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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

    2583 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  2. Oppose the Earn IT Act

    2223 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  3. Grant Imahara Has Died

    1959 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  4. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

    1756 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  5. Del.icio.us

    1644 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  6. Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

    1582 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  7. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

    1481 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  8. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

    1266 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  9. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

    1236 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  10. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

    1104 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  11. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

    1104 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  12. Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

    1097 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  13. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

    1093 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  14. Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

    1089 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  15. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

    1087 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  16. When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

    1066 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  17. OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

    1051 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  18. Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

    1046 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  19. We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)

    1023 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  20. Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies

    1006 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  21. Websites that look like desktop GUIs

    967 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  22. Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

    964 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  23. Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

    953 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  24. You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

    945 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  25. Systems Design for Advanced Beginners

    921 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  26. Cloudflare was down

    915 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  27. LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

    910 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  28. 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

    878 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  29. I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

    873 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  30. Things I wish I’d known about CSS

    867 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  31. NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

    856 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  32. German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving

    853 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  33. New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases

    837 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  34. DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

    820 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  35. Abstract Wikipedia

    791 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  36. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

    776 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  37. How to Understand Things

    771 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  38. Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

    766 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  39. YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]

    762 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  40. The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations

    752 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  41. On Trouser Pockets

    745 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  42. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

    737 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  43. Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

    735 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  44. Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

    733 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  45. New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans

    726 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  46. Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive

    705 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  47. Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database

    697 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  48. Ennio Morricone has died

    689 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  49. Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

    684 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  50. Invert, always, invert

    672 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  51. How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

    665 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  52. Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing

    661 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  53. First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO

    652 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  54. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

    651 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  55. ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

    647 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  56. Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear

    645 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  57. Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

    642 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  58. Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

    642 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  59. The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool

    640 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  60. Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

    634 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  61. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

    632 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  62. A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack

    627 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  63. Nubank acquires Cognitect

    609 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  64. When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)

    601 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  65. Apple Lightning

    596 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  66. Resignation Letter

    593 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  67. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

    590 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  68. Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space

    588 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  69. The Four Quadrants of Conformism

    582 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  70. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    578 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  71. Orthodox Privilege

    577 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  72. Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

    567 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  73. De-escalating social media conflict

    563 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  74. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

    559 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  75. UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs

    558 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  76. Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs

    556 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  77. Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays

    553 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  78. Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

    550 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  79. 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App

    546 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  80. New Stuff

    543 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  81. I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]

    543 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  82. Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings

    542 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  83. Just Too Efficient

    541 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  84. Medium is not the home for your ideas

    539 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  85. Riot is now Element

    538 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  86. Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves

    537 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  87. Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

    534 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  88. One hour of slow breathing changed my life

    533 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  89. An update on our security incident

    529 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  90. The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

    527 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  91. Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

    521 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  92. The most remarkable legacy system I have seen

    521 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  93. Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks

    520 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  94. Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

    520 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  95. Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard

    520 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  96. Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020

    517 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  97. Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

    516 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  98. Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight

    511 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  99. Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress

    507 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  100. LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison

    506 points • comment • jul 25, 2020