top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-02

A half-hour to learn Rust

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust

5 years ago

1444 upvotes – 330 comments

Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/13/shooting-high-res-thermal-photos-of-iceland-to-show-nature-at-work/?q=5

5 years ago

753 upvotes – 95 comments

How to overcome Phone Addiction

https://cognitiontoday.com/phone-addiction-coping-solutions-research-statistics/

5 years ago

742 upvotes – 297 comments

Open Source Smartwatch

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

5 years ago

701 upvotes – 246 comments

WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/issues/168

5 years ago

614 upvotes – 408 comments

US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-passes-historic-anti-corruption-legislation-that-effectively-bans-anonymous-shell-companies-b1781380.html

5 years ago

554 upvotes – 305 comments

Horrifying PDF Experiments

https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments

5 years ago

493 upvotes – 180 comments

Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues

https://www.atlassian.com/legal/cloud-terms-of-service

5 years ago

419 upvotes – 293 comments

Pixar's Render Farm

https://twitter.com/pixprin/status/1345146328058269696

5 years ago

382 upvotes – 310 comments

Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-executive-idUSKBN2962M6

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 229 comments

The Yale Manual for Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy of Depression

https://psyarxiv.com/u6v9y

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25614966

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 270 comments

CVE Stuffing

https://jerrygamblin.com/2020/12/17/cve-stuffing/

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 102 comments

Getting Started in Robotics

https://allshire.org/getting-started-robotics/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 61 comments

Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps

https://bedogged.substack.com/p/the-mobile-map-app-part-i-the-void

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 227 comments

Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Rant_Lets_talk_about_changelogs.html

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 120 comments

The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-eerie-beauty-of-the-apple-watch-solar-face-and-the-anatomy-of-nightfall

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 79 comments

Graphtoy

https://graphtoy.com/?f1(x,t)=sqrt(64-x*x)&v1=true&f2(x,t)=-f1(x,t)&v2=true&f3(x,t)=7/2-sqrt(9-(abs(x)-3.5)*(abs(x)-3.5))&v3=true&f4(x,t)=7/2+sqrt(9-(abs(x)-3.5)*(abs(x)-3.5))/2&v4=true&f5(x,t)=3+sqrt(1-(abs(x+sin(4*t)/2)-3)*(abs(x+sin(4*t)/2)-3))*2/3&v5=true&f6(x,t)=-3-sqrt(25-x*x)*(1/4+pow(0.5+0.5*sin(2*PI*t),6)/10)&v6=true

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened with Removal

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/02/amphetamine-app-store-removal-threat/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 128 comments

How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out

https://shitpost.plover.com/g/graphviz-usa.html

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 80 comments

F# for fun and profit: Terms and Conditions

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/about/terms/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 52 comments

What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

https://mattparlmer.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-the-ccp-decides

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 163 comments

Looks vs. Results: My ugly ad got 150% more clicks than a professional design

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/looks-vs-results/?r=2

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 123 comments

Idyll – toolkit for creating data-driven stories and explorable explanations

https://idyll-lang.org/

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 8 comments

France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December – Up Almost 6× Year on Year

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/01/02/france-hits-record-19-2-ev-share-in-december-up-almost-6x-year-on-year/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 132 comments

Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results)

https://hackpravj.com/blog/personal-okr-2021-plan/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 92 comments

Mealworms can compost styrofoam

https://livingearthsystems.com/mealworms-compost-styrofoam/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 127 comments

50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon

https://if50.substack.com/p/introduction

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 51 comments

Backdoor account discovered in more than 100k Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways

https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-account-discovered-in-more-than-100000-zyxel-firewalls-vpn-gateways/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 17 comments

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020)

https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 11 comments

Peter M. Neumann has died

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/peter-m-neumann-1940-2020/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 18 comments

How a startup can survive technical debt

https://andreschweighofer.com/tech/how-your-startup-can-survive-technical-debt/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 116 comments

The Plague Year

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 129 comments

How Ray Kurzweil’s 1998 predictions about 2019 are faring

https://www.militantfuturist.com/how-ray-kurzweils-2019-predictions-are-faring-pt-4/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 115 comments

Worldsheet: Wrapping the World in a 3D Sheet, View Synthesis from a Single Image

https://worldsheet.github.io/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity

https://matthewsaltz.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/a-simple-and-dynamic-method-for-consistent-productivity/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38507/its-official-pentagon-puts-f-35-full-rate-production-decision-on-hold

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 256 comments

I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020)

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 35 comments

Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (2008)

http://tunguska.sourceforge.net/about.html

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation

https://github.com/BuzonIO/zipfly#lib

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Meals based on vegetable protein sources (beans and peas) are more satiating (2016)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27765144/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 94 comments
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