top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-10

Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-telegram-belarus/

5 years ago

1512 upvotes – 607 comments

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

5 years ago

702 upvotes – 292 comments

Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-amazon-returns-1.5753714

5 years ago

535 upvotes – 338 comments

Good sleep, good learning, good life

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Good_sleep,_good_learning,_good_life

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 121 comments

Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic

https://debugger.medium.com/todays-webcams-are-boring-so-i-brought-back-a-classic-291cc7c94c76

5 years ago

441 upvotes – 179 comments

Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifting-gears/227923-google-sues-me-using-word-droid-my-company-name-orpheusdroid.html

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 193 comments

Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/big-investors-are-dying-to-know-what-the-little-guys-are-doing

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 298 comments

How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

https://www.straightdope.com/21341412/how-does-a-gas-pump-know-to-shut-itself-off

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 390 comments

Webpack 5

https://webpack.js.org/blog/2020-10-10-webpack-5-release/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning

https://github.com/keyth72/SmartGuitarAmp

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 160 comments

More than half of all whale and dolphin species are of conservation concern

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54485407

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 77 comments

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

https://katex.org/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 87 comments

You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 165 comments

How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-andrea-ghez-won-the-nobel-for-an-experiment-nobody-thought-would-work/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 41 comments

Loading CSV File at the Speed Limit of the NVMe Storage

https://liuliu.me/eyes/loading-csv-file-at-the-speed-limit-of-the-nvme-storage/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 66 comments

The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/10/6/21494291/vanilla-ice-to-the-extreme-ice-ice-baby-history-30th-anniversary

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 73 comments

Nine in ten adults think buying latest smartphone is waste of money

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/latest-smartphone-iphone-mobile-waste-of-money-report-b837371.html

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 245 comments

What if you knew how computers work? (2015)

https://www.xorpd.net/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 148 comments

OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008729/openai-is-giving-microsoft-exclusive-access-to-its-gpt-3-language-model/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 89 comments

A New Back End for Cranelift

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/10/a-new-backend-for-cranelift-part-1-instruction-selection/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 10 comments
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