top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-09

I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency

https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1292260921893457920

5 years ago

792 upvotes – 185 comments

Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20200806a.htm

5 years ago

683 upvotes – 420 comments

Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data

https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html

5 years ago

560 upvotes – 195 comments

Fire your bad customers

https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/fire-your-bad-customers

5 years ago

393 upvotes – 273 comments

Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

https://twiktwok.github.io/

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 98 comments

The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hans-hildenbrand-german-front-in-rare-color-photos-1914-1918/

5 years ago

376 upvotes – 83 comments

Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gates-on-covid-most-us-tests-are-completely-garbage/#intcid=recommendations_wired-right-rail_dba541f5-54c4-45bf-b217-cbdce1ef7e25_popular4-1

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 461 comments

Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098954

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 474 comments

People work longer and different hours under lockdown

https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 267 comments

EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/victory-eff-defends-publics-right-access-court-records-about-patent-ownership

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 26 comments

Adding a fiber link to my home network

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-08-09-fiber-link-home-network/

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 209 comments

Linux 5.8-rc1

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whfuea587g8rh2DeLFFGYxiVuh-bzq22osJwz3q4SOfmA@mail.gmail.com/

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 149 comments

SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/post/z3-iphone.html

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 149 comments

GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTechTree.md

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 95 comments

Let’s implement a Bloom Filter

https://onatm.dev/2020/08/10/let-s-implement-a-bloom-filter/

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 24 comments

How I got my Japanese permanent residency

https://www.dampfkraft.com/how-i-got-my-japanese-pr.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 178 comments

Where do argc and argv come from?

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20200808.html

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 105 comments

ThinkPad 560E

https://pappp.net/?p=26440

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 71 comments

Hiroshima (1946)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 158 comments

GraalVM

https://www.graalvm.org/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 102 comments
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