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Hacker News (Jun 2020)

  1. NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson

    167 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  2. Select Code_execution from * Using SQLite; (2019)

    167 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  3. Circle of Competence: Avoid Ambiguity Traps

    167 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  4. A shared file system for lambda functions

    167 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  5. Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”

    166 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  6. Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)

    166 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  7. Why is it important for a matrix to be square? (2018)

    166 points • comment • jun 21, 2020

  8. A New Standard Deal

    166 points • comment • jun 26, 2020

  9. Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows

    165 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  10. Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

    165 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  11. The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture

    165 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  12. Show HN: interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels

    165 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  13. Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker (2018)

    164 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  14. AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service

    164 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  15. Apple’s secretive AR and VR Headset plans altered by internal differences

    164 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  16. Ampere’s Product List: 80 Cores, up to 3.3 GHz at 250 W; 128 Core in Q4

    164 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  17. Break Up Google

    163 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  18. Open source 5G core network

    163 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  19. Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF

    163 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  20. Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM

    162 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  21. On Liberty (1859) [pdf]

    162 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  22. Show HN: Curl https://ec2.shop

    162 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  23. ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location

    162 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  24. I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day

    162 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  25. 20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance

    162 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  26. So You Want to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Web App

    162 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  27. Evaluation and euthanization of a dangerous honeybee colony [video]

    161 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  28. Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID

    161 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  29. DIY True 4K Projector

    161 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  30. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

    161 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  31. Worrying about the NPM Ecosystem

    161 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  32. Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online

    160 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  33. I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract

    160 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  34. Faster Integer Parsing

    160 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  35. Unsupervised translation of programming languages

    160 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  36. Embedded Rules of Thumb (2018)

    160 points • comment • jun 01, 2020

  37. Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA

    159 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  38. Hacker Dosed with LSD While Restoring Historical Synth (2019)

    159 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  39. Facebook disqualifies leaders of Deepfake Detection Challenge for rule breach

    159 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  40. The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (2013)

    158 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  41. Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes

    158 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  42. Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?

    158 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  43. Venmo and Paypal Are Stalling Urgent Efforts to Bail People Out of Jail

    158 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  44. AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack

    158 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  45. What the Hell Is a Deno?

    158 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  46. How we raised $3M for an open source project

    157 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  47. Ask HN: Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?

    157 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  48. 30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

    157 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  49. Tesla gave workers permission to stay home, then sent termination notices

    157 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  50. FreeDVDBoot – Hacking the Playstation 2 through its DVD player

    157 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  51. Math-as-Code (2015)

    157 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  52. Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018)

    157 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  53. Scandinavian Monitoring Stations Detect Unexplained Radiation Spike over Europe

    157 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  54. Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy against organized hate'

    157 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  55. Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem

    157 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  56. “Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”

    156 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  57. Inefficient, but Smart

    156 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  58. Online Text to Diagram Tools

    156 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  59. Gravity: An embeddable programming language without any external dependencies

    156 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  60. Software should be designed to last

    156 points • comment • jun 28, 2020

  61. How remdesivir works, and why it's not the ultimate coronavirus killer

    156 points • comment • jun 29, 2020

  62. The Go Compiler Needs to Be Smarter

    155 points • comment • jun 05, 2020

  63. GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value

    155 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  64. Don’t Fly During Ramadan (2013)

    155 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  65. George Floyd death: Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks

    155 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  66. Crux: Open-source document database with bi-temporal graph queries

    155 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  67. Prologue: Full-Stack Web Framework Written in Nim

    155 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  68. United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time

    155 points • comment • jun 25, 2020

  69. Missing Structure in Technical Discussions

    155 points • comment • jun 30, 2020

  70. Lemonade files S1

    154 points • comment • jun 08, 2020

  71. DeepMind AI reading list [pdf]

    154 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  72. Health Effects of Coffee

    154 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  73. A ‘Useless’ Perspective That Transformed Mathematics

    154 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  74. Hertz SEC Filing: Up to $500M Common Stock

    154 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  75. Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (2015)

    154 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  76. Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days

    154 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  77. Temporary National Emergency Library to close 2 weeks early

    154 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  78. How to Learn JavaScript

    154 points • comment • jun 27, 2020

  79. 13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number

    153 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  80. How SGX Fails in Practice

    153 points • comment • jun 09, 2020

  81. RusTLS Formal Audit [pdf]

    153 points • comment • jun 14, 2020

  82. Helium shortage has ended, at least for now

    153 points • comment • jun 06, 2020

  83. The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)

    153 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  84. Geany – A flyweight IDE

    153 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  85. Akira Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards

    152 points • comment • jun 04, 2020

  86. California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k

    152 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  87. How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (1967)

    152 points • comment • jun 07, 2020

  88. Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?

    152 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?

    152 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  90. Forth implemented in Rust trait system

    152 points • comment • jun 12, 2020

  91. Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms

    152 points • comment • jun 10, 2020

  92. In Mathematics, It Often Takes a Good Map to Find Answers

    152 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  93. Neil Armstrong's reply to a Moon landing skeptic

    152 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  94. How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha

    151 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  95. Show HN: Basic.css – Classless CSS Starter File

    151 points • comment • jun 03, 2020

  96. A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey

    151 points • comment • jun 11, 2020

  97. What Comes After Zoom?

    151 points • comment • jun 23, 2020

  98. Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family

    151 points • comment • jun 02, 2020

  99. How x86_64 Addresses Memory

    151 points • comment • jun 13, 2020

  100. FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]

    150 points • comment • jun 03, 2020