top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-19

Beirut Port Explosion

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion

5 years ago

YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/

5 years ago

1MB Club

https://1mb.club/

5 years ago

Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/famed-arecibo-telescope-brink-collapse-will-be-dismantled

5 years ago

Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/

5 years ago

Google to end the “top stories carousel” benefit to AMP next spring

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/11/19/as-antitrust-pressure-mounts-google-to-pull-back-benefit-to-news-sites-that-adopted-its-preferred-mobile-technology

5 years ago

Full text search on 400M US court cases

https://www.judyrecords.com/

5 years ago

As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever

https://www.engadget.com/2020-02-27-internet-forums-dying-off.html

5 years ago

Rust 1.48

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/11/19/Rust-1.48.html

5 years ago

Show HN: Zfs.rent

https://zfs.rent

5 years ago

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)

https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/

5 years ago

Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

https://jmmv.dev/2020/11/wsl-lost-potential.html

5 years ago

TypeScript 4.1

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-1/

5 years ago

Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/031604.html

5 years ago

Roblox S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1315098/000119312520298230/d87104ds1.htm

5 years ago

Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/11/using-gans-to-create-fantastical.html

5 years ago

Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share a Core

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Core-Scheduling-v9

5 years ago

M1 Macs Review

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/m1-macs-review/

5 years ago

Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v791-pour-samuel-paty/

5 years ago

HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3

https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/hopsfs-100x-times-faster-than-aws-s3

5 years ago

Launch HN: Replicate (YC W20) – Version control for machine learning

https://replicate.ai/

5 years ago

The SEC “Modernizes” the Accredited Investor Definition

https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2020/33-10824.pdf

5 years ago

COBOL underpins the entire financial system

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money

5 years ago

CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving

https://www.axios.com/cdc-thanksgiving-travel-coronavirus-spread-48170cf3-8121-4bb5-bd37-2ddb507cdb55.html

5 years ago

Leap second hiatus

https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/133823.html

5 years ago

Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers

https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/funkwhale-is-looking-for-new-maintainers/

5 years ago

Information overload helps fake news spread

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overload-helps-fake-news-spread-and-social-media-knows-it/

5 years ago

PCalc for macOS

https://www.pcalc.com/mac/index.html

5 years ago

Symbiotic bacteria tell ant embryos how to develop

https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbiotic-bacteria-tell-ant-embryos-how-to-develop-20200909/

5 years ago

My First Kernel Module: A Debugging Nightmare

https://reberhardt.com/blog/2020/11/18/my-first-kernel-module.html

5 years ago

Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/11/18/doh-comment-period-2020/

5 years ago

A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1FoTYnJxeY

5 years ago

Archive of Lisp Machine, Inc

https://github.com/jrm-code-project/LISP-Machine

5 years ago

Man Becomes Overnight Millionaire After Meteorite Crashes Through His Roof

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/man-becomes-overnight-millionaire-after-meteorite-crashes-through-his-roof-2327321?pfrom=home-lateststories

5 years ago

Moving Away from Travis CI

https://ropensci.org/technotes/2020/11/19/moving-away-travis/

5 years ago

Writing a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Clickhouse in Go

https://arunsori.me/posts/postgres-clickhouse-fdw-in-go/

5 years ago

My Beef with RuboCop

https://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/my-beef-with-rubocop/

5 years ago

Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.md

5 years ago

Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity

5 years ago

Before the BSD Kernel Starts: Part One on AMD64

https://www.moritz.systems/blog/before-the-bsd-kernel-starts-part-one-on-amd64/

5 years ago

A JavaScript implementation of Git

https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git

5 years ago

Estimating the ROI of Insulation

https://www.jefftk.com/p/estimating-the-roi-of-insulation

5 years ago

You don't need no service mesh

https://serce.me/posts/23-07-2020-you-dont-need-no-service-mesh/

5 years ago

Jackie Chan's Best Advice

https://www.weedonandscott.com/blog/post/jackie-chan-best-advice/

5 years ago

Leveraging ML Compute for Accelerated Training on Mac

https://machinelearning.apple.com/updates/ml-compute-training-on-mac

5 years ago