top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-15

“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395

5 years ago

716 upvotes – 175 comments

The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

https://thetruesize.com/

5 years ago

556 upvotes – 266 comments

Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution

https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-grow-bigger-monkey-brains-using-human-genes-replicating-evolution

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 356 comments

Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

https://github.com/nbeaver/why-linux-is-better

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 614 comments

Ask HN: Are you depressed?

http://www.strawpoll.me/22152225

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 489 comments

Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails

https://frantic.im/back-to-rails

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 184 comments

Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/bmw-electrified-wingsuit-maiden-flight-1234580128/

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 191 comments

BetterExplained: Clear, intuitive lessons about mathematics

https://betterexplained.com/

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 28 comments

Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/m1-chip-emulating-x86-benchmark/

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 290 comments

Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

https://text.npr.org/934833214

5 years ago

329 upvotes – 843 comments

Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-11-15-sourcehut-2-year-alpha/

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 148 comments

Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”

https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/bugreport-free-support/

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 247 comments

Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps

https://ottverse.com/create-vintage-videos-using-ffmpeg/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 48 comments

PinePhone – KDE Community edition

https://kde.org/announcements/pinephone-plasma-mobile-edition/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 152 comments

Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison

https://github.com/boramalper/pydis

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

https://github.com/iceychris/LibreASR

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 71 comments

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

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 144 comments

I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System

https://robdobson.com/2020/11/the-10-reasons-i-ripped-out-a-6k-lighting-system/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 309 comments

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

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 198 comments

Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake

https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 445 comments

Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25098921

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 143 comments

Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKNr-LiblI&feature=youtu.be

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 116 comments

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/

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

The first open-source ventilator tested on human patients

https://github.com/makers-for-life/makair/

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 24 comments

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/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 104 comments

Ori Pocket Office

https://www.oriliving.com/products/pocket-office

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 67 comments

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

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 106 comments

Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54209366

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 111 comments

The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)

https://yomadic.com/stolipinovo-gypsy-ghetto/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 226 comments

Drumbit – Online Drum Machine

https://drumbit.app/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 37 comments

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 67 comments

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

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 120 comments

Why I teach vim

https://blog.ceos.io/2020/11/14/why-i-teach-vim/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 180 comments

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

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 175 comments

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-protocol/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had

https://guzey.com/advice/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

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

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 287 comments

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

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 115 comments

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

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/reflections-on-my-first-completed-application-in-ocaml/6768

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: 15FPS to 60FPS, new GPU real-time flow-based method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqtqmP46LaA

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25104650

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 132 comments

Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time [pdf]

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/icfp02/packrat-icfp02.pdf

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Sad DNS Explained

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sad-dns-explained/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

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

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 39 comments
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