top 50% 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

Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital (again)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-intercepting-https-traffic-in-its-capital/

5 years ago

179 upvotes – 66 comments

Winning back the Internet by building our own

https://roarmag.org/essays/win-back-the-internet/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 149 comments

New Sauerbraten 2020 Edition Released

http://www.sauerworld.org/new-sauerbraten-2020-edition-released/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 45 comments

Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages, for deploying and hosting JAMstack

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1335198021131194370

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 36 comments

Let’s Encrypt moving to new CA root

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/five-years-lets-encrypt/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 36 comments

Skybolt: A C++ planetary environment rendering engine with Python bindings

https://github.com/Piraxus/Skybolt

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 11 comments

A man who posted himself to Australia (2015)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 69 comments

Researchers Who Exposed VW Gain Little Reward from Success

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/vw-wvu-diesel-volkswagen-west-virginia.html

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 60 comments

Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

https://mca-marines.org/wp-content/uploads/Microdosing.pdf

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 142 comments

Apple Silicon M1 Disruption

https://mondaynote.com/apple-silicon-m1-disruption-af11f639103a

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 197 comments

More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/04/timnit-gebru-google-ai-fired-diversity-ethics

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 237 comments

Lessons for Early Stage Founders

https://calv.info/early-stage-lessons

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages

https://github.com/susam/spcss

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

Areweyet

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 42 comments

Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown: Learning Autonomy on the Jetson Nano

https://www.duckietown.org/mooc

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

My Procedurally Generated Music Is Awful

https://devlog.groovelet.com/p/procedurally-generated-music-is-awful

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 111 comments

IceStick Tutorial: experience FPGA design and RISC-V using $40 FPGA device

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/learn-fpga/blob/master/FemtoRV/TUTORIALS/IceStick.md

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 46 comments

YARA – The pattern matching swiss knife

https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf]

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/21/8665.full.pdf

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

Macs with T2, M1 chips cannot be restored to factory state without Apple

https://sneak.berlin/20201204/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 93 comments

VisiData in 60 Seconds

https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/the-big-picture/visidata-in-60-seconds/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

Software Design for Flexibility

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

The Raspberry Pi 4 has a fan now – the Case Fan

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-4-has-fan-now-case-fan

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 126 comments

Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/toledo-zoo-first-to-record-biofluorescence-in-tasmanian-devils/512-c838ba38-0ddf-450e-9ec1-87a2b88d8f8f

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess

https://slack.engineering/scaling-datastores-at-slack-with-vitess/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30071

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 5 comments

Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/06/revealed-isaac-newtons-attempts-to-unlock-secret-code-of-pyramids

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains

https://dotcomagain.com/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

Sugar – a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat

https://ph1lter.bitbucket.io/blog/2020-12-06-sugar-compiler.html

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/4/21575914/cyberpunk-2077-release-crunch-labor-delays-cd-projekt-red

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 124 comments

Bitcoin still makes no sense

https://thinkoutloudnews.substack.com/p/bitcoin-still-makes-no-sense

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 148 comments

Semantic Clojure Formatting

http://metaredux.com/posts/2020/12/06/semantic-clojure-formatting.html

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 58 comments

She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/outdoor-dining-la-protest.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 96 comments

From LEGOs to Ziploc: The Science of the Snap Fit

https://insidescience.org/news/legos-ziploc-science-snap-fit

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/360971

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

A mathematical formalisation challenge by Peter Scholze

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2020/12/05/liquid-tensor-experiment/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Forbidden Stories – Cartel Project: global network of investigative journalists

https://forbiddenstories.org/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments
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