top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-11-28

Tony Hsieh has died

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tony-hsieh-zappos-luminary-revolutionized-045239863.html

5 years ago

1598 upvotes – 298 comments

Chess tactics explained

https://www.chesstactics.org/

5 years ago

583 upvotes – 264 comments

Growl in Retirement

http://336699.org/GrowlRetirement

5 years ago

450 upvotes – 239 comments

Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

https://steipete.com/posts/apple-silicon-m1-a-developer-perspective/

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 485 comments

No Config for Old Men

https://datagubbe.se/noconf/

5 years ago

368 upvotes – 299 comments

Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 146 comments

Please – A cross-language build system

https://please.build/

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 248 comments

K6: Like unit testing, for performance

https://github.com/loadimpact/k6

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 82 comments

30 years later, QBasic is still the best

http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/

5 years ago

317 upvotes – 131 comments

Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 363 comments

Blogging vs. Blog Setups

https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 105 comments

How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)

https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/self-esteem-grit-do-they-really-help.html

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 229 comments

Please disable JavaScript to view this site

https://heydonworks.com/

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 268 comments

Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/second-swiss-firm-allegedly-sold-encrypted-spying-devices/46186432

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 173 comments

AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/27/aws_hires_rust_compiler_team/

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 168 comments

New bike chain claims to be faster, more durable

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/11/new-motion-labs-dual-engagement-chain/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 219 comments

Is Probability Real?

https://www.arameb.com/blog/2020/11/22/probability

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 218 comments

Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity

https://reneweconomy.com.au/tasmania-declares-itself-100-per-cent-powered-by-renewable-electricity-25119/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 119 comments

Goodbye PowerDNS

https://blog.powerdns.com/2020/11/27/goodbye-dns-goodbye-powerdns/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 101 comments

Most Americans Object to Government Tracking Their Activities Through Cellphones

https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-americans-object-to-government-tracking-of-their-activities-through-cellphones-11606305601

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 150 comments
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