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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software

    411 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  2. 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust

    407 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  3. Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

    407 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  4. How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance

    406 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  5. I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since

    404 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  6. California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers (2019)

    404 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  7. You can't tell people anything (2004)

    403 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  8. Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms

    403 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  9. Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia

    402 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  10. Mental Wealth

    401 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  11. Dynamic linking

    399 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  12. WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD

    398 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  13. Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

    396 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  14. Interactive Map of Linux Kernel

    395 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  15. First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean

    395 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  16. What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

    395 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  17. Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

    394 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  18. Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”

    394 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  19. Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends

    393 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  20. OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera

    393 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  21. Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website

    391 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  22. Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

    390 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  23. A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot

    389 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  24. New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy

    389 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  25. Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces

    388 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  26. YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS

    387 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  27. How Google Meet's noise cancellation works

    385 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  28. Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor

    385 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  29. Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive

    383 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  30. Firefox 78

    383 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  31. Google Is Not God of the Web

    382 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  32. Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First

    382 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  33. Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere

    381 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  34. Eastern European Movies

    381 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  35. Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

    381 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  36. DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens

    381 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  37. Haiku R1/beta2 has been released

    381 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  38. Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass

    379 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  39. Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores

    379 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  40. A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi

    379 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  41. Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure

    379 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  42. Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment

    378 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  43. Weirdos in the depression

    378 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  44. Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions

    377 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  45. C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf

    376 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  46. Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench

    376 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  47. Why Figma Wins

    375 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  48. Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

    375 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  49. Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive

    375 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  50. SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System

    374 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  51. Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science

    373 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  52. A photo is crashing some Android phones

    373 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  53. Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections

    373 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  54. Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data

    371 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  55. Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”

    371 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  56. Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux

    370 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  57. OpenDiablo2

    370 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  58. iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)

    370 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  59. Mozilla Common Voice Dataset: More data, more languages

    369 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  60. Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

    368 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  61. Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014

    368 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  62. Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system

    368 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  63. WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password

    368 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  64. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

    367 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  65. Music Grid

    366 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  66. Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters

    366 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  67. The End of OS X

    364 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  68. A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)

    362 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  69. How Did Vim Become So Popular?

    361 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  70. Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive

    361 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  71. Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem

    361 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  72. VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing

    360 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  73. Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes

    360 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  74. Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

    360 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  75. Krita 4.3.0

    360 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  76. A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic

    359 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  77. We need to do the math, even on “small” projects

    359 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  78. As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS

    359 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  79. Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick

    358 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  80. Practical Python Programming

    358 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  81. Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff

    356 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  82. Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table

    355 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  83. The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age

    354 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  84. Keep Your Stuff, for Life

    352 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  85. Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records

    352 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  86. Build yourself a weather station

    351 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  87. Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

    350 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  88. GE Fridge DRM Workaround

    349 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  89. RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS

    349 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  90. Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

    346 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  91. How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

    344 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  92. YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

    343 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  93. Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic

    341 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  94. Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

    341 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  95. Why Does DARPA Work?

    341 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  96. Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement

    340 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  97. Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

    339 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  98. Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job

    339 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  99. We’ve decided to rename Riot

    338 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  100. Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality

    337 points • comment • jun 30, 2020