top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-17

WeWTF

https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

6 years ago

840 upvotes – 278 comments

Tech Interview Handbook

https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/

6 years ago

760 upvotes – 324 comments

Start Your Own ISP

https://startyourownisp.com/

6 years ago

635 upvotes – 95 comments

The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild

http://japanesecomplete.com/777

6 years ago

342 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

https://saag.pashi.com/#hn

6 years ago

303 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/clojurescript-pixel-game-engine-with-blender-live-reloading

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome

https://www.pulltech.net/article/1566007822-Google-plans-to-deprecate-FTP-URL-support-in-Chrome

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 340 comments

Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp

https://makezine.com/2019/08/16/hacking-the-sonos-ikea-symfonisk-into-a-high-quality-speaker-amp/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 47 comments

Alone in the Dark

https://www.filfre.net/2019/08/alone-in-the-dark/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 61 comments

Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2019/08/why-software-architects-must-be-involved-in-the-earliest-systems-engineering-activities.html

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 179 comments

The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-first-solar-road-has-turned-out-to-be-a-disappointing-failure

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 337 comments

Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code

https://github.com/videogamepreservation

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 41 comments

NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/climate/hottest-july-noaa.html

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 117 comments

Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix

https://github.com/google/nixery

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 27 comments

São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secrets-sao-paulo-uncovered-outdoor-advertising-ban/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 94 comments

Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)

http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 178 comments

Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail

https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 54 comments

GNU Parallel 2018

https://zenodo.org/record/1146014

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 68 comments

Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/google-chrome/212361/microsoft-has-first-major-impact-on-chrome

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 114 comments

You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds

https://www.studyfinds.org/new-to-investing-you-may-be-better-off-picking-stocks-at-random-study-finds/

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 77 comments
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