top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-08-23

Introducing nushell

http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html

6 years ago

1477 upvotes – 369 comments

Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/

6 years ago

918 upvotes – 256 comments

Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/google-doesn-t-want-employees-debating-politics-at-work-anymore

6 years ago

731 upvotes – 1040 comments

Consume less, create more

https://tjcx.me/posts/consumption-distraction/

6 years ago

668 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

6 years ago

640 upvotes – 209 comments

Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site-the-result-thousands-of-banned-unsafe-or-mislabeled-products-11566564990?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

604 upvotes – 327 comments

Datadog S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1561550/000119312519227783/d745413ds1.htm

6 years ago

437 upvotes – 96 comments

Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-08-21-sourcehut-welcomes-bitbucket-refugees/

6 years ago

412 upvotes – 211 comments

Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything

https://medium.com/@sbuss/software-was-eating-the-world-now-landlords-are-eating-everything-e21ba6802f54

6 years ago

338 upvotes – 289 comments

How to return to the flow faster

https://codejamming.org/2019/how-to-return-to-flow

6 years ago

330 upvotes – 58 comments

Cooling a house without air conditioning

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190822-are-there-alternatives-to-air-conditioning

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 278 comments

Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783339

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 158 comments

Transformers from Scratch

http://www.peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 28 comments

Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon

https://www.ft.com/content/c72ae0f0-c036-11e9-b350-db00d509634e

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 141 comments

Singapore Says Musk's Electric Cars Are About 'Lifestyle,' Not Climate

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-21/singapore-says-musk-s-vision-promotes-lifestyle-not-climate

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 282 comments

Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/23/monsanto-republicans-cancer-research/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 64 comments

In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/opinion/sunday/opioid-crisis-drug-seattle.html

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 475 comments

China’s assault on Cathay Pacific

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/22/why-chinas-assault-on-cathay-pacific-should-scare-all-foreign-firms

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 191 comments

WiringPi – deprecated

http://wiringpi.com/wiringpi-deprecated/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 134 comments

I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/23/opinion/data-internet-privacy-tracking.html

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 145 comments

Rust GUI ecosystem overview

https://gitlab.com/z0mbie42/rust_gui_ecosystem_overview

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 190 comments

Dyson Tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_tree

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 42 comments

A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 159 comments

Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail

https://crosscut.com/2019/08/seattles-microtransit-experiment-drives-people-light-rail-it-working

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 173 comments

Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?

https://blog.tilt.dev/2019/08/21/why-does-developing-on-kubernetes-suck.html

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

Kegan's Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness

https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1110

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 37 comments

Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49450495

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 160 comments

Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos

http://sponsor.ajay.app

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 137 comments

An Afternoon in Tokyo with the Man Who Designs Casio G-Shock Watches (2017)

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/tokyo-man-designs-casio-g-shock-watches-ryusuke-moriai/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (2010)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phytoplankton-population/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 64 comments

SuperSQLite: SQLite library for Python (2018)

https://github.com/plasticityai/supersqlite

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

https://thenewstack.io/why-are-so-many-developers-hating-on-object-oriented-programming/

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 293 comments

Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. couples connect: study

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-way-u-s-couples-meet/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 166 comments

Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753524482/phone-companies-ink-deal-with-all-50-states-and-d-c-to-combat-robocalls

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 112 comments

List of military tactics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_tactics

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

A Telegram bug that disclose phone numbers of any users in public groups

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRx2wO2kj0axlQtv2CDSjPGlRKJOHtucvpOKGFKybh2eVVGZqvt_JJv-2Q11NHn5Y4um_F4-bgA6q5v/pub

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 62 comments

Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-eu-beef/finland-urges-eu-to-consider-banning-brazilian-beef-over-amazon-fires-idUKKCN1VD17R

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 9 comments

The difference between isolation levels and consistency levels

https://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-explanation-of-difference-between.html

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 10 comments

Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-japanese-architects-treated-buildings-living-organisms

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-complex-quantum-teleportation.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 60 comments

Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align

https://pandapawdragonclaw.blog/2019/08/23/empty-trains-on-the-modern-silk-road-when-belt-and-road-interests-dont-align/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future

https://samuel.dionne-riel.com/blog/2019/08/21/mobile-nixos-the-present-and-future.html

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 47 comments

Windows 95 Web UI Kit

https://themesberg.com/preview/windows-95-ui-kit

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 43 comments

Wasm vs. PNaCl Performance Benchmark

https://www.pdftron.com/blog/wasm/wasm-vs-pnacl/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/august-17-2019-the-benefits-of-video-games-composting-corpses-brewing-ancient-beer-and-more-1.5155492/don-t-bury-or-cremate-soon-you-may-compost-your-corpse-1.5155504

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 97 comments
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