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Hacker News (25 Aug 2019)

  1. What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

    1025 points • 301 comments • aug 25, 2019

  2. Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer

    826 points • 290 comments • aug 25, 2019

  3. Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

    497 points • 311 comments • aug 25, 2019

  4. From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love

    473 points • 440 comments • aug 25, 2019

  5. Write your own Excel in F# (2018)

    396 points • 83 comments • aug 25, 2019

  6. Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel

    388 points • 207 comments • aug 25, 2019

  7. QEMU VM Escape

    297 points • 57 comments • aug 25, 2019

  8. Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting

    263 points • 78 comments • aug 25, 2019

  9. Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise

    261 points • 57 comments • aug 25, 2019

  10. Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature

    248 points • 350 comments • aug 25, 2019