top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-31

Sean Connery has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54761824

5 years ago

633 upvotes – 240 comments

Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine

https://ru-submarine.livejournal.com/17486.html

5 years ago

610 upvotes – 367 comments

Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

https://winxp.now.sh/

5 years ago

582 upvotes – 148 comments

NAT Slipstreaming

https://samy.pl/slipstream/

5 years ago

555 upvotes – 178 comments

Foundations of Software Engineering

https://cmu-313.github.io

5 years ago

499 upvotes – 125 comments

Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/governments-worldwide-consider-ditching-daylight-saving-time/

5 years ago

432 upvotes – 270 comments

AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-camera-ruins-soccar-game-for-fans-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 185 comments

Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code

https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 249 comments

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018)

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 130 comments

Jailbreaking Used Teslas

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaking-used-teslas-to-get-the-features-they-expect

5 years ago

300 upvotes – 284 comments

The cheap pen that changed writing forever

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201028-history-of-the-ballpoint-pen

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 188 comments

2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way

https://www.zdnet.com/article/2020s-fastest-rising-tech-jobs-programming-language-php-leads-the-way/

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 262 comments

Distributed Systems Learning Notes

https://timilearning.com/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 14 comments

Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923736245/caste-arrives-in-silicon-valley

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 322 comments

AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs

https://news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detection-1029

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 74 comments

Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31804775/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 120 comments

Why I Prefer Functional Programming

http://www.haskellforall.com/2020/10/why-i-prefer-functional-programming.html

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 117 comments

Extreme Debugging

https://squanderingti.me/blog/2020/10/28/extreme-debugging.html

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 53 comments

Sean Connery has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 34 comments

Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/45921/is-this-the-end-of-the-repairable-iphone

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 135 comments
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