top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-14

Factorio 1.0

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360

5 years ago

1878 upvotes – 615 comments

Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/13/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/

5 years ago

827 upvotes – 475 comments

Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

https://www.wsj.com/articles/remote-work-is-reshaping-san-francisco-as-tech-workers-flee-and-rents-fall-11597413602

5 years ago

719 upvotes – 1069 comments

Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-welders-set-off-the-beirut-blast-while-securing-explosives

5 years ago

632 upvotes – 518 comments

What's the future of Servo?

https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575

5 years ago

578 upvotes – 418 comments

Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

https://www.QRpicture.com

5 years ago

482 upvotes – 106 comments

Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut

https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/

5 years ago

476 upvotes – 140 comments

Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/spacex-starlink-beta-tests-show-speeds-up-to-60mbps-latency-as-low-as-31ms/

5 years ago

461 upvotes – 590 comments

I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action

https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/i_love_mdn_or_t.html

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 233 comments

Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus

https://stanforddaily.com/2020/08/13/stanford-cancels-plans-to-bring-half-of-undergrads-back-to-campus/

5 years ago

401 upvotes – 460 comments

Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 325 comments

Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers

https://ilsr.org/report-most-americans-have-no-real-choice-in-internet-providers/

5 years ago

314 upvotes – 173 comments

Unicode in five minutes (2013)

https://richardjharris.github.io/unicode-in-five-minutes.html

5 years ago

279 upvotes – 41 comments

A Database of Historical Cookbooks

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 63 comments

Street View of 1940s New York

https://1940s.nyc/

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 76 comments

My best SEO tactic so far

https://questinglog.com/my-best-seo-tactic-so-far/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 62 comments

Launch HN: Tella (YC S20) – Collaborative video editing in the browser

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24158509

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 81 comments

Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368602/instagram-kept-deleted-photos-messages-on-servers-year-bug-fixed

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 194 comments

German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/german-digital-bank-n26-faces-outcry-from-staff-over-management.html

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 175 comments

RethinkDB 2.4.1

https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.4.1-release

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 16 comments
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