top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-23

Persisting as a solo founder

https://vishnu.tech/posts/persistence/

5 years ago

699 upvotes – 257 comments

US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails

https://viewfromthewing.com/us-border-patrol-says-they-can-create-central-repository-of-traveler-emails-keep-them-for-75-years/

5 years ago

406 upvotes – 364 comments

Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ketamine-injected-arrests-draws-scrutiny-72542386

5 years ago

332 upvotes – 402 comments

Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2020/08/never-run-python-in-your-downloads-folder.html

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 205 comments

Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W

https://github.com/lukicdarkoo/rpi-wifi

5 years ago

252 upvotes – 90 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-stoked-washingtons-fears-about-tiktok-11598223133

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 201 comments

Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks

https://github.com/rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 80 comments

Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aenm.202001189

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 223 comments

Build Your Own FPGA (2012)

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 15 comments

Bare Metal Rust Generics

https://www.ecorax.net/as-above-so-below-1/

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 57 comments

Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/paragon_tries_to_contribute_ntfs/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 149 comments

Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains

https://zainamro.com/hacks/finding-vulnerable-twitter-accounts

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 125 comments

YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme

https://torrentfreak.com/yts-torrent-giant-is-part-of-a-bizarre-brand-new-anti-piracy-scheme-200823/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 94 comments

Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/22/apple-takes-prepear-logo-trademark-fight-to-canada

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 131 comments

How to Leave Work at Work

https://hbr.org/2020/02/how-to-leave-work-at-work

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

The demise of the second-hand bookshop

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-demise-of-the-second-hand-bookshop/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 153 comments

Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings

https://www.fastcompany.com/90538655/facebook-is-quietly-pressuring-its-independent-fact-checkers-to-change-their-rulings

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 127 comments

Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

https://songwhip.com

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS

https://github.com/nsfw-filter/nsfw-filter

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 157 comments

Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash

https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-leaving-behind-toxic-trash/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 156 comments
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