Hacker News on 25 August 2019

• What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
• Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
• Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
• From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
• Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
• Write your own Excel in F# (2018)
• QEMU VM Escape
• Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting
• Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise
• Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature