top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-06

Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained

https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste

5 years ago

717 upvotes – 326 comments

LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe

https://divinations.substack.com/p/linkedins-alternate-universe##

5 years ago

613 upvotes – 277 comments

Distributed Systems Reading List

https://dancres.github.io/Pages/

5 years ago

554 upvotes – 76 comments

InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2020/instahide_disappointingly_wins_bell_labs_prize.html

5 years ago

487 upvotes – 44 comments

How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant

https://mtlynch.io/collect-debt/

5 years ago

473 upvotes – 259 comments

The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-grenfell-tower-inquiry-is-uncovering-a-major-corporate-scandal/

5 years ago

464 upvotes – 261 comments

A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

https://github.com/beurtschipper/Depix

5 years ago

449 upvotes – 124 comments

EmacsConf 2020 Talks

https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 83 comments

Docker's Second Death

https://www.tariqislam.com/posts/kubernetes-docker-dep/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 272 comments

The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-death-of-zappos-tony-hsieh-a-spiral-of-alcohol-drugs-and-extreme-behavior-11607264719#refreshed

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 296 comments

Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers

https://ideolalia.com/essays/thought-leaders-and-chicken-sexers.html

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 75 comments

Raft Visualization

http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 35 comments

Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra

https://www.diem.com

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 405 comments

Fixing a 3 year old bug in Nvidia GeForce Experience

https://details-of-note.blogspot.com/2020/12/nvidia-3-year-old-bug.html

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 56 comments

'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves – US report

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55203844

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 158 comments

The Economics of Christmas Trees

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-christmas-trees/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 161 comments

Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education

https://instituteforpubliceducation.org/monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 124 comments

Choose Boring Technology

https://panelbear.com/blog/boring-tech/

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 204 comments

Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (2017)

https://aidancunniffe.com/why-programming-is-hard-to-fundamentally-improve-4101612d4ad9

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 172 comments

Hardware-Accelerated TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons for macOS 11.0

https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 92 comments
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