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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

    130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  2. Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

    130 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  3. The wild economy of tabletop board game funding

    130 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  4. Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media

    130 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  5. Who is the greatest knife steel metallurgist of all time?

    130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  6. Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware

    130 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

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

    130 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  8. First manufactured non-cuttable material

    129 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  9. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

    129 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  10. GitHub Audio (2016)

    129 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  11. Ozymandias

    129 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  12. GitHub Readme Templates

    129 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  13. Pharo Smalltalk Overview

    128 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  14. Remark42: Self-Hosted, Lightweight Comment Engine

    128 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  15. How to Build a Biotech

    128 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  16. Haproxy 2.2

    128 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  17. Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings

    128 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  18. The United Nations of Uniqlo

    128 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  19. Machu Picchu was purposely built on intersecting fault lines: research (2019)

    128 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  20. Speculation in JavaScriptCore

    128 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  21. Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)

    128 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  22. An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function

    127 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  23. The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil

    127 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  24. Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine

    127 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  25. ‘Excited delirium’, used by police to justify brutality, is junk science

    127 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  26. Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking 2TB of user data

    127 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  27. Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

    127 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  28. A crash course in just-in-time compilers (2017)

    127 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  29. Migrating Away from Google Analytics

    126 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  30. Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture

    126 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  31. Venice test brings up floodgates for first time

    126 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  32. Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10B deal

    126 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  33. Cronk: Long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years

    126 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  34. Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances

    126 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  35. CoreBGP – Plugging in to BGP

    126 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  36. Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?

    126 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  37. The Floppy Disk of Floating Point

    125 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  38. Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

    125 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  39. Things You Should Never Do (2000)

    125 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  40. Vue v3.0.0-RC.1

    125 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  41. Linus Torvalds on 'Linux kernel in-tree Rust support'

    125 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  42. Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    125 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  43. Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage

    125 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  44. EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you

    124 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  45. What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

    124 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  46. Q2 2020 Update

    124 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  47. Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]

    124 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  48. Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?

    123 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  49. Windows on Raspberry

    123 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  50. Pope pulls speech on Hong Kong freedom, raising questions over Beijing pressure

    123 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  51. How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)

    123 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  52. Oura Ring 2 Teardown

    123 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  53. Optimizing Ray Tracing in Haskell

    123 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  54. Langcraft: Compile LLVM IR to Minecraft data packs

    123 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  55. Elements C++ GUI Library

    123 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  56. Colleges are reopening in fall, but many professors won’t be present

    122 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  57. Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic

    122 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  58. Germany to meet EU guidelines to ban single-use plastics by 2021

    122 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  59. Bullshit Jobs (2018)

    122 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  60. Volcanoes on Venus are still active

    121 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  61. Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence

    121 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  62. MariaDB Temporal Data Tables

    121 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  63. A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

    121 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  64. Show HN: Emergency Remote – Actions to win remote work

    121 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  65. Linus Torvalds on AVX512

    121 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  66. Import – A Simple and Fast Module System for Bash and Other Unix Shells

    121 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  67. A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers in mice

    121 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  68. Explaining RNNs without neural networks

    121 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  69. Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective

    121 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  70. Re-Frame: Build web apps in ClojureScript and React

    121 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  71. Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database

    121 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  72. M60 – Open-Source USB&BLE, Hot-Swappable Mechanical Keyboard Powered by Python

    121 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  73. Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states

    120 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  74. The Secret Origin of the Action RPG

    120 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  75. Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America

    120 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  76. How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas

    120 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  77. Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents

    119 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  78. Mail for Good

    119 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  79. How companies became addicted to debt

    119 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  80. The growing short case on Facebook and Google

    119 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  81. Bread, How Did They Make It?

    119 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  82. A dying teenager who wanted world peace (and love)

    119 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  83. The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines

    119 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  84. Magic hat leaves behind a transformed craft beer industry in Vermont

    119 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  85. Web Monetization

    119 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  86. Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents

    118 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  87. Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

    118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  88. Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app

    118 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  89. Skypack – A new kind of JavaScript delivery network

    118 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  90. A REST View of GraphQL

    118 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  91. GPT-3 Examples

    118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  92. Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)

    118 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  93. Seven Sets Venn Diagram

    118 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  94. The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]

    118 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  95. Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems

    117 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  96. A man who grows fields full of tables and chairs (2015)

    117 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  97. Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea

    117 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  98. Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in

    117 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  99. Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money – a.k.a. “FU, Money”

    117 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  100. Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll

    117 points • comment • jul 29, 2020