top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-28

Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome

5 years ago

889 upvotes – 390 comments

Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/woman-accused-of-impersonating-prosecutor-dropping-criminal-charges-against-herself/article_1fdb1551-147d-53dd-ad45-6680bfc556fa.html?block_id=897573

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 311 comments

A Theory of Software Architecture

https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-architecture.html

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 241 comments

AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 413 comments

Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-congress-insight/spy-agency-ducks-questions-about-back-doors-in-tech-products-idUSKBN27D1CS

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 262 comments

That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12956509

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 155 comments

On Abandoning the X Server

https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 408 comments

Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-appendix-1961/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 112 comments

Stripe Climate

https://stripe.com/climate

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 224 comments

Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]

https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2020/e0/Oct%2027_Graphical%20User%20Interface%20Using%20Flutter%20in%20Embedded%20Systems_Hidenori%20Matsubayashi.pdf

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 197 comments

I Hate Coordinate Systems

https://ihatecoordinatesystems.com/

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 95 comments

If Not SPAs, What?

https://macwright.com/2020/10/28/if-not-spas.html

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 447 comments

Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916016

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 250 comments

Ruby's Proposed STM

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/ruby-stm/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 100 comments

Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

https://news.mit.edu/2020/why-learn-motivate-age-decline-1027

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 139 comments

SparkFun À La Carte

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3422

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 87 comments

Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919931

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 105 comments

Pyston v2: Faster Python

https://blog.pyston.org/2020/10/28/pyston-v2-20-faster-python/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 206 comments

Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54692120

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 198 comments

The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-earth-is-pulsating-every-26-seconds-and-seismologists-dont-agree-why

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 103 comments

Are we losing our ability to remember?

https://st.im/are-we-losing-our-ability-to-remember/

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 162 comments

Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system

https://grafana.com/blog/2020/10/27/announcing-grafana-tempo-a-massively-scalable-distributed-tracing-system/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 56 comments

Coinbase Card

https://www.coinbase.com/card

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 184 comments

Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 73 comments

Steps to Improve Your Writing

https://adamfaliq.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/write-well/

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 74 comments

Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/forged-letter-warning-about-wolves-on-the-loose-part-of-canadian-forces-propaganda-campaign-that-went-awry

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 123 comments

Dutch flying car gets permission to drive on European roads

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/dutch-flying-car-pal-v-gets-permission-to-drive-on-european-roads/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 106 comments

Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/10/28/apple-building-search-engine-to-take-on-google-report-claims/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 186 comments

Humans Are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

https://www.troyhunt.com/humans-are-bad-at-urls-and-fonts-dont-matter/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 106 comments

Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE

https://www.pine64.org/2020/10/28/nutcracker-challenge-blob-free-wifi-ble/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8

https://www.osr.com/blog/2020/10/15/microsoft-driver-updates-allowed-win7-win8/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 121 comments

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics (2019)

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2019-10-25-mcmc-intro1/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 21 comments

SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.27.357558v1

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 97 comments

When will web browsers be complete?

https://gist.github.com/lf94/ad72f1da36fbc965e4a1d4daeb1d6cb3

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 209 comments

How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2020/04/08/dual-boot-ubuntu-and-windows-with-encryption.html

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 154 comments

Show HN: You had a productive day, until now

https://theblocks.netlify.app/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 50 comments

Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/dear-mr-zuckerberg/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

US grid-battery costs dropped 70% over 3 years

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/us-grid-battery-costs-dropped-70-over-3-years/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

Fedora 33

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-33/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Bazel Build System Support for LLVM

https://github.com/google/llvm-bazel

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 98 comments

The Fall of Silicon Valley

https://www.robrhinehart.com/the-fall-of-silicon-valley/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User

https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-as-an-amiga-user/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 34 comments

Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging

https://bullet-train.io

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02986-y

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 127 comments

UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (2017)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11362-2

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 66 comments

Lawmakers Want to Protect Local Newspapers From Google, Facebook

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-want-to-protect-local-newspapers-from-google-facebook-11603789201

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

The self-driving car is a red herring

http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/the-self_driving-car-is-a-red-herring

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 307 comments

Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/cadillac-super-cruise-outperforms-other-active-driving-assistance-systems/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 135 comments

How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-spin-your-scientific-research-out-of-a-university-and-into-a-startup/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning

https://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017/ny-times-hitler

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 124 comments

How HN crushed David Walsh's blog

https://davidwalsh.name/request-metrics-performance

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 99 comments

What Was Remote YC Like?

https://www.richardesigns.co.uk/2020/10/27/what-was-remote-yc-like.html

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-WiMAX-2020-Staging-Move

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments
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