top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-17

We deleted the production database by accident

https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/deleting_the_production_database/

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 426 comments

Welcome to the Old Internet Again

http://theoldnet.com/

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 192 comments

ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chips-have-an-instruction-with-javascript-in-the-name-fjcvtzs

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 299 comments

Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware

https://www.core77.com/posts/102355/Analyzing-the-Design-of-Unusual-Japanese-Butter-Tableware

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 188 comments

Chaos Ink

https://dev.scottdarby.com/chaos-ink/

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 82 comments

How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time

https://apoorvagovind.substack.com/p/how-to-waste-your-career-one-comfortable

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 212 comments

How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer

https://medium.com/the-developers-journey/my-3-revenue-streams-as-a-developer-without-freelance-work-c5135dfa515d

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 184 comments

Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 69 comments

Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520315/microsoft-install-office-pwa-web-app-without-permission-update-word-powerpoint-excel

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 300 comments

An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXRU65-3eE

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810399

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 62 comments

The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 395 comments

Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy

https://electrek.co/2020/10/16/tesla-cancels-ballsy-no-question-asked-7-day-return-policy/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 219 comments

Lisp from Nothing

http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 29 comments

Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520634/facebook-reportedly-choked-traffic-mother-jones-zuckerberg

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 91 comments

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 81 comments

XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XFS-Linux-5.10

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 66 comments

Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71824-y

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 120 comments

Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/courses/ece356/notes/assembly/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 8 comments
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