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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers

    551 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  2. Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

    547 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  3. Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

    542 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  4. The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

    541 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  5. Boston bans use of facial recognition technology

    541 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  6. On Coding, Ego and Attention

    537 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  7. Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

    532 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  8. Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised

    527 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  9. Xi-Editor Retrospective

    526 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  10. How to Become a Hacker

    524 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  11. Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

    523 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  12. Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS

    523 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  13. 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)

    523 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  14. Flow browser passes the Acid tests

    517 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  15. Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots

    510 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  16. Symbian Won

    510 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  17. OpenAI API

    510 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  18. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

    508 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  19. Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming

    505 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  20. BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory

    504 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  21. New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat

    502 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  22. There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs

    502 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  23. America is giving up on the pandemic?

    496 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  24. ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

    494 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  25. Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says

    491 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  26. Guide to Python Debugging

    487 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  27. Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

    486 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  28. macOS in QEMU in Docker

    486 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  29. Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns

    485 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  30. Quora goes permanently remote-first

    484 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  31. U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business

    483 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  32. Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques

    483 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  33. The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS

    479 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  34. I'm resigning from my job at Facebook

    479 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  35. Linear – A fast issue tracker

    478 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  36. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

    478 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  37. The Coming Chip Wars

    477 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  38. AWS Snowcone

    473 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  39. A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess

    472 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  40. New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly

    471 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  41. Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021

    470 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  42. How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)

    470 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  43. Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds

    468 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  44. Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

    467 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  45. Anxiety in product development

    467 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  46. Async Python is not faster

    467 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  47. Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

    464 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  48. Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads

    462 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  49. Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?

    461 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  50. The American Press Is Destroying Itself

    460 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  51. Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

    459 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  52. Bye

    459 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  53. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

    459 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  54. eBay is port scanning visitors to their website

    458 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  55. Video Games Are the Future of Education

    458 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  56. Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing

    455 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  57. Choose Boring Technology (2015)

    453 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  58. Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

    452 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  59. People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee

    450 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  60. There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff

    450 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  61. Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest

    450 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  62. “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)

    449 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  63. What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find

    449 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  64. Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' personal Whois info

    448 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  65. 25 Years of PHP

    447 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  66. Curl Wttr.in

    446 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  67. Apple, ARM, and Intel

    444 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  68. Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking

    444 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  69. Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019

    443 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  70. How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

    441 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  71. IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS

    441 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  72. Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do

    441 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  73. No Paint

    439 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  74. Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

    438 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  75. Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

    438 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  76. Teaching my MIT classes with only free/libre software

    438 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  77. Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi

    436 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  78. The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source

    435 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  79. How to create a video call application with WebRTC

    434 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  80. Looking back at how Signal works

    434 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  81. Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power

    432 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  82. Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64

    432 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  83. Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?

    432 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  84. Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

    431 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  85. Finishing a side project

    430 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  86. Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea

    429 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  87. Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019

    424 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  88. Never Hertz to Ask

    423 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  89. Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

    421 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  90. CapRover: Build your own PaaS

    419 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  91. Is WebP really better than JPEG?

    417 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  92. Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers

    417 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  93. The KDE community is moving to GitLab

    414 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  94. Windows98 Running in the Browser

    414 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  95. Ideas That Changed My Life

    413 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  96. Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

    412 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  97. Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incident report

    411 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  98. The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries

    411 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  99. Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately

    411 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  100. CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations into Illustrative Diagrams

    411 points • comment • jun 05, 2020