top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-25

Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1PHhxBxSehQ

5 years ago

865 upvotes – 271 comments

Calibre 5.0

https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fourteen

5 years ago

674 upvotes – 268 comments

Ruby 3.0 Preview 1

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/09/25/ruby-3-0-0-preview1-released/?hn=t

5 years ago

622 upvotes – 203 comments

PG and Jessica

https://blog.samaltman.com/pg-and-jessica

5 years ago

555 upvotes – 323 comments

BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

5 years ago

541 upvotes – 131 comments

Swift System Is Now Open Source

https://swift.org/blog/swift-system/

5 years ago

500 upvotes – 328 comments

MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/25/ms-treatment-step-closer-drug-shown-to-repair-nerve-coating-trial-multiple-sclerosis

5 years ago

491 upvotes – 137 comments

Windows XP source code has leaked

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/looks-like-the-windows-xp-source-code-just-leaked-on-4chan/

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 473 comments

People expect technology to suck because it sucks

https://tonsky.me/blog/tech-sucks/

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 434 comments

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 260 comments

The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-09-22/guardian-silent-assange-trial/

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 157 comments

Assange Hearing Day 17

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-17/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 161 comments

Visual and interactive way to learn Git

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 66 comments

Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound

https://github.com/ggerganov/wave-share

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 93 comments

China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/09/24/china-blocks-wikimedia-foundations-accreditation/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 147 comments

Google Services Experiencing Disruptions

https://www.google.com/appsstatus

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 235 comments

Toward a “modern” Emacs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/832311/03910e26a3f3e814/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 523 comments

Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches

https://pijul.org/

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 165 comments

Bypassing Android MDM Using a $1.50 Electric Gas Lighter

https://payatu.com/blog/arun/bypassing-android-mdm-using-electromagnetic-fault-injection-by-a-gas-lighter-for-$1.5$

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 77 comments

YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

https://blog.codegiant.io/programming-skills-d77d4abdf255

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 124 comments

Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-ii-trees-for-blooms/

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 74 comments

Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/ring-indoor-security-drone

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 287 comments

SaaS Financial Model

https://baremetrics.com/blog/saas-financial-model

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 15 comments

You're enlightened – now what?

https://whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/youre-enlightened-now-what

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 223 comments

Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflow.js

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/09/bringing-mona-lisa-effect-to-life-tensorflow-js.html

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 27 comments

Neue Haas Grotesk (2011)

http://www.fontbureau.com/NHG/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 55 comments

Writing System Software (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrnmciV9fM

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 13 comments

MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux

https://aswinmohan.me/posts/better-fonts-on-linux/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 158 comments

Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM

https://julialang.org/blog/2020/09/rr-memory-magic/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 62 comments

The K-shaped recovery

https://pomp.substack.com/p/the-k-shaped-recovery-is-now-undeniable

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 313 comments

As Their Numbers Grow, Covid-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771111

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple to let Facebook online events temporarily avoid 30% cut

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/apple-to-let-facebook-online-events-temporarily-avoid-30-cut

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 152 comments

Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-bans-lbry/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Video Transcoder on the browser using WASM

https://modfy.video/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 41 comments

Finding Goroutine Bugs with TLA+

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-golang/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

Yesterday's Google outage was a pool of routing servers crashing

https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1309313556328841216?s=20

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-probe-asteroid-bennu-october.html

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 19 comments

It could be possible to transfer data through gravitational waves (2018)

https://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2018/10/25/it-could-be-possible-to-transfer-data-through-gravitational-waves

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Parametric Equalizer for PulseAudio

https://github.com/keur/prettyeq

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates

https://www.strongweekapp.com/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 69 comments

Hotels of Pyongyang

https://www.hotelsofnorthkorea.com/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 116 comments

Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts (2018) [pdf]

https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FedAccountsGDI.pdf

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home

https://restofworld.org/2020/cat-and-mouse-censorship/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 44 comments

Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch in time to oversee the election

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21454094/facebook-oversight-board-election-criticism-activists

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 55 comments

Urkel – authenticated key-value store written in C

https://github.com/chjj/liburkel

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 14 comments

Anecdotes from Donald Knuth and Robert Tarjan

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/applying-mathematics-and-computer-science-to-everyday-life-anecdotes-from-donald-knuth-and-robert-tarjan/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 12 comments

Throw away code

https://vorner.github.io/2020/09/20/throw-away-code.html

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 79 comments

Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/europe/giant-rat-magawa-medal.html

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments
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