top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-11-24

Email a Dumpster Fire

https://hey.science/dumpster-fire/

5 years ago

1049 upvotes – 326 comments

Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

https://www.singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-black-magic/

5 years ago

1042 upvotes – 1083 comments

Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in

https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1331221942850949121

5 years ago

981 upvotes – 436 comments

Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55056570

5 years ago

906 upvotes – 493 comments

Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-and-how-wed-like-to-help/

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 325 comments

You might not need machine learning

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/11/24/

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 193 comments

What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-a-software-engineer-at-NeXT-Did-workers-interact-with-Steve-Jobs?share=1

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 220 comments

Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition)

https://www.kaggle.com/c/jane-street-market-prediction

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 208 comments

Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197418

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 111 comments

Tips for Performant TypeScript

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Performance

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 113 comments

The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation

https://www.epsilontheory.com/ama-bitfd/

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 115 comments

Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached

https://launchpad.ethereum.org/

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 257 comments

Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014)

https://betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 45 comments

What is the benefit of having FIPS hardware-level encryption on a USB stick?

https://security.stackexchange.com/q/241202/50573

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 171 comments

Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55044129

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 117 comments

Someone attacked our company

https://usefathom.com/blog/ddos-attack?hn

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 108 comments

MyNOR: Single board computer that uses a single NOR gate as its ALU

http://www.mynor.org/

5 years ago

232 upvotes – 67 comments

Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/oslo-pedestrianisation

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 109 comments

The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 60 comments

That’s not why I did it

https://weaversew.com/wordblog/2020/11/07/thats-not-why-i-did-it/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 80 comments
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