top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-27

Just Wanted to Say Thanks

https://github.com/compumike/hairpin-proxy/issues/5

5 years ago

1244 upvotes – 241 comments

California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M

https://www.propublica.org/article/she-noticed-200-million-missing-then-she-was-fired

5 years ago

609 upvotes – 247 comments

SaaS We Happily Pay For

https://francescodilorenzo.com/saas-we-pay-for

5 years ago

451 upvotes – 222 comments

2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm

https://www.intelligentliving.co/vertical-farm-out-produces-flat-farm/

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 389 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 83 comments

API pagination design

https://solovyov.net/blog/2020/api-pagination-design/

5 years ago

353 upvotes – 139 comments

Systems design explains the world: volume 1

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227

5 years ago

337 upvotes – 152 comments

NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy

https://medium.com/better-programming/numpy-illustrated-the-visual-guide-to-numpy-3b1d4976de1d

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 106 comments

The Guy I Almost Was (1998)

http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 203 comments

Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

https://upptime.js.org/

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553818

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 118 comments

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)

https://deepmind.com/learning-resources/-introduction-reinforcement-learning-david-silver

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 44 comments

Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rotating-sails-help-to-revive-wind-powered-shipping/

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 121 comments

Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 35 comments

Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 113 comments

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 74 comments

Building my own HomeKit Thermostat

https://www.staycaffeinated.com/2020/12/27/building-my-own-homekit-thermostat-v1

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 96 comments

A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition

https://wrongbaud.github.io/posts/ghidra-debugger/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 14 comments

Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard

https://raymii.org/s/software/Bash_HTTP_Monitoring_Dashboard.html

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 26 comments

APIs All the Way Down

https://notboring.substack.com/p/apis-all-the-way-down

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 22 comments

New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/haskell-foundation-launched/

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 157 comments

How a British Covid-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-sp-idUKKBN28Y0XU

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts

https://github.com/archivy/archivy-hn

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 21 comments

90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)

https://www.theonion.com/report-90-of-waking-hours-spent-staring-at-glowing-re-1819570829

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 60 comments

The future of electricity is local

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-electricity-is-local/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 156 comments

Types of Dark Patterns

https://darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern.html

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web

https://stork-search.net

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 33 comments

FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship

https://time.com/5922972/accidental-americans-fatca/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 200 comments

Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03434-7

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 73 comments

The Hyperbezier Pen Tool

https://www.cmyr.net/blog/hyperbezier.html

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook

https://www.wsj.com/articles/unilever-says-it-will-resume-advertising-on-facebook-in-u-s-11608245092

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 103 comments

Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts

https://www.reddit.com/r/DystopiaForReddit/comments/kkv0d2/reddit_suspended_two_people_who_use_dystopia/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

A Tiny Lispy Transpiler

https://github.com/LingDong-/wax

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust

https://github.com/flouthoc/vas-quod

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/tiktok-bans-multilevel-marketing-mlm/617422/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55370722

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 6 comments

What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)

https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India

https://adinocap.com/blog/corewars-in-india/

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA

https://www.dpreview.com/news/6343616131/how-one-drone-pilot-got-slapped-with-182-000-in-fines-from-the-faa

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 97 comments

Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories

https://neurosciencenews.com/short-term-memory-model-17464/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Investors double down on stocks, pushing margin debt to record

https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-double-down-on-stocks-pushing-margin-debt-to-record-11609077600

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 129 comments

Volbx – Qt-based spreadsheet app for data manipulation

https://github.com/przemek83/volbx

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Seasonal Spirals

https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/seasonal-spirals

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)

https://jaxenter.com/elasticsearch-founder-interview-112677.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

SeL4 Whitepaper [pdf]

https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea

https://www.forgac.me/blog/2020/11/17/three-reasons-why-central-bank-digital-currencies-are-a-bad-idea

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 169 comments

Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)

https://newatlas.com/vr/voxon-photonics-3d-hologram-volumetric-displays/

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments
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