1392
398
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/
5 years ago
558
161
Leaving Mozilla
https://davidwalsh.name/leaving-mozilla
490
426
PS5 Teardown [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w
393
166
From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grapefruit-history-and-drug-interactions.html
386
418
Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/10/chrome-is-deploying-http3-and-ietf-quic.html
385
224
An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
https://news.yahoo.com/earlier-universe-existed-big-bang-174323840.html
324
574
Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-y-roof-fell-off-family-claims-quality-control-concern-2020-10
314
415
Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle reaches Supreme Court
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/921018204/google-and-oracles-decade-long-copyright-battle-reaches-supreme-court
300
98
PostgreSQL community impact of 2nd Quadrant purchase
https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html#October_7_2020
262
80
The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj479d/irs-investigation-location-data-no-warrant-venntel
250
66
Memcmp being wrongly stripped like strcmp
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95189
248
284
XB-1 Supersonic Rollout
https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1
247
81
AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/10/training-exceeds-gpt3/
89
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/
240
49
Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more
https://github.com/xwmx/nb
237
154
USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2
https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/why-is-usb3-harder/
226
110
Crouching T2, Hidden Danger
https://ironpeak.be/blog/crouching-t2-hidden-danger/
217
54
An/TVs 3 Searchlight – 20 kW Xenon Arc viewable from space
http://www.brettpeabody.com/
214
52
Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming
https://reberhardt.com/blog/2020/10/05/designing-a-new-class-at-stanford-safety-in-systems-programming.html
210
213
A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/this-socialite-hated-washing-dishes-so-much-that-she-invented-the-automated-dishwasher
206
103
Pointers from Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/upshot/portugal-drug-legalization-treatment.html
205
121
Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/electric-shocks-tongue-can-quiet-chronic-ringing-ears
200
85
Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet
https://github.com/capnmidnight/Calla
199
157
Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries
https://newatlas.com/energy/nawa-vertically-aligned-carbon-nanotube-electrode/
197
51
VSCode on Google Colab
https://amitness.com/vscode-on-colab/
196
268
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
https://dyno-might.github.io/2020/09/17/making-the-monty-hall-problem-weirder-but-obvious/
190
367
How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry
https://www.kqed.org/news/11839817/how-a-scrappy-group-of-tech-workers-formed-one-of-the-only-unions-in-the-industry
183
108
Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
https://vapor.network/
171
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Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling
https://blog.palabra.io/great-onboarding-plain-text
164
158
Your single-page app is now a polyfill
https://itnext.io/your-single-page-app-is-now-a-polyfill-7881fb01694e
Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads
https://chrispenner.ca/posts/traversal-systems
159
150
An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/05/1001142/ai-reinforcement-learning-simulate-economy-fairer-tax-policy-income-inequality-recession-pandemic/
143
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DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort
https://spreadprivacy.com/announcing-global-privacy-control/
141
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Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics
https://www.sciencealert.com/why-do-mirrors-flip-things-horizontally-but-not-vertically-here-s-the-physics
137
35
The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
https://dashbird.io/blog/complete-aws-lambda-handbook-beginners-part-1/
124
Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/technology/facebook-political-ads-ban.html
61
Translation Units Considered Harmful?
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/translation_units/
107
Lisp and Haskell (2015)
https://markkarpov.com/post/lisp-and-haskell.html
102
WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux
https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/wsl2
14
Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock
https://thefuntastic.com/blog/rust-tide-clock
Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer
https://alexgolec.dev/google-interview-questions-deconstructed-the-knights-dialer/
91
The companies that bring us knife steel
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2020/09/14/the-companies-that-bring-us-knife-steel/
22
The Walls of the Waldorf Astoria
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-06/secrets-of-the-waldorf-astoria-presidential-tunnels-red-velvet-cake
86
Developing for the Semantic Web
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/10/developing-semantic-web/
Competition and Quarter-Life Crises
https://www.arvarik.com/competition-quarter-life-crisis
12
How to Design an Algorithm (2018)
https://www.adamconrad.dev/blog/how-to-design-an-algorithm/
83
23
Viral effects are not network effects
https://www.nfx.com/post/viral-effects-vs-network-effects/
78
If doctors were interviewed like software developers
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/j67lva/if_doctors_were_interviewed_like_software/
77
39
The Elusive Peril of Space Junk
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-elusive-peril-of-space-junk
76
15
RC – The Plan 9 Shell (c. 1990) [pdf]
https://www.scs.stanford.edu/nyu/04fa/sched/readings/rc.pdf