top 10 hacker news stories for 2022-08-20

Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/commit/9ebe940cf3c652b0e373634d2aa4a00b8395b636

2 years ago

618 upvotes – 208 comments

AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage

https://twitter.com/adrianco/status/1560854827810361345

2 years ago

489 upvotes – 201 comments

Diablo 1 for Web Browsers

https://github.com/d07RiV/diabloweb

2 years ago

449 upvotes – 109 comments

Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf

2 years ago

426 upvotes – 177 comments

Zig is now self–hosted by default

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Self-Hosted-Compiler-Upgrade-Guide

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 111 comments

Visual Sum of Cubes

https://x.st/visual-sum-of-cubes/

2 years ago

362 upvotes – 39 comments

Coping with Copilot

https://www.sigarch.org/coping-with-copilot/

2 years ago

333 upvotes – 444 comments

After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/city-michael-heizers-desert-masterpiece-2162720

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 360 comments

Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32532875

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 83 comments

The Merge

https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 390 comments
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