top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-06

Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service

https://www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi/90-day-finn/

5 years ago

701 upvotes – 599 comments

Deprecating scp

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/835962/ae41b27bc20699ad/

5 years ago

690 upvotes – 342 comments

Technical debt as a lack of understanding

https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/

5 years ago

661 upvotes – 291 comments

Standing on our own two feet

https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html

5 years ago

584 upvotes – 197 comments

HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/horrible-products/#inkwars

5 years ago

567 upvotes – 339 comments

Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25007697

5 years ago

479 upvotes – 332 comments

RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/riaa-abuses-dmca-take-down-popular-tool-downloading-online-video

5 years ago

414 upvotes – 109 comments

Gron – Make JSON Greppable

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 91 comments

A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/cgroups-part-one

5 years ago

343 upvotes – 69 comments

YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqPXcv-IE0k

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 118 comments

Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron

https://acoup.blog/2020/11/06/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-addendum-crucible-steel-and-cast-iron/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 25 comments

Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him

https://www.reuters.com/article/ant-group-ipo-suspension-regulators/how-billionaire-jack-ma-fell-to-earth-and-took-ants-mega-ipo-with-him-idUSKBN27L2GX

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 228 comments

The Joys of Being a Stoic

http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/the-joys-of-being-a-stoic

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 132 comments

Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 179 comments

Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake

https://semiaccurate.com/2020/10/29/intels-palpable-desperation-on-display-with-rocket-lake/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 277 comments

Real World Haskell

https://mmhaskell.com/real-world

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 77 comments

Go in Production – Lessons Learned

https://tdom.dev/go-in-production

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 104 comments

AI Expert Roadmap

https://i.am.ai/roadmap

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 92 comments

Signs you might be a micromanager

https://unito.io/blog/micromanagement-signs/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 66 comments

SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript

https://sql.js.org/#/

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 38 comments

Fast open-source intrusion detection

https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/11/05-intrusion.html

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 19 comments

Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)

http://paulgraham.com/googles.html

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 160 comments

The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070065/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 51 comments

Ibis – A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF

https://github.com/themsaid/ibis

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic

http://tomasp.net/commodore64/

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 53 comments

The impact of school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945720304184

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 57 comments

Why Typing Erlang is Hard: Standard Erlang

https://abstractmachines.dev/posts/am012-why-typing-erlang-is-hard.html

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 52 comments

What “Roguelike” Meant

https://zenorogue.medium.com/what-roguelike-meant-fb8b0e1601a

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 101 comments

Perl One-Liners Cookbook

https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/one-liner-introduction.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify

https://changelog.com/podcast/416#transcript-45

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

Ray Tracer Sandbox in Vulkan

https://github.com/Zielon/PBRVulkan

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem

https://github.com/c9fe/sirdb

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

Soluble ACE2 shows promise for treating severe Covid­19

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-020-00374-6

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

FinTech: Shaping the Financial World

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s08-fintech-shaping-the-financial-world-spring-2020/index.htm

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests

https://django.doctor/?show-hn

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

What’s the Role of Developer Experience in Programming Languages Research?

https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/10/27/whats-the-role-of-developer-experience-in-programming-languages-research/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=898894

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 67 comments

What Is Mind-Wandering and How You Use It to Your Advantage?

https://durmonski.com/productivity/what-is-mind-wandering/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/05/steve-bannons-show-pulled-off-twitter-and-youtube-over-calls-for-violence/

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

HDD Components Maker Hoya Describes 22TB and 24TB Hard Drives

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hoya-hdd-22tb-24tb

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 68 comments

ReCAPTCHA and the Anonymous Experience

https://blog.repl.it/anon

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 106 comments

The Die Is Cast: Hardware Security Is Not Assured

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3431245

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

The Turing-Completeness Problem

https://alan-lang.org/the-turing-completeness-problem.html

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 41 comments

Clean code won't save the planet

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/no-your-clean-code-wont-save-the-planet/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 85 comments

Whole Foods grocery chain bans Canadian employees from wearing poppies

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/whole-foods-bans-poppies-1.5791551

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Recompile – a 3D Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure game

https://recompilegame.com/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

How to write warm emails

http://akhilkg.me/blog/cold-emails

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’

https://www.locserendipity.com/PunGenLink.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 89 comments

Switch from Ruby to Crystal

https://blog.logrocket.com/why-you-should-switch-from-ruby-to-crystal/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Ubooquity: Free home server for your comics and ebooks library

https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (2014)

https://newatlas.com/artist-nanosculptures-smaller-human-hair/34813/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year

https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/microbial-space-travel-on-a-molecular-scale/

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Horizontal totalitarianism in life and literature

https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2020/10/01/horizontal-totalitarianism-in-life-and-literature/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Silicon Valley has so many Bad Managers

https://getlighthouse.com/blog/silicon-valley-bad-managers/

5 years ago

69 upvotes – 74 comments
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