top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-05

Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

http://radicle.xyz#/beta

5 years ago

864 upvotes – 255 comments

Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

https://teddit.net/

5 years ago

716 upvotes – 293 comments

The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design

https://www.gameuidatabase.com/

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 101 comments

72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole

5 years ago

546 upvotes – 650 comments

Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 107 comments

Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole

https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 2 comments

This is Real, That's Not

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/12/this-is-real-thats-not.html

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 339 comments

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 633 comments

Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays

https://prolost.com/blog/edr

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 209 comments

The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon

https://digital.com/about/dec/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 210 comments

Ask HN: Learning about philosophy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312681

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 283 comments

R adds native pipe and lambda syntax

https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2020/12/04#n2020-12-04

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 144 comments

Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it

https://kaitai.io

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 65 comments

Benefits of Walking

https://klimy.co/blog/benefits-of-walking

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 108 comments

Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-lambda-turn-excel-formulas-into-custom-functions/ba-p/1925546

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 135 comments

How does Brown University know where you are?

https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/brown-location-surveillance

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 138 comments

Major Flaws of Human Thinking

https://dandanua.github.io/posts/major-flaws-of-human-thinking/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 105 comments

Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web

https://withblue.ink/2020/11/12/maybe-we-shouldnt-want-a-fully-decentralized-web.html

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 452 comments

Exotic Programming Ideas

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic04.html

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 83 comments

I accidentally built a spying app

https://withblue.ink/2020/09/24/that-time-i-accidentally-built-a-spying-app.html

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Book publishers call on Apple to match 15% commission granted to developers

https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/541675/IBPA-Calls-on-Apple-to-Reduce-Its-Commission-from-30-to-15-on-Apple-Books-for-Authors-Platform.htm

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 85 comments

The future of 32-bit Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/838807/9b293f03c03ef0c5/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 151 comments

Asteroid capsule located in Australian desert

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55201662

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25317963

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316912

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 171 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 14 comments

Modern mathematics emerged from “The House of Wisdom” in the 13th century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201204-lost-islamic-library-maths

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 115 comments

The Dec 21, 2020 Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

https://sparky.rice.edu/public-night/jupsat.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 47 comments

Between two Lisps

https://ane.github.io/2020/10/05/between-two-lisps.html

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 100 comments

ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-subpoena-buzzfeed-immigration-sources

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Make slides with text, markdown, YAML, JSON or JavaScript, your call

https://play.presenta.cc/v2

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 30 comments

How Microsoft crushed Slack

https://www.theverge.com/22150313/how-microsoft-crushed-slack-salesforce-acquisition

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 257 comments

Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 9 comments

Scaling Down Deep Learning

https://greydanus.github.io/2020/12/01/scaling-down/

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

PHP RFC: Enumerations

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enumerations

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 80 comments

The Erosion of Deep Literacy

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-erosion-of-deep-literacy

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 83 comments

Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (2017)

https://bitbashing.io/std-visit.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 232 comments

Debian 10.7 Released

https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20201205

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks

https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/data-analysis-with-rust-notebooks/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Why a land-value tax is inevitable

https://medium.com/@phila_31297/why-a-land-value-tax-is-inevitable-44e7e4571d33

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 313 comments

Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (1996)

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/la.times.html

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Exploring supervisors’ two‐faced response to their past abusive behavior

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/peps.12424

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 75 comments

A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/02/science.abd6951

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318880

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB

http://madebyevan.com/diskitude/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments

GNU World Order

https://gnuworldorder.info/

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Exophysics – WebGL2 particle simulator

https://exophysics.net/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments
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