top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-11-09

Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105

5 years ago

1887 upvotes – 1148 comments

No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This

https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/1046

5 years ago

1070 upvotes – 938 comments

Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer

https://zwbetz.com/attention-is-my-most-valuable-asset-for-productivity-as-a-software-developer/

5 years ago

644 upvotes – 254 comments

Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgzxvz/voters-overwhelmingly-back-community-broadband-in-chicago-and-denver

5 years ago

639 upvotes – 229 comments

Amazon Review Scam

https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1325882623424565248

5 years ago

579 upvotes – 317 comments

I now have an Oculus paperweight

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/jqh1bg/i_now_have_an_oculus_paperweight/

5 years ago

567 upvotes – 207 comments

McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/11/09/mcplant-mcdonalds-plant-based-burger-crispy-chicken-sandwich/6187977002/

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 556 comments

The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

5 years ago

457 upvotes – 313 comments

How Go helped save HealthCare.gov

https://changelog.com/gotime/154

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 148 comments

Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union

5 years ago

361 upvotes – 379 comments

A fun website that simulates fluid

https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 47 comments

Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

https://gather.town/?ref=hn

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 161 comments

A US Visa in 937 Days

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 143 comments

How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet

https://lord.io/blog/2020/spreadsheets/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 72 comments

What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5971

5 years ago

275 upvotes – 89 comments

The Tao of Programming (1987)

https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 63 comments

Let’s Build a Video Card

https://eater.net/vga

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 46 comments

Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust

https://github.com/ogham/dog

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 81 comments

Cool Machine Learning Books

http://matpalm.com/blog/cool_machine_learning_books/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 16 comments

Architecture Playbook

https://nocomplexity.com/documents/arplaybook/index.html

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 47 comments
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