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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

    64 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  2. Adventures in Beam Optimization for MQTT

    64 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  3. Podcast Stats

    64 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  4. Flaring from Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale

    64 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  5. The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (2011)

    64 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  6. Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging [pdf]

    64 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  7. White House tells hospitals to bypass CDC on Covid-19 data reporting

    64 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  8. Neural supersampling for real-time rendering

    64 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  9. Regulating Technology

    64 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  10. Howland Will Forgery Trial

    64 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  11. Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations

    64 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  12. Tiny Tiny RSS

    64 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  13. MTG Hivemind: Artificial Intelligence Designing Magic the Gathering Cards

    63 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  14. Local-First Software (2019)

    63 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  15. Ancient microbial arms race sharpened our immune system but left us vulnerable

    63 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  16. Java Optimized Processor (2005)

    63 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  17. Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B

    63 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  18. Come for the network, pay for the tool

    63 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  19. Show HN: Screenshot.rocks – Create browser mockups from screenshots

    63 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  20. Low-income housing has no impact on nearby home values (2016)

    63 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  21. Einstein’s Thought Experiments

    63 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  22. Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking

    63 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  23. What Was the Beast of Gévaudan?

    63 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  24. A Need to Walk (2014)

    63 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  25. Charlie Chaplin Was Almost Assassinated in Japan to Start a War

    63 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  26. The problem might not be COBOL

    62 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  27. Australia is doubling fees for arts degrees

    62 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  28. How to Gradually Exit Twitter

    62 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  29. How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters

    62 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  30. Linear Logic Flavoured Composition of Petri Nets

    62 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  31. A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

    62 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  32. Why does a new Rails app need 106 MB of JavaScript?

    62 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  33. XNect: Real-Time Multi-Person 3D Motion Capture with a Single RGB Camera

    62 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  34. Launch HN: Charityvest (YC S20) – Employee charitable funds and gift matching

    62 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  35. Pickle’s Nine Flaws

    61 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  36. It's Talos all the way down

    61 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  37. Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise

    61 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  38. Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in dolphins

    61 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  39. CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported (1977)

    61 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  40. Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine

    61 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  41. Twitter Got Hacked, Is Mastodon Immune?

    61 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  42. Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Success Compared to Intelligence

    61 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  43. The Scourge of Hygiene Theater

    61 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  44. Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language

    61 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  45. Show HN: Free API service for crypto and foreign exchange rates

    61 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  46. First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

    61 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  47. Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?

    61 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  48. Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease?

    61 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  49. Compact forwarding information for the Z Garbage Collector in the OpenJDK

    61 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  50. Anyons: Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought 2D structures

    61 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  51. The promising results of Stockton’s basic income experiment

    61 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  52. Signing .jars is not worth the effort

    61 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  53. Beware the Google Password Manager

    61 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  54. Help HN: Laid off due to Covid, almost out of runway

    61 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  55. Target’s gig workers will strike to protest switch to algorithmic pay model

    61 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  56. Extremal Combinatorics With Applications in Computer Science

    60 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  57. No one is safe in Hong Kong anymore. Leave when you still can

    60 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  58. Networked games: Playing in the past or future

    60 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  59. European communications startup Infobip raises $200M for over $1B valuation

    60 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  60. The Fake Cisco – Hunting for Backdoors in Counterfeit Cisco Devices [pdf]

    60 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  61. Ask HN: Is it possible to get PhD without completing bachelors

    60 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  62. Patent No. 1 – July 31, 1790

    60 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  63. How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands

    60 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  64. Tech CEOs Invoke the American Dream to Obscure the Nightmare They Created

    60 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  65. The Reformer – Pushing the limits of language modeling

    60 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  66. Decentralized Reinforcement Learning

    60 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  67. In October 1953, I coined the word 'software' (1995)

    59 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  68. The Car, Reinvented

    59 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  69. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief

    59 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  70. The Stutterer's Song: Remembering Bill Withers

    59 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  71. No-reply emails from businesses shouldn’t be allowed

    59 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  72. OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation with Torch Mathematical Toolkit

    59 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  73. Mega Tiny Time Watch: a minimalist watch based on an ATtiny414 and 12 LEDs

    59 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  74. Infosec community disagrees with changing 'black hat' term

    59 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  75. The tricky math of Covid-19 herd immunity

    59 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  76. The Null Process (2015)

    59 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  77. Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)

    59 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  78. A Look at Early Japanese Typewriters (2016)

    59 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  79. AES67 resources – Audio over IP protocol

    59 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  80. I Got Rejected by Y Combinator So I’m building my own Incubator

    58 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  81. The Design of Scalar AES Instruction Set Extensions for RISC-V

    58 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  82. Digital Audio on VHS – The Technics SV-P100 [video]

    58 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  83. The Art of the Interpreter (1978) [pdf]

    58 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  84. Apple’s app store and other digital marketplaces [pdf]

    58 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  85. How to Tell a Real 1959 Gibson Les Paul Guitar From a Fake

    58 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  86. Tax hike on California millionaires would create 54% tax rate

    58 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  87. NetLogo: A multi-agent programmable modeling environment

    58 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  88. 19th-century female husbands

    58 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  89. How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!"

    58 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  90. ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System

    58 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  91. JP-7

    58 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  92. Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during lockdown

    58 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  93. Twitter: Hackers Accessed Private Messages for Elite Accounts

    58 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  94. Blind speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts: study (2016)

    58 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  95. Assasination attempt on judge of the Epstein/Deutsche Bank case

    58 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  96. Split any song into its stems – vocals, instrumentals, bass, drums, piano

    58 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  97. Founder-driven life sciences companies

    58 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  98. China on highest flood alert as 38M people evacuated

    58 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  99. Build an arcade machine at home

    58 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  100. Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook

    58 points • comment • jul 20, 2020