top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-12

Mozilla Lifeboat

https://mozillalifeboat.com

5 years ago

1518 upvotes – 308 comments

Thank You MDN

https://www.ilovemdn.org/

5 years ago

1283 upvotes – 319 comments

Joan Feynman has died

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

5 years ago

713 upvotes – 103 comments

Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

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

5 years ago

631 upvotes – 323 comments

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/

5 years ago

444 upvotes – 255 comments

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

5 years ago

398 upvotes – 826 comments

The new Jupyter Book

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

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 68 comments

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

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 264 comments

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

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

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 178 comments

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

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

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 144 comments

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

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 412 comments

Raise Less Money

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

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 107 comments

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

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

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 85 comments

No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US

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

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 128 comments

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

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 153 comments

Simple SQL in Python

https://github.com/nackjicholson/aiosql

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 79 comments

Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams

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

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 160 comments

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

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

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 317 comments

QEMU should move from C to Rust

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

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 209 comments

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/

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 65 comments
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