top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-08-20

Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System

https://joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay

9 years ago

656 upvotes – 340 comments

Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy

https://laverna.cc/

9 years ago

334 upvotes – 169 comments

Startups should not use React

https://medium.com/@raulk/if-youre-a-startup-you-should-not-use-react-reflecting-on-the-bsd-patents-license-b049d4a67dd2

9 years ago

332 upvotes – 168 comments

A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/08/20/

9 years ago

324 upvotes – 105 comments

Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

http://www.pap.pl/en/news/news,1037604,polands-oldest-university-denies-googles-right-to-patent-polish-coding-concept.html

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 81 comments

Workplace flexibility is the way to win the war for talent

https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/20/workplace-flexibility-is-the-way-to-win-the-war-for-talent/

9 years ago

305 upvotes – 133 comments

Is the open office layout dead?

https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2017/08/open-office-layouts

9 years ago

303 upvotes – 361 comments

What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer

http://dopeboy.github.io/in-the-zone/

9 years ago

285 upvotes – 113 comments

Marko – An isomorphic UI framework similar to Vue

http://markojs.com

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 148 comments

IOCCC Flight Simulator

http://blog.aerojockey.com/post/iocccsim

9 years ago

251 upvotes – 29 comments
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