top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-12-28

Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

5 years ago

599 upvotes – 166 comments

Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu

http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20201225_samples/

5 years ago

515 upvotes – 129 comments

Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559571

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 1239 comments

Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes

https://petapixel.com/2020/12/26/fujifilm-created-a-magnetic-tape-that-can-store-580-terabytes/

5 years ago

425 upvotes – 326 comments

Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/17/dark-waters-pfas-ticking-chemical-time-bomb-in-your-blood

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 226 comments

Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year

http://socketsite.com/archives/2020/12/average-rent-in-san-francisco-has-dropped-1000-this-year.html

5 years ago

380 upvotes – 537 comments

The Fight for WorldBox

https://www.reddit.com/r/Worldbox/comments/jmplqw/the_fight_for_worldbox_or_how_a_game_you_worked/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 40 comments

Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone

https://nonpolynomial.com/2020/12/28/buttplug-hits-v1-milestone/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 128 comments

Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs

https://savebreach.com/stealing-private-documents-through-a-google-docs-bug/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 138 comments

Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms

https://bartwronski.com/2020/12/27/why-are-video-games-graphics-still-a-challenge-productionizing-rendering-algorithms/

5 years ago

309 upvotes – 89 comments

Architecture of the Game Boy Advance

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy-advance/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 83 comments

Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1

https://gist.github.com/dougallj/7a75a3be1ec69ca550e7c36dc75e0d6f

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 198 comments

He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man

https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2020/12/he-spent-10-days-in-jail-after-facial-recognition-software-led-to-the-arrest-of-the-wrong-man-lawsuit-says.html

5 years ago

259 upvotes – 174 comments

FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drones-faa/u-s-to-allow-small-drones-to-fly-over-people-at-night-idUSKBN2921R8

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 271 comments

Zoomquilt 2 (2007)

http://zoomquilt2.com/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 63 comments

Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters

http://ghostreply.com

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 249 comments

Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time

https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displays-fake-time/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 74 comments

A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-singular-mind-roger-penrose-on-his-nobel-prize

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 141 comments

Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface

http://www.wjwh.eu/posts/2020-12-28-ruby-fiber-scheduler-c-extension.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 94 comments

How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2

https://www.servethehome.com/how-aws-added-apple-mac-mini-nodes-to-ec2/

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 211 comments

Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices

https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Recurring reviews to track the whole lifecycle of a product

https://www.buyforlife.com/blog/4kpaLtbnG6MkseMj44niVV/recurring-reviews-to-track-the-whole-lifecycle-of-a-product

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 61 comments

Functional programming in C++ (2012)

https://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 100 comments

HN Alternative UIs

https://blog.luke.lol/tech/hacker-news-alternatives/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 109 comments

Experimenting on My Hearing Loss

https://0x90.psaux.io/2020/12/19/Experimenting-On-My-Hearing-Loss/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Wisp: A light Lisp written in C++

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/wisp

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Tribes of Programming (2017)

https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 57 comments

Listen to Wikipedia

http://listen.hatnote.com/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

Niex: Jupyter Notebooks but Using Elixir

https://github.com/jonklein/niex

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 21 comments

Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering

http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2020/12/why-raytracing-wont-simplify-aaa-real.html

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 185 comments

Teaching the Unfortunate Parts

https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/teaching-the-unfortunate-parts

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Cygnus-X1 – A Thrust Vectoring Model Rocket Flight Computer

https://github.com/polishdude20/CygnusX1

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

10 KB Club: With links to popular HN, Reddit, Lobsters threads for each website

https://10kbclub.com/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

“It Turns Out” (2010)

http://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 29 comments

The stock market is the cheapest since 1980

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danrunkevicius/2021/12/28/the-stock-market-is-the-cheapest-since-1980/

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 177 comments

Wordpress market share keeps growing

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 122 comments

ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU

https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/icepeakitx-elbrus-8cb-itx-motherboard/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 91 comments

Repairability

https://psankar.blogspot.com/2020/12/repairability.html

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 65 comments

The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/?ok

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

UK-EU trade deal refers to Netscape Communicator 4 as “modern email software”

https://twitter.com/paulmaunders/status/1343143578147684357

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 66 comments

Implementing join planning in our open source Golang SQL query engine

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-12-28-join-planning/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 15 comments

Britain’s electricity since 2010: fossil fuel use nearly halves

https://theconversation.com/britains-electricity-since-2010-wind-surges-to-second-place-coal-collapses-and-fossil-fuel-use-nearly-halves-129346

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 92 comments

Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Reboots Pirate Honeypot Scheme from Prison

https://torrentfreak.com/convicted-copyright-troll-lawyer-reboots-pirate-honeypot-scheme-from-prison-201225/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

Dialup: Serendipitous Voice Chat

https://dialup.com

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

Code Browser

https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima

https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2020/12/20/blc1-a-candidate-signal-around-proxima/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 76 comments

A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to Track User Locations

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201216/08324945898/major-wireless-network-flaw-is-still-being-exploited-to-track-user-locations.shtml

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Tuchu – Automatically highlight the important parts of a document

https://tuchu.app/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Chinese Demography

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/chinese-demography

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 169 comments

Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient state computer system

https://www.inforum.com/news/government-and-politics/6816654-North-Dakota-needed-to-hire-Latvians-to-manage-an-ancient-state-computer-system

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 81 comments

Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves honestly

https://www.city-journal.org/self-censorship

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 73 comments

The Philosophy of Anger

http://bostonreview.net/forum/agnes-callard-philosophy-anger

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments
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