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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Mozilla Starts Petition to Oppose the Earn IT Act

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  2. A tale of latency and broken windows

    38 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  3. In Search of King David’s Lost Empire

    38 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

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

    38 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  5. Merging and Patches (2017)

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

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

    38 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  7. Flight of the Fire Ants

    37 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  8. Slack says Microsoft is back up to old bad tricks, “browser war” style

    37 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  9. What A.I. Learned from the Internet

    37 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  10. YouTube to end community captions feature and deaf creators aren’t happy

    37 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  11. An Iron Age skeleton with his hands bound found in Wendover

    37 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  12. Self Hosting Email Server

    37 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  13. List of Modern Boardgame Research

    37 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  14. Screwed by Lufthansa and the German Government, Saved by PayPal

    37 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  15. The Rabbit Outbreak

    37 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  16. Show HN: News Searching API

    37 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  17. Billionaire Musk's net worth zooms past Warren Buffett's

    37 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  18. Tench: When data is messy

    37 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  19. America’s Monopoly Problem Goes Way Beyond the Tech Giants

    37 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  20. GitHub is now slowly turning into a Portfolio Website

    37 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  21. Ask HN: Where to Search for Remote Jobs?

    37 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  22. Ask HN: Good Resources on Voice Encryption?

    37 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  23. Germany's military missing over 60k rounds of ammunition

    37 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  24. Show HN: Income/savings calculator for moving to Canada

    37 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  25. Plasma from exercised mice showed beneficial effects on brains of aged mice

    37 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  26. Why can Apple out CPU Intel?

    37 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  27. Scientists warn of rapid melting of Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday glacier’

    37 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  28. Noisomeness

    37 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  29. Does Having an Anime Profile Picture Make You a Better Programmer?

    37 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  30. NSA-tapped undersea cables, North Pacific Ocean, 2016

    37 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  31. What’s shaking? Earthquake detection with submarine cables

    37 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  32. Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6B to Top Pre-Divorce Record

    37 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  33. Scientists observe light acting like a river

    37 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  34. Hey.com vs. Fastmail. A Review

    36 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  35. Excess-3

    36 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  36. Learn from Anyone

    36 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  37. Google will let employees work from home until at least next summer

    36 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  38. Why time feels so weird in 2020

    36 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  39. Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights

    36 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  40. Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in

    36 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  41. The Illustrated Guide to a PhD

    36 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  42. Best Paper Awards at ACL 2020

    36 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  43. New 3D depigmentation technique enables high-res imaging of intact organisms

    36 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  44. “Runway Programming Languages” and Fast Fashion

    36 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  45. The great vectors-versus-quaternions debate (2014)

    36 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  46. Big Tech’s Years-Long Manipulation of American Op-Ed Pages

    36 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  47. Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

    36 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  48. Founder-Investor Fit

    36 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  49. Relativity behind mercury's liquidity (2013)

    36 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  50. Pseudo-Random vs. True Random (2012)

    36 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  51. Novel 'on-off' switch discovered in plant defenses

    36 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  52. Before Hack, Twitter Contractors Caught Spying on Users Including Beyonce

    36 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  53. Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China

    35 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  54. Emails Reveal Why Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller Blocked In-App Kindle Purchases

    35 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  55. Three Architectures for a Responsive IDE

    35 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  56. Patreon loses lawsuit with Owen Benjamin fans

    35 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  57. CDC director: Keeping schools closed greater health threat to children reopening

    35 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  58. Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Starbucks, Target, Unilever Pulling Ads from Facebook

    35 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  59. Show HN: I Made My First Sale and Made It to #7 on the App Store!

    35 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  60. Sustainable engineers Kenoteq are reinventing the brick

    35 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  61. Thinking about a New Type System for Perl/Cor

    35 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  62. If We Weren’t the First Industrial Civilization on Earth, Would We Ever Know?

    35 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  63. Mysterious Inheritance: A new biography of J.B.S. Haldane

    35 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  64. People who like embarrassing or angering others find social media more addictive

    35 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  65. Ask HN: The 'web' button is gone?

    35 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  66. Your Life Is Worth $10M, According to the Government [video]

    35 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  67. Stopping Pollution with Pine Needles

    35 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  68. Show HN: Dockerfiler: declarative management of images built from Dockerfiles

    35 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  69. Show HN: I learnt React by building a narrative-driven funny(?) web game

    35 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  70. To Build a Better Ballot (2016)

    35 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  71. LibreOffice 2020/2025 Marketing Plan [pdf]

    35 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  72. Self Organising WS2811 LEDs

    35 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  73. Licensed to Pill

    35 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  74. Data Consistency Checks

    35 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  75. ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists

    35 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  76. FedEx, Walmart Are Being Investigated for Punishing Workers That Take Time Off

    35 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  77. Favorite self help books

    35 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  78. Reddit AMA: Jason A. Donenfeld, Creator of WireGuard etc.

    34 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  79. Siberia Is on Fire

    34 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  80. Centuries-old paintings help researchers track food evolution

    34 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  81. Data WhiteOps collects

    34 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  82. Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life

    34 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  83. A Roundtable on Covid-19 and the Attention Economy

    34 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  84. Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?

    34 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  85. The Physics of Brute Force (2016)

    34 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  86. Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler

    34 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  87. Synthetic biology and yeast can help fix the drug supply chain

    34 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  88. Opinion: Xi Jinping – A modern-day tyrant in the old mold

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  89. Luxonis wants to use computer vision to protect cyclists

    34 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  90. Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen

    34 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  91. Watching the Skies in Japan: Mishima Yukio and Other UFO Enthusiasts

    34 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  92. Breaking Down Lululemon's $500M Mirror Acquisition

    34 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  93. Trex: A package manager for Deno

    34 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  94. Everyone’s a Day Trader Now

    34 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  95. Ask HN: HN Invaded by Mass Media?

    34 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  96. Amazon Has Too Much Power

    34 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  97. WSJ: 'Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge are just better browsers'

    34 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  98. GifCities

    34 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  99. Guns are selling out across America

    34 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  100. Ask HN: How did you learn x86-64 assembly?

    34 points • comment • jul 23, 2020