top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-08-25

Africa declared free of wild polio

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53887947

5 years ago

1387 upvotes – 241 comments

How to Write in Plain English

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html

5 years ago

724 upvotes – 313 comments

Please read the paper before you comment

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/please-read-the-paper-before-you-comment/

5 years ago

719 upvotes – 327 comments

Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

https://nullsweep.com/kindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data/

5 years ago

545 upvotes – 379 comments

Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 795 comments

Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR

https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi

5 years ago

415 upvotes – 84 comments

Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/apple-ordered-to-not-block-epic-games-unreal-engine-but-fortnite-to-stay-off-app-store/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 625 comments

Firefox 80

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0/releasenotes/

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 291 comments

2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-000-year-old-redwoods-survive-wildfire-california-s-oldest-n1237949

5 years ago

399 upvotes – 203 comments

OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=364746

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 180 comments
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