top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-15

Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/twilco/kosmonaut

5 years ago

721 upvotes – 447 comments

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc

5 years ago

662 upvotes – 403 comments

Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53637463

5 years ago

478 upvotes – 303 comments

To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-occupants-of-my-office-at-the-mit-media-lab/

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 180 comments

A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode

https://github.com/labuladong/fucking-algorithm/tree/english

5 years ago

455 upvotes – 204 comments

Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public

https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/machine-learning-course-free-online-from-amazon-machine-learning-university

5 years ago

426 upvotes – 48 comments

Ghost.org deleted my website

https://postapathy.substack.com/p/i-was-building-a-new-website-for

5 years ago

421 upvotes – 345 comments

Mozilla’s Uncertain Future

https://civilityandtruth.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-future/

5 years ago

404 upvotes – 394 comments

Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/videos/chernobyl-fungus-eats-nuclear-radiation-via-radiosynthesis-338464

5 years ago

366 upvotes – 104 comments

Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors

https://voshart.com/ROMAN-EMPEROR-PROJECT

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 128 comments

The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-control-is-not-to-exercise-it-at-all

5 years ago

346 upvotes – 272 comments

MicroPython

https://micropython.org/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 147 comments

Write Your Own Virtual Machine

https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 42 comments

Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams

https://isoflow.io/

5 years ago

313 upvotes – 54 comments

Oh Shit, Git?

https://ohshitgit.com/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 156 comments

Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fastest-star.html

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 186 comments

NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

5 years ago

287 upvotes – 112 comments

SEC Enforcement of Insider Trading Dropped to Lowest Point in Decades

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/901862355/under-trump-sec-enforcement-of-insider-trading-dropped-to-lowest-point-in-decade

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 98 comments

Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-domain-and-3-character-fqdn-for-15/

5 years ago

260 upvotes – 118 comments

The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/the-brilliance-of-all-gas-no-brakes

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 113 comments
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