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Archives for 17 Oct 2020
  1. Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
    (403 points | Comments)

  2. Chaos Ink
    (390 points | Comments)

  3. We deleted the production database by accident
    (446 points | Comments)

  4. Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
    (119 points | Comments)

  5. XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486
    (166 points | Comments)

  6. Baumol Effect
    (123 points | Comments)

  7. 'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown
    (136 points | Comments)

  8. Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs
    (151 points | Comments)

  9. Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight
    (162 points | Comments)

  10. Proton 5.13: A Massive Update
    (141 points | Comments)

  11. Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy
    (204 points | Comments)

  12. Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes
    (134 points | Comments)

  13. Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites
    (173 points | Comments)

  14. Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly
    (160 points | Comments)

  15. Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
    (140 points | Comments)

  16. Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
    (227 points | Comments)

  17. Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
    (283 points | Comments)

  18. Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
    (168 points | Comments)

  19. An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]
    (245 points | Comments)

  20. Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel
    (137 points | Comments)

  21. Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)
    (143 points | Comments)

  22. How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
    (356 points | Comments)

  23. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
    (173 points | Comments)

  24. The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
    (142 points | Comments)

  25. Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook
    (145 points | Comments)

  26. Lisp from Nothing
    (182 points | Comments)

  27. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
    (208 points | Comments)

  28. Interoperability Between Swift and C++
    (123 points | Comments)

  29. How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
    (324 points | Comments)

  30. Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100
    (149 points | Comments)

  31. The curious case of Romanian broadband
    (103 points | Comments)

  32. ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
    (406 points | Comments)

  33. Welcome to the Old Internet Again
    (424 points | Comments)

  34. Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
    (264 points | Comments)

  35. iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple
    (126 points | Comments)