top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-07-29

How Dwarf Fortress is built

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

5 years ago

1130 upvotes – 388 comments

The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

https://alexskra.com/blog/the-mermaid-is-taking-over-google-search-in-norway/

5 years ago

903 upvotes – 346 comments

Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”

https://i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4Hg99zw.jpg

5 years ago

669 upvotes – 620 comments

Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale

https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale

5 years ago

627 upvotes – 360 comments

Crafting Interpreters is available in print

http://craftinginterpreters.com/

5 years ago

623 upvotes – 118 comments

Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html

5 years ago

544 upvotes – 502 comments

“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1420807961518088194

5 years ago

454 upvotes – 173 comments

Command line tools for productive programmers

https://earthly.dev/blog/command-line-tools/

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 140 comments

Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 211 comments

Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/

5 years ago

334 upvotes – 342 comments

Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22598747/kindle-3g-network-shutdown-e-readers-no-internet

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 314 comments

Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it

http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google-is-in-on-it

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 282 comments

Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley reaches one billion views [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

5 years ago

290 upvotes – 135 comments

Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database

https://news.err.ee/1608291072/hacker-downloads-close-to-300-000-personal-id-photos

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 124 comments

FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-white-papers-on-philosophical-and-legal-questions-around-copilot

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 198 comments

Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 74 comments

UsTaxes – open-source tax filing web application

https://ustaxes.org/start

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 53 comments

The Playdate store is now open

https://shop.play.date/

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 185 comments

One Tenth of a Second

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/one-tenth-of-a-second

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 91 comments

Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-remote-culture-war-has-begun

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 163 comments
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