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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia

    79 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  2. Google proposes user threads for Linux

    79 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

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

    79 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  4. Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems

    79 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  5. CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks

    79 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  6. Lincos language

    79 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  7. Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs

    79 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  8. BMG: A Production Ready Relational Algebra in Ruby

    79 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  9. The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991)

    79 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  10. An overview of V8

    79 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  11. Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves

    79 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  12. Show HN: An alternative RSS reader and search engine for news and content

    79 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  13. Global CO2 Emissions in 2019

    78 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  14. How LSD Almost Became the 13th Step (2019)

    78 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  15. Show HN: GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing

    78 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  16. Snorkel AI: Putting Data First in ML Development

    78 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  17. American businesses have the power to change China’s behavior

    78 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  18. With cops away, it’s like Capitol Hill is slipping back to the Pinkerton’s era

    78 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  19. Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene

    78 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  20. Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

    78 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  21. Bacteria and Colon Cancer

    78 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  22. Vienna, City of Paradox

    78 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  23. Could IPOs be replaced by blank check acquisitions (SPAC)?

    77 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  24. N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds

    77 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  25. Three spacecraft heading to Mars this summer

    77 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  26. Facebook and CMU Introduce TaBERT for Understanding Tabular Data Queries

    77 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  27. Whose bug is it anyway?

    77 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  28. California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system

    77 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  29. Quantum Bayesianism Explained by Its Founder

    77 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  30. Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles to Grab Protesters in Portland

    77 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  31. Lessons learned from building a commercial open-source bot development platform

    77 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  32. Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel

    77 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  33. The Rise of the “Liberaltarian”

    77 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  34. Teaching isn’t about managing behavior

    77 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  35. Candy Land was invented for polio wards (2019)

    77 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  36. U.S. Ranked Worst for Workers’ Rights Among Major Economies

    76 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  37. Hard is not defensible (2017)

    76 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  38. Critical SAP Bug Allows Full Enterprise System Takeover

    76 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  39. Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021

    76 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  40. Redux Overview and Concepts – Reimagined Redux Tutorial

    76 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  41. A voice separation model that distinguishes multiple speakers simultaneously

    76 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  42. What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory

    76 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  43. Research Based on the .NET Runtime (2019)

    76 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  44. US universities under pressure to cut fees because of remote learning

    76 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  45. A new material helps transistors become vanishingly small

    76 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  46. GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years

    76 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  47. People loved Nikola but not its warrants

    76 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  48. The Super Duper Universal Binary

    75 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  49. Mozilla VPN exits beta, launches on Android and Windows for $5 a month

    75 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  50. Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland

    75 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  51. The Rise of the Solo Capitalists

    75 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  52. The rise and fall of Adobe Flash

    75 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  53. Finding SARS-CoV-2 carriers by optimizing pooled testing at low prevalence [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  54. Ruby lib/irb/easter-egg.rb

    75 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  55. Bezos: No guarantee Amazon didn't exploit third-party seller data

    75 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  56. How e-commerce platform Elliot fell back down to Earth

    75 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  57. Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  58. Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vision API

    75 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  59. NeurIPS 2020 Optimization Competition

    75 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  60. Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space

    75 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  61. Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style

    75 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  62. Low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles

    75 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  63. Creating randomness Without Math.random

    75 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  64. GraphQL Query Generator

    74 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  65. Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school

    74 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  66. Transport makes up only 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions from food

    74 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  67. All Your Passwords Are Belong to FPGA

    74 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  68. Behind the dead-water phenomenon

    74 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  69. There's never been an easier time to write your own language (2016)

    74 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  70. Ice-forth: A self-hosted Forth on the 6502 for creating NES cartridges

    74 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  71. Reading Hard-to-Read Gravestones (2014)

    73 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  72. What Makes a Picture Good?

    73 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  73. Demystifying MLsub – The Simple Essence of Algebraic Subtyping

    73 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  74. We are all prisoners of groupthink

    73 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  75. Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement

    73 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  76. A new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects

    73 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  77. Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas

    73 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  78. Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters

    73 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  79. UTF-8 bit by bit (2001)

    73 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  80. Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps

    73 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  81. Show HN: Dyna-Kinematics – A 2D physics simulator with some unique features

    73 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  82. SLO Adoption at Twitter

    73 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  83. ECJ rules US Cloud services fundamentally incompatible with EU Privacy laws

    73 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  84. Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    73 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  85. Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

    73 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  86. FDA Updates on Hand Sanitizers with Methanol

    73 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  87. A Land of Monopolists: From Portable Toilets to Mixed Martial Arts

    72 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  88. The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics

    72 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  89. PurritoBin: Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin

    72 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  90. Indaba grand challenge: curing Leishmaniasis, a neglected disease

    72 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  91. California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans amid case surges

    72 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  92. List of computer vision pretrained models

    72 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  93. Nuclear Fusion Project, Iter begins assembly

    72 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  94. John Gilmore: History of Cygnus's Growth

    72 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  95. A British village that built one of the UK’s fastest internet networks

    72 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  96. Complete Guide to Buying Lumber (2015)

    72 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  97. Drone footage of Reddit's major investor rounding up people for religious belief

    72 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  98. The Anglerfish Deleted Its Immune System to Fuse with Its Mate

    72 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  99. Using GPT-3 to generate user interfaces

    72 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  100. Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

    72 points • comment • jul 02, 2020