top 20 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

I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 128 comments

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

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

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 125 comments

Creating Shazam in Java (2010)

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

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 36 comments

Cosmopolitan Libc v2.0

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

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 34 comments

The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)

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

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 179 comments

Supabase Vault

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

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 70 comments

The world map that reboots your brain

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

2 years ago

194 upvotes – 186 comments

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

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

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 54 comments

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

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

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 140 comments

So you want to be a consultant? (2005)

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

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 42 comments
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