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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat

    134 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  2. Launch HN: Mighty Health (YC S19) – Health coaching for people over 50

    134 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  3. The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5)

    134 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  4. Dems pitch $100B broadband plan

    134 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  5. Pseudonymity as a Trivial Concession to Genius

    134 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  6. Even if you’re asymptomatic, the coronavirus can do damage

    134 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  7. The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low

    134 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  8. How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses

    134 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  9. Working Group Last Call: QUIC protocol drafts

    134 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  10. Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)

    133 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  11. Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards

    133 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  12. F-117s had an air-to-air capability with secondary mission to shoot Soviet AWACS

    133 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  13. Building a high performance JSON parser

    133 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  14. Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?

    133 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  15. The Art of Prolog (1994)

    133 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  16. Take control over your feeds to regain mindfulness

    133 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  17. NSA Exposes Tool Used by Russian Hackers

    133 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  18. Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People?

    133 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  19. Show HN: Math to Code – Interactive NumPy tutorial for engineers

    132 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  20. Tolkien’s Mythic Plan for England

    132 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  21. Ask HN: How to develop a growth mindset?

    132 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  22. Pycopy – a minimalist and memory-efficient Python implementation

    132 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  23. Repetition and Learning – misconceptions about effective studying

    131 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  24. Unilever is latest brand to boycott Facebook

    131 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  25. Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017)

    131 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  26. On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (1975) [pdf]

    131 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  27. Self-Hosted Homelab Website

    131 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  28. Spark joy by running fewer tests

    131 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  29. Firefox 77

    131 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  30. Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections

    131 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  31. Snabb: 100 Gbit/s pure software switching using Lua (2019)

    131 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  32. Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days

    131 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  33. Questions to help people decide what to learn

    131 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  34. Formal Systems in Biology

    130 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  35. A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (2015)

    130 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  36. Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal

    130 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  37. Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed

    129 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  38. Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

    129 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  39. Way to keep your cool running a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)

    129 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  40. Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams

    129 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  41. Fix Your Timestep

    128 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  42. nCino S-1

    128 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  43. Choosing between democracy and party, Americans will chose party over democracy

    128 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  44. The Sickness in Our Food Supply

    128 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  45. Trying something again

    127 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  46. Reverse Engineering the Comtech AHA363 PCIe Gzip Accelerator Board

    127 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  47. Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation

    127 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  48. Ethics in Geo

    127 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  49. Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration

    127 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  50. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

    127 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  51. UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage

    127 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  52. Show HN: Watch what files any Linux process accesses

    127 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  53. Show HN: Global sailing navigation simulator using real weather/ocean data

    127 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  54. Michael Hawley of MIT's Media Lab has died

    127 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  55. The Hamler Programming Language

    126 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  56. No Code

    126 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  57. Show HN: Program “Greppy”, a 2-wheeled robot, using a new robotics language

    126 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  58. Community open letter against renaming Wikimedia to Wikipedia

    126 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  59. Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet

    126 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  60. Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More

    126 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  61. A Graphical Introduction to Lattices

    126 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  62. High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization

    126 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  63. Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?

    126 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  64. Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro

    126 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  65. The rise of embarrassingly parallel serverless compute

    126 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  66. Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14

    125 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  67. SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites

    125 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  68. LibreSSL 3.2.0 – TLS 1.3

    125 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  69. High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers

    125 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  70. Show HN: FontEdit – A desktop app to develop fonts for embedded systems displays

    125 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  71. How to sell open source software: Guacamole case study

    124 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  72. Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game

    124 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  73. Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month

    124 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  74. Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming

    124 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  75. The death of the private citizen?

    124 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  76. I Cannot Remain Silent

    124 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  77. Relax for the Same Result (2015)

    124 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  78. Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey

    124 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  79. “Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?

    123 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  80. Announce bad news without lying to your team

    123 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  81. Science without Validation in a World without Meaning

    123 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  82. My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence

    123 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  83. FF Sandbox Escape

    123 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  84. Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work

    123 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  85. Autopen

    123 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  86. Show HN: Collection of animated algorithms and data structures

    123 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  87. DeepMind introduces ‘EATS’: adversarial, end-to-end approach to text-to-speech

    123 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  88. Linux to begin tightening up ability to write to CPU MSRs from user-space

    122 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  89. The history that James Baldwin wanted America to see

    122 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  90. Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)

    122 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  91. Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit

    122 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  92. An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Overflow [pdf]

    122 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  93. Show HN: GIF Directions

    122 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  94. Why I left Substack and the Email Renaissance

    122 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  95. The FDA's perpetual process machine

    122 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  96. IMAP Email Backup

    122 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  97. Scientists have lost their jobs after NIH probe into foreign ties

    122 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  98. The War on Drugs Is Far More Immoral Than Most Drug Use (2013)

    122 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  99. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

    121 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  100. Returning from a Year of Isolation in Antarctica

    121 points • comment • jun 29, 2020