Chanakya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya

6 years ago

How Chekhov invented the modern short story

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story

6 years ago

Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving Capability' Falls Short of Its Name

https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/tesla-full-self-driving-capability-review-falls-short-of-its-name/

6 years ago

A Brief Explanation of Greg Egan’s Dust Theory

https://cephalopods.blog/2020/08/14/a-brief-explanation-of-egans-dust-theory/

6 years ago

Charge more for app subscriptions

https://mronge.com/why-you-should-charge-more-for-your-app-subscriptions/

6 years ago

Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?

https://theconversation.com/have-we-just-stumbled-on-the-biggest-productivity-increase-of-the-century-145104

6 years ago

Plague-bearing fleas spark closures at popular Lake Tahoe sites

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Plague-bearing-fleas-spark-closures-at-popular-15541389.php

6 years ago

Getting Users Is Hard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24386933

6 years ago

Getting Color Output out of a TI-99/4A

https://netzhansa.com/ti99-4a-color/

6 years ago

Parents got more time off, then the backlash started

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/technology/parents-time-off-backlash.html

6 years ago