top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-01-19

Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration

https://www.spacex.com/webcast?20200119

6 years ago

721 upvotes – 328 comments

Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092108

6 years ago

613 upvotes – 388 comments

Show HN: A set of standard document templates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091603

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 34 comments

Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/01/19/no-dynamic-type-systems-are-not-inherently-more-open/

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 275 comments

How is search so bad? A case study

https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/bad-search/

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 396 comments

Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?

http://teetotality.blog/posts/why-ipfs/

6 years ago

302 upvotes – 148 comments

The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo

http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_SNES/index.html

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 46 comments

Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry

https://www.janipenttinen.com/post/who-is-jani-penttinen-the-game-developer

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 63 comments

Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”

https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 174 comments

It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 214 comments
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