top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-17

WeWTF

https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

7 years ago

Tech Interview Handbook

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

7 years ago

Start Your Own ISP

https://startyourownisp.com/

7 years ago

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

http://japanesecomplete.com/777

7 years ago

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

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

7 years ago

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

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

7 years ago

Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome

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

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago

Alone in the Dark

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

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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

https://github.com/videogamepreservation

7 years ago

NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

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

7 years ago

Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix

https://github.com/google/nixery

7 years ago

★ 1.9k Go Apache-2.0

São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016)

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

7 years ago

Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)

http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

7 years ago

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

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

7 years ago

GNU Parallel 2018

https://zenodo.org/record/1146014

7 years ago

Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome

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

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago