top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-18

DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/

5 years ago

993 upvotes – 279 comments

‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies

https://news.umich.edu/extremely-aggressive-internet-censorship-spreads-in-the-worlds-democracies/

5 years ago

942 upvotes – 607 comments

TailwindCSS v2.0

https://blog.tailwindcss.com/tailwindcss-v2

5 years ago

927 upvotes – 463 comments

Six Months of Tiny Projects

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/six_months_of_tiny_projects

5 years ago

872 upvotes – 143 comments

Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-store-small-business-program/

5 years ago

830 upvotes – 646 comments

I should have loved biology

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

5 years ago

800 upvotes – 298 comments

Free and liberated e-books, carefully produced for the true book lover

https://standardebooks.org/

5 years ago

639 upvotes – 106 comments

Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic

https://www.johnluxford.com/blog/apples-15-percent-deflection-tactic/

5 years ago

599 upvotes – 465 comments

Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25136258

5 years ago

524 upvotes – 540 comments

Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-mass-production-phone-has-begun-shipping/

5 years ago

514 upvotes – 194 comments

My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone

https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0

5 years ago

474 upvotes – 444 comments

Openstreetmap is having a moment

https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01

5 years ago

434 upvotes – 148 comments

Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/news/open-letter-from-content-moderators-re-pandemic

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 206 comments

Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone Slowdowns

https://text.npr.org/936268845

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 253 comments

All Hail Geometric Algebra

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/ga.html

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 80 comments

Dropbox saved $75M over two years by building its own infrastructure (2018)

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 212 comments

Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 171 comments

DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance

https://filtermag.org/dea-expand-patient-surveillance/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 136 comments

NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37668/nsa-spied-on-denmark-as-it-chose-its-future-fighter-aircraft-report

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 311 comments

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

https://www.wired.com/story/open-source-coders-few-tired/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 166 comments

Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future

https://www.pine64.org/2020/11/15/november-update-kde-pinephone-ce-and-a-peek-into-the-future/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 132 comments

"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs

https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 593 comments

UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors

http://amortizedcost.net/ui-desing-for-software-developer-part-1/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Podcast API

https://www.listennotes.com/api/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 69 comments

The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (2009)

https://math.vanderbilt.edu/schectex/commerrs/

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 155 comments

Ramanujan's Easiest Formula

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/ramanujans-easiest-formula/

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 63 comments

The State of the Awk

https://lwn.net/Articles/820829/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 58 comments

Open EMR

https://www.open-emr.org/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 127 comments

Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

https://delistedgames.com/sony-basically-removed-25-years-of-history-from-playstation-com/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 144 comments

Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape

https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20201116-roberto-alcohol.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 170 comments

The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolvable

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-black-hole-information-loss-problem.html

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 133 comments

Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-doubles-down-announces-a100-80gb-gpu-supercharging-worlds-most-powerful-gpu-for-ai-supercomputing

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 154 comments

M1 Mac Mini Teardown

https://egpu.io/forums/desktop-computing/teardown-late-2020-mac-mini-apple-silicon-m1-thunderbolt-4-usb4-pcie-4/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 205 comments

Writing a technical book: from idea to print

https://sararobinson.dev/2020/11/17/writing-a-technical-book.html

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 35 comments

Chrome ‘Bug’ Exempts Google Cookies from Data Privacy Settings

https://hfet.org/chrome-bug-exempts-google-cookies-from-data-privacy-settings/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad

https://hole.dev/scratch/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 66 comments

Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road to net zero emissions

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-britain/britain-to-ban-new-petrol-cars-and-vans-by-2030-on-road-to-net-zero-emissions-idUSKBN27X2Z0

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 339 comments

Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-performance-on-mac.html

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 82 comments

Affirm Public S-1 Filing

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820953/000110465920126927/tm2026663-4_s1.htm

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 65 comments

Dusk is a 90s style shooter from the mind of a teenager (2016)

https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/dusk-90s-style-shooter-mind-teenager/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 108 comments

Frontpage: The Good, Bad and Ugly

https://invisibleup.com/articles/33/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 59 comments

AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/amd_radeon_rx_6800_and_rx_6800_xt_review/1

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 168 comments

Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

https://tacit.livejournal.com/635381.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 165 comments

Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors [pdf]

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nirupam/images/2_publication/papers/LidarPhone_SenSys20_nirupam.pdf

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

Why I chose Electron.js for my side business

https://getloaf.io/blog/why-i-chose-electronjs/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 121 comments

Supersonic Electric Flight

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/supersonic-electric-flight/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 82 comments

40 millisecond bug

https://vorner.github.io/2020/11/06/40-ms-bug.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 26 comments

How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback

https://www.aiga.org/how-to-survive-a-critique

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 27 comments

A React library to design Diagrams with ease

https://github.com/antonioru/beautiful-react-diagrams

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

FDA authorizes first Covid-19 test for self-testing at home

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-covid-19-test-self-testing-home

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

https://blog.google/products/google-pay/reimagined-pay-save-manage-expenses-and-more/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 124 comments

Write Code Like You Write a Recipe

https://ahungry.com/blog/2020-11-17-Write-Code-Like-You-Write-a-Recipe.html

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 84 comments

Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/jimmy-wales-tyler-cowen-wikipedia-610b6e931d20

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 43 comments

Not Just Nuclear: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/immigration/not-just-nuclear

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/almost-60-percent-business-closures-are-now-permanent-new-yelp-n1240209

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 123 comments

Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 258 comments

How to better ventilate your home

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/diy-ventilation-home-pandemic/616150/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 76 comments

How to Have a Difficult Conversation

https://psyche.co/guides/use-mediation-techniques-to-overcome-the-muck-of-blame-and-anger

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

I/Q Data for Dummies

http://whiteboard.ping.se/SDR/IQ

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments
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