top 50% 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

Cashew of Pirangi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew_of_Pirangi

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 38 comments

About 150 U.S. Cadillac Dealers to Exit Brand, Rather Than Sell Electric Cars

https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-150-u-s-cadillac-dealers-to-exit-brand-rather-than-sell-electric-cars-11607111494

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 158 comments

What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 106 comments

Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: Self-Destructive Last Months of Zappos Visionary

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/12/04/tony-hsiehs-american-tragedy-the-self-destructive-last-months-of-the-zappos-visionary/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

Project Loom and Structured Concurrency

https://www.javaadvent.com/2020/12/project-loom-and-structured-concurrency.html

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 108 comments

Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55187611

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 314 comments

Porting a 100% local app to the web

https://actualbudget.com/blog/porting-local-app-web

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 79 comments

Mannequin.js: An Articulated Mannequin Figure Library

https://boytchev.github.io/mannequin.js/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 16 comments

No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 279 comments

Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)

https://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/20-controversial-programming-opinions/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 328 comments

Bit Twiddling Hacks

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

Excess mortality from March to December of 2020

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 111 comments

Liquidity Is Coming

https://henrysward.medium.com/liquidity-is-coming-761a9140dedd

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

http://hierogly.ph

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 59 comments

Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks

https://www.axios.com/scoop-google-readies-its-own-chip-for-future-pixels-chromebooks-e5f8479e-4a38-485c-a264-9ef9cf68908c.html

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 110 comments

That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture

https://acoup.blog/2020/12/04/collections-that-dothraki-horde-part-i-barbarian-couture/

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 103 comments

BBC Micro Bot – Creative Retro Coding

https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/owlet-test2.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 16 comments

Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/02/2015954117

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 129 comments

Monoliths as a Service

https://www.themostfamousartist.com/maas

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

Mozart: Leck mich im Arsch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Wikipedia's in Trouble (2019)

http://blog.spencermounta.in/2019/wikipedias-in-trouble/index.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 86 comments

All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once

https://www.mersenne.org/report_milestones/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55191808

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 179 comments

Faroe Island roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean

https://nordfra.dk/faroe-island-first-roundabout-in-the-world-under-the-atlantic-ocean/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

I tried the first no-kill, lab-grown chicken burger

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/dec/04/no-kill-lab-grown-chicken-burger-restaurant-israel

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 133 comments

U.S. House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-congress-marijuana/u-s-house-votes-to-decriminalize-marijuana-at-federal-level-idUSKBN28E2TX

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 3 comments

The Myth of Code Coverage

https://preslav.me/2020/12/03/the-myth-of-code-coverage/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 111 comments

Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Army computer models unveil secret to quieter small drones

https://www.army.mil/article/241373

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

The Children of Pornhub

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 51 comments
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