top 50% 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

PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

https://macpep.org/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 107 comments

Cyberpunk 2077 Logos

https://www.valencygraphics.com/cyberpunk-2077

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 83 comments

Which Parsing Approach?

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/which_parsing_approach.html

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 84 comments

First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-u-s-small-nuclear-reactor-design-is-approved/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Jazz up your Python scripts with sound effects

https://github.com/sangarshanan/jazzit

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 45 comments

Beeware – Android and iOS Apps in Python

https://beeware.org/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 25 comments

How to form a California LLC without a lawyer

https://feross.org/form-california-llc/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 193 comments

The V Programming Language

https://vlang.io/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 191 comments

Differentiable Dithering

https://www.peterstefek.me/differentiable-dithering.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 47 comments

25th Anniversary of the Theatrical Release of "Hackers"

https://www.hacktheplanet.com/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Lofimusic.app, an open source Background Music Progressive Web App

https://lofimusic.app

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Lag – Know Before You Go

https://lag.app

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Guild/Studio structure for Software Engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24479097

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 71 comments

We View Nikola’s Response as a Tacit Admission of Securities Fraud

https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola-response/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 123 comments

Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54161344

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 121 comments

Threat Models for Differential Privacy

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/threat-models-differential-privacy

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 2 comments

MonsterMash – A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation

https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/monster_mash

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 13 comments

Web Performance Profiling: Google.com

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/performance-profiling-google

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 83 comments

Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots

https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/14/boston-dynamics-ceo-profitability-roadmap-next-robots/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 79 comments

When Math Gets Impossibly Hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-math-gets-impossibly-hard-20200914/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 119 comments

A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science

https://egc.yale.edu/how-job-yale-1960s-set-susan-eggers-groundbreaking-path-computer-science

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 93 comments

Sattolo's Algorithm (2017)

https://danluu.com/sattolo/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 20 comments

Assange Hearing Day 9

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-9/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

The Recovering Programmer (2010)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 26 comments

Apple announces Apple One subscription bundle for Music, TV Plus, and more

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/21433205/apple-one-subscription-bundle-price-music-tv-plus-arcade-icloud

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 132 comments

Bill Gates slams 'shocking' U.S. response to Covid-19 pandemic

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/14/bill-gates-slams-mismanaged-u-s-response-to-covid-19-pandemic/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 61 comments

The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/john-pilger-stalinist-trial-julian-assange

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

The Amstrad CPC 472, an unusual case

https://auamstrad.es/sin-categoria/amstrad-cpc-472-en/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) [pdf]

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9304&context=ylj

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 82 comments

YouTube launches TikTok competitor, Shorts

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436158/youtube-starts-tiktok-competitor-short-form-video-instagram-reels-beta-test

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 95 comments

Joe Rogan Experience #1536 – Edward Snowden [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rl82OQDoOc

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 1 comments

Rewriting the Technical Interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

French judge rules GPL license must be enforced via contract law, not copyright

https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/15/french-judge-rules-gpl-license-to-be-inapplicable-in-french-copyright-court/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor

https://blog.8bitbuddhism.com/2019/12/01/how-to-use-your-android-tablet-as-second-monitor/

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 60 comments

Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? (2019) [pdf]

http://ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Stargate – An open source API framework for data

https://stargate.io/2020/09/14/init-stargate.html

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

iPad Air 2020

https://www.apple.com/ipad-air/

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 139 comments

Netlify was down

https://www.netlifystatus.com/?Sep15

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Writing for Snobs

https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2020/09/writing-for-snobs.html

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 92 comments
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