top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-26

Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

https://arwes.dev

6 years ago

1326 upvotes – 225 comments

Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

https://heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com/

6 years ago

843 upvotes – 192 comments

MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

https://mixedname.com/

6 years ago

602 upvotes – 257 comments

Why Johnny Won't Upgrade

https://jacquesmattheij.com/why-johnny-wont-upgrade/

6 years ago

537 upvotes – 571 comments

Is TDD Dead? (2014)

https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/

6 years ago

445 upvotes – 476 comments

D3 6.0

https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/CHANGES.md

6 years ago

330 upvotes – 86 comments

New Racket Language Website

https://racket-lang.org/

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 98 comments

Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/jacques-cousteaus-grandson-wants-to-build-international-space-station-of-the-sea-180975635/

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 152 comments

SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-191

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 247 comments

How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-sackler-family-money/

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 220 comments

Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/preparing-our-partners-for-ios-14-launch/

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 301 comments

Show HN: ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D

https://bennettfeely.com/ztext/

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 35 comments

Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look

http://www.brickfinder.net/2020/07/11/lego-ikea-bygglek-first-look/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 133 comments

US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos

https://torrentfreak.com/us-indictments-and-raids-of-piracy-group-members-in-the-scene-throw-top-tier-piracy-world-into-chaos-200826/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 291 comments

Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

https://github.com/iggredible/Learn-Vim

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 130 comments

Hands-on WebAssembly

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/hands-on-webassembly-try-the-basics

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 80 comments

Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook

https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 60 comments

Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it

https://gizmodo.com/belarus-turned-off-the-internet-its-citizens-hot-wired-1844853575

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 122 comments

Portland passes low-density zoning reform

https://www.sightline.org/2020/08/11/on-wednesday-portland-will-pass-the-best-low-density-zoning-reform-in-us-history/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 419 comments

An Archive of a Different Type

http://blog.archive.org/2020/08/26/an-archive-of-a-different-type/

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 35 comments

First tax year with Stripe Atlas

https://tryhexadecimal.com/journal/business-taxes

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 165 comments

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/compsci105s1c/resources/ProblemSolvingwithAlgorithmsandDataStructures.pdf

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 17 comments

YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used

https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-startups

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 150 comments

Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate

https://www.rarlab.com/revoked591.html

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 155 comments

Rethinking the App Store

https://stratechery.com/2020/rethinking-the-app-store/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 343 comments

Andy Matuschak's Notes

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland

https://cedaei.com/posts/vim-like-layer-for-xorg-wayland/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 62 comments

Willscott/go-NFS: Golang NFSv3 server

https://github.com/willscott/go-nfs/

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 56 comments

Non-obvious remote work techniques

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3417752

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 84 comments

Unicornify

Https://unicornify.pictures

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 12 comments

PCI Express Retimers vs. Redrivers: An Eye-Popping Difference (2019)

https://www.asteralabs.com/2019/06/26/pci-express-retimers-vs-redrivers-an-eye-popping-difference/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 43 comments

Discrete Cosine Transform in Video Compression – Explain Like I'm Five

https://ottverse.com/discrete-cosine-transform-dct-video-compression/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 47 comments

SSH Keygen – RSA, DSA, Ecdsa, EdDSA

https://gravitational.com/blog/comparing-ssh-keys/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 42 comments

Kubernetes 1.19

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.19.md

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200825-indonesia-the-plants-that-mine-poisonous-metals

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-25/citi-s-900-million-misfire-happened-in-midst-of-software-switch

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 52 comments

SS7 cellular network flaw being exploited to drain bank accounts

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190131/10492341502/ss7-cellular-network-flaw-nobody-wants-to-fix-now-being-exploited-to-drain-bank-accounts.shtml

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Cloudflare, Google, Bing Destroying the Infrastructure of the Free Web

http://gigablast.com/blog.html

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-says-apples-new-iphone-update-will-disrupt-online-advertising-11598458715

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 87 comments

Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%

https://jakewharton.com/shrinking-a-kotlin-binary/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize

https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2019/01/scientists-who-never-won.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 99 comments

Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07647

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant

https://msadowski.github.io/2-years-remote-consulting/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots

https://www.openbot.org/

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

https://noirlab.edu/public/products/techdocs/techdoc003/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 109 comments

How Drakeo the Ruler recorded an album from jail

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-drakeo-the-ruler-recorded-thank-you-for-using-gtl-from-jail-joogszn-interview/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33797162/2021-lucid-air-517-mile-range-113-kwh-battery/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 185 comments

TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/08/introducing-tensorflow-coder-tool.html

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Lehrer_Songs/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Expert overclockers successfully push DOOM Eternal past 1k frames per second

https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en/article/48xD6yVj0VsulONXKAnr7n/doom-eternal-overclocked-at-1000-fps

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating

https://www.sciencealert.com/right-on-schedule-a-repeating-fast-radio-burst-has-woken-up

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

Shakuntala Devi – The Human Computer (2016)

https://petersmagnusson.org/2016/01/15/shakuntala-devi-the-human-computer/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Jetpack Compose Alpha is released

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/announcing-jetpack-compose-alpha.html

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Melancholy of obsolete futures: on Soviet Brutalism

https://thecritic.co.uk/melancholy-of-obsolete-futures/

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 77 comments

Differentiable Control Problems

https://fluxml.ai/2019/03/05/dp-vs-rl.html

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments
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