top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-16

AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050

5 years ago

1466 upvotes – 637 comments

Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJgD6gyi0Wk

5 years ago

959 upvotes – 238 comments

So you want to build an embedded Linux system?

https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/

5 years ago

535 upvotes – 111 comments

ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk

5 years ago

497 upvotes – 191 comments

Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod

https://www.lenire.com/

5 years ago

397 upvotes – 167 comments

Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses

https://www.atlassian.com/migration/journey-to-cloud?jobid=104830907&subid=1515944789

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 298 comments

Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-54566730

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 231 comments

Cat Gap

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

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 48 comments

Uninstall Nano Defender

https://resynth1943.net/articles/uninstall-nano-defender-immediately/

5 years ago

315 upvotes – 80 comments

Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them

https://www.wsj.com/articles/string-of-firms-that-imploded-have-something-in-common-ernst-young-audited-them-11602863319

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 120 comments

Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23181989/

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 124 comments

Nim 1.4

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/16/version-140-released.html

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 140 comments

How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)

https://jvns.ca/blog/answer-questions-well/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 65 comments

Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano

https://jacquesmattheij.com/2020-09-20-pianojacq-learn-to-play-piano/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 179 comments

FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service

https://www.freepn.org/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 129 comments

Babies' random choices become their preferences

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/10/02/babies-prefer-what-they-choose-even-when-random/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 123 comments

Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement

https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/93203693/Zeptoseconds__New_world_record_in_short_time_measurement?locale=en

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 92 comments

Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/cambridge-analytica-threat-democracy-facebook-big-tech

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 96 comments

Porn, Zen, and .vimrc

http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts/porn_zen_and_vimrc/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 128 comments

Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 95 comments
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