top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-05-16

If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

http://tttthis.com/blog/if-i-could-bring-one-thing-back-to-the-internet-it-would-be-blogs

5 years ago

1186 upvotes – 615 comments

Game Programming Patterns (2014)

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

5 years ago

635 upvotes – 86 comments

What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka

https://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2020/01/16/what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-apache-kafka-fundamentals/

5 years ago

597 upvotes – 276 comments

Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202850

5 years ago

578 upvotes – 228 comments

No One Goes There Anymore

https://noonegoesthereanymore.blogspot.com/2020/05/no-one-goes-there-anymore.html

5 years ago

370 upvotes – 302 comments

uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1027

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 96 comments

Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency

https://www.confluent.io/blog/removing-zookeeper-dependency-in-kafka/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 181 comments

Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs

https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 84 comments

Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?

https://blog.gotopac.com/2017/05/15/why-is-70-isopropyl-alcohol-ipa-a-better-disinfectant-than-99-isopropanol-and-what-is-ipa-used-for/

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 130 comments

Serve Videos Instead of GIFs

https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/serve-videos-instead-of-gifs/

5 years ago

273 upvotes – 230 comments

Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech

https://www.sonantic.io/

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 101 comments

Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/have-the-record-number-of-investors-in-the-stock-market-lost-their-minds

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 477 comments

Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3317550.3321445

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 180 comments

New species of fungus identified via Twitter

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-bizarre-species-twitter.html

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 93 comments

Learn Go: Hand-crafted Go exercises and examples

https://github.com/inancgumus/learngo

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 66 comments

Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions

https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/gamedev_modern_cpp_thoughts.html

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 217 comments

The Linux Kernel FPGA Subsystem

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/fpga/index.html

5 years ago

215 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202586

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 77 comments

State of Loom

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.html

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 134 comments

OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2

https://jcs.org/2020/05/15/surface_go2

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 41 comments
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