top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-12

The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

https://www.infoq.com/articles/serverless-stalled/

5 years ago

575 upvotes – 648 comments

Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j914fh/dude_comes_straight_from_the_dealership_for_a/

5 years ago

526 upvotes – 326 comments

Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job

https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/focus-on-jour-job/

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 382 comments

Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

https://www.ajc.com/news/police-killings-more-likely-in-agencies-that-get-military-gear-data-shows/MBPQ2ZE3XFHR5NIO37BKONOCGI/

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 315 comments

AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out

https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/j9hsjz/att_is_selling_your_phone_calls_and_text_messages/

5 years ago

430 upvotes – 122 comments

When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/1315631500080148480

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 230 comments

Cloudflare One

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-one/

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 139 comments

Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps

https://zserge.com/posts/awfice/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 70 comments

Removing Holocaust Denial Content

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-holocaust-denial-content/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 773 comments

Don’t pay for 95% (2016)

https://5kids1condo.com/dont-pay-for-95/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 432 comments

Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers

https://blog.eyas.sh/2020/10/unity-for-engineers-pt1-basic-concepts/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 121 comments

Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go

https://github.com/chriswalz/bit

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 128 comments

Zheap – Reinvented PostgreSQL Storage

https://cybertec-postgresql.github.io/zheap/

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 69 comments

Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition

https://github.blog/2020-10-09-top-ten-games-from-the-js13k-2020-competition/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux

https://boxofcables.dev/no-microsoft-is-not-rebasing-windows-to-linux/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 304 comments

I Tried to Reduce Pylint Memory Usage

https://rtpg.co/2020/10/12/pylint-usage.html

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 32 comments

LLVM 11.0

https://releases.llvm.org/11.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 71 comments

Towards Tactic Metaprogramming in Haskell

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/towards-tactics/index.html

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 46 comments

Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/12/coronavirus-stanford-doctors-among-leaders-of-global-anti-lockdown-movement/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 338 comments

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python

https://pysdr.org/index.html

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 21 comments

MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great

https://www.nu.nl/tech/6083317/mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-smartphone-risico-op-spionage-te-groot.html

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 121 comments

Sentimental Versioning

http://sentimentalversioning.org

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 79 comments

AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-is-an-ideology-not-a-technology/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 180 comments

Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90561322/prefab-was-supposed-to-fix-the-construction-industrys-biggest-problems-why-isnt-it-everywhere

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 238 comments

Hacking together a USB-C charger for a cheap Chromebook

https://blog.filippo.io/usb-c-charger-for-a-cheap-chromebook/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 67 comments

How to Interview Engineers

https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-interview-engineers

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 178 comments

How Microsoft went from “Linux is a cancer” to “Microsoft loves Linux”

https://www.idginsiderpro.com/article/3584911/how-microsoft-went-from-linux-is-a-cancer-to-microsoft-loves-linux.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 247 comments

Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust

https://www.getblades.org/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 90 comments

A tool that increased my typing speed

https://vasilishynkarenka.com/how-to-type-3x-faster/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/microsoft-uses-copyright-law-to-disrupt-trickbot-botnet/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 72 comments

PyOxidizer 0.8

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/10/12/announcing-the-0.8-release-of-pyoxidizer/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Simple kitten placeholder

https://placekitten.com/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'

http://daniel-suarez.com/deltav_design.html

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 88 comments

Microsoft's CEO is tired of working from home and he's not alone

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-ceo-is-tired-of-working-from-home-and-hes-not-alone/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 139 comments

Silicon Valley pay cuts ignite tech-industry Covid-19 tensions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-pay-cuts-ignite-tech-industry-covid-19-tensions-11602435601

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 206 comments

Corporate networks weren't designed for working from home

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1713067

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 103 comments

Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04548

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 18 comments

Haiku: Call for Wallpapers

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2020-10-04-wallpaper-contest/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

Commodore Amiga could get a mini/classic version next year

https://vintageisthenewold.com/retro-games-the-maker-of-thec64-teases-an-amiga-500-for-2021/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 75 comments

Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/october/sale-of-amateur-radio-amprnet-tcp-ip-addresses.htm

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 97 comments

Unofficial ballot drop boxes worry California elections officials

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/11/unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes-popping-up-throughout-the-state-worry-elections-officials/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 75 comments

Durability: Linux File APIs

https://www.evanjones.ca/durability-filesystem.html

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce

https://dfirmadness.com/the-stolen-szechuan-sauce/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

The Developer Experience Gap

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/10/06/developer-experience-gap/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

Overloading by Return Type in C++

https://artificial-mind.net/blog/2020/10/10/return-type-overloading

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

Orbital edge computing: nano satellite constellations as a computer system

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/10/12/orbital-edge-computing/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2020

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2020/summary/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID19 shutdown

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/23/science.abd5777

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

The Problem of Legacy IT Systems

https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/computing/it/the-problem-of-old-code-and-older-coders

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 73 comments

2020 Had the Warmest September on Record, Data Shows

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/climate/hottest-september.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments

An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and the Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/media/new-york-times-rukmini-callimachi-caliphate.html#click=https://t.co/7Wvd5lPN1X

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 73 comments

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fulltext

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

RF Shielding Tips and Tricks

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/94891-shielding-tips-and-tricks

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Terraform at Scale

https://medium.com/faun/terraform-at-scale-modualized-hierachical-layout-cb5dbe5a368d

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Giving up on wlroots-rs (2019)

http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-in-c.html

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 77 comments

Zoom and Gloom

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/10/08/zoom-and-gloom

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Overmind.js – Frictionless State Management

https://overmindjs.org/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilon

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/floating-point-in-the-browser-part-2-bad-epsilon/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Google’s Internal Data Show Engineers Found It Harder to Code from Home

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-internal-data-show-engineers-found-it-harder-to-code-from-home

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 103 comments

Future gun control has been shot down

https://thoughtleader.co.za/admin-2/2020/10/09/future-gun-control-has-been-shot-down/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 94 comments
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