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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. DIY Video Hosting

    502 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  2. RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

    501 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  3. Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat

    494 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  4. U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas

    494 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  5. Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants

    491 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  6. Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

    491 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  7. The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”

    491 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  8. Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)

    490 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  9. Rust 1.45

    487 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  10. Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly

    487 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  11. Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy

    484 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  12. You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends

    483 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  13. UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

    482 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  14. Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers

    480 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  15. How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS

    479 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  16. Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics

    479 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  17. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

    478 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  18. Unit Testing Is Overrated

    474 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  19. Searchable PPP Loan Data

    473 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  20. Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective

    472 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  21. GitHub Public Roadmap

    470 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  22. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

    470 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  23. Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders

    468 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  24. Tired of note-taking apps

    466 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  25. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

    465 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  26. The global fertility rate is falling

    465 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  27. Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq

    464 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  28. Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

    464 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  29. Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

    463 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  30. Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious

    463 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  31. Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears

    462 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  32. Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)

    462 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  33. On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services

    458 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  34. Hiring Without Whiteboards

    457 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  35. H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)

    457 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  36. Flutter for Linux

    456 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  37. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

    456 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  38. The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf]

    454 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  39. Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

    451 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  40. Your DS18B20 temperature sensor is likely a fake, counterfeit, clone

    449 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  41. Help Message for Shell Scripts

    447 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  42. Design Docs at Google

    447 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  43. KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

    440 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  44. Text-Only Social Network

    439 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  45. Worms Armageddon 3.8

    437 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  46. Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test

    436 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  47. What’s New in Thunderbird 78

    434 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  48. Google Earth Timelapse

    432 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  49. WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

    432 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  50. Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (2018)

    431 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  51. The Silence Is Deafening

    428 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  52. Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers

    426 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  53. Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth

    425 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  54. Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved

    424 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  55. Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)

    423 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  56. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

    420 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  57. A man who can read letters but not numbers exposes roots of consciousness

    419 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  58. EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

    418 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  59. Essays on programming I think about a lot

    415 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  60. Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords

    415 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  61. 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

    415 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  62. Google to Invest $10B in India

    414 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  63. The Haskell Elephant in the Room

    414 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  64. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

    413 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  65. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)

    413 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  66. Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

    413 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  67. Things Unexpectedly Named After People

    413 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  68. Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”

    411 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  69. Not an Amazon Problem

    410 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  70. Reasonably priced color e-ink display

    410 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  71. A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web

    409 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  72. Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API

    409 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  73. Who gets invited to the party?

    408 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  74. India, Jio, and the Four Internets

    407 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  75. Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

    407 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  76. LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

    407 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  77. China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says

    405 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  78. Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

    403 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  79. Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

    400 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  80. Google to keep employees home until summer 2021

    400 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  81. CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]

    399 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  82. To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

    398 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  83. Small mail server best current practices

    398 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  84. July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy

    397 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  85. Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds

    393 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  86. I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

    392 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  87. SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

    390 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  88. Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work

    390 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  89. How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations

    390 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  90. Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface

    389 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  91. A graphical analysis of women's tops sold on Goodwill's website

    389 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  92. Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation

    389 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  93. Double Entry Accounting for Developers

    388 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  94. Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

    386 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  95. Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk

    383 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  96. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

    382 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  97. Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in

    381 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  98. How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life

    381 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  99. TensorFlow, Keras and deep learning, without a PhD

    381 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  100. Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript

    380 points • comment • jul 22, 2020