top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-10-24

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

https://www.varsity.co.uk/interviews/19990

5 years ago

1242 upvotes – 536 comments

Pandoc – A universal document converter

https://pandoc.org/

5 years ago

756 upvotes – 168 comments

A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-a-one-line-change-decreased-our-build-times-by-99-b98453265370

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 243 comments

Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/delete-facebook-and-youll-lose-all-oculus-games-for-good/1100-6483716/

5 years ago

433 upvotes – 242 comments

Microsoft Tilecode

https://microsoft.github.io/tilecode/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 60 comments

Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition

https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/anki-as-learning-superpower-computer-science-edition/

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 241 comments

2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

https://petapixel.com/2020/10/23/this-insane-2-5-gigapixel-image-of-the-orion-constellation-took-five-years-to-complete/

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 62 comments

Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/i-was-howling-in-pain-how-falling-five-storeys-from-a-new-york-rooftop-changed-my-life-20200910-p55u9y.html

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 149 comments

YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images

https://twitter.com/galacticfurball/status/1319765986791157761

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 106 comments

Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877408

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 252 comments
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