top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-08-26

Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

7 years ago

636 upvotes – 172 comments

John McCain has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/obituaries/john-mccain-dead.html

7 years ago

628 upvotes – 210 comments

WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review-fast-connections-amaze-but-windows-support-needs-to-happen/

7 years ago

361 upvotes – 154 comments

The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]

http://www.jordanmechner.com/downloads/makpopsample.pdf

7 years ago

302 upvotes – 70 comments

What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists

https://hbr.org/2018/08/what-data-scientists-really-do-according-to-35-data-scientists

7 years ago

278 upvotes – 136 comments

Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk

https://www.wired.com/story/phone-numbers-indentification-authentication/

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 169 comments

A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years

https://twitter.com/Shpigford/status/1033032915175858176

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 102 comments

IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services

http://www.includeos.org/

7 years ago

231 upvotes – 84 comments

Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/bitcoin-s-use-in-commerce-keeps-falling-even-as-volatility-eases

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 354 comments

Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site?

https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 41 comments

Everything Is Booming Except for Wages

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/u-s-economic-growth-isn-t-translating-into-bigger-paychecks

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 236 comments

Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847668

7 years ago

189 upvotes – 162 comments

From GNU social to Mastodon

https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2018/08/19/from-gnu-social-to-mastodon.html

7 years ago

186 upvotes – 138 comments

America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/books/review/the-chickenshit-club-jesse-eisinger-.html

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 123 comments

Agner Fog

https://www.agner.org/

7 years ago

165 upvotes – 35 comments

Pseudo-bandlimited pixel art filtering in 3D: A mathematical derivation

http://themaister.net/blog/2018/08/25/pseudo-bandlimited-pixel-art-filtering-in-3d-a-mathematical-derivation/

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 15 comments

Crying in H Mart

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/crying-in-h-mart

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

Age of Invisible Disasters (2017)

https://blog.eutopian.io/the-age-of-invisible-disasters/

7 years ago

148 upvotes – 108 comments

Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014)

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/double-buffer.html

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 58 comments

China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists

https://www.wired.com/story/china-fast-worlds-largest-telescope-tourists/

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments
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