top 50% 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

Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released

https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/44-diaspora-version-0-7-0-0-released

9 years ago

128 upvotes – 62 comments

Anger, Anxiety, Resentment, Stress, and Basic Humanity

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201708/anger-anxiety-resentment-stress-and-basic-humanity

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

Paul Miller Loved Teaching Math So Much That He Did It for Nearly 80 Years

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/19/541163173/paul-miller-loved-teaching-math-so-much-that-he-did-it-for-nearly-80-years

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 15 comments

Latency matters

https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/latency-matters.html

9 years ago

112 upvotes – 105 comments

The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution (2002) [pdf]

http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf

9 years ago

100 upvotes – 65 comments

Reflecting on the founding, growth and maturing of Overleaf

https://clutter.errantscience.com/2017/07/31/reflecting-on-the-founding-growth-and-maturing-of-overleaf/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

How the Voyager space probe's golden record was made

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-timothy-ferris

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Kubermesh: self-hosted/healing/provisioning, partial-mesh network K8s cluster

https://github.com/kubermesh/kubermesh

9 years ago

★ 452 Shell Apache-2.0
95 upvotes – 24 comments

8,000 years ago, 17 women reproduced for every one man

https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (2015)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/?single_page=true

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

An OSI model for the 21st century (2014)

http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/04/24/an-osi-layer-model-for-the-21st-century/

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

An Embarrassing Tale: Why my server could only handle 10 players

https://medium.com/@jasonchitla/an-embarrassing-tale-why-my-server-could-only-handle-10-players-3b83b6fa8136

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

Eclipse Ceylon

https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ceylon

9 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

America, Home of the Transactional Marriage

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/08/marriage-rates-education/536913/?single_page=true

9 years ago

80 upvotes – 57 comments

Jerry Lewis has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html

9 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Relative hashpower of BTC and BCH in percentage of total

http://fork.lol/pow/hashrate

9 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments
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