top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-08-17

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

https://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds

2 years ago

1614 upvotes – 953 comments

Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/learn-postgres-at-the-playground

2 years ago

814 upvotes – 171 comments

RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD

https://ravynos.com/

2 years ago

769 upvotes – 363 comments

There’s no speed limit (2009)

https://sive.rs/kimo

2 years ago

671 upvotes – 276 comments

Accounting For Developers, Part I

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-developers-part-i

2 years ago

648 upvotes – 186 comments

It wasn't for nothing

https://gexp.no/it-wasnt-for-nothing.html

2 years ago

644 upvotes – 157 comments

Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Vietnam-to-make-Apple-Watch-and-MacBook-for-first-time-ever

2 years ago

555 upvotes – 556 comments

Why I left Pine64

https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 222 comments

Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

https://numpad.io/

2 years ago

488 upvotes – 238 comments

Programming breakthroughs we need

https://yoyo-code.com/programming-breakthroughs-we-need/

2 years ago

419 upvotes – 491 comments

Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/08/17/can-the-visa-mastercard-duopoly-be-broken

2 years ago

409 upvotes – 682 comments

6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/6-raspberry-pis-6-ssds-on-mini-itx-motherboard

2 years ago

385 upvotes – 148 comments

Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/01/16/housing-is-at-the-root-of-many-of-the-rich-worlds-problems

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 789 comments

Tesla Virtual Power Plant

https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/tesla-virtual-power-plant-pge-2022

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 255 comments

High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]

https://eresources.hcourt.gov.au/downloadPdf/2022/HCA/27

2 years ago

335 upvotes – 144 comments

The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure

https://jank-lang.org/

2 years ago

320 upvotes – 79 comments

The erosion of the Mac experience

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1559680018996944898

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 474 comments

JetBrains Research

https://research.jetbrains.org

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 135 comments

One Page Dungeon

https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 27 comments

Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-duo-finds-magic-in-two-dimensions-20220816/

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 41 comments
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