top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-02-14

Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/

6 years ago

631 upvotes – 392 comments

Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-many-old-companies-in-japan

6 years ago

536 upvotes – 262 comments

18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

http://www.fmboschetto.it/

6 years ago

520 upvotes – 472 comments

Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-cuts-jobs-at-cloud-computing-group-11581719153

6 years ago

511 upvotes – 312 comments

Brown: color is weird [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

6 years ago

498 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326109

6 years ago

496 upvotes – 207 comments

Apple Edge Cache

https://cache.edge.apple

6 years ago

483 upvotes – 218 comments

Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22324691

6 years ago

437 upvotes – 175 comments

Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22325975

6 years ago

420 upvotes – 175 comments

A Map of Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-map-of-mathematics-20200213/

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 55 comments

To become a good C programmer (2011)

http://fabiensanglard.net/c/

6 years ago

364 upvotes – 132 comments

A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/radio-frequency-exposure-test-iphone-11-pro-double-fcc-limits

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 161 comments

California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/economy/housing-crisis-conor-dougherty-golden-gates.html

6 years ago

329 upvotes – 621 comments

Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort

https://github.com/scandum/quadsort

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 106 comments

I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer

https://www.stavros.io/posts/make-pcbs-at-home/

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 144 comments

Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)

http://morrick.me/archives/8760

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 245 comments

Flowcharts of programming language constructs

https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-language-constructs/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 85 comments

Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API

https://gist.github.com/tomhicks/6cb5e827723c4eaef638bf9f7686d2d8

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 58 comments

The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/feature/gurps-cyberpunk-rpg-us-secret-service

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delaywebpage/

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 51 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments