top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-08-25

What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1165493206441779200

6 years ago

1041 upvotes – 320 comments

Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer

https://neilkakkar.com/things-I-learnt-from-a-senior-dev.html

6 years ago

849 upvotes – 294 comments

Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 312 comments

From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love

https://shooting-unicorns.com/battlestation/from-mac-to-linux-the-setup-ive-grown-to-love

6 years ago

492 upvotes – 458 comments

Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel

http://apollo.backplane.com/2019-Zen2Missive.html

6 years ago

402 upvotes – 211 comments

Write your own Excel in F# (2018)

http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/write-your-own-excel/

6 years ago

401 upvotes – 84 comments

QEMU VM Escape

https://blog.bi0s.in/2019/08/24/Pwn/VM-Escape/2019-07-29-qemu-vm-escape-cve-2019-14378/

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 57 comments

Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting

https://blog.jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 86 comments

Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise

http://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-the-secret-to-technical-expertise.html

6 years ago

276 upvotes – 57 comments

Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830057/amazon-audible-speech-to-text-feature-lawsuit-major-book-publishers

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 357 comments
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