top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-04

French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/french-bar-owners-arrested-for-offering-free-wifi-but-not-keeping-logs/

5 years ago

714 upvotes – 330 comments

Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler

https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/

5 years ago

604 upvotes – 69 comments

Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/reddit_rewrites_history_by_excluding_aaron_swartz/

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 291 comments

Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/algorithm-discovers-how-six-simple-molecules-could-evolve-into-lifes-building-blocks/4012505.article

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 165 comments

Why I left my tenured academic job

https://reyammer.io/blog/2020/10/03/the-good-the-bad-and-the-bye-bye-why-i-left-my-tenured-academic-job/

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 229 comments

Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio

https://shapez.io/

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 114 comments

Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 471 comments

Witeboard

https://witeboard.com/

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 134 comments

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 54 comments

Sonos is spying on me (and you)

https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/sonos-is-spying-on-me-and-you/

5 years ago

291 upvotes – 149 comments

Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

https://github.com/rui314/chibicc

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 44 comments

The economics of vending machines

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-vending-machines/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 163 comments

The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nests/

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 123 comments

Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]

https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 425 comments

Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites

https://lisakov.com/projects/open-source-comments/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 70 comments

Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

http://nautil.us/issue/90/something-green/how-psilocybin-can-save-the-environment

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 152 comments

On the destruction of America’s best high school

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4979

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 212 comments

Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/pardon-edward-snowden/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 121 comments

Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers

https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00313-y

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 95 comments

Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator

https://veryseriousblog.com/posts/dissecting-lemire

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 65 comments
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