top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-14

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-room-temperature-superconductor-20201014/

5 years ago

1235 upvotes – 354 comments

Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/japo1j/facebook_account_banned_within_10_minutes/

5 years ago

895 upvotes – 425 comments

Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy-to-justify-censorship-of-ny-post-hunter-biden-article/

5 years ago

883 upvotes – 1058 comments

HashiCorp Boundary

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-boundary

5 years ago

582 upvotes – 163 comments

PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/nsa-phone-surveillance-illegal-expensive/

5 years ago

486 upvotes – 239 comments

Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

https://peripherii.com

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 184 comments

YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-idUSKBN26Z1VD

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 893 comments

Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon

https://www.insider.com/netflix-tv-shows-cancelled-ending-2020-9

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 687 comments

Dockerfile Security Best Practices

https://cloudberry.engineering/article/dockerfile-security-best-practices/

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 192 comments

I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts

https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1315355410967085057

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 241 comments

Krita 4.4.0

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-4-0-released/

5 years ago

392 upvotes – 138 comments

A 3D sculpting web application

https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes

https://thetechresume.com/

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 108 comments

FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

https://freeyourmusic.com/en/blog/spotify-tries-to-hold-your-playlists-hostage

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 262 comments

How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8d-how-to-build-a-great-series-a-pitch-and-deck

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 37 comments

Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine

https://twitter.com/overdrawxyz/status/1316066431684030464

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 102 comments

Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO

https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1316147305125490694

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 150 comments

The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/10/apple-fibs-about-iphone-12-pricing-to-promote-wireless-carriers/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 405 comments

Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis

https://www.copetti.org/projects/consoles/master-system/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 77 comments

Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering

https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-rolling-out-end-to-end-encryption-offering/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 156 comments

Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/10/13/supervised-rl/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 18 comments

Unifying the Technical Interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 42 comments

Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain

https://newatlas.com/medical/serotonin-dopamine-real-time-tracking-brain/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 14 comments

Visidata 2.0

https://www.visidata.org/blog/2020/v2.0/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 22 comments

Wim Hof’s teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges

https://www.outsideonline.com/2417379/wim-hof-method

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 193 comments

Yahoo Groups is closing down

https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 80 comments

Snap! 6 is here, and it's all about scale

https://snap.berkeley.edu/blog

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune (2019)

https://www.city-journal.org/san-franciscos-municipal-budget

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 214 comments

Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16406689/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 69 comments

Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-14/how-gmo-s-masatoshi-kumagai-once-a-high-school-dropout-runs-102-companies

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 75 comments

Shasqi (YC W15) aims to make chemotherapy more powerful and less toxic

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2020/10/14/side-effects-from-chemo-can-be-devastating-this-startup-aims-to-change-that/#3cd211b4127c

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 56 comments

The Stages of Insomnia

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-52-stages-of-insomnia

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided

https://netzpolitik.org/2020/our-criminal-complaint-german-state-malware-company-finfisher-raided/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 52 comments

Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?

https://hyperallergic.com/591628/why-are-the-noses-broken-on-egyptian-statues/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 133 comments

Pg_stat_monitor – better insights into query performance in PostgreSQL

https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/10/14/announcing-pg_stat_monitor-tech-preview-get-better-insights-into-query-performance-in-postgresql/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 11 comments

World reaction to long queues of voters in US

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54532189

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 262 comments

Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its corals since 1995

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54533971

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 26 comments

Launch HN: Osmind (YC S20) – software for better mental health therapies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777360

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 41 comments

Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/oldschool-gaming-on-freebsd/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 45 comments

The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life

https://www.outseta.com/posts/the-unspoken-hard-bits-of-bootstrapping

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Z80 CPU User Manual (2016)

https://zany80.github.io/documentation/Z80/UserManual.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

WordPress's Matt in debate with Netlify's Matt

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/13/wordpress_matt_vs_netlify_matt/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 98 comments

Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning

https://www.comet.ml/site/why-software-engineering-processes-and-tools-dont-work-for-machine-learning/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 76 comments

Is wind power’s future in deep water?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201013-is-wind-powers-future-in-deep-water

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 151 comments

Show HN: Hexagonal Minesweeper with multiplayer, geographic maps, zoom and pan

https://www.multisweeper.com/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

Charisma: Now You’ve Got It, Now You Don’t

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-risks-of-charisma

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 68 comments

USC's Dying Linebackers

https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/07/usc-and-its-dying-linebackers

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

Read-Only Mode for Better Rails Downtime

https://ctoomey.com/writing/read-only-mode-for-better-rails-downtime/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments
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