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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

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

    72 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

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

    72 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  3. Why You Need a Community: Opportunity Exposure and the Internet Echo Chamber

    72 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  4. After Quarantine, 28% of People Report Feeling Overwhelmed by Driving

    71 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  5. Creating a Wireshark dissector in Lua (2017)

    71 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  6. Isetta

    71 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  7. Place for Open and Interactive Mathematics

    71 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  8. Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

    71 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  9. Debug Programs Using GDB on Redox OS

    71 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  10. ADLPlug: FM Chip Synthesizer

    71 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  11. CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects

    71 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  12. Fixing critical vulnerabilities in Apache's remote desktop

    71 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  13. Pending Postal Service Changes Could Delay Mail and Deliveries

    71 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  14. Workers fear returning to work – many are resisting the call

    71 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  15. The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic

    71 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  16. Proton irradiation decelerates intergranular corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys

    70 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  17. Show HN: Draw L-Systems with Common Lisp

    70 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  18. ODNS: Oblivious DNS (2018)

    70 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  19. Building the ultimate home office again

    70 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  20. RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1

    70 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  21. Volunteer for coronavirus Phase 3 vaccine studies

    70 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  22. Show HN: Your DevOps Control Plane, in Slack

    70 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  23. I changed my LinkedIn avatar to include my toddler

    70 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  24. Show HN: An Aesthetically Pleasing Arch Linux Distro

    70 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  25. The epic roleplaying stunt Dau is now churning out epicly bad movies

    70 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  26. Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting for endogeneity

    70 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  27. Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

    70 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  28. Amazon warns Alexa Echo Buds earphones pose overheating safety risk

    69 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  29. Goethe’s Colors: A Visual Catalogue

    69 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  30. ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country If Their Schools Are Online-Only

    69 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  31. The only catfish native to the Western U.S. is running out of water

    69 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  32. The US military is using online gaming to recruit teens

    69 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  33. Acorn Archimedes – A Technical Introduction (1987) [video]

    69 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  34. The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

    69 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  35. The futility of “I told you so” in software engineering teams

    69 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  36. 55% Yelp businesses that were temp closed are now perm

    69 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  37. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ethereum

    69 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  38. National Science Foundation reveals details on foreign-influence investigations

    68 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  39. Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence

    68 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  40. DevOps Newsletters

    68 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  41. Ending at-will employment: a better remedy for cancel culture?

    68 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  42. Dam built by robots? Japan's Obayashi tests it out

    68 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  43. Order Temporarily Blocks Feds from Targeting Press and Legal Observers

    68 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  44. Learn to Create and Flex Flexagons

    68 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  45. For those at northerly latitudes, Comet NEOWISE up in the evening now, too

    68 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  46. Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home

    68 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  47. Spies in the Xerox Machine (1997)

    68 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  48. An Intel 8080 Assembler and Online Simulator

    68 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  49. Front End Interview Handbook

    68 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  50. Nuclear blast sends star hurtling across galaxy

    68 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  51. Vue 3 is now in RC

    68 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  52. Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information with police

    68 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  53. How good are query optimizers, really? [pdf] (2015)

    68 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  54. Secret Trump order gives CIA more powers to launch cyberattacks

    67 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  55. The Game of Life – Emergence in Generative Art

    67 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  56. Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012)

    67 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  57. Kubectl – Configuration Guide

    67 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  58. This month in 1939: How dead cattle led to the discovery of warfarin

    67 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  59. Targeted MitM attacks using information leakage in SSH clients [pdf]

    67 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  60. Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills

    67 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  61. Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro

    67 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  62. SARS-CoV-2-specific immunity in Covid-19 and SARS cases, and uninfected controls

    67 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  63. Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector

    67 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  64. California's new lockdown could be brutal for the economy

    67 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  65. FCC approves Amazon’s internet-from-space constellation of 3,236 satellites

    67 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  66. Enigma code-breaking machine rebuilt at Cambridge

    67 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  67. Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see eye to eye

    67 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  68. Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state

    67 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  69. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

    67 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  70. Pentagon's UFO Unit to Disclose Some of Its Findings to the Public

    66 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  71. Bezos' ex-wife Gives $1.7B to Historically Black Colleges and others

    66 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  72. Our Software Dependency Problem (2019)

    66 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  73. UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court

    66 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  74. Open letter calling for the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

    66 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  75. XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable status

    66 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  76. The Death of the Photo Studio

    66 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  77. Show HN: Moufette – an open-source tool to capture user feedback

    66 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  78. Corecursion and coinduction: how they relate to recursion and induction [pdf]

    66 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  79. Show HN: Open-source isolated browser, free for journalists etc.

    66 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  80. Mozilla sending political ads via Firefox push notification

    66 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  81. John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)

    65 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  82. IBM Building 025

    65 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  83. Everything we know about Apple's smart glasses

    65 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  84. AWS App2Container

    65 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  85. Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

    65 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  86. NoSQL GUI Application

    65 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  87. QTile – An XMonad-like tiling WM written in Python

    65 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  88. How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)

    65 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  89. Optical Disc Data Rot: Burned CDs going bad

    65 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  90. Forgotten Best Sellers

    65 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  91. Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities

    65 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  92. The chemfp project: problems selling free software

    65 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  93. Why Do We Have Dev Rels Now?

    65 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  94. A long-lost perfume got a second life after 150 years underwater

    65 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  95. Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives

    65 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  96. Launch HN: Mindset Health (YC S19) – Hypnotherapy apps for chronic conditions

    65 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  97. The U.S. is withdrawing from the World Health Organization

    65 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  98. Building a CT Scan Covid-19 Classifier Using PyTorch

    64 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  99. The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

    64 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  100. Adventures in Beam Optimization for MQTT

    64 points • comment • jul 17, 2020