top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-18

Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-google.html

5 years ago

1320 upvotes – 492 comments

Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime

https://timhutton.github.io/GravityIsNotAForce/

5 years ago

801 upvotes – 433 comments

Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/reading-too-much-political-news-bad-happiness/616651

5 years ago

548 upvotes – 316 comments

Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure

https://a16z.com/2020/10/15/the-emerging-architectures-for-modern-data-infrastructure/

5 years ago

431 upvotes – 105 comments

Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/10/egypt-africa-desert-forests-plant-trees-wastewater.html

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 113 comments

Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy

https://grid.layoutit.com/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 37 comments

A legislative path to an interoperable internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/legislative-path-interoperable-internet

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 118 comments

The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights

https://www.economist.com/international/2020/10/17/the-pandemic-has-eroded-democracy-and-respect-for-human-rights

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 330 comments

Openproject: Open-source project management software

https://docs.openproject.org/release-notes/11-0-0/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 71 comments

Google's penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 69 comments

Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong WiFi users

http://blog.headuck.com/2020/10/12/samsung-phones-force-mainland-china-dns-service-upon-hong-kong-wifi-users/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 58 comments

Data engineering learning path with recommended resources

https://awesomedataengineering.com

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 26 comments

Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016

https://medium.com/@yunfangjuan/real-life-angel-investing-returns-2012-2016-b33425fcb816

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 68 comments

Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser

https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

LyX – The Document Processor

https://www.lyx.org/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 62 comments

C++ still isn't cutting it

https://da-data.blogspot.com/2020/10/no-c-still-isnt-cutting-it.html

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 205 comments

Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect

https://twitter.com/sneakdotberlin/status/1317734739537653760

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 84 comments

EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-pledges-e10-billion-to-power-up-industrial-cloud-sector/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 333 comments

Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819254

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 519 comments

The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/you-may-be-using-mastodon-wrong.html

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 114 comments

Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming

https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1317836119149580288

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 136 comments

Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream

https://paulbridger.com/posts/video-analytics-deepstream-pipeline/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 55 comments

OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy

https://openwrt.org/openwrt_joins_conservancy

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/realestate/house-hunting-in-france-castle.html

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 202 comments

Cursed Elixir

https://evuez.github.io/posts/cursed-elixir.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 70 comments

Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things

https://a16z.com/2020/10/18/doing-old-things-better-vs-doing-brand-new-things/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

https://www.openbsd.org/68.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 33 comments

GardaWorld lost track of millions

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/garda-world/vaults/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 63 comments

Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 33 comments

Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07221

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014)

https://blog.0x972.info/?d=2014/11/13/10/40/50-how-does-a-debugger-work

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 29 comments

Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform

https://temporal.io/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 52 comments

Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops

https://www.math.uci.edu/~isik/posts/Eigentechno.html

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul

https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-friday-a-stoic-philosopher

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 73 comments

Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?

https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 73 comments

Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase

https://lethain.com/managing-technical-quality/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 11 comments

Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z17HAA-moY

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 111 comments

E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75

https://www.publicbooks.org/e-b-whites-plain-style-75/?utm_source=PUBLIC+BOOKS+Newsletter

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 49 comments

Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it

https://www.matthewball.vc/all/audiotech

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

“Less than one”-shot learning

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/16/1010566/ai-machine-learning-with-tiny-data/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 130 comments

Haskell web framework IHP aims to make web development type-safe and easy

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/ihp-haskell-web-framework/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Obscurix – Arch Linux-based OS configured for privacy, security and anonymity

https://obscurix.github.io/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Versus – Find alternatives to a product or service

http://versusutil.com

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/book-lost-books-was-discovered-danish-archive-180971943/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-lesson/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments
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