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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

    143 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  2. Claude Shannon Documentatry, “Bit Player”, Released Today

    143 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  3. Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insights for open-source packages

    143 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  4. Ray Tracing in Nim

    143 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  5. Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it

    143 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  6. Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (2014)

    143 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  7. BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up

    142 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  8. In Bangladesh, the majority of e-commerce now happens on Facebook

    142 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  9. The German Problem with Tor

    142 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  10. The frustration of trying to invest in my hometown

    142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  11. Parallel Programming in Multicore OCaml

    142 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  12. Laziness Impatience Hubris

    142 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  13. The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated

    142 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  14. Json-Base – Database built as JSON files

    142 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  15. Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life

    141 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  16. Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]

    141 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  17. Show HN: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book

    141 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  18. Nikon Issues Small Recall for a 16-Year-Old Film Camera

    141 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  19. Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient

    141 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  20. Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine

    141 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  21. A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy

    141 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  22. You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)

    141 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  23. How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

    140 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  24. The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

    140 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  25. NASA Just Launched Its New Perseverance Rover to Mars

    140 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  26. The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever

    139 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  27. Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective (2013)

    139 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  28. Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers

    139 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  29. The Fake Cisco

    139 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  30. Experts recommend Machine Learning books

    139 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  31. Z80 Explorer – a Zilog Z80 netlist-level simulator

    138 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  32. MI6 tried to intervene independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers

    138 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  33. The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language

    138 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  34. Exciting Days for ARM Processors

    138 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  35. Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews

    138 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  36. Cryptography is not magic

    138 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  37. Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?

    138 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  38. The gap between learning code and producing usable software

    138 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  39. Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops

    138 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  40. ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

    137 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  41. A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  42. Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M

    137 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  43. Ansible-Defined Homelab

    137 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  44. The Faces of Microsoft (2017)

    137 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  45. Yamato becomes Japan's first city to 'ban' use of phones while walking

    137 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  46. Cirque Du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection

    137 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  47. Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them

    137 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  48. Göbekli Tepe

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  49. TaBERT: A new model for understanding queries over tabular data

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  50. LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content

    136 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  51. Programming at the REPL (2018)

    136 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  52. Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool

    136 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  53. The international student bait-and-switch

    136 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  54. Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?

    136 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  55. U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

    135 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  56. Photo Requests from Solitary

    135 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  57. Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser

    135 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  58. HotSpot compiler: Stack allocation prototype for C2

    135 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  59. What's New in Lua 5.4

    135 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  60. AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them

    135 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  61. Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components

    135 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  62. Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect

    135 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  63. Shelly – a programming language to draw in the browser

    134 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  64. Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline

    134 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  65. The machine learning community has a toxicity problem

    134 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  66. Show HN: Cookie Recipe Generator

    134 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  67. Tin Can Phone Modem

    134 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  68. Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city

    134 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  69. How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS

    134 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  70. Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook

    133 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  71. Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’

    133 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  72. Healthy Self-Doubt

    133 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  73. Commander X16 8 bit computer now has its own website

    133 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  74. New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears

    133 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  75. Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle

    133 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  76. India’s daunting challenge: There’s water everywhere, and nowhere

    132 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  77. The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions

    132 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  78. Harmful Workload Generator for PostgreSQL

    132 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  79. Apps for Bicycle Directions

    132 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  80. I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternative Care’ Ads

    132 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  81. Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies

    132 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  82. Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365

    132 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  83. The Magic of Math in Modern Cryptography [video]

    132 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  84. Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta

    131 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  85. Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors

    131 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  86. Optimizing 128-bit Division

    131 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  87. Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people remaining ill for so long?

    131 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  88. Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982

    131 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  89. Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437k

    131 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  90. Grub2 security update renders system unbootable

    131 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  91. Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

    131 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  92. Launch HN: ElectroNeek (YC W20) – Automatically find and automate routine work

    131 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  93. How to list all the targets on a Makefile

    131 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  94. Rust on the ESP32 (2019)

    131 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  95. Simple Made Easy (2011)

    131 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  96. The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom

    131 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  97. AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only

    131 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  98. The wild economy of tabletop board game funding

    130 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  99. All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization

    130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  100. Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]

    130 points • comment • jul 15, 2020