top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-27

Tell HN: Thank You Dang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225775

5 years ago

2363 upvotes – 249 comments

How to Think for Yourself

http://paulgraham.com/think.html

5 years ago

1090 upvotes – 816 comments

CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-human-they-prove-youre-american/

5 years ago

696 upvotes – 679 comments

Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-creepy-new-productivity-score-gamifies-workp-1845763063

5 years ago

519 upvotes – 255 comments

‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-cryptocurrency-black-employees.html#click=https://t.co/akHbGxS2QL

5 years ago

486 upvotes – 623 comments

Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

https://revealjs.com/

5 years ago

411 upvotes – 106 comments

Digital Tools I Wish Existed

https://jon.bo/posts/digital-tools/

5 years ago

333 upvotes – 136 comments

Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 248 comments

Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting

https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1331735383193903104

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 191 comments

I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator

https://erikwinter.nl/articles/2020/why-i-built-my-own-shitty-static-site-generator/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 167 comments

Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/27/developer-successfully-virtualizes-windows-on-m1/?ref=upstract.com

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 208 comments

Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72501-w?mc_cid=2b33d59ff8&mc_eid=e358e73db6

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 132 comments

SQLite as a Document Database

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 50 comments

1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby

https://blog.peterzhu.ca/ruby-range-bsearch/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 121 comments

Hire people who give a shit

https://alexw.substack.com/p/hire

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 316 comments

Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha

https://invisible.college/project/psiloscoby

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 105 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229672

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 261 comments

Warp Drive News

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/warp-drive-news-seriously.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 156 comments

Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike

http://Lemond.com/prolog

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 298 comments

Infinite Bad Guy

https://billie.withyoutube.com/

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 68 comments

How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

https://productive.fish/blog/spaced-repetition/

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 61 comments

DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi

https://www.technicallywizardry.com/diy-smart-doorbell-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano Style Cheese” [video]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M_AzMLhPF1Q

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 195 comments

A group of recent Princeton graduates has won more than $6M in 66 lottery wins

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2020/11/11/group-recent-princeton-grads-winning-lotteries-across-u-s/6146979002/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 89 comments

Blackrota: obfuscated backdoor written in Go

https://blog.netlab.360.com/blackrota-an-obfuscated-backdoor-written-in-go-en/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 25 comments

ReStuff

http://restuff.jcs.org

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry

https://destevez.net/2020/11/a-look-at-change-5-telemetry/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 31 comments

TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.15011

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 37 comments

Add variables to Python traceback

https://github.com/andy-landy/traceback_with_variables

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 27 comments

Geometric Algebra (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5935

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 57 comments

Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing

https://medium.com/@probonopd/bring-back-the-ease-of-80s-and-90s-personal-computing-393738c5e2a1

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 215 comments

R number for UK below 1 for first time since August

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55105285

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 269 comments

The Purpose of Writing

https://limitlesscuriosity.com/the-purpose-of-writing/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 18 comments

Life on the inside as a ‘locked-in’ patient

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/nov/26/life-on-the-inside-as-a-locked-in-patient-jake-haendel-leukoencephalopathy

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 48 comments

British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/267100986/british-engineers-develop-process-to-turn-moon-dust-into-oxygen

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 81 comments

Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)

https://finestructure.co/blog/2020/11/27/running-docker-on-apple-silicon-m1-follow-up

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free D&D map maker

https://dungeonmapdoodler.com/index.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executable in 1 click

https://cloud.blobcity.com/#/ps/explore

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 32 comments

European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719701/european-parliament-right-to-repair-resolution-hardware-eu-commission-2021

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 28 comments

Legally operating a job board in Japan

https://www.tokyodev.com/2020/11/27/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 137 comments

Departing senior engineer refuses to introduce replacements to OSS community

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/166317/departing-senior-engineer-refuses-to-introduce-replacement-to-open-source-commun

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Htmx 1.0.0 Release

https://htmx.org/posts/2020-11-24-htmx-1.0.0-is-released/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 58 comments

Rebuilding the Racket Compiler with Chez Scheme

https://notamonadtutorial.com/rebuilding-the-racket-compiler-with-chez-scheme-210e23a69484

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/middleeast/mohsen-fakhrizadeh-iran-scientist-killed.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 176 comments

Rustup 1.23.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/11/27/Rustup-1.23.0.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 5 comments

ASICs at the Edge

https://blog.cloudflare.com/asics-at-the-edge/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

“Accentism” is real, but impossible to end

https://unherd.com/thepost/accentism-is-real-but-impossible-to-end/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 226 comments

Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/is-switzerland-better-than-silicon-valley-for-software-developers

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 187 comments
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