top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-08-20

Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Diablo 1 for Web Browsers

https://github.com/d07RiV/diabloweb

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

Zig is now self–hosted by default

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

4 years ago

Visual Sum of Cubes

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

4 years ago

Coping with Copilot

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

4 years ago

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

The Merge

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

4 years ago

I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

https://lucytalksdata.com/i-receated-famous-album-covers-with-dalle/

4 years ago

Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more

https://webkit.org/blog/13096/css-has-pseudo-class/

4 years ago

Creating Shazam in Java (2010)

https://www.royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

4 years ago

Cosmopolitan Libc v2.0

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/2.0

4 years ago

The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)

https://continuations.com/post/685683226736525312/joseph-tainter-the-collapse-of-complex-societies

4 years ago

Supabase Vault

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-vault

4 years ago

The world map that reboots your brain

https://axbom.com/world-map/

4 years ago

Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/20/23308217/lego-brick-computer-james-brown

4 years ago

Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530203

4 years ago

So you want to be a consultant? (2005)

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

4 years ago