top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-08-30

Level 3 Global Outage

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.html

5 years ago

914 upvotes – 368 comments

Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs

https://webrtcforthecurious.com/

5 years ago

667 upvotes – 72 comments

After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/08/23/after-48-years-democrats-endorse-nuclear-energy-in-platform/#3c7687df5829

5 years ago

539 upvotes – 471 comments

Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

http://vimacapp.com

5 years ago

375 upvotes – 73 comments

A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects

https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 49 comments

Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/28/players-are-fixing-microsoft-flight-simulators-missing-monuments-with-google-maps/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 182 comments

New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/giant-new-50-metre-deep-crater-opens-up-in-arctic-tundra/

5 years ago

302 upvotes – 109 comments

Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hptvkprkvp23

5 years ago

270 upvotes – 22 comments

Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research

https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq

5 years ago

261 upvotes – 142 comments

Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36013/mexican-drug-cartel-now-assassinating-its-enemies-with-improvised-explosive-toting-drones

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 354 comments

Essentials of Programming Languages

http://eopl3.com/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries

https://longreads.com/2020/08/20/how-to-learn-everything-the-masterclass-diaries/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 58 comments

The Recursive Universe

http://www.amandaghassaei.com/blog/2020/05/01/the-recursive-universe/

5 years ago

234 upvotes – 51 comments

The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue

https://thehustle.co/meet-the-menu-engineers-helping-restaurants-retool-during-the-pandemic/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 156 comments

Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds

https://www.attejuvonen.fi/money-out-of-thin-air/

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 222 comments

So you want to roll your own crypto?

https://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2020/08/so-you-want-to-roll-your-own-crypto.html?m=1

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 128 comments

Barbados introduces plan to allow visitors to work remotely there for a year

https://money.yahoo.com/barbabos-introduces-plan-to-allow-visitors-to-work-remotely-there-for-a-year-192734193.html

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 169 comments

Multi-Tenant Architectures

https://blog.codonomics.com/2020/08/multi-tenant-architectures.html

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 99 comments

We Know How to Prevent Megafires

https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen/

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 103 comments

Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/30/last-week-on-my-mac-is-macos-becoming-unmaintainable/

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 198 comments

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2003)

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code/blob/master/README.md

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 85 comments

Lord of the Manor: a medieval city builder game

http://www.lordofthemanor.io/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 22 comments

Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner

https://lainsystems.com/posts/exploring-mullender-dot-c/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-rd-lab/

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 84 comments

Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++

https://github.com/alandefreitas/matplotplusplus

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995)

https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 14 comments

How to Read a Log Scale

https://blog.datawrapper.de/weeklychart-logscale/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 25 comments

We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory

https://engineering.mongodb.com/post/we-replaced-an-ssd-with-storage-class-memory-here-is-what-we-learned

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 68 comments

Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/27/facebook-vs-apple-ad-tracking/

5 years ago

115 upvotes – 115 comments

I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/30/black-us-diplomat-customs-border-protection-cbp-detained-harassed-325676

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders

http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2020/07/tsmc-builds-dedicated-28nm-fab-for-sony.html?m=1

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 62 comments

Yml Coding

https://cloud.google.com/workflows/docs/reference/syntax

5 years ago

97 upvotes – 82 comments

Photoreal Roman Emperor Project

https://medium.com/@voshart/photoreal-roman-emperor-project-236be7f06c8f

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: How does your data science or machine learning team handle DevOps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24323778

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-farms-look-like-circles-from-planes

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings

https://github.com/ranger/ranger

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments
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