top 50% 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

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

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

US internet speeds 91% faster in 2020 according to user speed tests

https://fairinternetreport.com/research/usa-vs-europe-internet-speed-analysis

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 261 comments

Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps

https://blog.timac.org/2020/1122-comparing-iphone-os-with-ios-14-using-tree-maps/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 77 comments

How to use Reddit to get your first users

https://blog.spreadtheworld.net/posts/get-first-users-reddit/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 148 comments

Progress bars still lie

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/fixprogressbars.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 227 comments

Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop

https://expanscape.com/the-aurora-7-prototype/the-story-of-the-aurora-7/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 185 comments

FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet

https://github.com/sbz/freebsd-commands

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 54 comments

Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer

https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 12 comments

The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare

https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1331041820516769792

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 119 comments

Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-pro-disables-margin-trading-42f5862f8a66?_branch_match_id=294135607811499728&source=emailShare-23ee579691f2-1606255385&gi=b0ebf2e9c5b0

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 117 comments

Amazon Sidewalk

https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=21328123011

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 148 comments

P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values

https://aakinshin.net/posts/p2-quantile-estimator/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Where are the Beautiful clean HTML/CSS templates?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25200702

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)

https://jonmillward.com/blog/attraction-dating/cupid-on-trial-a-4-month-online-dating-experiment/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 255 comments

No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media

https://www.turningchaos.com/essays/no-surprises-here

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 100 comments

How Rainbow Tables Work

http://kestas.kuliukas.com/RainbowTables/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 28 comments

Scaleway Stardust Instances

https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

JFK in Trauma Room One: A Witness Remembers

https://www.medpagetoday.com/emergencymedicine/emergencymedicine/89772

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 55 comments

AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-managed-workflows-for-apache-airflow-mwaa/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

Is carbon capture a viable solution?

https://www.thedetechtor.com/post/carbon-capture-usage-and-storage-the-solution-to-the-climate-crisis

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 343 comments

We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OHHDNEkonvzhwWVEBEYadfuga6I92BNyWIcZI1f3FAA/edit#

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 46 comments

Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/spectreconsole-lets-you-make-beautiful-console-apps-with-net-core

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers fees for exceeding their usage cap

https://gizmodo.com/comcast-prepares-to-screw-over-millions-with-data-caps-1845741662

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 93 comments

Players to sue for hundreds of millions over use of their statistics

https://theathletic.com/1949883/2020/07/27/ornstein-hundreds-players-lawsuit-southampton-leeds-wolves-premier-league/?source=emp_shared_article

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 95 comments

DOM recording for web application demos

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/11/dom-recording-for-web-application-demos.html

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1675335

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

Why is day of the month 1-indexed but the month is 0-indexed in C?

https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1329228419628998665

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering

https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-2-ip-addresses-network-zigbee-custom-firmware-and-soldering/

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (1987)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/superoptimizer.pdf

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments
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