top 50% 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

Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-flood-barrier/index.html

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 69 comments

Police are requesting data from smart speakers

https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 226 comments

What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with

https://kakoune-editor.github.io/community-articles/2020/10/01/what_steal_get_away_kakoune.html

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 94 comments

Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index

https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/621a63fc-04d5-4794-8d2b-38e7195056e9

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 70 comments

McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/john-mcafee-indicted-tax-evasion

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690310

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 118 comments

It’s 255:19AM. Do you know what your validation criteria are?

https://hdevalence.ca/blog/2020-10-04-its-25519am

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 28 comments

FastCGI – The Forgotten Treasure (2002)

http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgi/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 93 comments

Programmable Search Engine

https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 59 comments

Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/largest-covid-19-contact-tracing-study-date-finds-children-key-spread-evidence

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 48 comments

India's new paper Covid-19 test

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54338864

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 28 comments

State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/516064-state-sanctioned-secrecy-nsas-criminality-shield

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 36 comments

Benchmarking static website hosting providers

https://www.savjee.be/2020/05/benchmarking-static-website-hosting-providers/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 65 comments

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Compression

https://go-compression.github.io/

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

https://fs.blog/2020/10/why-life-cant-be-simpler/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 167 comments

Humans are more closely related than we commonly think

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-more-closely-related-than-we-commonly-think/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 130 comments

When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-what-age-does-our-ability-to-learn-a-new-language-like-a-native-speaker-disappear/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 183 comments

Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689438

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Collaboratively Edit Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io

https://github.com/hediet/vscode-drawio/blob/14209ad462028cbf7013bc8e094bf0fc6e811d30/README.md

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 14 comments

Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf]

https://electionemails2020.org/assets/manipulative-political-emails-working-paper.pdf

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 55 comments

UK Covid-19 data underreported due to file size limit exceeded

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/18770299.data-blunder-affect-battle-covid-19/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

Type-Level Programming in Rust

https://willcrichton.net/notes/type-level-programming/

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: I built a simple web app for streaming videos

https://peer-flix.herokuapp.com

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 55 comments

Tools I use: argparse builder

https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programming/Tools_I_use/Tools_I_use_argparse_builder.html

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 46 comments

Parallel Tracks

https://defmacro.substack.com/p/parallel-tracks

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24691990

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/windows-timer-resolution-the-great-rule-change/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 93 comments

The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Incomplete Beginner’s Guide to Smalltalk

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-absolute-no-frills-quite-ignorant-very-incomplete-and-certainly-flawed-beginners-guide-to-smalltalk/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

Jupyter Notebooks Gallery

https://notebook.community

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

How narcissistic leaders infect their organizations’ cultures

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/how-narcissistic-leaders-infect-their-organizations-culture/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-wildfire-smoke-making-our-fog-more.html

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: A site to help you validate ideas in bulk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689091

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

A ritual for your product increases satisfaction and spending

https://ariyh.substack.com/p/attach-a-ritual-to-your-product

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 70 comments

Only existing market leaders are benefiting from coronavirus lockdowns

https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2020/10/05/only-existing-market-leaders-are-benefiting-coronavirus-lockdowns

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Demo: iPhone as trackpad on macOS

https://twitter.com/hugolispector/status/1312146776053305344

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

s7 – Scheme implementation intended as extension language for other applications

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Feature Rich Wiki for Microsoft Teams

https://perfectwiki.xyz/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 55 comments

Facebook leak hints at its defense against a government-ordered breakup

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-government-antitrust-breakup-defense-214554210.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/life-in-atts-slow-lane-millions-left-without-fiber-as-company-kills-dsl/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments
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