top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-28

Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/

5 years ago

737 upvotes – 332 comments

ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53573294

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 449 comments

1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

5 years ago

556 upvotes – 155 comments

GitHub Public Roadmap

https://github.com/github/roadmap

5 years ago

483 upvotes – 142 comments

Hiring Without Whiteboards

https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

5 years ago

481 upvotes – 450 comments

Not an Amazon Problem

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/23/Not-an-Amazon-Problem

5 years ago

428 upvotes – 366 comments

Google’s top search result is Google

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 304 comments

Firefox 79

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/firefox-79/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 188 comments

Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975807

5 years ago

357 upvotes – 167 comments

A new funding model for open source software

https://vriad.com/essays/a-modest-proposal-for-oss-sustainability

5 years ago

354 upvotes – 175 comments

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 293 comments

Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)

https://davidwalsh.name/pornhub-interview

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 214 comments

The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 214 comments

We thought it was just a respiratory virus

https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body

5 years ago

265 upvotes – 150 comments

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 225 comments

The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-socialist-microcomputer

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 81 comments

Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template

https://github.com/robinsloan/perfect-edition

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 69 comments

OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/9699

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 100 comments

WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing

https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 106 comments

The worst tool for the job

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the-job/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 191 comments
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