top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-22

Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/

5 years ago

1257 upvotes – 616 comments

The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/

5 years ago

712 upvotes – 399 comments

VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment

https://web.archive.org/web/20220305031855/https://vtm.netxs.online/

5 years ago

524 upvotes – 142 comments

Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/22/21397424/apple-wordpress-apology-iap-free-ios-app

5 years ago

518 upvotes – 371 comments

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/

5 years ago

497 upvotes – 150 comments

Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/08/rosatom-releases-previously-classified-documentary-video-50-mt-novaya-zemlya-test

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 226 comments

Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution

https://www.ventoy.net/

5 years ago

394 upvotes – 106 comments

macOS Security and Privacy Guide

https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

5 years ago

323 upvotes – 89 comments

Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/84495599980-95473476

5 years ago

301 upvotes – 283 comments

Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 220 comments

GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 297 comments

Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mystery-of-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-gets-trickier/

5 years ago

227 upvotes – 227 comments

Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005)

https://www.chronicle.com/article/top-colleges-should-select-randomly-from-a-pool-of-good-enough/

5 years ago

211 upvotes – 297 comments

Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24242412

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 388 comments

Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/29/two-way-mirror-improves-video-conferencing/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 88 comments

Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member

https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-a-patron-member/

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 19 comments

AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings

https://github.com/google/autocxx

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 143 comments

Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/400506/congratulations-for-reaching-a-million-gordon-linoff

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 75 comments

Help Make the 19th Century Searchable

https://blog.archive.org/2020/08/21/can-you-help-us-make-the-19th-century-searchable/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 38 comments

Code for The Economist's election model for 2020

https://github.com/TheEconomist/us-potus-model

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 154 comments
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