top 20 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

Rolling Your Own Blockchain in Haskell

http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/08/17/rolling-your-own-blockchain.html

9 years ago

234 upvotes – 32 comments

Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim

https://github.com/extr0py/oni

9 years ago

★ 11.2k TypeScript MIT
216 upvotes – 105 comments

TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer

http://strlen.com/treesheets/

9 years ago

188 upvotes – 58 comments

How do I improve my storytelling?

http://ask.metafilter.com/312581/How-do-I-improve-my-storytelling

9 years ago

175 upvotes – 33 comments

The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013)

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/strange-disappearance/

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 180 comments

McCLIM: A GUI Toolkit for Common Lisp

https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

9 years ago

161 upvotes – 43 comments

Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth

http://www.bostongis.com/blog/index.php?/archives/266-geography-type-is-not-limited-to-earth.html

9 years ago

154 upvotes – 35 comments

The rich are hoarding economic growth

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/piketty-saez-zucman-income-growth-inequality-stagnation-chart

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 146 comments

That Alien Message

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

9 years ago

132 upvotes – 57 comments
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