HackerNews most popular stories from Aug 02, 2020 to Aug 09, 2020. In one blog post.
[0] Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
[1] Laws of UX
[2] 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
https://twitter.com/deletescape/status/1291405688204402689
[3] Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today/
[4] Frances Allen has died
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/08/remembering-frances-allen/
[5] Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
[6] Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
[7] A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVgoy_a_gWI
[8] US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
[9] Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/
[10] In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/
[11] I’m Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base
https://www.troyhunt.com/im-open-sourcing-the-have-i-been-pwned-code-base/
[12] Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis
[13] Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
https://www.ycombinator.com/library
[14] Microsoft Fast Design
https://www.fast.design/docs/introduction
[15] Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038520
[16] 1Password for Linux development preview
https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/114964/
[17] Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates
[18] SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down in the Gulf of Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/science/spacex-nasa-return.html
[19] The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/
[20] Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-indefinitely.html
[21] SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJR4gZBLMNw
[22] US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
https://twitter.com/jc_stubbs/status/1289199296328298497
[23] Thomas Sowell interview
https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture
[24] The Art of Not Thinking
http://tiffanymatthe.com/not-thinking
[25] Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
[26] Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot
https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b
[27] To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/08/07/google-documents-show-taboo-words-antitrust
[28] Oatly: The New Coke?
https://divinations.substack.com/p/oatly-the-new-coke#
[29] We quit our jobs to build a cabin
https://www.outsideonline.com/2415766/friends-diy-cabin-build-washington