top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-01

My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison

https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/1311349439479463937

5 years ago

1040 upvotes – 622 comments

USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess

https://debugger.medium.com/usb-c-was-supposed-to-simplify-our-lives-instead-its-a-total-mess-626bb2ea3688#Echobox=1601499898

5 years ago

590 upvotes – 605 comments

My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/j321gz/my_wife_recently_passed_away_i_used_my_time_off/

5 years ago

536 upvotes – 238 comments

We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-learn-faster-when-we-arent-told-what-choices-to-make/

5 years ago

496 upvotes – 167 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651639

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 809 comments

Car seats as contraception

https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 329 comments

Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/subway-bread-sugar-content-ireland-court-ruling

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 253 comments

Industrial Literacy

https://rootsofprogress.org/industrial-literacy

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 192 comments

Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available

https://github.blog/2020-09-30-code-scanning-is-now-available/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 109 comments

Where our economy is, for the young

https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1662085.html

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 440 comments

Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/memristor-first-single-device-to-act-like-a-neuron

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 108 comments

Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database-1.5745481

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 73 comments

YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 325 comments

Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-stellar-explosion-earth-proximity.html

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 83 comments

Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf]

https://github.com/koutto/hardware-hacking/blob/master/Hardware-Hacking-Experiments-Jeremy-Brun-Nouvion-2020.pdf

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 55 comments

Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/09/17/stripe-will-pay-workers-20000-to-leave-new-york-and-san-francisco-but-heres-the-catch/#412c4f3f562f

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 254 comments

Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions

https://github.com/actionsflow/actionsflow

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 73 comments

3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 82 comments

United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-obtains-final-judgement-and-permanent-injunction-against-edward-snowden

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 125 comments

Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data

https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 120 comments

Germany fines H&M 35 million euros for data protection breaches

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/HENNES-MAURITZ-AB-6491104/news/Hennes-Mauritz-Germany-fines-H-M-35-million-euros-for-data-protection-breaches-31455747/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651637

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 281 comments

Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-executives-shore-cryptocurrency-derivatives-exchange-charged-violation

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 141 comments

Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/oct/01/new-copyleft-strategy-launched-with-ARDC-grant/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 99 comments

MobX 6

https://michel.codes/blogs/mobx6

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 86 comments

Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/01/microsoft-edge-tools-vscode/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 43 comments

Covid-19 can damage hearts of some college athletes

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/10/01/covid-19-can-damage-hearts-of-some-college-athletes/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 108 comments

C++ the Good Parts (2014)

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/c-plus-plus-pros/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 246 comments

Suicide Linux (2009)

https://qntm.org/suicide

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 170 comments

Spamtoberfest

https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts

https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs

https://marker.medium.com/why-the-survival-of-the-airlines-depends-on-frequent-flyer-programs-2509bd3f25d0

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 222 comments

The internet needs our love

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/09/30/the-internet-needs-our-love/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 158 comments

Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-7/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 39 comments

Segment Tree

https://cp-algorithms.com/data_structures/segment_tree.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 16 comments

How to build an open source business

https://www.ockam.io/learn/blog/zero_ipo/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 37 comments

Unfck the Internet

https://firefox.com/unfck

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

Bob Murray, Who Fought Regulations as a Coal Operator, Files for Lung Benefits

https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2020-09-30/bob-murray-who-fought-against-black-lung-regulations-as-a-coal-operator-has-filed-for-black-lung-benefits

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Programming language notation is a barrier to entry

https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/09/29/pl-notation-is-a-barrier-to-entry/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 187 comments

Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/ottawa/2020/9/30/1_5126193.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 175 comments

Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home

https://twitter.com/arrington/status/1311520168200163328

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF

https://pixielabs.ai

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

Python typosquatting is about more than typos

https://www.iqt.org/bewear-python-typosquatting-is-about-more-than-typos/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 50 comments

Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers

https://www.omzlo.com/articles/baremetal-programming-on-the-tinyavr-0-micro-controllers

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 96 comments

Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves

https://www.wired.com/story/publishers-worry-ebooks-libraries-virtual-shelves/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24649959

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54376327

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

AWS IAM having issues yet again

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Web Neural Network API

https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webnn/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Declarative Shadow DOM

https://web.dev/declarative-shadow-dom/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

What does I/O bound mean? (2008)

http://erikengbrecht.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-does-io-bound-really-mean.html?m=1

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 55 comments

Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages

https://ryangjchandler.co.uk/articles/running-github-actions-for-certain-commit-messages

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

I Met the Reclusive Georgia O’Keeffe

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/how-i-met-the-reclusive-georgia-okeeffe

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments
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