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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

    88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  2. Show HN: ip2unix – Turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets

    88 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  3. Ask HN: How to take notes?

    88 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  4. Rocket Lab vehicle lost during second stage burn on 13th mission

    88 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  5. Electronic Whole Earth Catalog

    88 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  6. How to be a Roman emperor

    88 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  7. From the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy

    88 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  8. Show HN: HN Demetricator – An extension that removes upvote and comment counts

    87 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  9. Machine Learning for a Better Developer Experience

    87 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  10. Old-School Disk Partitions

    87 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  11. Could predictive database queries replace machine learning models?

    87 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  12. Show HN: Notado – Content-First Bookmarking

    87 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  13. Aquarius builds an engine others only dreamed of

    87 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  14. Defining the ’90s Music Canon

    87 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  15. A man trying to automate Thailand’s hospitals

    87 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  16. Phrases that incorrectly trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant

    87 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  17. Ask HN: Anyone from Apple here? It's impossible to enroll the dev program

    87 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  18. The Rise and Rise of JSON (2017)

    87 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  19. 4 Year Compensation Packages Comparison

    87 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  20. Swedish epidemiology boss says questioned Covid-19 strategy seems to be working

    87 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  21. Does saying “Fuck You AWS” constitute offensive content?

    87 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  22. Stitch Labs has been acquired by Square

    87 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  23. Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

    87 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  24. Zucchinis linked to rare poisonings in England

    87 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  25. There are more streaming choices than ever – why are prices going up?

    87 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  26. Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018)

    87 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  27. The Meddling Middlemen of Academia

    86 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  28. Quantum fluctuations have been shown to affect macroscopic objects

    86 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  29. PIFuHD: High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization

    86 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  30. Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007)

    86 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  31. D3js Tree of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

    86 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  32. Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  33. Things I wish I had known when I started programming, Part 4 (2019)

    86 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  34. Rust Playground

    86 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  35. Homemade Analytics with Ecto and Elixir

    86 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  36. Refined Hacker News

    86 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  37. Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the psychology of authoritarianism

    86 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  38. Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

    86 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  39. I love ARM

    85 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  40. The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

    85 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  41. Browser Font Rendering Inconsistencies

    85 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  42. NeurIPS 2020 “English to Bash” Competition Goes Live

    85 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  43. Goldman warns on inflation threat to dollar as reserve currency

    85 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  44. Very Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography

    84 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  45. Comet streaking past Earth, providing spectacular show

    84 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  46. Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change

    84 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  47. The Triplebyte data download doesn’t give you all your data

    84 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  48. No, MI5 should not have more control over social media

    84 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  49. Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?

    84 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  50. Empty stadiums have shrunk football teams’ home advantage

    84 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  51. Apparent absence of covid transmission at hair salon with face covering policy

    84 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  52. CodiMD, self-hosted, real-time collaborative markdown notes

    83 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  53. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) [pdf]

    83 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  54. Iran state hackers caught in intercepted videos

    83 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  55. YouTube Takes Down Chess Podcast for Being Harmful or Dangerous

    83 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  56. Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11

    83 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  57. Cockroachdb/copyist: Mocking an SQL database in Go tests

    83 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  58. Walking Dream – single-player adventure game for the Oculus Quest

    83 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  59. ICE says international students must take in-person classes to remain in the US

    83 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  60. Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage

    83 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  61. How do unschoolers turn out? (2014)

    83 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  62. Show HN: A simple Poker API to calculate the winning hand/s

    82 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  63. Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems

    82 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  64. Sandboxie-Plus – a fork of Sandboxie with improved functionality

    82 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  65. Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (2017)

    82 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  66. Curry Before Columbus

    82 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  67. Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots

    82 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  68. Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review

    82 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  69. Europe's recession will be even deeper than expected

    82 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  70. Databricks acquires Redash

    82 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  71. Open Satellite Project: The Open Source Satellite Project

    82 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  72. Strange public IPv4 address assigned behind NAT (2019)

    82 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  73. Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals thanks to Autobidder

    82 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  74. Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boycott

    82 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  75. FBI chief says China threatens families to coerce overseas critics to return

    82 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  76. Wikimedia FontCDN – an anonymizing, privacy-first reverse proxy to Google Fonts

    82 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  77. SiFive Core IP 20G1

    81 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  78. Riding the Rays (1992)

    81 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  79. Judge rules Seattle media companies must hand over protest images to police

    81 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  80. Modern Android is pretty secure

    81 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  81. Show HN: Getting fit in virtual reality with open source and Godot

    81 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  82. The Modern-Day Mind-Killer

    81 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  83. In a first, UAE spacecraft blasts off to Mars from Japan

    81 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  84. Ford’s electric car engineers go crazy with 1,400hp Mustang Mach-E

    81 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  85. Snapchat Detection on iOS (2019)

    81 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  86. Arctic Code Vault Contributor

    81 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  87. It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016)

    81 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  88. Recreating YikYak with Postgres

    81 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  89. Favorite Problems: A Practical Framework for Discovering Your Purpose

    81 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  90. Andrew Wilkinson and Tiny Capital

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  91. 35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19

    80 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  92. Ancient human ancestors carved handaxe from a hippo femur 1.4M years ago: study

    80 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  93. Six arrested after 'Dutch torture chambers' found

    80 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  94. A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  95. Abusing linear regression to make a point

    80 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  96. In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech

    80 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  97. The Purpose of Persuasion

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  98. How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (2008)

    80 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  99. The illusion of control, and how to give it up

    79 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  100. Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia

    79 points • comment • jul 07, 2020