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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. The Pentagon’s hand-me-downs helped militarize police

    36 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  2. There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means

    36 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  3. The Art of Being Alone

    36 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  4. The first intuitive programming language for quantum computers

    36 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  5. Coronavirus protective immunity is short-lasting [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  6. The Case Is Building That Covid-19 Had a Lab Origin

    35 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  7. John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System

    35 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  8. Bankrupt Hertz targets Robinhood traders in plot to dump $1B in stock

    35 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  9. Truth in Advertising (2016)

    35 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  10. Sightbit deploys AI on beaches to help lifeguards spot distressed swimmers

    35 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  11. Show HN: Funny, Human-Memorable SHA-256 Fingerprints

    35 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  12. Controversies and Challenges in fMRI (2018)

    35 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  13. Reyes Rendering on the GPU [pdf]

    35 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  14. Perspective: Streaming Analytics via WebAssembly

    35 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  15. The Restlessness of Gerhard Richter

    35 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  16. A Wave of Student Loan Defaults Is Coming

    35 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  17. Kronecker Product in Circuits

    35 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  18. Google Support: Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results

    35 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  19. How effective communication can be achieved in a digital work environment

    35 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  20. Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator

    35 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  21. Apple Rejects Appeal of Email App That Blasted Store Rules

    35 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  22. The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds

    35 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  23. ZFS Removes References to Slavery

    35 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  24. All 3 major telecoms in Canada will be working with Ericsson instead of Huawei

    35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  25. New recordings and personal stories with AI expert systems pioneers

    35 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  26. Court overturns EPA approval of popular herbicide made by Monsanto

    35 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  27. US to ban passenger flights from China

    35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  28. Imec Demonstrates FinFET Devices with Integrated Tungsten Buried Power Rails

    35 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  29. Scale as a Design Input, Not an Output

    35 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  30. Show HN: Jumpfiles – get more done with fewer keystrokes

    35 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  31. May sees biggest jobs increase ever

    34 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  32. Cell service outage spike in US

    34 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  33. Why Full-Time 9 to 5 Jobs are Risky

    34 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  34. What Are Optotypes? (2015)

    34 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  35. Chronic treatment with hydroxychloroquine and SARS-CoV-2 infection

    34 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  36. Journalists are arrested injured by police while trying to cover protests

    34 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  37. Amazon will no longer support the Echo Look, encourages owners to recycle theirs

    34 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  38. Estimating pitch with SPICE and Tensorflow Hub

    34 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  39. Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers

    34 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  40. New executive order allows federal agencies to bypass environmental laws

    34 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  41. Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds

    34 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  42. $1T. That's How Much Workers Are Losing to Owners Each Year

    34 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  43. What is the most dangerous drug? (2019)

    34 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  44. Time of maximum intersection of two moving polygons

    34 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  45. Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment

    34 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  46. No to .io, Yes to .xyz

    34 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  47. Gamow’s cyclist: a new look at relativistic measurements for binocular observer

    34 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  48. Featherweight Java: A Minimal Core Calculus for Java and GJ (2002) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  49. How Does Git Know What a Python Function/Class Definition Looks Like?

    34 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  50. Show HN: An assembler for the LC-3 fictitious computer

    34 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  51. Never-Ending Niches

    34 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  52. Ask HN: I want to quit coding professionally but keep it as hobby. What now?

    34 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  53. Tesla included in J.D. Power survey for the first time, and it’s bad

    34 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  54. Twitter account tweeting same as U.S. President gets suspended

    34 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  55. Italian company exposed as a front for malware operations

    34 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  56. Trump to sign EO suspending work visas through 2020 (H1B, H2B, H4, L1, J1)

    34 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  57. U.S. announces end of Hong Kong's special status

    34 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  58. ‘Collapse of Civilisation Is the Most Likely Outcome’: Top Climate Scientists

    34 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  59. Forward Transformer TTS – a non-autoregressive Transformer for text to speech

    34 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  60. Ingredients for life appear in stellar nurseries long before stars are born

    34 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  61. Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds

    34 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  62. A lightweight, customizable omnibox in JavaScript

    33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  63. I Quit Academia

    33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  64. Bastions on demand in an AWS VPC

    33 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  65. The Fast Pencil Fallacy in Software Development

    33 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  66. Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing

    33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  67. SCP – Familiar, Simple, Insecure, and Slow

    33 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  68. Let's Say You Wanted to Back Up the Internet Archive

    33 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  69. 1/4 Covid Deaths Are in Nursing Homes

    33 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  70. Widespread mask-wearing could prevent Covid-19 second waves, study shows

    33 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  71. Warmest May on record, Siberia 10C hotter

    33 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  72. WhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results

    33 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  73. India Debates Skin-Tone Bias as Beauty Companies Alter Ads

    33 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  74. Reddit slammed by former CEO Ellen Pao for 'amplifying' racism and hate

    33 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  75. E/O: Suspending Entry of Aliens Presenting a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market

    33 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  76. Memory Consistency Models (2016)

    33 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  77. Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers

    33 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  78. GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row

    33 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  79. All Roads Lead from Prague

    33 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  80. Jonathan Dowling (1955-2020)

    33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  81. How Gorillaz could dominate a post-Covid world

    33 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  82. Wirecard offices searched as prosecutors probe management board

    33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  83. 'Did I miss anything?': A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat

    33 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  84. America Is Giving Up on Coronavirus – and the Consequences Will Be Devastating

    33 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  85. Value Investing in Life Sciences

    33 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  86. Universal Virus Detection Platform to Expedite Viral Diagnosis

    33 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  87. Where Does My Main Battery Go?

    33 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  88. The New Old Boys from the ARPAnet (1985)

    33 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  89. FPBase: The Fluorescent Protein Database

    33 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  90. New monkey species found hiding in plain sight

    33 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  91. The Contentious History of the Passport (2017)

    32 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  92. Ask HN: I find writing difficult, how do I make it easy?

    32 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  93. Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler

    32 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  94. Show HN: Model Zoo: Deploy your machine learning model in a single line of code

    32 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  95. Reasoning by Lego: The wrong way to think about cryptography

    32 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  96. Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic

    32 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  97. Wine 5.10 Release

    32 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  98. The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    32 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  99. We should not defund the Terminator program

    32 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  100. The Next Step for Mixer

    32 points • comment • jun 22, 2020