top 50% 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

How NAT Traversal Works

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 28 comments

Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server

https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server3.html

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 132 comments

Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear

https://medium.com/generation-atomic/for-the-first-time-world-learns-truth-about-risk-of-nuclear-6b7e97d435df

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 163 comments

Debian Janitor: 60k Lintian Issues Automatically Fixed

https://www.jelmer.uk/janitor-update-3.html

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 20 comments

WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=165248

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

Future of DeepSpeech / STT after recent changes at Mozilla

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/future-of-deepspeech-stt-after-recent-changes-at-mozilla/66191

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML

https://github.com/samsonmking/epaper.js

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 12 comments

The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-library-books-maps-artworks-180975506/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 47 comments

How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/magazine/teeth-mewing-incels.html

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 212 comments

Anti-piracy outfit hires VPN expert to help track down The Pirate Bay

https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-hires-vpn-expert-to-help-track-down-the-pirate-bay-200821/

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 84 comments

Today is Earth Overshoot Day – (08/22)

https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-days/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 31 comments

Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2143375/1994-he-convinced-22-family-and-friends-each-pay

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 95 comments

Dropshipping: Hustlers making millions from goods they never handle

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53759932

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping

https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cost-saver

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 55 comments

Teletext Bad Apple

https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-badapple.html

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 33 comments

Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904943006/fallen-boulder-reveals-313-million-year-old-fossil-footprints-at-grand-canyon

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man

https://acoup.blog/2020/08/21/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-iv-markets-and-non-farmers/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller

https://arnholm.github.io/angelcad-docs/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 68 comments

Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos

http://www.righto.com/2020/08/reverse-engineering-8086s.html

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Rogue planets could outnumber the stars

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-rogue-planets-outnumber-stars.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

C# .NET Core versus Java fastest programs

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/csharp.html

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243598

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 168 comments

Nasal vaccine against Covid-19 prevents infection in mice

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/nasal-vaccine-against-covid-19-prevents-infection-in-mice/

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors

https://cloudflaremirrors.com/

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 57 comments

Stef's Free Online Smalltalk Books

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Implement an emulator for a fantasy CPU in JavaScript

https://dev.to/codeguppy/implement-an-emulator-for-a-fantasy-cpu-in-javascript-3617

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python

https://codemap.app

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments
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