top 50% 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

Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000765211

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 111 comments

Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 180 comments

Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/houston-hurricane-ship-channel-orourke/

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 204 comments

Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-draft-of-ocaml-scientific-computing-book

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 129 comments

Palantir S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520230013/d904406ds1.htm

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 203 comments

‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16028/better-yield-on-5nm-than-7nm-tsmc-update-on-defect-rates-for-n5

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 255 comments

Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/igbbh2/the_scots_language_wikipedia_is_edited_primarily/

5 years ago

193 upvotes – 48 comments

Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition

https://bitbucket.org/Pirates-of-Silicon-Hills/voightkampff

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 120 comments

Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vk

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 202 comments

Japan facing credit card number shortage

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200821/p2a/00m/0bu/025000c

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 344 comments

The longest train ride in the world (2019)

https://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the-world/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 104 comments

WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web

https://brave.com/webbundles-harmful-to-content-blocking-security-tools-and-the-open-web/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 144 comments

What happens when you load a URL? (2015)

https://danluu.com/navigate-url/

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 72 comments

Jacksonpollock.org (2003)

https://jacksonpollock.org/

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 151 comments

The Rapier Physics Engine

https://www.dimforge.com/blog/2020/08/25/announcing-the-rapier-physics-engine/

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 83 comments

A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 40 comments

Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world

https://medium.com/@hajinlee/impact-of-go-ai-on-the-professional-go-world-f14cf201c7c2

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 89 comments

Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021

https://www.engadget.com/boom-supersonic-xb-1-2021-130025910.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 207 comments

US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-home-construction-surges-226-straight-increase-72440918

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 243 comments

Show HN: Will It CORS? – an automatic CORS explainer

http://willitcors.com

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

https://github.com/model-zoo/shift-ctrl-f

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

Understanding DNS: Anatomy of a BIND zone file

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/understanding-dns-anatomy-of-a-bind-zone-file/

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 43 comments

Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53875370

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 125 comments

Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-with-profile.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

DIY Single-Chip 2D Retro Game Console

http://www.voja.rs/PROJECTS/GAME_HTM/1_intro.htm

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 26 comments

Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa81OJnlsoI

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 35 comments

Clover: An all-in-one notebook

https://cloverapp.co/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 85 comments

Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/amazon-is-delivering-nearly-two-thirds-of-its-own-packages.html

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 198 comments

Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/firefox_android_update/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 252 comments

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

https://github.com/aws/aws-controllers-k8s

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk

https://diff.substack.com/p/amazon-a-new-kind-of-antitrust-risk

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 39 comments

Boston Dynamics' Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/boston-dynamics-handle-robot-recreated-with-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

SourMint Malicious SDK

https://snyk.io/research/sour-mint-malicious-sdk/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fulltext

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes

https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 67 comments

My AI Timelines Have Sped Up

https://www.alexirpan.com/2020/08/18/ai-timelines.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 130 comments

Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/iggp4z/reddit_shuts_down_ama_from_former_nsa_technical/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

How to not fear your death: An Epicurean perspective

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-use-philosophy-to-overcome-the-fear-of-your-own-death

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 166 comments

User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)

https://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 65 comments

What Is the Small Web?

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 118 comments

Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole in the blade

https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2020/07/17/evgeny-kuznetsov-practices-with-bauer-stick-that-has-hole-in-the-blade/

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features

https://status.slack.com/2020-08/960bbb3c9d49a3cc

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics

https://segment.com/blog/easier-management-of-Kafka-topics-with-topicctl/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments
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