top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-13

2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pky7km/usenet-archive-utzoo-online

5 years ago

614 upvotes – 307 comments

iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

https://www.apple.com/

5 years ago

485 upvotes – 1402 comments

Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/technology/google-employees-antitrust.html

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 359 comments

14,000x Speedup (2015)

http://james.hiebert.name/blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 228 comments

Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course

https://lowlvl.org/tcp-ip-fundamentals/exchanging-messages

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 37 comments

San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/san-francisco-studio-apartment-rents-plunge-31-most-in-u-s

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 620 comments

OptaPlanner – constraint solver for optimizing planning and scheduling problems

https://www.optaplanner.org/

5 years ago

402 upvotes – 112 comments

Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/7bfcf170eefc013863fa002590d8e506

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 185 comments

Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterprise users

https://petapixel.com/2020/10/12/google-is-killing-unlimited-drive-storage-for-non-enterprise-users/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 247 comments

When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/how-the-dude-was-duped-by-big-tech-f1311e097d1b

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 253 comments

SEO mistakes I've made and how I fixed them

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/seo-mistakes-i-have-made-and-how-i-fixed-them/

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 125 comments

HomePod Mini

https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 431 comments

EULA Found on a Package of Fruit

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1314642857043480576

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 175 comments

Why we’re changing to the AGPL license

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 254 comments

What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)

http://www.pagef30.com/2009/03/what-chinese-looks-feels-and-sounds.html

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 183 comments

The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 182 comments

The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/the-ballooning-money-supply-may-be-the-key-to-unlocking-inflation-in-the-us.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 295 comments

Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24762734

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 65 comments

There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36980/theres-another-huge-right-to-repair-fight-brewing-in-massachusetts

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 106 comments

KDE Plasma 5.20

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 197 comments

Project Cybersyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 114 comments

Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parliament

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/datainnbruddet-i-stortinget/id2770135/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 112 comments

Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/10/12/spotify-songshift

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 125 comments

Indoor Mapping Data Format

https://register.apple.com/resources/imdf/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 89 comments

What Color Is This? Part 2

https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2020/10/13/what-color-is-this-part-2/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 41 comments

4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6J4T_hUKg

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 93 comments

Acoustic Kitty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 67 comments

How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux

https://kn100.me/improving-bluetooth-audio-linux/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 67 comments

Plug’nPwn – Connect to Jailbreak

https://blog.t8012.dev/plug-n-pwn/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 62 comments

Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals

https://medium.com/better-programming/modern-day-architecture-design-patterns-for-software-professionals-9056ee1ed977

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 68 comments

A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-pi-powered-plan-9-cluster

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 53 comments

Applying Textbook Data Structures for Real Life Wins

https://heap.io/blog/engineering/applying-textbook-data-structures-for-real-life-wins

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 32 comments

Teens' mental health did surprisingly well in quarantine

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/how-teens-handled-quarantine/616695/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 231 comments

Updated BBC micro:bit

https://tech.microbit.org/latest-revision/announcement/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 59 comments

German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54515518

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 55 comments

CVE-2020-16898 – Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16898

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

A Review of Consensus Protocols

https://thomasvilhena.com/2020/10/a-review-of-consensus-protocols

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 45 comments

Disney and Integrators versus Aggregators

https://stratechery.com/2020/disneys-integration/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 74 comments

Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'

https://sciencex.com/news/2020-10-einstein-opportunity-spooky-actions-distance.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 195 comments

Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54510363

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile

https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/reddit/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 126 comments

Petit Fat File System Module

http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_p.html

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 36 comments

1M Cell Minesweeper

https://bl.ocks.org/texodus/96a9ed60d0250f7d3187c0fed5f5b78c

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 54 comments

Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

Prefer Fakes over Mocks

https://tyrrrz.me/blog/fakes-over-mocks

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 119 comments

CSS Layout – Grid vs. Flexbox

https://codecoda.com/en/blog/entry/css-layout-grid-vs-flexbox

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

Custom Allocators Demystified

https://slembcke.github.io/2020/10/12/CustomAllocators.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 67 comments

Cockney Rhyming Slang History

https://romanroadlondon.com/cockney-rhyming-slang-history/

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24761793

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 78 comments

CrimeOps: The Operational Art of Cyber Crime

https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/08/crimeops-operational-art-cyber-crime

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Beg the Question

http://begthequestion.info

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 118 comments

iPhone 12

https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 4 comments

Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-00459-7

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Women’s gymnastics is legal child abuse

https://thecorrespondent.com/739/why-womens-gymnastics-is-legal-child-abuse/931908242969-00da3348

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 87 comments

The Niche I am Looking to Fill

http://www.eclogiselle.com/2020/10/the-niche-i-am-looking-to-fill.html

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Grid Computing with Plan 9 Ants

http://www.9gridchan.org/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

A Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation

https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Racket: Parsing propositional logic in 33 lines

https://micahcantor.xyz/blog/logic-racket-parser

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: A Product Idea Prompt Generator

https://prompts.productideas.co/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/the-new-york-times-guild-once-again-demands-censorship-for-colleagues/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What are some evergreen HN threads worth revisiting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764049

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 18 Comparison Countries

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771841

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 93 comments

Automatically sending Webmentions from a static website

https://jamesmead.org/blog/2020-10-13-sending-webmentions-from-a-static-website

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Curated list of tech landscape maps from around the world

https://www.techlandscape.co/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

One UChicago scholar has shaped writing for generations of students

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-one-scholar-shaped-writing-generations-students

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Fossil footprints: the longest known prehistoric journey

https://theconversation.com/fossil-footprints-the-fascinating-story-behind-the-longest-known-prehistoric-journey-147520

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments
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