12/18/2020 Hacker News

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1. Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020 (cloud.google.com)

278 points by saifulwebid 3 hours ago | hide | 91 comments

2. Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit (courthousenews.com)

35 points by anigbrowl 1 hour ago | hide | 22 comments

3. Postdocs under pressure: ‘Can I even do this any more?’ (nature.com)

24 points by sasvari 1 hour ago | hide | 4 comments

4. Do It Yourself Bookbinding (diybookbinding.com)

70 points by brudgers 4 hours ago | hide | 13 comments

5. Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python
(github.com/enkimute)
88 points by pizza 5 hours ago | hide | 33 comments

6. That Dothraki Horde, Part III: Horse Fiddles (acoup.blog)

14 points by parsecs 2 hours ago | hide | 2 comments

7. The Notation: Ken Iverson Centenary (kx.com)

22 points by 5jt 2 hours ago | hide | 3 comments

8. mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug? (science.sciencemag.org)

163 points by mudil 7 hours ago | hide | 142 comments

9. Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport (smithsonianmag.com)

33 points by commons-tragedy 4 hours ago | hide | 10 comments

10. Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo (skepdoc.info)

101 points by cpncrunch 2 hours ago | hide | 89 comments

11. Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter (sqwok.im)
100 points by holler 6 hours ago | hide | 79 comments

12. The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space (cpushack.com)

77 points by muunbo 6 hours ago | hide | 36 comments

13. Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today

(hacks.mozilla.org)
26 points by feross 3 hours ago | hide | 2 comments

14. Repl.it (YC W18) is hiring designers to build better programming environments
(lever.co)
4 hours ago | hide

15. A happy ending for King Lear? Trauma of plague caused Shakespeare to change it
(theguardian.com)
61 points by ignored 7 hours ago | hide | 54 comments

16. Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix (matrix.org)

164 points by ignoramous 10 hours ago | hide | 43 comments

17. DRY Is a Trade-Off (orbifold.xyz)

99 points by soopurman 8 hours ago | hide | 91 comments

18. Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation (fnal.gov)

175 points by spurgu 11 hours ago | hide | 139 comments

19. Possible Radio Emission from Exoplanet Detected (cornell.edu)

180 points by izhak 12 hours ago | hide | 76 comments

20. How to Find Focus (thesephist.com)

184 points by mdeira 11 hours ago | hide | 37 comments

21. Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help (bloomberg.com)

1069 points by OJFord 13 hours ago | hide | 447 comments

22. I Bought Apple Silicon (honzajavorek.cz)

97 points by honzajavorek 3 hours ago | hide | 133 comments

23. I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee (shkspr.mobi)
674 points by edent 12 hours ago | hide | 290 comments

24. Kurt Vonnegut on 8 ‘shapes’ of stories (bigthink.com)

195 points by samclemens 15 hours ago | hide | 41 comments

25. Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)
110 points by Cieplak 11 hours ago | hide | 48 comments

26. John Carmack: Career Advice (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

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224 points by tosh 15 hours ago | hide | 147 comments

27. A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest–while staying in formation

(sciencemag.org)
107 points by giuliomagnifico 12 hours ago | hide | 103 comments

28. Rust 2021 Roadmap (github.com/rust-lang)

155 points by praveenperera 7 hours ago | hide | 58 comments

29. How to kill the university (thesephist.com)

17 points by caminocorner 4 hours ago | hide | 17 comments

30. Brian Chesky on Ron Conway (airbnb.com)

96 points by simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago | hide | 24 comments

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