top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-21

Facebook Container for Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/

5 years ago

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

https://www.reuters.com/article/paypal-cryptocurrency/paypal-to-allow-cryptocurrency-buying-selling-and-shopping-on-its-network-idINL1N2HB14U

5 years ago

James Randi Has Died

https://web.randi.org/home/james-randi-has-died

5 years ago

Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

https://joshwcomeau.com/accessibility/hands-free-coding/

5 years ago

Notes on My Colon Cancer

https://www.charlieharrington.com/colon-cancer

5 years ago

Quibi Is Shutting Down

https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946

5 years ago

Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland

https://www.swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2020/10/21-mehr-bandbreite-im-zug.html

5 years ago

The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

https://engineering.fb.com/networking-traffic/how-facebook-is-bringing-quic-to-billions/

5 years ago

1Password for Linux beta

https://blog.1password.com/1password-for-linux-beta-is-now-open/

5 years ago

United States vs. Google

https://stratechery.com/2020/united-states-v-google/

5 years ago

SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/bacf8cf88c

5 years ago

What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/03/1/

5 years ago

Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head

https://www.sciencealert.com/chance-discovery-reveals-mysterious-organ-lurking-in-human-head-missed-for-centuries

5 years ago

/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)

https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/posts/memorial-day

5 years ago

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215863v1

5 years ago

Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/478

5 years ago

Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/10/20/mozilla-reaction-to-u-s-v-google/

5 years ago

I enforced the AGPL on my code

https://raymii.org/s/blog/I_enforced_the_AGPL_on_my_code_heres_how_it_went.html

5 years ago

Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

5 years ago

Prologue: A web framework written in Nim

https://github.com/planety/prologue/releases/tag/v0.4.0

5 years ago