1043
400
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
892
101
Frances Allen has died
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/08/remembering-frances-allen/
789
471
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/
417
333
Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
https://www.axios.com/facebook-launches-its-tiktok-rival-instagram-reels-56460094-88df-4aa5-b6a1-39695c682508.html
394
218
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
360
256
Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
https://borsche.de/res/Vitamin_D_Essentials_EN.pdf
356
199
The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
https://github.com/nodejs/tooling/issues/79
303
48
Compiler Explorer
https://godbolt.org/
283
186
Chat Bubble Blindness
https://www.atlistmaps.com/in-good-company/chat-bubble-blindness
260
79
The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
https://stopa.io/post/246
253
154
Is Hacker News Bullshit?
https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors
234
91
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
http://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/graphgeometry/papers/fundamental.pdf
231
110
Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/08/changes-to-samesite-cookie-behavior/
230
71
Arcosanti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
228
170
China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246
217
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/
215
107
Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML
https://www.unscreen.com/sample_videos
214
224
More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#onethird
212
222
Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066842
200
54
WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)
http://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/?q=Medium
192
76
Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
https://www.readthistwice.com/person/paul-graham
180
156
Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis
https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/google-s-search-monopoly-complicates-a-mental-health-crisis
176
File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-iofs.md
172
60
The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic
http://www.johnbcoughlin.com/posts/floating-point-axiom/
163
87
Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua
https://roblox.github.io/luau/
137
A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf
191
Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads
https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/08/05/gc-tuning-for-jet
142
126
When Should You Not Use Rails?
http://codefol.io/posts/when-should-you-not-use-rails/
96
IBM Is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning
http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/red-hat-layoffs/
39
Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24060799
129
51
Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200804/01231345032/twitter-about-to-be-hit-with-250-million-fine-using-your-two-factor-authentication-phone-numbers-emails-marketing.shtml
127
136
Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
https://pragmaticpineapple.com/why-should-you-learn-vim-in-2020/
You don’t need reproducible builds
http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/07/you-dont-need-reproducible-builds.html
125
105
What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?
https://onezero.medium.com/what-is-jio-and-why-are-techs-biggest-players-suddenly-obsessed-with-it-231ea2d407e4
121
106
Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
113
97
USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000b9bx/executive
111
Gold price rises above $2k for first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53660052
57
Touch Typing on a Gamepad
https://darkshadow.io/2020/07/07/touch-typing-on-a-gamepad.html
108
205
Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-and-scientific-expertise-are-more-important-than-ever/
18
Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire
https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/functional-programming-with-bananas-lenses-envelopes-and-barbed-w
98
143
Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53666222
92
PHP the Wrong Way
https://phpthewrongway.com/
Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (2000)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/05/stewart-copeland-father-miles-cia-spy-the-police
94
55
New TypeScript Website
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-the-new-typescript-website/
90
59
Show HN: Kvak.io – Online Notepad
http://kvak.io/?n=intro
89
65
Bayes Theorem: A Framework for Critical Thinking
https://neilkakkar.com/Bayes-Theorem-Framework-for-Critical-Thinking.html
84
Pavel Durov on the TikTok Sale to U.S. company
https://t.me/s/durov/123
82
Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
81
46
Blissymbols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols
78
37
Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-wasabi-idUST29421020080318
A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-poetic-mind-bending-tour-of-the-fungal-world/
72
19
Leveraging machine learning to fuel new discoveries with the ArXiv dataset
https://blogs.cornell.edu/arxiv/2020/08/05/leveraging-machine-learning-to-fuel-new-discoveries-with-the-arxiv-dataset/