top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-20

Dev Fonts

https://devfonts.gafi.dev/

5 years ago

642 upvotes – 333 comments

Moving from Macbook to Linux

https://monadical.com/posts/moving-to-linux-desktop.html

5 years ago

517 upvotes – 501 comments

PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

5 years ago

504 upvotes – 205 comments

Transitioning from Docker to Podman

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/11/19/transitioning-from-docker-to-podman/

5 years ago

466 upvotes – 268 comments

An Introduction to ZFS

https://www.servethehome.com/an-introduction-to-zfs-a-place-to-start/

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 250 comments

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications

https://acoup.blog/2020/11/20/miscellanea-my-thoughts-on-assassins-creed-valhalla/

5 years ago

352 upvotes – 302 comments

I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25161266

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 219 comments

Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers

https://lukerissacher.com/blog/optimizing_your_web_app

5 years ago

311 upvotes – 244 comments

Why We're Building Observable

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/why-were-building-observable

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 81 comments

Is Apple Silicon Ready?

https://isapplesiliconready.com/

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 192 comments

Eight Years at Roblox

https://zeux.io/2020/08/02/eight-years-at-roblox/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

https://www.pmalerts.com/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 107 comments

Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory

https://gamehistory.org/segavr/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 73 comments

Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 302 comments

Test for Divisibility by 13

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/11/10/test-for-divisibility-by-13/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 47 comments

Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server in Go

https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 113 comments

HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

https://yalujailbreak.net/homepod-checkra1n-jailbreak/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 168 comments

Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-submit-emergency-use-authorization

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 398 comments

The Vale Programming Language

https://vale.dev/

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 171 comments

Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts

https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3187125?hl=en

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 285 comments

Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best practices

https://github.blog/2020-11-20-nbdev-a-literate-programming-environment-that-democratizes-software-engineering-best-practices/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 86 comments

What do RISC and CISC mean in 2020?

https://erik-engheim.medium.com/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020-7b4d42c9a9de

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 127 comments

How to Use Anki to Improve Your Memory

https://superpoweredself.com/gentle-introduction-how-to-use-anki-to-improve-your-memory

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 145 comments

Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25159931

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 135 comments

Tinycore Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: QuickPYTHON

https://timothycrosley.github.io/quickpython/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 18 comments

AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothered to test

https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/ab07-usb3fmc-wtf/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 147 comments

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length in isolated blood cells

https://www.aging-us.com/article/202188/text

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 78 comments

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 92 comments

Static Typing for Ruby: Adopting Sorbet at Scale

https://shopify.engineering/static-typing-ruby

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly

https://github.com/lunatic-lang/lunatic

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

For Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything has been ‘sort of liberating’

https://www.ktoo.org/2020/11/19/for-union-bay-sinking-survivor-losing-everything-but-his-life-has-been-sort-of-liberating/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 76 comments

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Rebrickable – Build with Lego

https://rebrickable.com/home/

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 65 comments

Wish S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822250/000119312520298630/d82777ds1.htm

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 146 comments

VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform library

https://github.com/dtolm/VkFFT

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 50 comments

Dark Reader – enable Dark Mode on Wikipedia and many other websites

https://darkreader.org/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 76 comments

Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?

https://www.legalnomads.com/istanbul-cats/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 107 comments

Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-11-0

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 219 comments

A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer (Differentiable Renderer)

http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/NimierDavidVicini2019Mitsuba2

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Biochemical Pathways Wall Charts

https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/science_education/pathways.htm

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Developing Wayland Color Management and High Dynamic Range

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/11/19/developing-wayland-color-management-and-high-dynamic-range/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Cheap Router Table and Lift

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2020-11/17-cheap_router_table_lift

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]

https://network.hubspot.com/slides/the-hubspot-culture-code

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

SwiftNIO SSH

https://swift.org/blog/swiftnio-ssh/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 55 comments

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/plato-g%C3%B6del-spinoza-ahab

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 145 comments

There's Still No Viable Open Source Business Model [video]

https://gestaltit.com/podcast/tom/theres-still-no-viable-open-source-business-model/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 119 comments

Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931990578/why-americans-have-been-deceived-about-canadas-health-care-system?t=1605910191066

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 142 comments

Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering (2001) [pdf]

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Symbolics.pdf

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-us/news/international-and-sustainability-winners-announced/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

What I didn't know about Ruby Classes

https://dumas-olivier.medium.com/what-i-didnt-know-about-ruby-classes-9de64ee40d4d

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

New binary artifact management tool

https://github.com/artipie/artipie

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

How to force yourself to leave the computer using the leave command

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/how-to-force-yourself-to-leave-the-computer-using-the-leave-command/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Rapid Note-Taking with the Morse Code Method (2008)

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/18/monday-master-class-rapid-note-taking-with-the-morse-code-method/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Opytimizer: Nature-Inspired Computation in Python

https://github.com/gugarosa/opytimizer

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 3 comments

Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be working

https://restofworld.org/2020/pressing-pause-on-fake-news-in-myanmar/

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 140 comments
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