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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. Specific ways to write better Python (2017)

    150 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  2. FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]

    150 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  3. Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm

    150 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  4. Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons

    149 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  5. 5G and Shannon’s Law

    149 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  6. Fountain pen ink properties

    149 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  7. Editors (Vim)

    149 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  8. Micromort

    149 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  9. China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong

    149 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  10. Guide to Linux System Calls (2016)

    149 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  11. C performance mystery: delete unused string constant

    149 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  12. Mounting clues suggest the coronavirus might trigger diabetes

    149 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  13. Show HN: Code Notes – A Gatsby theme for publishing code-related notes

    149 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  14. Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

    149 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  15. Logistic regression from scratch

    148 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  16. Amazon Announces $2B Fund to Invest in Climate Tech Companies

    148 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  17. Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach

    148 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  18. Facebook Novi and Surveillance Finance

    148 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  19. ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization

    148 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  20. Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

    147 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  21. Paper Airplane Designs

    147 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  22. Stitch Fix to Lay off About 1,400 Employees in California

    147 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  23. Gated Linear Networks

    147 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  24. Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life

    147 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  25. Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams

    147 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  26. Tons of microplastic rain onto western US

    147 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  27. How to use FIDO2 USB keys with SSH

    146 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  28. Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Free Software in Jeopardy

    146 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  29. The Rise of Platform Engineering

    146 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  30. Why Sleep Deprivation Kills

    145 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  31. The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword Syntax

    145 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  32. Minimizing Rust Binary Size

    145 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  33. Show HN: Offset – Credit card powered by trust between people

    145 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  34. Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation

    145 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  35. The case for declaring armed and fully autonomous drone swarms as WMD

    145 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  36. Show HN: Random Roads

    144 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  37. Ask HN: How do you divide time between engaging with users and development?

    144 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  38. Putin's People – a groundbreaking study that follows the money

    144 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  39. Procedural Lake Village

    144 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  40. PHP Insights: Analyze the code quality of PHP projects

    144 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  41. An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

    144 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  42. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML

    143 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  43. New technology for aluminum production promises zero CO2 emission

    143 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  44. Unker Non-Linear Writing System

    143 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  45. Solar storm risk and EMP attacks

    142 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  46. Larder.io – Bookmarking for Developers

    142 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  47. Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

    142 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  48. 12 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age'

    142 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  49. Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS (2018)

    142 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  50. Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?

    142 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  51. NRF52 Firmware Readout and Reverse-Engineering Now Possible

    141 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  52. Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'

    141 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  53. Reducing search indexing latency to one second

    141 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  54. Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX

    141 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  55. The Problem with Git Flow

    141 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Have any of you moved back home to save money?

    140 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  57. Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? Rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur (2019)

    140 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  58. GoPlus – The Go+ language for data science

    140 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  59. The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider

    140 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  60. Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 and Today

    140 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  61. Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

    140 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  62. The Shareware Scene, Part 4: Doom

    140 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  63. New system76 laptop: Oryx Pro

    140 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  64. Big Sur on Unsupported Macs

    139 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  65. Speeding up a Git monorepo

    139 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  66. On Systemic Debt

    139 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  67. Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code

    139 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  68. Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)

    139 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  69. How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K. Dick

    139 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  70. Seeing Theory (2017)

    139 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  71. Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?

    139 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  72. Show HN: Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises

    138 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  73. Getting Hands-on with io_uring using Go

    138 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  74. What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach?

    138 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  75. The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, landmark gene study finds

    138 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  76. Ansible Alternatives in Python

    138 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  77. Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in the brain

    137 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  78. Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations

    137 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  79. We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to

    137 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  80. Wirecard Scandal Puts Spotlight on Auditor Ernst and Young

    137 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  81. Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler

    137 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  82. Deep Chernoff Faces

    137 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  83. Covid-19: The T Cell Story

    136 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?

    136 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  85. Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg

    136 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  86. 'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy

    136 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  87. A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah

    136 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  88. The Early History of F# [pdf]

    136 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  89. Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year

    136 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  90. How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video]

    136 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  91. IRS programming mystery continues

    135 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  92. GnuTLS: TLS 1.3 session resumption works without master key, allowing MITM

    135 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  93. To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets

    135 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  94. You might as well be a great copy editor

    135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  95. Basics of Pneumatic Logic

    135 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  96. The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads

    135 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  97. Werner Herzog: ‘Film-making is always some sort of risk-taking’

    135 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  98. Show HN: Flatend – Quickly build microservices using P2P networking in Node/Go

    135 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  99. Apple Safari to Block Google Analytics from Collecting Data

    135 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  100. Bypass kernel lockdown/UEFI secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 with ACPI SSDT injection

    134 points • comment • jun 15, 2020