top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-20

On the Use of a Life

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-life.html

5 years ago

1275 upvotes – 265 comments

DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features

https://duckdb.org/

5 years ago

801 upvotes – 160 comments

uMatrix has been archived

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

5 years ago

631 upvotes – 214 comments

The Social Dilemma

https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

5 years ago

577 upvotes – 405 comments

FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/global-banks-defy-u-s-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists/

5 years ago

539 upvotes – 212 comments

We need physical audio kill switches

https://rubenerd.com/we-need-physical-audio-kill-switches/

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 434 comments

Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates

https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediates.html

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 174 comments

Laid Off, Now What?

https://bharathpbhat.github.io/2020/09/19/laid-off-now-what.html

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 362 comments

Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531718

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 230 comments

Why Not Rust?

https://matklad.github.io/2020/09/20/why-not-rust.html

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 319 comments

Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habits, work

https://a16z.com/2020/09/07/on-productivity-scheduling-reading-habits-marc-andreessen/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 99 comments

Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-20/trump-s-wechat-prohibition-in-u-s-put-on-hold-by-judge

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 374 comments

Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

https://darknetlive.com/post/dream-vendor-canna-bars-sentenced-to-prison/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 331 comments

Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval

https://blog.kraken.com/post/6241/kraken-wyoming-first-digital-asset-bank/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 115 comments

Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-usb-boot-uasp-trim-and-performance

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 47 comments

The unrealized potential of federation

https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/20/The-potential-of-federation.html

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 197 comments

Robert Gore has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54224405

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 89 comments

Generative Bad Handwriting

https://avinayak.github.io/programming/art/2020/09/18/p5-strokes.html

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 18 comments

Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/mouse-found-atop-volcano-highest-altitude-mammal

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 70 comments

The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment

https://newrepublic.com/article/159252/vampire-ship

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 87 comments

Build Personal Moats

https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/build-personal-moats

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 78 comments

2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 62 comments

Base 65536

https://github.com/qntm/base65536

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]

https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/analystrelations/omdia-java-turns-25.pdf

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 277 comments

Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01011

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 42 comments

What is the value of browser diversity?

https://daverupert.com/2020/09/the-value-of-browser-diversity/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 117 comments

Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report

https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 172 comments

Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing

https://www.tensorflow.org/swift

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 138 comments

The Little Things: Speeding up C++ compilation

https://codingnest.com/the-little-things-speeding-up-c-compilation/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 82 comments

Revisiting Apple Notes (6): The Protobuf

https://ciofecaforensics.com/2020/09/18/apple-notes-revisited-protobuf/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

HSBC moved Ponzi scheme millions despite warning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54225572

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 15 comments

An ICIJ investigation reveals role of banks in industrial-scale money laundering

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 2 comments

Why aren’t you more serious?

https://rubenerd.com/why-arent-you-more-serious/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 90 comments

F1 Pit Stop In 2-Seconds: An In-Depth Analysis (2017) [video]

https://youtu.be/tFwcq5lf0wU

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 53 comments

Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54227282

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks

https://thehustle.co/how-marketers-convinced-america-to-eat-fish-sticks/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 156 comments

Bitwarden leaks passwords to other subdomains

https://twitter.com/RitzmannMarkus/status/1307614248835731456

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

Communicating with Interactive Articles

https://distill.pub/2020/communicating-with-interactive-articles/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 2 comments
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