top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-23

Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

5 years ago

1624 upvotes – 1286 comments

They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEdFRoOYs0

5 years ago

987 upvotes – 761 comments

Amnesia is now open source

https://frictionalgames.com/2020-09-amnesia-is-now-open-source/

5 years ago

902 upvotes – 205 comments

Wikipedia is getting a new look

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/23/wikipedia-is-getting-a-new-look-for-the-first-time-in-10-years-heres-why/

5 years ago

649 upvotes – 512 comments

Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images

http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013344/

5 years ago

647 upvotes – 124 comments

How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913207918/how-to-say-no-for-the-people-pleaser-who-always-says-yes

5 years ago

565 upvotes – 257 comments

California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/california-to-phase-out-gasoline-cars-by-2035-governor-says

5 years ago

528 upvotes – 721 comments

DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-unveils-proposed-section-230-legislation-behalf-administration

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 373 comments

Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven

https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/23/blizzard-cofounder-mike-morhaime-launches-new-gaming-endeavor-dreamhaven/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set

https://icons.mono.company/

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 58 comments

After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150630-my-dentist-saved-my-tooth-but-stole-my-memory

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 189 comments

Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup

https://www.contrast.app/posts/bleeding-edge-tech-means-youll-bleed-to-death

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 191 comments

Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/projects/biscuit.html

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 130 comments

Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-09-23/los-angeles-hid-a-methane-leak-for-a-year-activists-want-the-power-plant-shut-down

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 169 comments

Tor Browser 10

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 104 comments

YouTube closing 10yr old guitar teaching channel, without clear copyright claim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEdFRoOYs0

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 1 comments

Mentat Wiki: exploring ways to become a better thinker

http://www.ludism.org/mentat/

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 54 comments

Assange Hearing Day 15

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-15/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 47 comments

The EU is set to declare war on encryption

https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/the-eu-is-set-to-declare-war-on-encryption

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 162 comments

179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown

https://www.wired.com/story/operation-disruptor-179-arrested-global-dark-web-takedown/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 342 comments

OpenTelemetry

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 65 comments

Tesla suffers network outage disabling vehicles’ mobile app

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/tesla-suffers-network-outage-disabling-car-owners-mobile-app

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 243 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

https://www.steveliu.co/memex

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 59 comments

Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine’s presidential election, court rules

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/09/22/politics/ranked-choice-voting-will-be-used-in-maines-presidential-election-high-court-rules/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 164 comments

Lattice Confinement Fusion

https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/science/lattice-confinement-fusion/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 118 comments

Haskell's Children

https://owenlynch.org/posts/2020-09-16-haskells-children/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 191 comments

Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D

https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

Why some people suffer from a stutter

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200922-why-some-people-suffer-from-a-stutter

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 125 comments

Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems

http://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/23/venus

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 202 comments

Time spent programming is often time well spent

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2020-09.html#e2020-09-22T16_09_19.htm

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 72 comments

How to Drive on Sand Without Getting Stuck (2017)

https://www.offroaddiscovery.com/2017/10/16/taking-a-4x4-trip-down-the-beach

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 74 comments

Social Media Analysis Toolkit: Open-Source Tool for Tracking Disinformation

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/new-open-source-tool-tracking-disinformation/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 40 comments

Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins

https://traefik.io/blog/houston-we-have-plugins-traefik-2-3-announcement

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 63 comments

Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life

https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/09/16/deep-learning-game-of-life/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled

https://simpleflying.com/final-airbus-a380-assembled/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567711

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 211 comments

The case of a maid who battled a millionaire has gripped Singapore

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54174598

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 133 comments

Amnesia: The Dark Descent source code released

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 2 comments

Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/climate/climate-change-future.html

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 77 comments

Adobe unveils multi-year vision for PDF, introduces Liquid Mode

https://blog.adobe.com/en/2020/09/23/adobe-unveils-ambitious-multi-year-vision-for-pdf-introduces-liquid-mode.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 114 comments

The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/news/n-95-shortage-covid/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 184 comments

Typography of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2020/08/17/startrek/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 8 comments

Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/21/amazon-details-its-low-bandwidth-sidewalk-neighborhood-network-coming-to-echo-and-tile-devices-soon/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 97 comments

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/xv6.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 21 comments

The Cement of Society Is...

http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-cement-of-society-is.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 159 comments

As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/22/as-joe-rogans-platform-grows-so-does-the-media-and-liberal-backlash-why/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 166 comments

Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/frugality-is-non-linear/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 223 comments

Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM

https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 56 comments

How the CPython compiler works

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-2-how-the-cpython-compiler-works/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day

https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/article_9a649f8e-fd3e-11ea-b0a4-370a379d0dc9.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 77 comments

Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/enforcing-modularity-rails-apps-packwerk

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 7 comments

Researchers identify new type of superconductor

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/09/researchers-identify-new-type-superconductor

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

What Is a Minimally Good Life?

https://psyche.co/ideas/what-is-a-minimally-good-life-and-are-you-prepared-to-live-it

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 150 comments

Roughly 2000 blogs running on a $7/month dyno

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565406

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

ZEROe: Hydrogen-hybrid aircraft concept

https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zeroe.html#hydrogen

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 110 comments

Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/247521-discovery-user-manual-of-the-oldest-surviving-computer-in-the-world/fulltext

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Docable: Literate Runbooks and Interactive Tutorials from Markdown

https://github.com/ottomatica/docable-notebooks#docable

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/23/microsoft_leaks_over_65tb_bing/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

Should social networks tell you if you’ve been following a fake account?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/should-twitter-tell-you-if-youve-been-following-a-fake-account/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 111 comments

Total number of Brave Browser Publishers

https://batgrowth.com/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 84 comments

Discovery of a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-discovery-druggable-pocket-sars-cov-spike.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

Quarkus 1.8.1 – Kubernetes native Java framework

https://quarkus.io/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 88 comments

California Will Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-california-will-phase-out-gasoline-powered-cars-drastically-reduce-demand-for-fossil-fuel-in-californias-fight-against-climate-change/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

Octojam 7: The CHIP-8 game jam

http://octojam.com

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

MalwareBazaar – Malware Sample Exchange

https://bazaar.abuse.ch/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16102/intel-launches-10nm-atom-embedded-cpus-elkhart-lake-now-available

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 104 comments

CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf]

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/declaration-form.pdf

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 209 comments

Neurotoxic peptides isolated from venom of giant Australian stinging tree

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/science/australia-stinging-trees-toxins.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]

https://share.tube/videos/watch/ef3e5eec-27aa-45c8-b87b-64a57fc6e176

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 54 comments

Visualizing Gzip Compression with Python

https://brennan.io/2020/09/22/compression-curves/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

Blazor WebAssembly on Azure Static Web Apps

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlazorWebAssemblyonAzureStaticWebApps.aspx

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Memorizing a Deck of Cards

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eGmpH7WuyDRmGJ4HF/memorizing-a-deck-of-cards

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

JPMorgan to Move $230B Assets to Germany in Brexit Shift

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/jpmorgan-to-move-230-billion-assets-to-germany-in-brexit-shift

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments
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