top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-17

Servo’s new home

https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/

5 years ago

1025 upvotes – 309 comments

Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/11/17/firefox-83-introduces-https-only-mode/

5 years ago

950 upvotes – 508 comments

2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested

5 years ago

724 upvotes – 748 comments

Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

https://www.brow.sh/

5 years ago

684 upvotes – 103 comments

To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills

https://youteam.io/blog/3-remote-productivity-hacks-we-wish-we-knew-from-day-one/

5 years ago

655 upvotes – 320 comments

ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

5 years ago

627 upvotes – 253 comments

Graphics for JVM

https://tonsky.me/blog/skija/

5 years ago

564 upvotes – 365 comments

We can do better than DuckDuckGo

https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/17/Better-than-DuckDuckGo.html

5 years ago

563 upvotes – 364 comments

Git is too hard

https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard

5 years ago

557 upvotes – 792 comments

Hemingway Editor

http://www.hemingwayapp.com

5 years ago

442 upvotes – 248 comments

“You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/16/You-Have-Zero-Privacy-RCMP-Web-Spying/

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 185 comments

16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile

https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1328598935380910082

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 513 comments

Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648496#c2

5 years ago

331 upvotes – 113 comments

Cutter – Free and Open Source Re Platform Powered by Radare2

https://cutter.re/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 40 comments

Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/17/21571091/amazon-pharmacy-store-launch-home-delivery-prescription-medication

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 262 comments

South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/526204-south-dakota-nurse-says-many-dying-patients-still-insist-covid-19-not

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 456 comments

The biology of dads

https://aeon.co/essays/how-raising-children-can-change-a-fathers-brain

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 268 comments

Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere

https://developers.ibexa.co/blog/emojis-paved-the-way-for-utf-8-everywhere

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 147 comments

Texas astronomers revive idea for 'Ultimately Large Telescope' on the moon

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-texas-astronomers-revive-idea-ultimately.html

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 134 comments

30% Faster Rust Build Times using Cranelift instead of the LLVM

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77975

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 74 comments

Being Glue

https://noidea.dog/glue

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 43 comments

1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-cause-global-aviation-emissions-study-covid-19

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 126 comments

Best aspects of C

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25124012

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 261 comments

Apple hits back at European activist complaints against tracking tool

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27W0J1

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 149 comments

Indian developer jailed for making unauthorized train ticket booking app

https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/s-yuvarajaa-super-tatkal-pro-irctc-train-ticket-booking_in_5fb25d5cc5b6d8781808f6ab

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 74 comments

US Postal Service data suggests significant population decline in San Francisco

https://www.publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-postal-service-data-suggests-significant-population-decline-in-san-francisco

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 184 comments

Prediction Markets Beat Polls

https://arpitrage.substack.com/p/how-prediction-markets-beat-polls

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 125 comments

Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready to Be Deemed Stable

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stateless-H264-Out-Of-Staging

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 49 comments

A ‘Jobs to be Done’ Framework for Startups

https://firstround.com/review/build-products-that-solve-real-problems-with-this-lightweight-jtbd-framework/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Twelve70 - Men's outfit generator and closet management

https://www.twelve70.com/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 120 comments

The Rust Performance Book

https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 19 comments

Xkcd: Ten Years

https://xkcd.com/2386/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 10 comments

Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-i-left-ibm/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 90 comments

Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/free-email

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 152 comments

China attacks fishing boats in conquest of South China Sea

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-12/china-attacks-fishing-boats-in-conquest-of-south-china-sea

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review

https://www.theverge.com/21570497/apple-macbook-pro-2020-m1-review

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 99 comments

DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage

https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-societal-arbitrage

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 118 comments

Watch live: Zuckerberg, Dorsey testify before Senate [video]

https://thehill.com/video/senate/526278-watch-live-tech-ceos-zuckerberg-and-dorsey-testify-before-senate

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 232 comments

Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 103 comments

What’s expected of us (2005)

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 55 comments

Windows 10 is now nagging users with full screen Microsoft Edge ads

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-nagging-users-with-microsoft-edge-recommendations/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 119 comments

We Are Built to Forget

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/11/16/we-are-built-to-forget/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

New Explainable AI Algorithms

https://wagtaillabs.com

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 18 comments

Playing on Hard Mode

https://stratechery.com/2020/playing-on-hard-mode/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

Calmcode – Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools

https://calmcode.io/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Setting up a WireGuard client with routing domains on OpenBSD

https://codimd.laas.fr/s/NMc3qt5PQ#

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Getting Started with Ansible

https://steampunk.si/blog/getting-started-with-ansible/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 100 comments

Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuels may not be so hard

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/primary-energy-vs-final-energy-why-replacing-fossil-fuels-won-t-be-so-hard

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 107 comments

Show HN: Utility to change macOS Big Sur menu bar color

https://github.com/igorkulman/ChangeMenuBarColor

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Fleets: A new way to join the conversation

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/introducing-fleets-new-way-to-join-the-conversation.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 98 comments

The Makeup of the CCP Elite

http://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/viz-blog/the-makeup-of-the-ccp-elite/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 82 comments

Lavalamp.app

http://lavalamp.app

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

Open source security tools list

https://github.com/Penetrum-Security/Security-List

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

The Phases of an Open Source Project Maintainer

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-nine-phases-of-open-source-project.html

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

New powerful malware obfuscation technique

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9186656

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments
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