top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-07

BitTorrent v2

https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

5 years ago

1227 upvotes – 560 comments

Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48302

5 years ago

568 upvotes – 508 comments

At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/07/terminal-cancer-live-cancer-life-death

5 years ago

484 upvotes – 262 comments

Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/07/belarus-opposition-leader-maria-kolesnikova-snatched-from-street-in-minsk-reports

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 114 comments

Doom running on a pregnancy test

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066

5 years ago

443 upvotes – 119 comments

Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby

https://preslav.me/2020/09/06/elixir-is-not-ruby-elixir-is-erlang/

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 293 comments

Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/26214034

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 233 comments

Controllable Video Sprites That Appear Like Professional Tennis Players

https://cs.stanford.edu/~haotianz/research/vid2player/

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 75 comments

Introduction to Computational Thinking

https://mitmath.github.io/18S191/Fall20/

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 38 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/09/08/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-one-last-time/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 57 comments

The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36157/the-us-army-spent-millions-developing-giant-six-legged-walking-trucks-in-the-1980s

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 164 comments

Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-Bit Real Time Processor

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16056/arm-announces-cortexr82-first-64bit-real-time-processor

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 105 comments

Bash Pitfalls

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397821

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 129 comments

Which GPUs to get for deep learning

https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 110 comments

Show HN: AI color palette generator for Tailwindcss

https://tailwind.ink/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 52 comments

Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/western-digital-is-trying-to-redefine-the-word-rpm/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 135 comments

International Space Station 437.800 MHz cross band FM repeater activated

https://amsat-uk.org/2020/09/02/iss-fm-repeater-activated/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 64 comments

PostgreSQL B-Tree index deduplication

https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2020/09/postgres-beta3-btree-dedup

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398077

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 167 comments
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