top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-04

Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

https://storycreatorapp.com

5 years ago

868 upvotes – 291 comments

In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/

5 years ago

719 upvotes – 769 comments

Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366765/issue-update-in-graph-theory-different-definitions-of-edge-crossing-numbers

5 years ago

653 upvotes – 127 comments

1Password for Linux development preview

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/114964/

5 years ago

612 upvotes – 341 comments

SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJR4gZBLMNw

5 years ago

530 upvotes – 383 comments

Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/04/anthony-levandowski-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-as-new-4b-lawsuit-against-uber-is-filed

5 years ago

483 upvotes – 418 comments

We quit our jobs to build a cabin

https://www.outsideonline.com/2415766/friends-diy-cabin-build-washington

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 385 comments

The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html

5 years ago

439 upvotes – 269 comments

Let's build a full-text search engine

https://artem.krylysov.com/blog/2020/07/28/lets-build-a-full-text-search-engine/

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 72 comments

Django 3.1

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2020/aug/04/django-31-released/

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 202 comments

27-inch iMac gets a major update

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/

5 years ago

340 upvotes – 598 comments

TikTok and the Sorting Hat

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 223 comments

Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)

https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-largest-and-most-terrifying-simcity/

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 105 comments

Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-hosts-file-blocking-telemetry-is-now-flagged-as-a-risk/

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing

https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 45 comments

Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations

https://kodkodgames.gitlab.io/rotation_matrices/

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 124 comments

Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT

https://twitter.com/sinabooeshaghi/status/1290727092884299778

5 years ago

258 upvotes – 247 comments

Endless Doom Scroller

https://endlessdoomscroller.com/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 110 comments

Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354367/apple-phil-schiller-fellow-greg-joswiak-head-marketing-store-events

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 187 comments

Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-broccoli--syncing-faster-by-syncing-less

5 years ago

229 upvotes – 53 comments
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