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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2012)

    99 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  2. DikuMUD 3 Is Released

    99 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  3. How Eduardo Saverin sold Facebook ads in 2004 (2012)

    99 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  4. RecallGraph – an open-source graph database, for version controlled graph data

    99 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  5. Containers from first principles

    98 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  6. J for C Programmers

    98 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  7. Free user space for non-graphics drivers

    98 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  8. Learning How to Learn

    98 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  9. There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017)

    98 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  10. The failure of Sprig

    98 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  11. MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign

    98 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  12. Trump suspends H1B and non-immigrant visas

    98 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  13. Apple, Hey, and the Path Forward

    98 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  14. Assange indictment fails to mention video that exposed US 'war crimes' in Iraq

    98 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  15. A gentle introduction to pointers using C (2019)

    98 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  16. Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?

    98 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  17. Show HN: LCC – Open-Source Spatial Audio from Stereo Speakers

    98 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  18. Show HN: XgeneCloud – Instant REST and GraphQL APIs on Any SQL Database

    98 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  19. A Nearly Extinct Bootlegger's Corn Gets a Second Shot (2018)

    97 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  20. Fremont Tesla workers tested positive for coronavirus days after plant reopened

    97 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  21. USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year

    97 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  22. A Future Without MPEG

    97 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  23. Archaeologists have mapped a Roman city using ground-penetrating radar

    97 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  24. Solving Jepsen with OpenCensus Distributed Tracing

    97 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  25. Dexplot: Python library for data visualization

    97 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  26. How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (1995) [pdf]

    97 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  27. A visual chronicle of Tokyo’s disappearing jazz bars (2016)

    97 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  28. Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium

    96 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  29. Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store

    96 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  30. Parcel and Rust: A WASM Romcom

    96 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  31. Functional Programming for Array-Based Parallelism

    96 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  32. Bees Can Sense the Electric Fields of Flowers (2013)

    96 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  33. A Raspberry Pi as a decent residential proxy

    96 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  34. Popular Pirate Sites Slowly “Disappear” from Google’s Top Search Results

    96 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  35. Stockton extends its monthly $500 UBI payment experiment

    96 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  36. The Value of Life

    96 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  37. Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results from a Randomized Trial

    96 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  38. Genes, blood type tied to risk of severe Covid-19

    96 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  39. Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (1974) [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  40. CityLab has been relaunched under the Bloomberg umbrella

    96 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  41. Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands

    96 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  42. Expose – A fully open-source ngrok alternative written in PHP

    96 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  43. HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

    96 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  44. Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander

    95 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  45. Shapes is a real-time vector graphics library for Unity

    95 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  46. Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer

    95 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  47. The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard

    95 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  48. A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data

    95 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  49. On “White Fragility”

    95 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  50. Show HN: Tunnelto.dev – expose localhost with a public URL (built in Rust)

    95 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  51. Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]

    95 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  52. Tell HN: Skiena's “The Algorithm Design Manual” currently free from publisher

    95 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  53. How to receive a million packets per second (2015)

    95 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  54. ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

    94 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  55. How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript

    94 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  56. Show HN: Relay – Event-driven DevOps automation

    94 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  57. Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery

    94 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  58. Returning the “killed” RSS of Reuters from the dead

    94 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Is it too late to start creating content on YouTube?

    94 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  60. Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase

    94 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  61. Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer

    94 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  62. FPGA: Why So Few Open Source Drivers for Open Hardware?

    94 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  63. Implementing a System Call for OpenBSD

    94 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  64. Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported

    94 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  65. Dream Homes from the Past Century

    94 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  66. New research helps unravel how vast amounts of plastic particles travel

    93 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  67. Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?

    93 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  68. Apple machine learning in 2020: What’s new?

    93 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  69. How I made $3,300 on a short niche philosophy book

    93 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  70. Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

    93 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  71. I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit

    93 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  72. Deep Learning from Scratch Part 3: Generalizing Gradient Descent

    93 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  73. Qualified Immunity: Explained

    93 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  74. Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2B

    93 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  75. Facebook rejects calls to share advertising revenue with Australian media

    92 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  76. Pico-8: Enabling more than 16 colors on the screen

    92 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  77. Goldman Sachs Created a Font, but You're Forbidden by Its License to Critique GS

    92 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  78. Norimaki Synthesizer: Taste Display Using Ion Electrophoresis in Five Gels

    92 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  79. Show HN: Findka – Personalized recommendations for any type of content

    92 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  80. Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight's Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth

    92 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  81. The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't (2010)

    92 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  82. Ask HN: Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?

    92 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  83. Stuck at home, scientists discover new insect species

    91 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  84. Mathematics in type theory

    91 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  85. Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration

    91 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  86. What every scientific programmer should know about compiler optimizations?

    91 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  87. What is a photon? (2017)

    91 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  88. Ask HN: You cannot delete comments posts or your account on HN. Concerned?

    91 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  89. Red Hat reports security issue in Linux Kernel which was fixed 17 months prior

    91 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  90. Human Hibernation Is a Real Possibility

    91 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  91. Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation

    91 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  92. The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (1996) [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  93. Building an online community around learning from incidents (2019)

    90 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  94. A tech stack should be a well-balanced portfolio

    90 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  95. WhatsApp has introduced a feature that allows users to send and receive money

    90 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  96. Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views) with a copyright claim

    90 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  97. Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture

    90 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  98. The Shareware Scene, Part 5: Narratives of Doom

    90 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  99. The Waypoint NDA

    90 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  100. Chance of finding young Earth-like planets higher than previously thought

    90 points • comment • jun 05, 2020