top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-15

Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/#2d2d3103a2aa

5 years ago

1336 upvotes – 836 comments

We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode

https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/

5 years ago

1129 upvotes – 257 comments

Remembering my father

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Remembering-Bill-Gates-Sr?WT.mc_id=20200915000000_Remembering-Bill-Gates-Sr_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW

5 years ago

679 upvotes – 183 comments

Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews

http://blog.interviewing.io/6-red-flags-i-saw-while-doing-60-technical-interviews-in-30-days/

5 years ago

456 upvotes – 380 comments

91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 245 comments

Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)

https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 286 comments

Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language

https://ziglang.org/news/statement-regarding-zen-programming-language.html

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 286 comments

Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16138-3

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 208 comments

Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers

https://thegreatbubblebarrier.com/en/

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 140 comments

Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/09/smoke-has-caused-temperature-forecasts.html

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 313 comments

Nvidia’s Integration Dreams

https://stratechery.com/2020/nvidias-integration-dreams/

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 170 comments

Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/pebble-rocksdb-kv-store/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 82 comments

JDK 15

https://jdk.java.net/15/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 212 comments

Apple Fitness+

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/09/apple-fitness-plus-a-personalized-fitness-experience-comes-to-life-with-apple-watch/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 348 comments

How Internet Archive Is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journals

https://blog.archive.org/2020/09/15/how-the-internet-archive-is-ensuring-permanent-access-to-open-access-journal-articles/

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 25 comments

Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/uber-backup-driver-in-phoenix-indicted-over-fatal-self-driving-car-crash-in-18-11494111

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 394 comments

Details on the Ham Radio Equipment Being Used on the ISS

http://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 32 comments

Tracking users via CSS

https://underjord.io/is-this-evil.html

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 116 comments

Emacs Prelude 1.0

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/09/15/emacs-prelude-1-0/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 60 comments

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect [pdf]

http://cdar.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lisa-Goldberg-reviews-The-Book-of-Why.pdf

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 38 comments
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