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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

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

    283 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  2. Looking Back at Postgres

    283 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  3. FreeBSD 11.4

    282 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  4. Supreme Court declines to hear cases over qualified immunity

    280 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  5. LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks

    280 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  6. Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI

    279 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  7. CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider

    278 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  8. AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage

    276 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  9. Collapse OS – Why Forth?

    276 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  10. PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching

    275 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  11. Fast 2D Rendering on GPU

    275 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  12. Show HN: IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix

    274 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  13. Accurate N64 emulation gets resolution upscaling powered by Vulkan (RetroArch)

    274 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  14. Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper

    274 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  15. Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

    274 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  16. Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines

    273 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  17. Avoiding the Global Lobotomy

    273 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  18. Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet

    273 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  19. A $35 keyboard for children transformed me into a novelist

    273 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  20. Image GPT

    272 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  21. Hashcat 6.0

    271 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  22. Hands-On Scala Programming

    271 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  23. macOS Big Sur Preview

    270 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  24. We’ve built a towering pile of shite

    270 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  25. Dust in the Light

    269 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  26. New Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor

    269 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  27. Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology

    268 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  28. No Recent Automation Revolution

    268 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  29. Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers

    268 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  30. A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

    267 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  31. Largest Known Maya Structure Found

    267 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  32. Tor Browser 9.5

    267 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  33. Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform

    266 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  34. Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

    266 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  35. Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible

    265 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  36. Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

    265 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  37. Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox

    264 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  38. How much do we need the police?

    263 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  39. Remembering Windows 2000

    263 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  40. A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite

    263 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  41. Generics and Compile-Time in Rust

    263 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  42. Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light

    262 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  43. Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel

    261 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  44. Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live

    261 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  45. Twilio Super Sim – Public Beta

    261 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  46. Advice to Young Web Developers

    260 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  47. Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died

    260 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  48. IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

    260 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  49. CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

    259 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  50. Do the Real Thing

    258 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  51. Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

    258 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  52. Germany bans digital doppelganger passport photos

    257 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  53. How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity

    257 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  54. Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99

    257 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  55. Being Alone

    256 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  56. Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”

    256 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  57. TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act

    255 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  58. Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution

    255 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  59. Blender 2.83 LTS

    255 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  60. Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi

    255 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  61. Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch

    254 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  62. Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (2013)

    254 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  63. Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler

    253 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  64. DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search

    253 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  65. Lua 5.4.0

    252 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  66. Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

    250 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  67. The Hertz Story Isn’t What You Think

    250 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  68. Must ride mule to and from work location

    249 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  69. A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics

    249 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?

    249 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  71. TSMC officially begins 5 nm production

    248 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  72. MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation (1986) [video]

    248 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  73. Show HN: Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources

    248 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  74. What happens when you update your DNS

    247 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  75. Pain Points of Haskell

    247 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  76. No, Safari 14 does not block Google Analytics

    246 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  77. Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees

    246 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  78. Ask HN: How to improve my abstract thinking?

    246 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  79. The antitrust case against Google

    245 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  80. Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

    244 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  81. An Intro to Compilers (2017)

    243 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  82. 'Dord': A Ghost Word

    243 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  83. If you see the cops, start recording

    243 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  84. Apple Acquires Fleetsmith

    242 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  85. SeL4 is verified on RISC-V

    242 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  86. Rents are dropping across the US

    242 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  87. Quotebacks – Quote the Web

    242 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  88. Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encrypted Data

    241 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  89. Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC

    241 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  90. Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal

    241 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  91. FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars

    241 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  92. We use too many damn modals (2018)

    241 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  93. HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database

    240 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  94. Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos

    239 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  95. The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle

    239 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  96. UVB radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous extinction kill mechanism

    239 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  97. Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS

    239 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  98. Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel

    239 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  99. Deno will stop using TypeScript

    238 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  100. Researchers and Founders

    238 points • comment • jun 19, 2020