top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-07-30

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288625617873694721

5 years ago

1594 upvotes – 351 comments

You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

http://nautil.us/blog/you-want-to-see-my-data-i-thought-we-were-friends

5 years ago

489 upvotes – 134 comments

Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-from-nginx-to-envoy

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 237 comments

The Haskell Elephant in the Room

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 329 comments

Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit

https://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 348 comments

Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/30/googles-problems-are-bigger-than-just-the-antitrust-case

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 368 comments

Philosophers on GPT-3

http://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 327 comments

Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS

https://web.dev/one-line-layouts/

5 years ago

282 upvotes – 56 comments

Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

https://github.com/mengshukeji/Luckysheet

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 119 comments

Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 191 comments

How Best Buy saved itself (2019)

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/amazon-almost-killed-best-buy-then-best-buy-did-something-completely-brilliant.html

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 287 comments

Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 100 comments

I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects

https://indielog.com/user/damon

5 years ago

243 upvotes – 106 comments

Nano 5.0

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-07/msg00010.html

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 195 comments

Why forgiving someone else is about you

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896245305/why-forgiving-someone-else-is-really-about-you

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 239 comments

How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book

https://www.blakeboles.com/2020/07/book-story/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 37 comments

Five Buck Fatigue

https://underjord.io/five-buck-fatigue.html

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 246 comments

One Byte to rule them all

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/07/one-byte-to-rule-them-all.html

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 31 comments

ZSA Moonlander: A next-generation ergonomic keyboard

https://zsa.io/moonlander

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 275 comments

Launch HN: BaseDash (YC S20) – Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23999124

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 98 comments
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