top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-19

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine

https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

5 years ago

952 upvotes – 179 comments

Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-the-web/

5 years ago

757 upvotes – 355 comments

How Discord Won

https://ianvanagas.com/2020/10/19/how-discord-won/

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 588 comments

No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981

https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/farming-systems-trial/

5 years ago

571 upvotes – 281 comments

Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 247 comments

Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

http://www.p01.org/MONOSPACE/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 122 comments

IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54531619

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 309 comments

Discord Desktop App RCE

https://mksben.l0.cm/2020/10/discord-desktop-rce.html

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 103 comments

Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters

https://startplaying.games/

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 141 comments

Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go

https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-python-elixir-and-more

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 51 comments

Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/taking-back-our-privacy

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 230 comments

First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws

https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/first-bitcoin-mixer-penalized-fincen-violating-anti-money-laundering-laws

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 195 comments

Python For Feature Film

https://www.gfx.dev/python-for-feature-film

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 65 comments

Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer

https://medium.com/@molson_hart/starting-a-physical-product-company-youre-gonna-need-a-lawyer-13b2eecebc9f

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 158 comments

Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed

https://hexatomium.github.io/2020/10/17/001.html

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 113 comments

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

https://lexfridman.com/chris-lattner-2

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 137 comments

Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool

https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 61 comments

Building a computer in Conway's game of life

https://www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-computer

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822223

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 178 comments

Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-some-reason-the-density-of-space-is-higher-just-outside-the-solar-system

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 85 comments

Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively

http://liamrosen.com/arguments.html

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 103 comments

Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 112 comments

Combating abuse without backdoors

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 169 comments

The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable

https://palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 200 comments

A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1968579

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 19 comments

A case for using punctuation in Slack

https://blog.mitchjlee.com/2020/your-writing-style-is-costly

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 260 comments

Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go

https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 93 comments

Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died. CUPS creator M. Sweet has moved on to a fork

https://linuxreviews.org/Apple%27s_CUPS_Repository_Has_Died_A_Quiet_Death

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 72 comments

How to better calculate churn rates

https://catchjs.com/Blog/Churn

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 40 comments

Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)

https://www.gnu.org/software/reliability.en.html

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 121 comments

When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/opinion/sunday/unschooling-homeschooling-remote-learning.html

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 361 comments

Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.4 Tree

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-adds-wireguard-vpn-android-12-linux-kernel-5-4/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 72 comments

Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually

https://blokdots.com/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 33 comments

Flame retardant may cause hyperthyroidism in cats

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-flame-retardant-hyperthyroidism-cats.html#:~:text=An%20epidemic%20of%20cats%20with,in%2010%20cats%20are%20afflicted.

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 87 comments

White Women Need Not Apply

https://arcdigital.media/white-women-need-not-apply-2ca5aea7e531

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 94 comments

Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes

https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2020/04/developing-multitile-creatures-roguelikes/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 30 comments

Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability

https://stratechery.com/2020/twitter-responsibility-and-accountability/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 266 comments

Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

Euler's Formula: A Complete Guide

https://mathvault.ca/euler-formula/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 40 comments

Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/what-is-neurosymbolic-ai

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 26 comments

No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How

https://smallbigideas.substack.com/p/no-more-misunderstandings

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app in December

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/18/21520182/google-discontinues-trusted-contacts-maps-emergency-location-sharing

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24825248

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM

https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-2/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 71 comments

“Within 24h of launch a majority of miners are already on strike” Consequences?

https://twitter.com/NicoDeva_/status/1317689811046522880

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

A gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/A_gentle_introduction_to_the_Wikidata_Query_Service

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

Mission Protocol

https://missionprotocol.org/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Uber: “Yes on Prop 22” popups shown to drivers

https://twitter.com/SamWHarnett/status/1318265349964394496

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 167 comments

The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834289/a8f6c7c67ccca2c3/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

“Assault on Reason” Endangers Democracy (2008)

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90190092

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 100 comments

Most homebuyers and renters not warned about flood or wildfire risk

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/18/918725965/undisclosed-most-homebuyers-and-renters-arent-warned-about-flood-or-wildfire-ris

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 108 comments

The case for a learned sorting algorithm

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/10/19/the-case-for-a-learned-sorting-algorithm/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 21 comments

GNU/Jami, a distributed voice, video and chat platform

https://jami.net/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Dr.Mario 64's gzip implementation is taken almost verbatim from gzip source code

https://twitter.com/crashoveride953/status/1317649370905530369

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets

https://gizmodo.com/with-zucks-blessing-facebook-quietly-stymied-traffic-t-1845403484

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments
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