top 10 hacker news stories for 2016-08-20

Japanese writing system basics

https://www.candyjapan.com/%E5%8F%A3

10 years ago

Nasa just made all its research available online for free

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-research-available-free-online-a7200011.html

10 years ago

A suggestion on how to spend a day at home

https://blog.mousereeve.com/a-suggestion-on-how-to-spend-a-day-at-home/

10 years ago

A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines

https://github.com/madler/pigz

10 years ago

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Data points that Facebook uses to target ads

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/19/98-personal-data-points-that-facebook-uses-to-target-ads-to-you

10 years ago

If English were written like Chinese (1999)

http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm

10 years ago

Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/arts/music/bandcamp-shopping-for-music.html

10 years ago

The Japanese Urban Zoning System

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/the-japanese-zoning-system.html

10 years ago

How to make an efficient payment system in Erlang

https://joearms.github.io/2016/08/08/Draft-Payment-System-in-Erlang.html

10 years ago

Decommissioning Otto

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto.html

10 years ago