716
175
“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395
5 years ago
556
266
The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection
https://thetruesize.com/
502
356
Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-grow-bigger-monkey-brains-using-human-genes-replicating-evolution
423
614
Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
https://github.com/nbeaver/why-linux-is-better
408
489
Ask HN: Are you depressed?
http://www.strawpoll.me/22152225
350
184
Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
https://frantic.im/back-to-rails
346
191
Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight
https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/bmw-electrified-wingsuit-maiden-flight-1234580128/
340
28
BetterExplained: Clear, intuitive lessons about mathematics
https://betterexplained.com/
337
290
Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/m1-chip-emulating-x86-benchmark/
329
843
Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter
https://text.npr.org/934833214
318
148
Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-11-15-sourcehut-2-year-alpha/
305
247
Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/bugreport-free-support/
293
48
Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
https://ottverse.com/create-vintage-videos-using-ffmpeg/
253
152
PinePhone – KDE Community edition
https://kde.org/announcements/pinephone-plasma-mobile-edition/
239
124
Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison
https://github.com/boramalper/pydis
233
71
Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
https://github.com/iceychris/LibreASR
232
144
After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/after-losing-38676-as-an-indie-hacker-i-cant-do-it-anymore-i-quit-8673223598
230
309
I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System
https://robdobson.com/2020/11/the-10-reasons-i-ripped-out-a-6k-lighting-system/
227
198
Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/t-magazine/gout-tormenting-masses.html
217
445
Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake
https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893
199
143
Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25098921
195
116
Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKNr-LiblI&feature=youtu.be
189
120
macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/macos-big-sur-update-bricking-some-macbook-pros/
182
24
The first open-source ventilator tested on human patients
https://github.com/makers-for-life/makair/
181
104
Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/google-apologizes-to-thierry-breton-over-plan-to-target-eu-commissioner/
176
67
Ori Pocket Office
https://www.oriliving.com/products/pocket-office
172
106
Nearly 28M licensed Texas drivers hit by data breach
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/nearly-28-million-licensed-texas-drivers-hit-by-data-breach?taid=5fafc6ce1ef01a000123a0c2&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter
171
111
Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54209366
170
226
The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)
https://yomadic.com/stolipinovo-gypsy-ghetto/
165
37
Drumbit – Online Drum Machine
https://drumbit.app/
158
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
153
Better disposable coffee cups can be made with waste from sugar cane
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/14/better-disposable-coffee-cups
180
Why I teach vim
https://blog.ceos.io/2020/11/14/why-i-teach-vim/
151
Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to move to Tulsa
https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/San-Franciscans-are-jumping-at-an-offer-of-10k-15591762.php
134
26
The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-protocol/
133
32
Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had
https://guzey.com/advice/
125
287
UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT
https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-autos/uk-to-ban-sale-of-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-from-2030-ft-idUSKBN27U0DG
122
115
Mega free-trade deal a lifeline for Australia-China relations
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/mega-free-trade-deal-a-lifeline-for-australia-china-relations-20201112-p56dx8.html
119
27
A 5-story building in China 'walks' to new location
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/shanghai-relocate-building-preservation-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
113
41
Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/reflections-on-my-first-completed-application-in-ocaml/6768
112
30
Show HN: 15FPS to 60FPS, new GPU real-time flow-based method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqtqmP46LaA
101
132
Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25104650
99
Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time [pdf]
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/icfp02/packrat-icfp02.pdf
92
5
Sad DNS Explained
https://blog.cloudflare.com/sad-dns-explained/
39
Twitch streamers report DMCA takedowns for in-game sound effects
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-11-13-twitch-streamers-report-dmca-takedowns-for-in-game-sound-effects
Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution