top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-05

Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

5 years ago

1041 upvotes – 801 comments

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/full-bleed/

5 years ago

716 upvotes – 268 comments

Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/

5 years ago

614 upvotes – 199 comments

Android In a Box – Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system

https://anbox.io/

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 147 comments

I built a lay-down desk

https://blog.luap.info/drafts/i-built-a-lay-down-desk.html?hnn

5 years ago

560 upvotes – 391 comments

Python 3.9

https://docs.python.org/release/3.9.0/whatsnew/3.9.html

5 years ago

547 upvotes – 263 comments

Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200927/01044945391/former-patent-litigator-becomes-federal-judge-begins-advertising-patent-trolls-to-come-to-his-court-they-have-droves.shtml

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 141 comments

How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

https://canny.io/blog/how-we-built-a-1m-arr-saas-startup/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 118 comments

Principles of Data Oriented Programming

https://blog.klipse.tech/databook/2020/09/29/do-principles.html?essence

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 134 comments

Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”

https://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/applying-misu/

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 183 comments

Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/you-dont-own-your-kindle-books-amazon-reminds-customer-1C6626211

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 245 comments

Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

https://status.slack.com/2020-10/e8c094cc99aabf64

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 218 comments

Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/diagram-maker-open-sourcing-iot-visualization/

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 60 comments

Cells are fast and crowded places (2011)

http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowded-places.html

5 years ago

294 upvotes – 117 comments

Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/build-a-face-recognition-system-for-60-with-the-new-nvidia-jetson-nano-2gb-and-python-46edbddd7264

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 201 comments

Fortunately, I don't squash my commits

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2020/10/05/fortunately-i-dont-squash-my-commits/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 327 comments

.NET Orleans

http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 280 comments

Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

https://electrek.co/2020/10/04/tesla-hacker-driver-facing-camera-looking-for/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 429 comments

Kube Doom, Kill Kubernetes Pods Using Id's Doom

https://github.com/storax/kubedoom

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 80 comments

For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305750X86900434

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 89 comments
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