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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. International cyber law: interactive toolkit

    42 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  2. Implementing cosine in C from scratch

    42 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  3. An FBI investigation shows Ohio’s abysmal energy law was fueled by corruption

    42 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  4. GPT-3 can generate a React app from natural language description

    42 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  5. “Irregardless” is part of a penumbra of unorthodox English words

    42 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  6. Fedora Approves of Making Nano the Default Terminal Text Editor

    42 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  7. No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

    42 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  8. Special filters in glasses can help the color blind see colors better

    42 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  9. Roam Research reaches $1m ARR in 6 weeks

    42 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  10. Quit Twitter (2019)

    42 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  11. Biologists Home in on Turing Patterns (2013)

    42 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  12. The source code for over 50 companies has been leaked and posted publicly

    42 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  13. The unbundling of Harvard has begun

    41 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  14. Black-Owned Businesses Received Less Than 2% of PPP Loans, White-Owned Got 83%

    41 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  15. Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok from Phones, Citing Security Risk

    41 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  16. AI Dungeon

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  17. Survival of Scottish Gaelic in doubt

    41 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  18. Birth of BASIC (2014) [video]

    41 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  19. The Platonic solids and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics

    41 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  20. Twitter Engineering:We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from

    41 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  21. Do you struggle with anxiety from work?

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  22. Moderna Phase 1 results show coronavirus vaccine safe, induces immune response

    41 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  23. Linux Developers May Discuss Allowing Rust Code Within the Kernel

    41 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  24. Ask HN: How to nab and block a creepy user?

    41 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  25. 32% of U.S. households missed their July housing payments

    41 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  26. Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State

    41 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  27. Scanimage: Scan from the Command Line

    41 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  28. Microsoft interested in buying Warner Bros' gaming unit

    41 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  29. SUSE acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs

    41 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  30. How to launch when the app directory rejects you

    41 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  31. Letting Robots Manipulate Cables

    41 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  32. Ask HN: Concepts the modern tech industry falsely believes it invented?

    41 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  33. Navy Warship Is Still Ablaze, and Now Tilting to One Side

    40 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  34. VCs Are Destructive Predators

    40 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  35. One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson's disease in mice

    40 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  36. Ask HN: How did you get website traffic?

    40 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  37. Life under quartz: Hypolithic mosses in the Mojave Desert

    40 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  38. Balancing AMD’s Future on the Edge of a Silicon Wafer

    40 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  39. Lava tubes may be havens for ancient alien life and future human explorers

    40 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  40. Procrastination Journal

    40 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  41. Washington Post settles $250M lawsuit filed by Nick Sandmann

    40 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  42. Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving skill evaluation tool

    40 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  43. Multiple Dispatch in Julia

    40 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  44. AI writing code will make software engineers more valuable

    40 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  45. The Neoliberal Looting of America

    40 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  46. The Digitized Culture Wars

    40 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  47. Revealed: Oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities

    40 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  48. Lessons from the awkward life and death of the Segway

    40 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  49. Away says co-CEO Steph Korey will step down this year after attacks on the media

    40 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  50. Bit-Box: custom keypad build

    40 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  51. The Pandemic-Era Appeal of Labyrinths

    40 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  52. Poor Man's Cluster

    40 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  53. Facebook Considering Political Ad Blackout Before US Election

    39 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  54. Big Tech marshals a right-leaning army of allies for antitrust fight

    39 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  55. Huawei Hacked My Laptop

    39 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  56. US universities announcing online Fall 2020

    39 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  57. San Francisco most intensely gentrified city in new rankings

    39 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  58. 11,000 year old ocher mine in underwater cave

    39 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  59. Colleges Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racist Social Media Posts Emerge

    39 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  60. Weird Shell – Structural Regular Expressions Unix Shell Made in Rust

    39 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  61. Don't microwave books to get rid of coronavirus

    39 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  62. A Tesla YouTuber Wants a Gas Car and Now YouTube Keeps Taking Down His Video

    39 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  63. Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars

    39 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  64. Build a No-Slot MIDI Interface on the Apple ][ Game I/O Socket

    39 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  65. The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility

    39 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  66. Show HN: UPUP Simple Credit Card Verification to Reduce Fraud

    39 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  67. Data centers can slash CO2 emissions 88% or more (2013)

    39 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  68. Show HN: CVPR 2020 unofficial statistics, with better search functionality

    39 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  69. Show HN: Augmented Hacker News Reader

    39 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  70. A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile

    39 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  71. Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions

    39 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  72. How to speak (2018) [video]

    39 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  73. You could have invented fractional cascading (2012)

    39 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  74. Show HN: PaperPup – Discover new articles from blogs and websites in one UI

    39 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  75. Problem Set 6: The Meta-Circular Evaluator (1998)

    39 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  76. Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)

    39 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  77. Japan plans to invite TSMC to build joint chip plant: Yomiuri

    38 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  78. Mozilla Starts Petition to Oppose the Earn IT Act

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  79. Software 2.0 (2017)

    38 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  80. Why Most Founders Don’t Take Good Advice

    38 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  81. Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  82. Merging and Patches (2017)

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  83. Daily Science Fiction

    38 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  84. BMW wants to charge a subscription fee to enable heated steering wheel

    38 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  85. Writing with Synesthesia, Seeing Colors in Music

    38 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  86. Dad horrified at £4,642 gaming app bill

    38 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  87. Remains of the Palace of Axayácatl and a house built by Cortés are discovered

    38 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  88. Modeling the Human Trajectory

    38 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  89. U.S. seizes $800k shipment of Xinjiang products made with human hair

    38 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  90. US regulator fines Citadel for trading ahead of retail customer orders

    38 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  91. Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine Cut Death Rate Significantly

    38 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  92. Rstudio – Pending Legal Matter

    38 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  93. The world won't hit climate goals unless energy innovation rapidly accelerated

    38 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  94. Nuclear energy is in fact better than renewables (for us and the environment)

    38 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  95. Protein from the edible Lablab beans blocks the infections of flu and SARS-CoV-2

    38 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  96. Money buys even more happiness than it used to

    38 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  97. Ask HN: How do you market your blog/articles

    38 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  98. Is This a Turing Machine?

    38 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  99. Show HN: Tired of reading NerdWallet to see the best credit card? I automated it

    38 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  100. How to Choose a Neutral Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation

    38 points • comment • jul 29, 2020