top 20 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

Firefox 80

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

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 291 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

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

Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes

https://www.privacytools.io/providers/#ukusa

5 years ago

345 upvotes – 150 comments

Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip

https://psyche.co/ideas/you-want-people-to-do-the-right-thing-save-them-the-guilt-trip

5 years ago

339 upvotes – 253 comments

Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches

https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwiches/

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 106 comments

Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11D3kHElzS2HQxTwPqcaTnU5HCJ8WGE5brTXI4KLf4dM/edit

5 years ago

299 upvotes – 92 comments

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years

https://footwearnews.com/2020/business/executive-moves/zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh-steps-down-1203045974/

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 172 comments

New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/a-hidden-tycoon-african-explosives-and-a-loan-from-a-notorious-bank-questionable-connections-surround-beirut-explosion-shipment

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 213 comments

Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces

https://klim.co.nz/blog/signifier-design-information/

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 87 comments

What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition

https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2020/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 209 comments

Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?

https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/38319

5 years ago

233 upvotes – 156 comments

A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 87 comments
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