top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-24

Being OK with not being extraordinary

https://www.tiffanymatthe.com/not-extraordinary

5 years ago

830 upvotes – 382 comments

αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/ape.html

5 years ago

671 upvotes – 286 comments

Unity Software Inc S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810806/000119312520227862/d908875ds1.htm

5 years ago

482 upvotes – 288 comments

Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-story?postId=5f39453f8d01fe00170023fe

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 303 comments

Asana S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477720/000119312520228462/d855753ds1.htm

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 242 comments

Patrick Collison's Questions

https://patrickcollison.com/questions

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 276 comments

A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

https://solovyov.net/blog/2020/a-tale-of-webpage-speed-or-throwing-away-react/

5 years ago

356 upvotes – 300 comments

Docker to rate limit image pulls

https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-docker-to-serve-millions-more-developers-network-egress/

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 263 comments

Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 477 comments

Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

https://www.nocsdegree.com/pieter-levels-learn-coding/

5 years ago

295 upvotes – 143 comments

Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against

5 years ago

272 upvotes – 128 comments

Navy F/A-18 squadron commander's take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35947/navy-f-a-18-squadron-commanders-take-on-ai-repeatedly-beating-real-pilot-in-dogfight

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 416 comments

How I helped fix Canadaʼs Covid Alert app

https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-i-helped-fix-canadas-covid-alert-app

5 years ago

253 upvotes – 45 comments

Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps

https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/building-your-first-micro-saas-app-on-shopify

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 63 comments

The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 112 comments

Automotive Grade Linux

https://www.automotivelinux.org/

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 204 comments

Zoom Partial Outages

https://status.zoom.us/

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 172 comments

Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard connections show how money can distort research

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeffrey-epsteins-harvard-connections-show-how-money-can-distort-research/

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 198 comments

UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-eats-driver-who-scraped-data-alleges-wage-theft-report-2020-8

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 141 comments

Kali Linux 2020.3

https://www.kali.org/news/kali-2020-3-release/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 99 comments

One Year of Nushell

https://www.nushell.sh/blog/2020/08/23/year_of_nushell.html

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 47 comments

Emotional resilience and burnout in leadership

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18FfZ86PGA_uSFf425EzKXAmiFQLFBPqjqPN7iu1TZRw/edit?usp=sharing

5 years ago

207 upvotes – 49 comments

Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 69 comments

Don't ask to ask, just ask

https://dontasktoask.com/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: My notes on Working with Go

https://github.com/betty200744/ultimate-go

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 82 comments

Snowflake S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1640147/000162828020013010/snowflakes-1.htm

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 100 comments

Microsoft backs Epic in court filing

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53888087

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 131 comments

TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17472173/1/tiktok-inc-v-us-department-of-commerce/

5 years ago

163 upvotes – 172 comments

Nuclear Reactor Development History

https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/08/24/motoko-the-language-that-turns-the-web-into-a-computer/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 82 comments

Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite

https://github.com/BlueFlo0d/xwwp/tree/xwwp-ace-dev

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 40 comments

Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53889612

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 116 comments

Why Every City Feels the Same Now

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/why-every-city-feels-same-now/615556/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 276 comments

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/why-you-will-marry-the-wrong-person.html

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 202 comments

Jensen Huang’s vision for data center dominance may destroy the Arm ecosystem

https://semianalysis.com/jensen-huangs-vision-for-data-center-dominance-will-destroy-the-arm-ecosystem/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: There are 5 S-1 posts on the front page, what explains the rush?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24265456

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 43 comments

Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DeepSpeech-At-Risk

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 76 comments

Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters

https://blog.usejournal.com/introducing-journal-2-0-1667b4d295a

5 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster

https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/08/bridgefy-the-app-promoted-for-mass-protests-is-a-privacy-disaster/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

Jaron Lanier on social media

https://www.gq.com/story/jaron-lanier-tech-oracle-profile

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

My startup validation process

https://neilcocker.com/2020/08/22/my-startup-validation-process/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/09/the-robot-revolution-has-arrived-feature/

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 48 comments

Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33

https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-coming-to-fedora-33/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 137 comments

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/#Echobox=1598028651

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 246 comments

Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-women-crowdfunded-radium-marie-curie-180963305/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath

https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/xpath-for-2020/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/building-resilient-services-at-prime-video-with-chaos-engineering/

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 100 comments

How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Sumo Logic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1643269/000119312520227201/d821436ds1.htm

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

Ubuntu Philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Writing an SSDP Directory in Elixir

https://quinnwilton.com/blog/writing-an-ssdp-directory-in-elixir

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

A Simple Scheme Compiler (1997)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_142.html#SEC271

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface

https://www.instanote.io/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

JFrog S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800667/000119312520228195/d841831ds1.htm

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 65 comments

‘CSS X’

https://www.w3.org/blog/2020/03/css-x/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Facebook agrees to pay France €106M in back taxes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53894959

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

People on SO have been working together on a single polyglot program for 4 years

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-language-to-a-polyglot?answertab=oldest#tab-top

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 0 comments

Solaris 10 Zones on Illumos Tribblix

https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2020/08/solaris-10-zones-on-tribblix.html

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Uber's business model is doomed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/gig-economy-uber-lyft-insecurity-crisis

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 108 comments

Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0

5 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

GCD and the magic of subtraction

https://plumsempy.com/2020/08/24/gcd-and-the-magic-of-subtraction/

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface

https://github.com/giannitedesco/minotaur

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments
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