top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-19

Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921

6 years ago

484 upvotes – 96 comments

Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention

https://www.cisa.gov/blog/2020/09/18/windows-server-vulnerability-requires-immediate-attention

6 years ago

425 upvotes – 104 comments

SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating Vitamin D levels

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239252

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 255 comments

Meeting everyone on a new team

https://www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/meeting-everyone.html

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/315186-apple-books-tsmcs-entire-5nm-production-capability

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 159 comments

Netgear Firmware Requires Online Registration

https://kb.netgear.com/000062364/GC108P-GC108PP-Firmware-Version-1-0-5-8

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 185 comments

Bevy 0.2

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-2/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24527978

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 301 comments

Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library

https://github.com/NVIDIA/libcudacxx

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 133 comments

GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain

https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy-felons-io-unregistered-domain/

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux

https://github.com/alexdelorenzo/chromecast_mpris

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 71 comments

X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (2011)

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 62 comments

Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am

https://magnusson.io/post/backups/

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 146 comments

Creativity Changes as We Age

https://thewalrus.ca/older-wiser-better-aging-artists-are-at-their-peak/

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 60 comments

U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-bans-wechat-tiktok-1.5729249

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 188 comments

On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 121 comments

The age-old strategy of buying cheap shares is faltering

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/09/19/the-age-old-strategy-of-buying-cheap-shares-is-faltering

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 295 comments

Rust: The Error Handling Project Group

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/09/18/error-handling-wg-announcement.html

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 155 comments

Twister OS: Make Raspberry Pi Look Like Windows or macOS

https://twisteros.com/index.html

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 64 comments

Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps

https://monacivilengineering.blogspot.com/2020/09/standard-sewage-network-for-refugee.html

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

Indoor CO2 may reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GH000237

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 162 comments

A Thai national park is mailing trash back to tourists

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/09/18/tourist-trash-mail/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24527203

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI

https://myraah.io/visualmind

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 171 comments

A New Back End for Cranelift: Instruction Selection

https://cfallin.org/blog/2020/09/18/cranelift-isel-1/

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 8 comments

Introduction to Computer Graphics Online Textbook (2018)

http://math.hws.edu/graphicsbook/index.html

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

OOP: History, and challenges for the next fifty years (2013)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890540113000795

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

Jitsi’s Emil Ivov on scaling up during a pandemic

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/it-was-quite-a-ride-jitsis-emil-ivov-on-scaling-up-the-video-conferencing-platform-during-a-pandemic

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions

https://fs.blog/mental-models/?

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

The Black Vault: A FOIA obsessive’s UFO-filled empire

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/black-vault-foia-john-greenewald.php

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Alu (Runic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alu_(runic)

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

TeXMe Self-rendering Markdown and LaTeX documents

https://github.com/susam/texme

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics [pdf]

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4443772/file/4443780.pdf

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm

https://www.wsj.com/articles/huangs-law-is-the-new-moores-law-and-explains-why-nvidia-wants-arm-11600488001

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 77 comments

Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528

6 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: How to Learn Rust

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24527219

6 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Explain Shell: match command-line arguments to their help text

https://explainshell.com/

6 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?

https://news.mit.edu/2020/early-human-hot-springs-food-0915

6 years ago

62 upvotes – 78 comments

Tail Recursion and Debugging (2011)

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2011/03/tail-recursion-and-debugging.html

6 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments
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