top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-12

Mozilla Lifeboat

https://mozillalifeboat.com

6 years ago

Thank You MDN

https://www.ilovemdn.org/

6 years ago

Joan Feynman has died

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/feynman.cfm

6 years ago

Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

6 years ago

70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet

https://decisiondata.org/news/70-of-surveyed-americans-say-we-cant-do-our-jobs-without-a-home-internet-connection/

6 years ago

Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/uber-may-shut-down-temporarily-in-california.html

6 years ago

The new Jupyter Book

https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-the-new-jupyter-book-cbf7aa8bc72e

6 years ago

Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever

https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/08/why-bertrand-russells-argument-idleness-more-relevant-ever

6 years ago

Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team

https://twitter.com/SteveALee/status/1293487542382333952

6 years ago

Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129059

6 years ago

China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-hires-over-100-TSMC-engineers-in-push-for-chip-leadership

6 years ago

Raise Less Money

https://www.aaronkharris.com/raise-less-money

6 years ago

Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133719

6 years ago

No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4

6 years ago

Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200810/11335745081/why-are-there-currently-no-ads-techdirt-apparently-google-thinks-were-dangerous.shtml

6 years ago

Simple SQL in Python

https://github.com/nackjicholson/aiosql

6 years ago

Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams

https://twitter.com/directhex/status/1293352458308198401

6 years ago

Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24130286

6 years ago

QEMU should move from C to Rust

http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/08/why-qemu-should-move-from-c-to-rust.html

6 years ago

Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/fully-managed-time-series-data-service-now-available-in-aws-azure-gcp-75-regions-compare-vs-influxdb-timestream/

6 years ago