top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-05

Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today/

6 years ago

Frances Allen has died

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/08/remembering-frances-allen/

6 years ago

Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/04/latest-firefox-rolls-out-enhanced-tracking-protection-2-0-blocking-redirect-trackers-by-default/

6 years ago

Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

https://www.axios.com/facebook-launches-its-tiktok-rival-instagram-reels-56460094-88df-4aa5-b6a1-39695c682508.html

6 years ago

Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=59321100-d740-11ea-bf88-a15b6c7adf9a

6 years ago

Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

https://borsche.de/res/Vitamin_D_Essentials_EN.pdf

6 years ago

The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories

https://github.com/nodejs/tooling/issues/79

6 years ago

Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/

6 years ago

Chat Bubble Blindness

https://www.atlistmaps.com/in-good-company/chat-bubble-blindness

6 years ago

The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program

https://stopa.io/post/246

6 years ago

Is Hacker News Bullshit?

https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors

6 years ago

Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

http://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/graphgeometry/papers/fundamental.pdf

6 years ago

Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/08/changes-to-samesite-cookie-behavior/

6 years ago

Arcosanti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti

6 years ago

China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246

6 years ago

How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/08/05/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more-in-2020/

6 years ago

Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML

https://www.unscreen.com/sample_videos

6 years ago

More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#onethird

6 years ago

Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066842

6 years ago

WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)

http://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/?q=Medium

6 years ago