top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-03

Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/honda-shocks-f1-says-it-will-quit-the-sport-after-2021/

5 years ago

777 upvotes – 389 comments

Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store

https://www.deccanherald.com/specials/aatmanirbhar-bharat-modi-govt-to-set-up-app-store-alternative-to-google-play-apple-app-store-895755.html?&ampcf=1

5 years ago

450 upvotes – 350 comments

Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

https://github.com/nidhaloff/igel

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 102 comments

The open source paradox

http://antirez.com/news/134

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 231 comments

Git Exercises

https://gitexercises.fracz.com/

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 42 comments

Rust Starter Kit 2020

https://wiki.alopex.li/RustStarterKit2020

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 112 comments

Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 31 comments

Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010326/

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 330 comments

Color blindness

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/09/color-blindness-is-inaccurate-term.html

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 161 comments

NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML

https://nestedtext.org

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 284 comments

Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment

https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/news/actualitat/2020/360-bilingualism-alzheimer.html

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 158 comments

Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/eco-disaster-at-kamchatka-peninsula-with-mass-death-of-sea-animals-at-precious-pacific-beach/

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: I made a computer vision addon for Blender

https://github.com/Cartucho/vision_blender

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 35 comments

Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In

https://github.com/digitalocean/hacktoberfest/pull/596

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 113 comments

GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account

https://github.com/mxrch/GHunt

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 39 comments

How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You

https://thegradient.pub/how-the-police-use-ai-to-track-and-identify-you/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 109 comments

On Being Bipolar

https://thewalrus.ca/on-being-bipolar/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 88 comments

Apple Watch momentum is building

https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2020/9/30/apple-watch-momentum-is-building

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 274 comments

Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”

http://www.fosspatents.com/2020/10/google-sounds-like-apple-in-new-court.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 289 comments

An Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/julian-assange-trial-extradition-us-trump-wikileaks-press-freedom-b747774.html

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 84 comments

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012)

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 68 comments

Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies

https://simpleoptout.com/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 26 comments

An Honest Review of Gatsby

https://cra.mr/an-honest-review-of-gatsby/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 118 comments

Proposed EU rule may mean you can finally delete some apps from your phone

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/draft-eu-data-rules-target-apple-google-facebook-amazon/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24670746

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 152 comments

The experiment that proved airborne disease transmission

https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/the-experiment-that-proved-airborne-disease-transmission.html

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 113 comments

The case for building a SETI observatory on the moon

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-case-for-building-a-seti-observatory-on-the-moon

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 76 comments

For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns against them

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4377146-for-years-intel-sat-on-cpu-monopoly-and-now-tide-turns-against

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 236 comments

Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk

https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/09/24/bill-introduced-to-promote-prescribed-fire-intends-to-reduce-fire-risk/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 136 comments

The End of the American Internet

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/10/3/the-end-of-the-american-internet

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 163 comments

Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media

https://kartick.substack.com/p/enjoy-the-best-not-the-latest-media

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 133 comments

JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor

https://dropbox.tech/application/jquery-to-react--how-we-rewrote-the-hellosign-editor

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 51 comments

Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene

https://news.uark.edu/articles/54830/physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24671019

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 30 comments

H&M Hit with Record-Breaking GDPR Fine over Illegal Employee Surveillance

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2020/10/02/hm-hit-with-record-breaking-gdpr-fine-over-illegal-employee-surveillance/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

Falling in love again with the haunting sounds of interwar Polish tango

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/polish-tango/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 36 comments

What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/What-The-Social-Dilemma-Gets-Wrong.pdf

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 121 comments

A web of trust for NPM

https://www.btao.org/2020/10/02/npm-trust.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 119 comments

M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols

https://hackaday.com/2020/10/02/m17-aims-to-replace-proprietary-ham-radio-protocols/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

Astronomers reveal first direct image of Beta Pictoris C

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-astronomers-reveal-image-beta-pictoris.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 6 comments

Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014)

http://lateralscience.blogspot.com/2014/10/scottish-nitroglycerin-one-legged-stools.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

Self-medication by orangutans using bioactive properties of a plant

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-16621-w

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What is your trick to do deep work or study?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675467

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 82 comments

Morgan Stanley Closes Acquisition of E*TRADE

https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/morgan-stanley-closes-acquisition-of-e-trade

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Avoiding Worry Driven Development

https://www.seangoedecke.com/worry-driven-development/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 29 comments

All Telegram servers are down

https://telegram.org

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework

https://github.com/Madour/NasNas

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

40th Anniversary of the Ethernet

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/09/ethernet-40th/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/how-does-science-really-work

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments
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