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

6 years ago

Calibre 5.0

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

6 years ago

Ruby 3.0 Preview 1

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

6 years ago

PG and Jessica

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

Swift System Is Now Open Source

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Windows XP source code has leaked

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

6 years ago

People expect technology to suck because it sucks

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Assange Hearing Day 17

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

6 years ago

Visual and interactive way to learn Git

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

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

6 years ago

Google Services Experiencing Disruptions

https://www.google.com/appsstatus

6 years ago

Toward a “modern” Emacs

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

6 years ago

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

https://pijul.org/

6 years ago

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-$1.5$

6 years ago

YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone

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

6 years ago

SaaS Financial Model

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

6 years ago

You're enlightened – now what?

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Neue Haas Grotesk (2011)

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

6 years ago

Writing System Software (2018) [video]

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

6 years ago

MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux

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

6 years ago

Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM

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

6 years ago

The K-shaped recovery

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons

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

6 years ago

Show HN: Video Transcoder on the browser using WASM

https://modfy.video/

6 years ago

Finding Goroutine Bugs with TLA+

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Show HN: Parametric Equalizer for PulseAudio

https://github.com/keur/prettyeq

6 years ago

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

https://www.strongweekapp.com/

6 years ago

Hotels of Pyongyang

https://www.hotelsofnorthkorea.com/

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

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

6 years ago

Urkel – authenticated key-value store written in C

https://github.com/chjj/liburkel

6 years ago

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/

6 years ago

Throw away code

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

6 years ago

Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery

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

6 years ago