top 20 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

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

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

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

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 174 comments

C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2020-01/msg01096.html

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 169 comments

Ask HN: What's the fastest tool for basic CRUD?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091012

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React

https://proton-native.js.org/#/v2_changes?

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 34 comments

San Diego Awarded GE Mass Surveillance Contract Without Oversight

https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/city-of-san-diego-awarded-ge-mass-surveillance-contract-without-oversight/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092303

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 131 comments

3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video]

https://lexfridman.com/grant-sanderson/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 21 comments

SoftICE

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

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 82 comments

Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/01/18/staff-emails-claim-boeing-777x-shares-max-problem/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 79 comments

Reformer, the Efficient Transformer

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transformer.html

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 43 comments

Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 60 comments
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