top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-11

Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

6 years ago

Single Page Applications using Rust

http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-wasm-yew-single-page-application/

6 years ago

How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-by-using-the-fogg-behavior-model

6 years ago

Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election

https://www.wired.com/story/belarus-internet-outage-election/

6 years ago

Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy/

6 years ago

I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform

https://elazzabi.com/2020/08/11/the-day-i-accidentally-built-a-nudity-porn-platform/

6 years ago

That coworker who never stops refactoring

https://critter.blog/2020/08/11/that-coworker-who-never-stops-refactoring/

6 years ago

Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/avoid-dependencies/

6 years ago

Creating a QR Code step by step

https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step

6 years ago

The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility

https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regulated-as-a-public-utility

6 years ago

Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix

https://www.neomindlabs.com/post/your-developer-wont-get-hit-by-a-bus-theyll-get-hired-by-netflix

6 years ago

Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-quarter-staff-250-people-new-revenue-focus

6 years ago

JuliaDB

https://juliadata.github.io/JuliaDB.jl/latest/

6 years ago

Parallel Seam Carving

https://shwestrick.github.io/2020/07/29/seam-carve.html

6 years ago

Show HN: EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service

https://github.com/ksensehq/eventnative

6 years ago

TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/900394707/tiktok-to-sue-trump-administration-over-ban-as-soon-as-tuesday

6 years ago

TSA considers new system for flyers without ID

https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/08/11/tsa-considers-new-system-for-flyers-without-id/

6 years ago

Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be

https://sourcelevel.io/blog/3-classic-books-for-tech-leads-or-those-aspiring-to-be

6 years ago

Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster

https://ikarus.sg/how-i-built-kraken/

6 years ago

NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

6 years ago

Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

https://flightaware.engineering/systems-monitoring-with-prometheus-grafana/

6 years ago

Transparent OLEDs

https://oled.com/oleds/transparent-oleds-toleds/

6 years ago

InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents

https://github.com/naiveHobo/InvoiceNet

6 years ago

Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without

https://blog.maskys.com/my-best-chrome-extensions/

6 years ago

Emulating Windows system calls in Linux

https://lwn.net/Articles/824380/

6 years ago

A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist

https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist

6 years ago

Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/dash-2020-new-feature-roundup/

6 years ago

MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset

https://ir.microstrategy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/microstrategy-adopts-bitcoin-primary-treasury-reserve-asset

6 years ago

Office Drama on macOS

https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x4B.html

6 years ago

Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/08/10/lenovo-new-thinkpad-p53-fedora-linux-laptop

6 years ago

The Languages Which Almost Became CSS

https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/

6 years ago

Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel

https://maori.geek.nz/golang-desktop-app-with-webview-lorca-wasm-and-bazel-3283813bf89

6 years ago

Small Businesses Are Dying by the Thousands – and No One Is Tracking the Carnage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/small-firms-die-quietly-leaving-thousands-of-failures-uncounted

6 years ago

Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer

https://earther.gizmodo.com/chevron-is-trying-to-crush-a-prominent-climate-lawyer-a-1844685508

6 years ago

Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24121290

6 years ago

Go 1.15 Released

https://golang.org/dl/

6 years ago

Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing

https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-jet

6 years ago

Generative Art with CSS (2019)

https://generative-art-with-css.commons.host/

6 years ago

The mesmerizing geometry of Malaysia’s most complex cakes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kek-lapis-sarawak

6 years ago

Pumas AI: A platform for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation

http://pumas.ai

6 years ago

Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-elite-do-gooders-fixing-the-world-are-part-of-the-problem-anand-giridharadas-1.5441573

6 years ago

BuckleScript Is Rebranding

https://reasonml.org/blog/bucklescript-is-rebranding

6 years ago

Videos for learning Org Mode

https://orgmodeforbeginners.com/

6 years ago

Airbnb Plans to File Confidentially for IPO in August

https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-plans-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo-in-august-11597164041

6 years ago

Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

https://brianjayjones.com/2020/08/11/sixty-years-of-green-eggs-and-ham/

6 years ago

Helping Native Bees Thrive in a Honeybee World

https://e360.yale.edu/features/backyard-battle-helping-outnumbered-native-bees-thrive-in-a-honeybee-world

6 years ago