top 50% 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

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

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

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

Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python is unauthorized

https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1302578592552022018

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 79 comments

Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects

https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflixs-reed-hastings-deems-remote-work-a-pure-negative-11599487219

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 328 comments

Doom Eternal – Graphics Study

https://www.simoncoenen.com/blog/programming/graphics/DoomEternalStudy.html

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 53 comments

Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux

https://github.com/geigi/cozy

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 93 comments

Please stop calling databases CP or AP (2015)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-databases-cp-or-ap.html

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 51 comments

Redditor explains why commercial property sits vacant instead of reducing rent

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/innhah/nearly_twothirds_of_new_york_restaurants_may_have/g49g4c5/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer

https://neilkakkar.com/things-I-learned-to-become-a-senior-software-engineer.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 120 comments

Optimize Onboarding

https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/08/28/Optimize-Onboarding.html

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld

http://yarh.io/yarh-io-mki.html

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 93 comments

Toys from Trash

http://arvindguptatoys.com/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 15 comments

Is Spotify Killing the Top 40?

https://qz.com/1899097/is-spotify-killing-the-top-40/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 259 comments

Why Karachi Floods

https://www.dawn.com/news/1578061

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 37 comments

Companies that help people vanish

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200903-the-companies-that-help-people-vanish

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 86 comments

Gravity is unlikely to be the cause of quantum collapse, experiment suggests

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/one-quantum-physics-greatest-paradoxes-may-have-lost-its-leading-explanation

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 95 comments

Alien Signals

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/alien-signals/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397272

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 184 comments

Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401206

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398343

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 119 comments

Calculating the sample size required for developing a clinical prediction model

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m441/rr

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 20 comments

Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression [pdf]

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1419/paper0045.pdf

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

Read Fewer Books

https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/how-to-read-fewer-books/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 147 comments

Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly

https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-has-signed-groundbreaking-agreements-with

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 147 comments

3D Realms announces Graven, the spiritual successor to Hexen II

https://www.techspot.com/news/86651-3d-realms-announces-graven-spiritual-successor-hexen-ii.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Albuquerque Police Engaged in Secret Intelligence Gathering Operation

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/07/albuquerque-police-engaged-in-secret-intelligence-gathering-operation-leaked-documents-show/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

What motivates the authors of video game walkthroughs and FAQs?

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7925/6630

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 61 comments

A bank security check that leaves you guessing your own name

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/sep/06/who-am-i-a-bank-security-check-that-leaves-you-guessing-your-own-name

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

The 10,000 Year Clock

https://longnow.org/clock/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms

https://medium.com/ml-everything/the-beautiful-dark-twisted-gpt-3-generated-nassim-taleb-aphorisms-a750d6572ee3

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

Humankind neither nasty nor brutish

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31832-8/fulltext

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 102 comments

Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle (2016)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? (2018)

https://kb.iu.edu/d/abnd

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 76 comments

Post-Open Source

https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 81 comments

Named Parameters in C++20

https://pdimov.github.io/blog/2020/09/07/named-parameters-in-c20/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pony-types-garbage-collection/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments
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