top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-21

Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-21/telegram-messaging-app-crucial-belarus-protests

6 years ago

824 upvotes – 530 comments

Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book

https://www.fast.ai/2020/08/21/fastai2-launch/

6 years ago

799 upvotes – 81 comments

Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better

6 years ago

745 upvotes – 305 comments

WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1296879217297113088

6 years ago

438 upvotes – 339 comments

Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

6 years ago

438 upvotes – 211 comments

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?

https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/

6 years ago

399 upvotes – 336 comments

ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)

http://www.davisr.me/projects/remarkable-microsd/

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 129 comments

An Update on MDN Web Docs

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/08/an-update-on-mdn-web-docs/

6 years ago

361 upvotes – 205 comments

Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/activists-find-camera-inside-mysterious-box-power-pole-near-union-organizers-home/5WCLOAMMBRGYBEJDGH6C74ITBU/

6 years ago

342 upvotes – 184 comments

AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/ai-slays-top-f-16-pilot-in-darpa-dogfight-simulation/

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 423 comments

Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/the-flying-train-moma/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 130 comments

The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets

https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/data-delivery-network-launch

6 years ago

297 upvotes – 95 comments

Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

https://nintendosmash.com/over-three-billion-people-worldwide-now-play-video-games-study-reports/

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 370 comments

Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/leaked-s-1-screenshots-show-palantir-losing-579m-in-2019/

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 187 comments

College Notebook of Isaac Newton

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 69 comments

Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication

https://matrix.org/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 96 comments

Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014)

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/event-queue.html

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 123 comments

Linux from Scratch

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 86 comments

No Hello (2013)

https://www.nohello.com/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 210 comments

‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/electric-mud-teems-new-mysterious-bacteria

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 66 comments
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