633
128
Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbZFj-cLvk
5 years ago
458
601
Why do so many people want us back in the office?
https://paulitaylor.com/2020/09/12/why-do-so-many-people-want-us-back-in-the-office/
453
203
The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
https://www.unixtimestamp.com/
449
123
Makani source code released
https://github.com/google/makani
404
208
PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
https://twitter.com/ArchieMcPhee/status/1304434532293046272
397
232
Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled?t=1599932392400
391
194
I Want to Fix Goodreads
http://prepend.com/culture/2020/09/fixing_goodreads.html
332
260
SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
https://www.ft.com/content/6bfe40a5-2426-4743-98cd-6fed9dd01b98
308
193
Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/09/11/instagram-ceo-adam-mosseri-dickhead
282
210
Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200715-freiburg-germanys-futuristic-city-set-in-a-forest
241
119
JPMorgan to trade shares of pre-IPO giants including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/jpmorgan-trade-private-shares-of-mega-start-ups-including-spacex-robinhood-and-airbnb.html
374
C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
220
114
Emacs-Helm development is now stalled
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2386
216
88
Fastmac – A macOS instance or Linux shell
https://github.com/fastai/fastmac/
214
115
Wikipedia is an MMORPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMORPG
213
153
From Rust to TypeScript
https://valand.dev/blog/post/from-rust-to-typescript
199
103
Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc
172
176
Amazon’s Alexa for landlords is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/amazons-alexa-for-landlords-is-a-privacy-nightmare-waiting-to-happen/
93
Changelog for Elixir v1.11
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
152
369
CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead, Comedians Lost Work
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-law-was-supposed-to-give-uber-drivers-new-protections-instead-comedians-lost-work-11599883243
150
69
Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will replicate successfully
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245920919667
Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454866
139
121
A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html
138
201
Why online voting is harder than online banking
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/why-online-voting-is-harder-than-online-banking/
133
44
Snowden criticises Amazon for hiring former NSA boss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54106863
132
25
Transformers Are Graph Neural Networks
https://thegradient.pub/transformers-are-graph-neural-networks/
129
57
OpenPGP in Rust: The Sequoia Project
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/830902/b751810a99460a39/
126
87
Coordination, Good and Bad
https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/09/11/coordination.html
131
Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gates deposition
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/revisiting-the-spectacular-failure-that-was-the-bill-gates-deposition/
77
Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/08/better-goodreads-possible-bad-for-books-storygraph-amazon
108
90
Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry
https://threader.app/thread/1304811968398729218
186
What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too
https://gist.github.com/graninas/22ab535d2913311e47a742c70f1d2f2b/c4e1b25cefe673a0c1d1bec4c24690121f31fa21
104
53
Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (2008)
http://angg.twu.net/miniforth-article.html
100
45
Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/archaeologists-with-drones-discover-pre-columbian-earthworks-in-kansas/
99
Freeman Dyson’s letters offer another glimpse of genius
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/freeman-dysons-letters-offer-another-glimpse-of-genius
Physics is stuck
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/06/physics-is-stuck--and-needs-another-einstein-to-revolutionize-it-physicist-avi-loeb-says/
95
111
U.S. Google antitrust case set to expand with GOP states joining
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-12/u-s-google-antitrust-case-set-to-expand-with-gop-states-joining
89
183
Zoom towns and the new housing market for the two Americas
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas
8
Ravi: A dialect of Lua with optional static typing and JIT
https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
84
12
GAlculator – Geometric Algebra Pocket Calculator
https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/galculator.html
83
98
QAnon website shuts down after NJ man identified as operator
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/11/qanon-website-shuts-down-after-nj-man-identified-operator/3472475001/
80
13
Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
https://netflixtechblog.com/edgar-solving-mysteries-faster-with-observability-e1a76302c71f
JPMorgan to trade shares of pre-IPO giants including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb