top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-04

Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

5 years ago

755 upvotes – 455 comments

Self-host your fonts for better performance

https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/

5 years ago

610 upvotes – 403 comments

CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs

https://clig.dev/

5 years ago

564 upvotes – 212 comments

EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home

https://m.dw.com/en/eu-pushes-for-right-to-disconnect-from-work-at-home/a-55803776

5 years ago

553 upvotes – 524 comments

About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQqz7ScqxhSIxeYGrWjK0/preview?pru=AAABdlNwLxs*PKCOHN-Ks0PI5nFrljenMg

5 years ago

526 upvotes – 573 comments

“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”

https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3004947/coding-interviews-hackerrank-nightmare

5 years ago

523 upvotes – 709 comments

Billionaires Build

http://paulgraham.com/ace.html

5 years ago

520 upvotes – 916 comments

Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy

https://themarkup.org/news/2020/12/03/why-web-scraping-is-vital-to-democracy

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 121 comments

System76 – Pangolin

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 381 comments

No, DeepMind has not solved protein folding

http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2020/12/02/no-deepmind-has-not-solved-protein-folding/

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 154 comments

I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for commercial and personal use

https://www.pixeltrue.com/frontliner-heroes

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 124 comments

Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03119-1

5 years ago

310 upvotes – 114 comments

A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming

http://jacobzelko.com/workflow/

5 years ago

281 upvotes – 122 comments

Stimulus.js 2.0

https://discourse.stimulusjs.org/t/announcing-stimulus-2-0/1482

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 133 comments

Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler

https://fable.io/blog/Announcing-Nagareyama-4.html

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 127 comments

How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

https://hachibu.net/posts/2020/how-i-manage-my-random-daily-notes/

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 188 comments

Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’

https://www.itsinternational.com/its3/news/paris-get-rid-70000-parking-spaces

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 343 comments

PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images

https://alexyu.net/pixelnerf/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 55 comments

Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

https://www.wsj.com/articles/reddit-claims-52-million-daily-users-revealing-a-key-figure-for-social-media-platforms-11606822200

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 464 comments

Guide to Effective Reading

https://maartenvandoorn.nl/reading-guide/

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 21 comments
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