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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs

    96 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  2. Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate phone calls

    96 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  3. Blackbaud hack: More UK universities confirm breach

    96 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  4. The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness (2017)

    96 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  5. The Eastland disaster killed more passengers than the Titanic and the Lusitania

    96 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  6. Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)

    95 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  7. Running DOS Apps on Windows

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  8. Weird Constants in Math Problems

    95 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  9. Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students

    95 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  10. Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines

    95 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  11. Markets, Rent and WFH

    95 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  12. Building DIY LED strips for fun

    95 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  13. Hundreds of Botswana elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off

    95 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  14. The Fed now owns Walmart debt

    95 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  15. XMPP works – 1 July 2020

    95 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  16. Life without line numbers for 6% smaller Go binaries

    94 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  17. Views on Error Handling

    94 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  18. Head asleep, body awake

    94 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  19. Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money

    94 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  20. ELF Statifier, self-contained dynamically linked executables

    94 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  21. ‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes

    94 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  22. Cassette tape-based navigation system from 1971

    94 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  23. Show HN: I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture

    94 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  24. Differential privacy tools from MS Research and Harvard

    94 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  25. Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions

    94 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  26. Local area network push notifications

    94 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  27. A Closer Look at the Super NES Doom Source Code Release [video]

    94 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  28. Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley

    93 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  29. Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors

    93 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  30. The myth of “joins don't scale”

    93 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  31. Iran dumps Flight 752 investigator, airspace open to conceal 'imminent' attack

    93 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  32. Facebook reports second quarter results

    93 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  33. Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues

    93 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  34. Work on Unimportant Problems (2012)

    93 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  35. Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics

    93 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  36. Understanding null safety in Dart

    93 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  37. Robot Game: Comparing 6502 C, Assembly, and Forth

    93 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  38. Parallel ray tracing benchmark for functional programming languages

    93 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  39. USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Member, for Xinjiang Abuses

    93 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  40. Questions that changed my life (2016)

    93 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  41. Peppering (Password Storage)

    93 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  42. No More Coffee

    93 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  43. Fast Vue SSR with Rust and QuickJS

    93 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  44. Cars and hygiene killed the middle-class hat

    93 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  45. The mysterious life of birds who never come down

    93 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  46. Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words

    93 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  47. ARM64 Popcount in Golang and Assembler

    93 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  48. TileDB closes $15M Series A for universal data engine

    92 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  49. Synthetic Data for Deep Learning (2019)

    92 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  50. Group brainstorming is a waste of time (2015)

    92 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  51. Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution

    92 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  52. Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine

    92 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  53. Show HN: Ward – Minimalistic Server Dashboard

    92 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  54. Mcfly – neural-network powered directory and context-aware shell history search

    92 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  55. LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation

    92 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  56. FPGA Softcore SoC Shootout

    92 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  57. SEC charges YouPlus and CEO with defrauding investors

    92 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  58. The Millennium Falcon (2016)

    92 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  59. Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem

    92 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  60. Olivia de Havilland, sophisticated star of Hollywood's golden age, dies at 104

    92 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  61. Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images

    92 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  62. Where $521B in U.S. Small-Business Aid Went

    92 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  63. Show HN: Gomp – a tool for comparing Git branches

    91 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  64. A Tour of Acme (2012)

    91 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  65. U.S. prosecutors seek 27 months imprisonment for former Uber self-driving head

    91 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  66. Queues are Databases (1995)

    91 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  67. Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  68. Garmin Outage Persists After 24 Hours Downtime

    91 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  69. Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins

    91 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  70. How to use math input in GIMP

    91 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  71. Show HN: I made an elegant SwiftUI timeline

    91 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  72. America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis

    91 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  73. Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Roger Stone

    91 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  74. Demo of OpenAI's GPT-3 generating tweets given a word

    91 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  75. Ireland's Health Service Open Sources Official Covid-19 Tracking App

    91 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  76. Learnings from a Year of Being Indie

    91 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  77. Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2

    91 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  78. Turing and Wittgenstein on Logic and Mathematics [pdf]

    90 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  79. All-you-can-eat study shows body copes well with one-off calorie indulgence

    90 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  80. Who Needs an Architect? (2003) [pdf]

    90 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  81. Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019

    90 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  82. Don't Create Chaos

    90 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  83. Terminal Server on a Budget

    90 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  84. A man who saved a generation of premature babies (2016)

    90 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  85. A new way to control experimentation with dreams

    90 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  86. Contrarian view on closing files

    90 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  87. Microsoft Engineer Proposes “Trampfd” for Improving Linux Security

    90 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  88. Erythrocyte omega-3 index, ambient fine particle exposure and brain aging

    90 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  89. Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?

    89 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  90. Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer

    89 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  91. TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work

    89 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  92. Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees?

    89 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  93. Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change

    89 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  94. Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower

    89 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  95. Single-use JIT Performance on x86 Processors

    89 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  96. Scaling Pandas: Comparing Dask, Ray, Modin, Vaex, and Rapids

    89 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  97. Electronic Whole Earth Catalog

    88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  98. Soup.io Will Be Discontinued

    88 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  99. How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization

    88 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  100. Ask HN: How to take notes?

    88 points • comment • jul 15, 2020