top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-21

Facebook Container for Firefox

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

5 years ago

1457 upvotes – 425 comments

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

942 upvotes – 372 comments

James Randi Has Died

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

5 years ago

616 upvotes – 84 comments

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

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

5 years ago

608 upvotes – 137 comments

Notes on My Colon Cancer

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

5 years ago

516 upvotes – 291 comments

Quibi Is Shutting Down

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

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 528 comments

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

420 upvotes – 349 comments

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

414 upvotes – 139 comments

1Password for Linux beta

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

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 239 comments

United States vs. Google

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

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 335 comments

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

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

5 years ago

398 upvotes – 75 comments

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

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

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 291 comments

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

339 upvotes – 199 comments

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

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

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 118 comments

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

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

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 201 comments

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

237 upvotes – 179 comments

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

232 upvotes – 270 comments

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

215 upvotes – 145 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 169 comments

Prologue: A web framework written in Nim

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

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 71 comments

BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP

https://fly.io/blog/bpf-xdp-packet-filters-and-udp/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 50 comments

Localisation is too hard for Gmail

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/localisation-is-too-hard-for-gmail/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 187 comments

Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 138 comments

To write better, develop a habit of writing

https://bookpub.club/post/to-write-better-you-need-to-develop-a-habit-of-writing--1603298302647x354487348376371200

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 78 comments

Diolkos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diolkos

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 28 comments

Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job

https://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2020/10/21/talking-typing-thinking-software-is-not-a-desk-job/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 74 comments

'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West

https://www.fastcompany.com/90564796/zoom-towns-are-exploding-in-the-west

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 212 comments

Cloudflare Analytics review

https://markosaric.com/cloudflare-analytics-review/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 52 comments

Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/10/07/science.abb6591

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 149 comments

Quibi is shutting down

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/quibi-to-shutter

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 4 comments

Attempts to make Python fast

https://sethops1.net/post/attempts-to-make-python-fast/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 162 comments

Show HN: TidalWaves API – live, tokenized news metadata from around the world

https://tidalwaves.io

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

The Importance of End-to-End Thinking in System Design

https://www.sigarch.org/the-importance-of-end-to-end-thinking-in-system-design/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 8 comments

Tone-Deafness Test

https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 132 comments

No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/11/poet-of-loneliness

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 33 comments

Asciidoctor

https://asciidoctor.org/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

Forcing Functions in Software Development

https://coderefinery.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/forcing-functions-in-software-development/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Tesla Earning Result 3Q 2020 [pdf]

https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/4E7BR9_TSLA_Q3_2020_Update_P0Q85U.pdf?xseo=&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D%22TSLA-Q3-2020-Update.pdf%22

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 125 comments

Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/20/925441975/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 84 comments

Odroid-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device

https://liliputing.com/2020/10/network-attached-storage-nas-devices-can-be-useful-for-folks-looking-to-back-up-data-from-multiple-computers-set-up-a-home-media-server-or-even-a-self-hosted-alternative-to-google-drive-dropbox.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 125 comments

NetBSD 9.1

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_1_released

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-businesses-where-google-is-biggest-and-the-ones-where-it-isnt-11603293145

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 87 comments

Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing trojans on phones to monitor WhatsApp

https://www.afp.com/de/nachrichten/18/bundeskabinett-macht-weg-fuer-reform-des-verfassungsschutzrechts-frei-doc-8tj3dc1

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (2016)

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/26/mary-somerville-scientist/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Nginx Service Mesh

https://www.nginx.com/blog/introducing-nginx-service-mesh/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Lots of overnight tragedies, no overnight miracles

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/lots-of-overnight-tragedies-no-overnight-miracles/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other languages with Meson

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/10/cargo-style-dependency-management-for-c.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 164 comments

Telecom auctions have failed India

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/economics-nobel-prize-celebrates-auctions-that-failed-india

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 90 comments

Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf]

https://philpapers.org/archive/ALETAT-12.pdf

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 115 comments

Issue Grooming

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Issue-Grooming

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

Low-code vs model-driven: are they the same?

https://modeling-languages.com/low-code-vs-model-driven/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 36 comments
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