top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-18

OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/

5 years ago

1079 upvotes – 526 comments

Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

https://domainnamewire.com/2020/07/16/fadi-chehade-is-now-co-ceo-of-ethos-capital/

5 years ago

989 upvotes – 135 comments

On Trouser Pockets

https://sambleckley.com/writing/pockets.html

5 years ago

769 upvotes – 390 comments

An update on our security incident

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html

5 years ago

547 upvotes – 287 comments

Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds

https://richsoil.com/hugelkultur/

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 148 comments

NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 90 comments

Designing a New Old Home: Part 1

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/designing-a-new-old-home-part-1-cf298b58ed41

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 237 comments

Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know

http://250bpm.com/blog:161

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 241 comments

Krita, OpenGL and Qt

https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/krita-opengl-and-qt/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 205 comments

Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking

https://simpleops.io/

5 years ago

280 upvotes – 109 comments

Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban

https://www.propublica.org/article/hospitals-are-suddenly-short-of-young-doctors-because-of-trumps-visa-ban

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 197 comments

Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64

https://micouy.github.io/posts/low-level-pt-1/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 36 comments

John Lewis has died

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/john-lewis-obit-civil-rights-congress-036212

5 years ago

239 upvotes – 24 comments

Samsung Blu-ray players bricked because of an XML config file

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/18/samsung_bluray_mass_dieoff_explained/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 175 comments

How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah

https://marker.medium.com/how-mormons-built-the-next-silicon-valley-while-no-one-was-looking-c50add577478

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 243 comments

Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

https://hbr.org/2020/07/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 75 comments

I lost my boyfriend to cancer 'conspiracy theories’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/72396917-47b0-4aac-856f-e213c3a0c3fa

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 255 comments

Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic

https://www.fastcompany.com/90520298/how-dixie-cups-became-the-breakout-startup-of-the-1918-pandemic

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 134 comments

Stripe Is Holding 25% of Our Funds, Indefinitely

https://hackernoon.com/stripe-is-holding-25percent-of-our-funds-indefinitely-rw1c3uc1

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 75 comments

The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

http://www.righto.com/2020/07/the-intel-8086-processors-registers.html

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 38 comments
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