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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW

    105 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  2. Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over ongoing bitcoin scams

    105 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  3. Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts

    105 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  4. Remote First at Quora

    105 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  5. Computation Graphs and Graph Computation

    105 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  6. On Interviewing Programmers

    105 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  7. A doctor who championed hand-washing and briefly saved lives (2015)

    105 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  8. Consider getting a “DIY” degree online instead of a traditional CS major

    105 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  9. Don't use ENV variables for secret data (2017)

    105 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  10. The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  11. Never Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment and Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor

    105 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  12. Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?

    105 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  13. UniFi-Video Products End of Life Announcement

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  14. Improving Performance of PHP for Arm64 and Impact on Amazon EC2 M6g Instances

    105 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  15. Cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought

    105 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  16. Launch HN: PostEra (YC W20) Medicinal Chemistry-as-a-Service and Covid Moonshot

    105 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  17. DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block

    104 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  18. Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking Internal Debate

    104 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  19. Extracting video and audio from used police body cam

    104 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  20. Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way

    104 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  21. Shipping Const Generics in 2020

    104 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  22. Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?

    104 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  23. Americans are getting more nervous about what they say in public

    104 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  24. Small satellites are radically remaking space exploration

    104 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  25. Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

    104 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  26. The AN-225: How the Cold War created the world's largest airplane

    104 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  27. NetBSD Internals

    104 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  28. Show HN: ScotusWars – see your state's win rate in state vs. state court cases

    104 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  29. AsciiDoc Language Submitted to Eclipse Foundation

    104 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  30. Launch HN: Jika (YC S20) – Price A/B Testing for Shopify

    103 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  31. Scraping Isn't Hacking

    103 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  32. Elite Disillusionment

    103 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  33. Pulsar vs. Kafka

    103 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  34. LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach

    103 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  35. ICE Confirms New Foreign Students Can't Take Online-Only Course Loads in the US

    103 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  36. RenderMan and Funko Games

    103 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  37. Study of over 1m people finds association between lifespan and blood iron levels

    103 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  38. Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string

    103 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  39. Show HN: Reclaim – an adaptive calendar app that plans time for your routines

    103 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  40. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

    102 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  41. Sail Freight Projects Around the World

    102 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  42. Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank

    102 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  43. ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

    102 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  44. Meditations on Moloch (2014)

    102 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  45. Typed Lisp, a Primer (2019)

    102 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  46. Redis Core Team Update

    102 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  47. An aerospace engineer explains fireworks

    102 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  48. Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006

    101 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  49. Museum of Digital Art forced to close its doors

    101 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  50. Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering

    101 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  51. New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

    101 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  52. Why do U.S. coins seem to be in short supply?

    101 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  53. How Iceland got teens to say no to drugs (2017)

    100 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  54. Inside the Coronavirus

    100 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  55. The world of cheap produce and its consequences

    100 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  56. New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud

    100 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  57. Wolfsort: An ultra-fast hybrid radix sort algorithm

    100 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  58. The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?

    100 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  59. Health Insurance Shouldn't Be Tied to Employers

    100 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  60. Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?

    100 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  61. Grant Imahara, host of MythBusters, dies at 49

    100 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  62. It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning

    100 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  63. The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII

    100 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  64. The Giant Ghibli Clock (2019)

    100 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  65. BigCommerce S1

    100 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  66. Emergency Directive 20-03 – Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows DNS

    100 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  67. Close and tranquil solar system has astronomers excited

    99 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  68. Data-Transfer-Project

    99 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  69. Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers

    99 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  70. Alzheimer's: 'Promising' blood test for early stage of disease

    99 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  71. Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support

    99 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  72. Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python

    99 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  73. A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law

    99 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  74. Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years

    99 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  75. Good Logging

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  76. We’re treating self-improvement like a software upgrade

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  77. Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

    98 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  78. I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist

    98 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  79. Fig: Visual Apps and Shortcuts for Your Terminal

    98 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  80. Run PHP in the browser through Babel

    97 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  81. M2OS: A Small and Lightweight Ada RTOS for Microcontrollers

    97 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  82. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

    97 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  83. Global Methane Emissions Reach a Record High

    97 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  84. Open-Source Version Control System for Machine Learning Projects

    97 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  85. Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode – Linux Support Lands

    97 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  86. Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  87. If you're a techno-optimist, you should read the Unabomber Manifesto

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  88. Optimizations in C++ Compilers

    97 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  89. What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?

    97 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  90. Studies in Intelligence [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  91. Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs

    96 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  92. H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S.

    96 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  93. GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache

    96 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  94. Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)

    96 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  95. Environments: under the hood of variables – Deep JavaScript chapter

    96 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  96. Show HN: Biff – Self-hosted Firebase alternative for Clojure

    96 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  97. If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?

    96 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  98. Tell HN: 6.3% of HN top submissions in plain HTTP, more than half upgradable

    96 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  99. The Bitter Lesson (2019)

    96 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  100. Principles of Programming Languages (1997) [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jul 04, 2020