top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-10-30

From McDonald's to Google

https://www.protocol.com/kelsey-hightower-google-cloud

5 years ago

603 upvotes – 151 comments

How to deal with extreme physical pain

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-deal-with-extreme-physical-pain

5 years ago

568 upvotes – 335 comments

Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24942037

5 years ago

556 upvotes – 253 comments

Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33110154/

5 years ago

552 upvotes – 364 comments

Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

https://inference-review.com/article/the-man-who-carried-computer-science-on-his-shoulders

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 196 comments

I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call

https://www.fastcompany.com/90565930/im-deaf-and-this-is-what-happens-when-i-get-on-a-zoom-call

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 145 comments

Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election

https://www.wsj.com/articles/maine-becomes-first-state-to-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-a-presidential-election-11604062812

5 years ago

373 upvotes – 386 comments

Goodbye IFTTT

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2020/10/30/Goodbye-IFTTT/

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 152 comments

Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models

https://lobe.ai/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 156 comments

YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-for-future-founders/

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 87 comments

Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-online-death-cuc-cendant-fraud

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 146 comments

Launch HN: Deepnote (YC S19) – A better data science notebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24942797

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 70 comments

Is Rust web yet?

http://www.arewewebyet.org/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 286 comments

How to create minimal music with code in any programming language

https://zserge.com/posts/etude-in-c/

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 78 comments

Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/30/21538999/waymo-self-driving-car-data-miles-crashes-phoenix-google

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 340 comments

Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

https://numfocus.org/blog/jeremy-howard-apology

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 273 comments

Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 53 comments

Valve put their 'Pressure Vessel' container source for Linux games up on Gitlab

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/10/valve-put-their-pressure-vessel-container-source-for-linux-games-up-on-gitlab

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 64 comments

5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/5-gbps-ethernet-on-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 83 comments

EXoDOS: Collecting every game developed for DOS from original media

http://exodos.the-eye.us/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 98 comments

Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1

https://jemma.dev/blog/awk-part-1

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 106 comments

A Love Letter to the Internet of Old

https://www.cameronsworld.net

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple refuses to engrave ‘liberate’ protest slogan on HK customer’s Apple Pencil

https://coconuts.co/hongkong/news/apple-refuses-to-engrave-liberate-protest-slogan-on-hong-kong-customers-apple-pencil/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 89 comments

Menu simulation, Spidertron, Ghost building, Confirm button

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-362

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 63 comments

An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-earth-sized-rogue-planet-milky.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 105 comments

KDE.org migrated to Hugo

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/10/30/kde-org-hugo.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 80 comments

New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54754016

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 278 comments

Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/application-load-balancers-enable-grpc-workloads-end-to-end-http-2-support/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 152 comments

'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/29/929133717/why-some-memories-seem-like-movies-time-cells-discovered-in-human-brains

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 128 comments

The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-black-hole-information-paradox-comes-to-an-end-20201029/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 99 comments

Facebook Is a 'Super Spreader' of Election Misinformation

https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-super-spreader-election-misinformation-1543306

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 146 comments

Swift Concurrency Roadmap

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-concurrency-roadmap/41611

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 99 comments

The misuse of colour in science communication

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 44 comments

Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/24/tv/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 28 comments

Java Concurrency – Understanding the Basics of Threads

https://turkogluc.com/java-concurrency-basics-of-threads/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 82 comments

The story of the PDF (2018)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 91 comments

Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile

https://news.mit.edu/2020/defextiles-leveraging-3d-printer-defect-to-create-quasi-textiles-1020

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 45 comments

What Happened to XPath?

https://webreflection.medium.com/what-happened-to-xpath-1409aa3dbd57

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 93 comments

Google Sunsets Google Cloud Print

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?p=cloudprint&visit_id=637396497759142658-95133053&rd=1

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 174 comments

Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” content

https://reclaimthenet.org/mailchimp-misinformation-censorship/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 263 comments

FPGAwars: Exploring the Open Side of the FPGAs

https://fpgawars.github.io/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 46 comments

Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/512

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 80 comments

What’s so exciting about Postgres?

https://changelog.com/podcast/417#transcript

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 130 comments

Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs

https://www.sanity.io/blog/mendoza

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf]

https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/files/2020/10/Security_Researchers_Guide-2.pdf

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

Gray Wolves to Be Removed from Endangered Species List

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/29/929095979/gray-wolves-to-be-removed-from-endangered-species-list

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 230 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 76 comments

Weird A.I. Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12240

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (1945)

http://lewisiana.nl/orwell/index.htm

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 57 comments

Rust for Clojurists (2015)

https://gist.github.com/oakes/4af1023b6c5162c6f8f0

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-as-productive-as-kotlin/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/5-big-ideas-for-making-fusion-power-a-reality

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/beautifully-preserved-cave-bears-emerge-from-siberian-permafrost/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

https://www.theverge.com/21507966/csk-8th-wonder-of-the-world

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

What gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03047-0

5 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments
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