top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-06

Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

http://typelit.io

5 years ago

1589 upvotes – 378 comments

Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-announces-overhaul-of-h-1b-visa-program-11602017434

5 years ago

1256 upvotes – 1363 comments

Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-bill-before-it-breaks-encryption-a7904e20-2083-4d5e-88ae-44ee5fef7a5d

5 years ago

1252 upvotes – 342 comments

DigitalOcean App Platform

https://pages.news.digitalocean.com/Y0V490bXc00o40036IE0WDo

5 years ago

646 upvotes – 346 comments

Eddie Van Halen has died

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/06/834995224/eddie-van-halen-guitar-hero-dies-at-65

5 years ago

612 upvotes – 192 comments

How I remember what I learn

https://vasilishynkarenka.com/learning/

5 years ago

556 upvotes – 125 comments

100k Stars

http://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 172 comments

Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready

https://bill.harding.blog/2020/10/06/q3-linux-touchpad-like-macbook-update-multitouch-gesture-test-packages-are-ready/

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 136 comments

U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker

http://reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-antitrust/u-s-houses-antitrust-report-hints-at-break-up-of-big-tech-firms-lawmaker-idUSKBN26R0EK

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 482 comments

Elixir 1.11

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/06/elixir-v1-11-0-released/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 139 comments

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 146 comments

Time for a WTF MySQL Moment

https://gbl08ma.com/time-for-a-wtf-mysql-moment/

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 114 comments

US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/rc-uip100620.php

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 251 comments

DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16142/ddr5-is-coming-first-64gb-ddr5-4800-modules-from-sk-hynix

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 207 comments

Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

https://codefaster.substack.com/p/look-ma-no-mouse-vimium

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 106 comments

Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 153 comments

Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering

https://www.peterstefek.me/focused-render.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 87 comments

Celery 5.0

https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/whatsnew-5.0.html

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 66 comments

Toward an API for the Real Numbers

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/10/02/toward-an-api-for-the-real-numbers/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 81 comments

Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic

https://theconversation.com/remote-learning-isnt-new-radio-instruction-in-the-1937-polio-epidemic-143797

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 42 comments

Tesla dissolves its PR department

https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 131 comments

DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion

https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutation-dompurify-2-0-17-bypass/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 81 comments

Simulating Machines in Clojure

https://stopa.io/post/255

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 17 comments

Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227763292_Storks_Deliver_Babies_p_0008

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia

https://juliafolds.github.io/data-parallelism/tutorials/quick-introduction/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 15 comments

Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21503421/apple-stop-selling-bose-sonos-logitech-headphones-speakers

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 117 comments

Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2020/0917-chevron-is-refusing-to-pay-for-the-amazon-chernobyl

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 48 comments

Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI

https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 41 comments

Gradient Boosted Decision Trees

https://www.simonwardjones.co.uk/posts/gradient_boosted_decision_trees/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24697965

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 183 comments

Why I am building permapeople.org

https://permapeople.org/blog/2020/10/05/why-i-am-building-permapeople-org.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 145 comments

Teaching our five year old to code by cheating

https://baugues.com/cheat-code/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 106 comments

Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities

https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 290 comments

Unlocking eBPF power

https://devopsspiral.com/articles/linux/ebpf-unlock/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 27 comments

Colorized and upscaled footage of a snowball fight filmed in 1896

https://petapixel.com/2020/10/06/this-colorized-footage-of-a-snowball-fight-filmed-in-1886-is-captivating/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 59 comments

Getting noticed as a remote engineer

https://triplebyte.com/blog/getting-noticed-as-a-remote-engineer-and-why-it-matters/?ref=hnpost

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 51 comments

How to play the piano: On Glenn Gould

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n06/nicholas-spice/how-to-play-the-piano

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 43 comments

Frama-C: Modular Analysis of C Programs

http://frama-c.com/index.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

State of Independent SaaS

https://microconf.com/saas-this-year

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 6 comments

Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka

https://doordash.engineering/2020/09/03/eliminating-task-processing-outages-with-kafka/

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 64 comments

Feral pig populations have grown to unmanageable numbers

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/wild-pigs-are-everywhere/616389/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 153 comments

Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996)

https://inmotionmagazine.com/eno1.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Presidential Plinko

http://presidential-plinko.com/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 71 comments

Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs

https://openreview.net/forum?id=PdauS7wZBfC

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320866/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Ajour – A GUI application in Rust to manage World of Warcraft addons

https://github.com/casperstorm/ajour

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 55 comments

When Plants Go to War

http://nautil.us/issue/90/something-green/when-plants-go-to-war-rp

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 22 comments

Cyclone Scheme

https://justinethier.github.io/cyclone/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54296223

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 129 comments

Quest for the Whistler Button

https://newscrewdriver.com/2020/10/06/quest-for-the-whistler-button/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Let's Build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-worker-with-webassembly-and-haskell/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54436575

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 1 comments

4x4 Macro Pad Kit

https://0xc45.com/blog/4x4-macro-pad/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments
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