top 50% 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

Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs

https://pingcap.com/blog/lessons-from-tidb-no.-1-bug-hunters-who-have-found-over-400-bugs-in-popular-dbmss

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 2 comments

Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/17/buy-coral-dev-board-mini-sbc/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 104 comments

Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/16/gameover/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 46 comments

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786783/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 40 comments

The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/top-statistician-u-s-census-is-being-sabotaged

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 181 comments

Proton 5.13: A Massive Update

https://boilingsteam.com/proton-5-13-a-massive-update/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 134 comments

Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)

https://jami.net/together-the-new-version-of-jami-and-a-new-step-forward/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 46 comments

Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/oceanbird-wind-powered-car-carrier-spc-intl/index.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 88 comments

'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018767843/near-extinction-of-influenza-in-nz-as-numbers-drop-due-to-lockdown

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 239 comments

Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810950

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 63 comments

iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple

https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1601

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Interoperability Between Swift and C++

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/CppInteroperabilityManifesto.md

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 75 comments

Baumol Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813239

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

The curious case of Romanian broadband

https://medium.com/cgo-benchmark/the-curious-case-of-romanian-broadband-c58291b2fcda

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 60 comments

Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019)

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/thoughts-on-conways-law-and-the-software-stack/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cross-a-line-far-more-dangerous-than-what-they-censor/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 63 comments

Banks help scammers with their bad UI

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/how-banks-help-scammers-with-their-bad-ui/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 76 comments

Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fighting-for-the-right-to-repair-your-own-stuff/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease

https://github.com/burghardt/easy-wg-quick

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015)

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/13/413968033/esperanto-is-not-dead-can-the-universal-language-make-a-comeback

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 222 comments

How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line

https://www.ezzeddinabdullah.com/posts/how-to-clean-text-data-at-the-command-line

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS

https://euclid.pr1mer.tech

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-tigerlake-linux&num=1

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 84 comments

Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)

http://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 382 comments

What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school

https://offlinemark.com/2020/10/14/demand-paging/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Steps For Better Online Privacy

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922262686/your-technology-is-tracking-you-take-these-steps-for-better-online-privacy

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Read a Surface Weather Map

https://www.outsideonline.com/2414872/how-to-read-surface-weather-maps

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Themed days, Timeboxing and why you should use them

https://www.jamalx31.com/post/themed-days-timeboxing-and-why-you-should-use-them

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

https://www.pacifict.com/Story/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012)

http://tech.mattmillman.com/projects/10base5/

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Algorand Consensus Protocol

https://developer.algorand.org/docs/algorand_consensus/

5 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments
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