Hacker News on 20 August 2016

• Japanese writing system basics
• Nasa just made all its research available online for free
• A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
• A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines
• Data points that Facebook uses to target ads
• If English were written like Chinese (1999)
• Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?
• The Japanese Urban Zoning System
• How to make an efficient payment system in Erlang
• Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check