top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-09-28

CRDTs are the future

https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/

5 years ago

1181 upvotes – 312 comments

How to Get Promoted

https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted

5 years ago

788 upvotes – 317 comments

Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PpZqHWXPLjOsXf_T7uyH4rWuxUMxzBlxvv5gm19P_Z8/edit#

5 years ago

528 upvotes – 95 comments

Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 284 comments

Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations

https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 191 comments

YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/youtube-celebrates-deaf-awareness-week-by-killing-crowd-sourced-captions/

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 198 comments

All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page

https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html

5 years ago

411 upvotes – 138 comments

Assange Trial Day 18

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-18/

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 100 comments

The SaaS website content you need to close sales

https://www.mikesonders.com/saas-website-content/

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 53 comments

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

https://www.bbcelite.com/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 125 comments

Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS

https://underjord.io/live-server-push-without-js.html

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 79 comments

Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-ban-judge/judge-temporarily-blocks-u-s-ban-on-tiktok-downloads-from-u-s-app-stores-idUSKBN26J00R

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 631 comments

Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02751-1

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 151 comments

Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

https://insights.dice.com/2020/09/28/netflix-ceo-explains-why-he-pays-technologists-huge-salaries/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 435 comments

Google requiring Android apps on Play store to use its billing system next year

https://9to5google.com/2020/09/28/google-play-android-billing/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 225 comments

Microsoft 365 Outage

https://status.office365.com

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 160 comments

Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-09-08-nix-ipfs-milestone-1/

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 90 comments

I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language

https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/how-i-used-the-internet-to-painlessly-relearn-a-foreign-language-and-you-could-to-63139f0dc5b6

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 168 comments

Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-objects/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 91 comments

Is Y Combinator worth it?

https://drodio.com/our-ycombinator-experience/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 125 comments

Facebook Gizmo

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310377930661351424

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 96 comments

OpenSSH 8.4

https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=160121534105667&w=2

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 45 comments

The Polygons of Doom: PSX

https://fabiensanglard.net/doom_psx/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 29 comments

ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20200927/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 52 comments

APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/06/29/apfs-changes-in-big-sur-how-time-machine-backs-up-to-apfs-and-more/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 123 comments

Students Left Behind by Remote Learning

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 424 comments

Split Keyboard for Professionals

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 328 comments

SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-228

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 135 comments

Durability: NVMe Disks

https://www.evanjones.ca/durability-nvme.html

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 69 comments

Do things that don't require scale

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/do-things-that-dont-require-scale/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 43 comments

Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of MIT sheltering abusive mentors

https://blog.usejournal.com/abuse-isnt-an-advising-style-the-consequences-of-mit-sheltering-abuse-behind-mentorship-e77b029bc19a

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 141 comments

Spritely – leveling up the federated social web

https://spritelyproject.org/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 52 comments

Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/infighting-busywork-missed-warnings-how-uber-wasted-2-5-billion-on-self-driving-cars

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 223 comments

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (2016)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 147 comments

Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54328644

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

Today is LibreOffice 10th Anniversary

https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/1310333845368180736

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 23 comments

Uber secures right to continue operating in London

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54322579

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 209 comments

In Defense of XML

https://blog.frankel.ch/defense-xml/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 254 comments

China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/social-credit-system-china/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow

https://motion.hoanhan.co/

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

Tridactyl: A Vim-like interface for Firefox

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 64 comments

Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

https://zerodha.tech/blog/alar-the-making-of-an-open-source-dictionary/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 17 comments

Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33859/blasting-the-air-in-front-of-hypersonic-vehicles-with-lasers-could-unlock-unprecedented-speeds

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

How to digitize your lab notebooks

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02728-0

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 83 comments

Type Systems Explained with Examples

https://thevaluable.dev/type-system-explained/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation

https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-scientist-beats-traffic-jams-through-adaptation-20200928/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024

https://wccftech.com/ssmc-mass-produce-2nm-2024/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server

https://tamas.dev/repurpose/asus/c300/chromebook/home/server/chromeos/linux/docker/containers/2020/09/28/repurpose-chromebook-low-power-home-server.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

Scorpion Transforming Computer Chair

https://www.cluvens.net/news/this-villainous-scorpion-can-transform

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 105 comments

Specially made gloves let Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins play again

https://www.chicagotribune.com/consumer-reviews/sns-magic-gloves-helped-brazilian-pianist-joao-carlos-martins-play-20200123-3jydwt47rjgd7bddvz4fc252a4-story.html

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-successful-startup-founder-is-45

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Steve Jobs and the usable computer (2011)

https://www.w3.org/blog/2011/10/steve-jobs/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Erlang code generator for Idris 2

https://github.com/chrrasmussen/Idris2-Erlang

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 13 comments

Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/default_window_manager_switched_to

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments
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