1858
1025
Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features/
6 years ago
820
227
Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
https://umami.is/
679
266
If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees
https://software.rajivprab.com/2020/08/18/if-founders-treated-their-investors-the-same-way-they-treated-their-employees/
646
399
Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/canon-websites-held-to-ransom-by-hackers
645
1705
Modeling a Wealth Tax
http://paulgraham.com/wtax.html
643
186
Laying the foundation for Rust’s future
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-for-rusts-future.html
480
216
Dear Apple: Your Services Are No Longer Required
https://lowendmac.com/2020/dear-apple-your-services-are-no-longer-required/
381
379
Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
https://news.ubc.ca/2020/07/21/popular-seafood-species-in-sharp-decline-around-the-world/
355
178
The Death of Corporate Research Labs
https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html?m=1
351
103
Architecture of the Nintendo DS
https://www.copetti.org/projects/consoles/nintendo-ds/
328
30
Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
https://kowainik.github.io/posts/haskell-mini-patterns
327
308
Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196433
326
89
Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)
https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/
320
142
2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company
https://securethoughts.com/medical-data-of-auto-accident-victims-exposed-online/
314
198
Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-batman-effect-how-having-an-alter-ego-empowers-you
305
92
Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk
https://twitter.com/jensvoid/status/1295357952480751616
294
119
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q2-2020/
287
82
Graphical Linear Algebra
https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
276
80
Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo
https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-added-ryan-goslings-face-to-this-photo/
255
Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
https://github.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js#README.md
225
235
Kotlin 1.4
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/08/kotlin-1-4-released-with-a-focus-on-quality-and-performance/
219
58
Show HN: Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem
https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy
181
131
An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/g19a1w/heres_a_brand_thats_building_its_reviews_steadily/
180
38
Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html
162
190
1-Euro Houses
https://1eurohouses.com/case-a-1-euro-houses/
155
66
How to deploy a React app for free
https://blog.logrocket.com/8-ways-to-deploy-a-react-app-for-free/
154
Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph
https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2020/08/18/accused-spy-alexander-yuk-ching-ma-evidently-beat-the-polygraph-to-penetrate-the-fbi/
19
Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf
151
8
Graphics Programming Projects
http://graphicscodex.com/projects/projects/index.html
149
129
Humanly Traversable Wormholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618
137
47
The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015)
https://theconversation.com/the-life-changing-love-of-one-of-the-20th-centurys-greatest-physicists-51229
136
128
Lost Advanced Civilizations
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/08/lost-advanced-civilizations.html
65
APL386 Unicode – An APL Font
https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/
135
105
Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report
https://www.zillow.com/research/2020-urb-suburb-market-report-27712/
121
48
Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198114
25
Slate, create beautiful, responsive API documentation
https://github.com/slatedocs/slate
120
20
ANSI Z535 Compliant Safety Sign Generator
https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/
118
U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigations-opioids/u-s-states-seek-2-2-trillion-from-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-filings-idUSKCN25D2EG
110
26
Ts-migrate: tool to automatically migrate JavaScript projects to TS
https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate
108
Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/828761/6d8c7ddc142a67a0/
67
How many pieces can a puzzle have?
https://gottwurfelt.com/2020/08/17/how-many-pieces-can-a-puzzle-have/
124
Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/cities-sue-netflix-hulu-disney-claim-they-owe-cable-franchise-fees/
102
36
The Consortium for Python Data API Standards
https://data-apis.org/blog/announcing_the_consortium/
Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
https://github.com/cheat/cheat
94
27
Ask HN: Is a SaaS provider expected to have a trademark in every country?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24195375
93
16
Impossible Figures Library
https://im-possible.info/english/library/index.html
87
114
Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans
https://www.axios.com/filecoin-blockchain-delay-3b5e6b9a-bcc8-41cf-81cf-563f6cebb2c4.html
79
SpaceX raises $1.9B
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/18/spacex-raises-1-9-billion-in-largest-funding-found-to-date/
85
175
Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53816511
84
28
Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-black-silicon-photodetector-efficiency-limit.html