Hacker News 250 @hn250@social.lansky.name
Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Link: https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633484
New Features in the Fish Shell
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/832429/5a786cc0fed26353/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24631138
Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629828
The SaaS website content you need to close sales
Link: https://www.mikesonders.com/saas-website-content/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621132
Writing a book: is it worth it?
Link: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/09/29/is-book-writing-worth-it.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24628549
Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic
Link: http://iamkush.me/sni-airtel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24626388
Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
Link: https://underjord.io/live-server-push-without-js.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613610
Social Cooling
Link: https://www.socialcooling.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
Google requiring Android apps on Play store to use its billing system next year
Link: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/28/google-play-android-billing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621192
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
Link: https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624951
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02751-1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618794
All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
Link: https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618447
Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
Link: https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-duckduckgo-elimination/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24623076
YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/youtube-celebrates-deaf-awareness-week-by-killing-crowd-sourced-captions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621152
Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PpZqHWXPLjOsXf_T7uyH4rWuxUMxzBlxvv5gm19P_Z8/edit#
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621303
How to Get Promoted
Link: https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618707
CRDTs are the future
Link: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24617542
A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
Link: https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24615185
