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Hacker News (20 Aug 2022)

  1. Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

    592 points • 191 comments • aug 20, 2022

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

    473 points • 194 comments • aug 20, 2022

  3. Diablo 1 for Web Browsers

    437 points • 108 comments • aug 20, 2022

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

    416 points • 173 comments • aug 20, 2022

  5. Zig is now self–hosted by default

    371 points • 107 comments • aug 20, 2022

  6. Visual Sum of Cubes

    354 points • 37 comments • aug 20, 2022

  7. Coping with Copilot

    321 points • 433 comments • aug 20, 2022

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

    278 points • 81 comments • aug 20, 2022

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

    275 points • 351 comments • aug 20, 2022

  10. The Merge

    225 points • 349 comments • aug 20, 2022