top 20 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

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-map-of-the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-20201022/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 42 comments

Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption

http://stingle.org/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 160 comments

Lessons from six months at Shopify

https://alexdanco.com/2020/10/23/six-lessons-from-six-months-at-shopify/

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 106 comments

BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/24/bl602-bl604-risc-v-wifi-bluetooth-5-0-le-soc-will-sell-at-esp8266-price-point/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 58 comments

Rethinking Attention with Performers

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/rethinking-attention-with-performers.html

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 52 comments

ØMQ – The Guide (2011)

https://zguide.zeromq.org

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 112 comments

Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/towards-a-solarpunk-future

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 84 comments

My toothbrush streams gyroscope data

https://blog.johannes-mittendorfer.com/artikel/2020/10/my-toothbrush-streams-gyroscope-data

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 99 comments

Big Trouble in a Deep Void

https://tritonstation.com/2020/10/23/big-trouble-in-a-deep-void/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

GDB 10.1

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-10/msg00009.html

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 29 comments
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