1704
1432
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-violations-epic-payments
5 years ago
698
237
Young children would rather explore than get rewards
https://news.osu.edu/young-children-would-rather-explore-than-get-rewards/
674
642
Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]
https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf
595
489
Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1293984069722636288
558
746
Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
https://apnews.com/e97f08eb935989840bda430bb7a32e15
485
499
Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epicgames.fortnite&hl=en_US
457
161
Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash
https://blog.haschek.at/2020/stopping-phishing-campaigns-with-bash.html
428
334
"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
https://twitter.com/tschneidereit/status/1293868141953667074
414
359
Epic direct payment on mobile
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-mega-drop-permanent-discounts-up-to-20-percent
395
143
Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics
https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basics
355
248
NSA Owns Everything (2015)
https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everything-how.html
352
48
A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
https://github.com/rossumur/espflix
345
358
Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141628
325
162
Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4
323
233
Air pollution is worse than we thought
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths
312
121
Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
https://www.sleepsources.com/bed-time-calculator/
304
104
Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53754751
265
232
Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts
https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq
262
360
The cult of the free must die
https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/the_cult_of_the.html
261
64
Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/arecibo-radio-telescope-goes-dark-after-snapped-cable-shreds-dish
259
188
Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git
https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
249
75
Adventures in Improving AI Economics
https://a16z.com/2020/08/12/taming-the-tail-adventures-in-improving-ai-economics/
246
Expiring vs. permanent skills
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-permanent-skills
227
132
Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better
https://www.growthclub.online/post/research-says-solo-founders-perform-better-here-is-why
216
97
Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)
https://aatishb.com/entropy/
214
168
What's new in PHP 8?
https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8?ref=hn
207
61
Why Write ADRs
https://github.blog/2020-08-13-why-write-adrs/
200
58
Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil
179
51
YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-yc-build-sprint-and-20-equity-free-grants/
171
263
Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills
https://www.interest.com/mortgage/pandemic-top-parent-school-vs-mortgage-worries/
167
32
Google's differential privacy library
https://github.com/google/differential-privacy
163
215
"Rust does not have a stable ABI"
https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/rust-stable-abi.html
160
47
‘AeroNabs’ – Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/08/418241/aeronabs-promise-powerful-inhalable-protection-against-covid-19
106
The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-experiment-shows-why-sometimes-hot-water-cools-faster-cold-water-180975543/
155
62
A New Chapter for PyPy
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-new-chapter-for-pypy.html
144
101
Google Update Tanks Traffic
https://www.painscience.com/microblog/google-strikes-again.html
Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)
https://floooh.github.com/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
138
81
Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53772526
136
22
Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/self-publishing-and-2nd-edition-ansible-devops
133
176
Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development
https://linearb.io/blog/jira-is-a-microcosm-of-whats-broken-in-software-development/
126
Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israel-and-uae-reach-historic-peace-deal-638524
119
55
Can we do better than our C compiler?
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20200812.html
How the ARM32 Linux kernel decompresses
https://people.kernel.org/linusw/how-the-arm32-linux-kernel-decompresses
118
154
Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15971/intels-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-soc-detailed-superfin-willow-cove-and-xelp/2
114
57
Significant JavaScript projects from 2006 to 2020
https://bestofjs.org/timeline
28
PyIDM – Python open-source alternative to Internet Download Manager
https://github.com/pyIDM/PyIDM
39
Epic has published an in-game Macintosh commercial spoof in response to Apple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYXnaKmXqGs
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