top 50% 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

Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775718307714

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 87 comments

What are Differential Equations and how do they work?

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-are-differential-equations-and-how_3.html

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 56 comments

Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015)

https://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 32 comments

The Whitworth Three Plates Method (2017)

https://ericweinhoffer.com/blog/2017/7/30/the-whitworth-three-plates-method

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 54 comments

Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/greenland-melting-fastest-any-time-in-last-12-000-years/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 46 comments

Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells

https://carbontracker.org/taxpayers-may-have-to-pay-280-billion-in-onshore-plugging-costs-for-oil-and-gas-wells/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 81 comments

Face retouching settings should be off by default

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/digital-wellbeing/more-controls-selfie-filters/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 137 comments

Fibers, Oh My

https://graphitemaster.github.io/fibers/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 69 comments

The Sackler family’s plan to keep its billions

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sackler-familys-plan-to-keep-its-billions

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 135 comments

Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (2018)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/08/pinocchio-dies-bambi-gets-shot-surprising-changes-disney-movies/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit

https://blog.cerebralab.com/Dual_licensing_GPL_for_fame_and_profit

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 112 comments

Ogden's Basic English

http://ogden.basic-english.org/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 67 comments

Xen on Raspberry Pi 4

https://xenproject.org/2020/09/29/xen-on-raspberry-pi-4-adventures/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-sues-canadian-recycling-firm-for-reselling-100000-devices-instead-of-destroying-them/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 130 comments

Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/magazine/homeless-seniors-elderly.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Gurlic – Free and Open Communities

https://gurlic.com

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677665

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 93 comments

A clear, strong, and thermally insulated wood for energy efficient windows

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/01/transparent-wood-could-be-window-future

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (2015)

https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 154 comments

The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (2018)

https://factordaily.com/john-brunners-the-shockwave-rider-a-sci-fi-classic-from-the-past-whose-future-we-live-in/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Scaling the Root of the DNS

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2020-09/root.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Europe Wins

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/24/euroskeptic-europe-covid-19-trump-russia-migration/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 119 comments

I Hate My MacBook

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/10/02/I-Hate-My-MacBook

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 180 comments

I'm paying over 10k to stare at a screen and be told to “teach myself”

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/j4e834/im_paying_over_10k_to_stare_at_a_screen_and_be/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 47 comments

A modular, extensible DIY NAS

https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2020/04/01/building-the-perfect-cheap-diy-nas/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 108 comments

Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US and UK next week

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/3/21500538/regal-cineworld-theaters-shut-down-james-bond-us-uk

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time

https://github.com/nakabonne/ali

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments
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