top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-11-29

Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

https://spacehey.com/?ref=hn

5 years ago

726 upvotes – 290 comments

I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet

https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet

5 years ago

622 upvotes – 136 comments

Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125

5 years ago

486 upvotes – 157 comments

How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People

https://callmenish.com/how-to-run-a-tech-ponzi-scheme/

5 years ago

465 upvotes – 250 comments

Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.25132

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 326 comments

Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording

https://petapixel.com/2020/11/28/this-guy-watercooled-his-canon-r5-and-unlocked-unlimited-8k/

5 years ago

411 upvotes – 194 comments

Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl

5 years ago

407 upvotes – 65 comments

Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1333126001161773056

5 years ago

403 upvotes – 528 comments

Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

https://ruffle.rs/

5 years ago

381 upvotes – 89 comments

YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”

https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/1332746158947635202

5 years ago

372 upvotes – 275 comments

Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-working-on-an-android-subsystem-for-windows-10/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 249 comments

Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)

https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html

5 years ago

316 upvotes – 80 comments

Advent of Code 2020

https://adventofcode.com/2020

5 years ago

306 upvotes – 83 comments

Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)

https://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap70.shtml

5 years ago

292 upvotes – 64 comments

DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 111 comments

Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-01011-0

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 145 comments

Undeleting a file overwritten with mv

https://behind.pretix.eu/2020/11/28/undelete-flv-file/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 85 comments

A better Kubernetes from the ground up

https://blog.dave.tf/post/new-kubernetes/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: I made a Mahjong browser game

https://www.jongmah.com

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 85 comments

Video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11066/this-new-video-game-lets-you-do-nothing-in-a-suburban-russian-tower-block

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 87 comments

Little Things That Made Amiga Great

https://datagubbe.se/ltmag/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 193 comments

Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing

https://twitter.com/eric_ruleman/status/1332595028384952320

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 224 comments

Legal Concepts for Founders

https://handbook.clerky.com/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 30 comments

Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-ice-patch-norway-reveals-large.html

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 70 comments

3D engine implemented in DNA code

https://github.com/pallada-92/dna-3d-engine

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 26 comments

Rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 58 comments

NYC Paid McKinsey $27.5M to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-mckinsey-millions-to-stem-jail-violence-instead-violence-soared

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 76 comments

The Donut King who went from rags to riches, twice

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54546427

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 126 comments

Guybrush Fact vs. Fiction

https://grumpygamer.com/guybrush_fact_fiction

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 54 comments

Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/moths-draped-in-stealth-acoustic-cloak-evade-bat-sonar/4012807.article

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution

https://abe-winter.github.io/only/fans/2020/11/29/everything-in-moderation.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 182 comments

Nim compiler — Pascal source code

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/tree/ea1f1ec6d4d6c776eb0f81c2bebdd4cb4c817ebe/nim

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 58 comments

Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic

https://twitter.com/kate_ptrv/status/1332398737604431874

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

Remote control truck with remote control gun, self destructed after attack

https://twitter.com/l4stewar/status/1333094707954651137

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 82 comments

Interval Tree Clocks

https://ferd.ca/interval-tree-clocks.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 10 comments

Metal Monolith in Utah Gone

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 92 comments

My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/original-mcdonalds-french-fry-recipe

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 120 comments

Making Playstation 1 Modchips (2018)

https://blog.kchung.co/making-playstation-modchips/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 44 comments

What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encryption-protocol-hacker-lexicon/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 107 comments

GPG and Me (2015)

https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 111 comments

Vancouver's empty home tax is increasing to 3% next year

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-s-empty-home-tax-is-increasing-to-3-next-year-1.5204533

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 42 comments

A Plan 9 C Compiler for RISC-V [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJqdXGb0uc

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 5 comments

The new 'gold rush' for green lithium

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201124-how-geothermal-lithium-could-revolutionise-green-energy

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 45 comments

Simple Password Management with GPG

https://tylerlmz1.github.io/tools/2020/05/15/Password-management.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 76 comments
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