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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown

    336 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  2. Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice

    334 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  3. What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture

    334 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  4. We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression

    334 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  5. Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

    333 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  6. C Internals

    332 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  7. How to write a toy JVM

    330 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  8. The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C

    329 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  9. U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

    329 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  10. YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program

    328 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  11. Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)

    328 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  12. Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks

    326 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  13. Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes

    325 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  14. Apple rejects Hey for second time, threatens removal from App Store

    324 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  15. T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across the US

    324 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  16. Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

    323 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  17. Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

    321 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  18. Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

    320 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  19. The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks

    320 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  20. Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?

    320 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  21. ARM Mac Impact on Intel

    319 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  22. Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court

    318 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  23. Turn recipe websites into plain text

    318 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  24. Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    318 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  25. A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

    318 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  26. Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use

    318 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  27. Show HN: PJDL an open alternative to 1-wire with a range of 2000m

    317 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  28. Street-Fighting Mathematics

    317 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  29. iPhone 6S getting iOS 14 is like the Galaxy S6 getting Android 11

    316 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  30. Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion

    316 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  31. FlexBuffers

    315 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  32. Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces

    315 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  33. Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key'

    314 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  34. NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance tech

    314 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  35. How we use HashiCorp Nomad

    313 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  36. Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace

    313 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  37. Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years

    313 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  38. Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)

    312 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  39. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers

    312 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  40. $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn

    312 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  41. Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode

    312 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  42. Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions

    312 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  43. Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins [video]

    312 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  44. Apple and Facebook

    312 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  45. Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries

    310 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  46. Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit

    310 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  47. BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15K years old, to expand mine

    310 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  48. Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior

    310 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  49. Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer

    309 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  50. Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO

    308 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  51. Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

    308 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  52. Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

    308 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  53. MuseScore 4: Moving from notation software to composition software

    307 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  54. San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn

    306 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  55. WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues

    306 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  56. Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster

    306 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  57. Design electronics like it is 70s at CERN

    305 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  58. Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC

    305 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  59. Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife

    305 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  60. Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department

    304 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  61. Ghoti

    304 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  62. Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming

    303 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  63. It is as if you were doing work

    303 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  64. Tiny C Compiler

    301 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  65. Gimp 2.10.20

    300 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  66. Model S Long Range Plus: Building the First 400-Mile Electric Vehicle

    300 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  67. Papers with Code

    299 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  68. Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite

    299 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  69. An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

    299 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  70. U.S. states accuse 26 drugmakers of generic drug price fixing lawsuit

    297 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  71. Losing the war against surveillance capitalism letting Big Tech frame the debate

    297 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  72. Segway ends production of its original scooter

    297 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  73. Behind tech layoffs lay cash flow-negative companies

    296 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  74. Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers

    296 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  75. Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia

    294 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  76. How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?

    293 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  77. Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps

    293 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  78. Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

    292 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  79. Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA

    291 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  80. I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)

    290 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  81. What to write down when you’re reading to learn

    289 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  82. Is a trillion dollars’ worth of programming lying on the ground?

    289 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  83. Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging

    288 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  84. How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

    288 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  85. Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page

    288 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  86. German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux

    287 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  87. Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable

    287 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  88. Megadesk

    287 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  89. EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices

    287 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  90. Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them

    286 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  91. London tube map made from a working circuit board

    286 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  92. Text-Only Websites

    286 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  93. GPT-3

    285 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  94. The social obligation to be bad at things

    284 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  95. Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

    284 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  96. The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s

    284 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  97. Ask HN: How are you holding up?

    284 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  98. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

    283 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  99. Looking Back at Postgres

    283 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  100. iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps

    283 points • comment • jun 22, 2020