1878
615
Factorio 1.0
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360
5 years ago
827
475
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/
719
1069
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
632
518
Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-welders-set-off-the-beirut-blast-while-securing-explosives
578
418
What's the future of Servo?
https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575
482
106
Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes
https://www.QRpicture.com
476
140
Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut
https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/
461
590
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/
417
233
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
401
460
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/
365
325
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/
314
173
Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers
https://ilsr.org/report-most-americans-have-no-real-choice-in-internet-providers/
279
41
Unicode in five minutes (2013)
https://richardjharris.github.io/unicode-in-five-minutes.html
272
63
A Database of Historical Cookbooks
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks
248
76
Street View of 1940s New York
https://1940s.nyc/
240
62
My best SEO tactic so far
https://questinglog.com/my-best-seo-tactic-so-far/
221
81
Launch HN: Tella (YC S20) – Collaborative video editing in the browser
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24158509
218
194
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
204
175
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
203
16
RethinkDB 2.4.1
https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.4.1-release
196
238
Save the USPS
https://2pml.com/2020/08/10/usps/
189
166
I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-tech-giants.html
179
40
Global wave discovery ends 220-year search
https://www.quantamagazine.org/weather-data-reveals-long-predicted-pressure-waves-20200813/
177
163
Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-games-oneplus-deal-google-play-store-lawsuit-lg
90
GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/14/1006780/ai-gpt-3-fake-blog-reached-top-of-hacker-news/
170
47
Darktable 3.2.1
https://www.darktable.org/news/
168
125
Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge for App Store ban
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21367904/epic-parody-apple-1984-ad-fortnite-removal-app-store
156
155
People slept on grass beds 200k years ago
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/people-slept-on-comfy-grass-beds-200000-years-ago/
119
Redefining what sustainable fishing means
http://oceans.nautil.us/article/600/its-time-to-redefine-what-sustainable-fishing-means
150
45
Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-betelgeuse-mysterious-dimming-due.html
148
93
Django Async: What's new and what's next?
https://deepsource.io/blog/django-async-support/
137
270
Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152096
132
64
Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html
131
142
Tesla Fremont to Soon Activate World’s Largest Unibody Casting Machine
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-model-y-from-fremont-will-soon-use-the-biggest-casting-machine-for-mass-production
126
78
A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nixon-deepfake-a-moon-disaster-speech-and-an-information-ecosystem-at-risk1/
59
Implementing a Type-safe printf in Rust
https://willcrichton.net/notes/type-safe-printf/
115
48
Show HN: Tweek – Fast to-do weekly calendar app
https://tweek.so
22
How Taiwan’s Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem
https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/
111
161
A bike shop should choose its customer wisely
https://cyclingindustry.news/why-a-bike-shop-should-choose-its-customer-wisely/
32
Ansible 2.10
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg53862.html
89
100
Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
https://lwn.net/Articles/827596/
86
8
A review of Bel, Eve, and a silly VR rant
https://gist.github.com/wtaysom/7e5fda6d65807073c3fa6b92b1e25a32
85
31
Software bug causes YAM cryptocurrency to implode two days after launch
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/13/yam_cryptocurrency_bug_governance/
82
58
Benign data races considered harmful
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2020/08/11/benign-data-races-considered-harmful/
80
13
Epic Games is also suing Google over Fortnites removal from the Play Store
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368363/epic-google-fortnite-lawsuit-antitrust-app-play-store-apple-removal
73
Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'
https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/trump-a-lot-of-people-think-edward-snowden-not-being-treated-fairly/
Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86