top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-11

The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-AMDGPU-Stats

5 years ago

707 upvotes – 462 comments

Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/please-stop-using-cdns-for-external-javascript-libraries/

5 years ago

627 upvotes – 347 comments

Rust After the Honeymoon

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeymoon/

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 267 comments

There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-four-billion-floatsso-test-them-all/

5 years ago

501 upvotes – 175 comments

Fuck You Sunday

https://fuckyousunday.com

5 years ago

499 upvotes – 356 comments

We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal

https://www.thebellows.org/we-need-a-nuclear-new-deal-not-a-green-new-deal/

5 years ago

471 upvotes – 374 comments

A Note about Spotify Transfers

https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 170 comments

Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-map-directions/

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 100 comments

Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Five-Eyes-and-Japan-call-for-Facebook-backdoor-to-monitor-crime

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 268 comments

Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/10/feds-may-target-googles-chrome-browser-for-breakup-428468

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 299 comments

Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation

https://source-separation.github.io/tutorial/landing.html

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 43 comments

A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz4gqm/why-this-20-year-old-crt-monitor-is-better-than-a-4k-lcd

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 284 comments

Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

https://www.artvee.com

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 21 comments

Why you should write

https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/why-you-should-write

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 79 comments

Johns Hopkins Poker Course

https://hopkinspokercourse.com/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 60 comments

Abolish the Cash Bail System

https://arcdigital.media/abolish-the-cash-bail-system-3cf6476ecaae

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 262 comments

ElectricityMap – Live CO₂ emissions of electricity production and consumption

https://www.electricitymap.org/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 101 comments

CC Hound: A curated library of free music for content creators

https://cchound.com/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 27 comments

OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745542

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 47 comments

Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants being sold

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/contact-tracing-data-harvested-from-pubs-and-restaurants-being-sold-on-s0d85mkrr

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 125 comments

In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 17.3GB/month

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1315178802356649986

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 184 comments

Timekeeping in Financial Exchanges

https://www.lucaspauker.ml/articles/20

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 184 comments

We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2018/11/14/how-we-spent-two-weeks-hunting-an-nfs-bug/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 54 comments

CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R

https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2020/06/22/fast-csv.html

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 229 comments

A List of Post-Mortems

https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 16 comments

Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/tech/portland-facial-recognition-ban/index.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 67 comments

Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/researchers-attach-cameras-to-pacific-northwest-orcas-revealing-a-marvelous-underwater-world/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 55 comments

The Xonsh Python Shell

http://xon.sh

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 41 comments

Pandemic sparked European cycling revolution

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54353914

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 111 comments

US Seizes Domains Used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-domain-names-used-iran-s-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: Live map of “good morning/night” tweets

http://wakingandsleeping-globe.glitch.me/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and Google Analytics

https://www.usertrack.net/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 49 comments

From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income

https://www.swipe.page/p/from-an-airtable-to-10k-in-side-income

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 56 comments

Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources

https://kofi.sexy/blog/slack-app-fewer-resources

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 75 comments

A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/10/922398246/a-coronavirus-vaccine-could-kill-half-a-million-sharks-conservationists-warn

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 113 comments

Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744531

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/climbing-the-cosmic-distance-ladder-book-announcement/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: GridRoyale, a life simulation for exploring social dynamics

https://github.com/cool-RR/grid_royale

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

The Three Sides of Risk

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-three-sides-of-risk/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

The Making of “My Octopus Teacher“

https://seachangeproject.exposure.co/the-making-of-my-octopus-teachernbsp?embed=true

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock

https://www.instructables.com/Mechanical-Digital-Steel-Ball-Clock/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Kafka in Pieces

https://thebaffler.com/latest/kafka-in-pieces-goldman

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Going Viral as a Woman in Tech

https://www.emilykager.com/writing/2020/10/08/virality.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 59 comments

Everything I know about elite America I learned from Fresh Prince and West Wing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/opinion/television-culture.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments
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