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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

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

    34 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  2. Research database explores racial bias in police shootings (2019)

    34 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  3. An Anonymous 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle

    34 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  4. Son of Federal Judge overseeing Deutsche Bank lawsuits killed in NJ shooting

    34 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  5. Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?

    34 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  6. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos,Sundar Pichai Testify Before House

    34 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  7. GifCities

    34 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

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

    34 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  9. Amazon Has Too Much Power

    34 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  10. Living with Your Desk Mates

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  11. Everyone’s a Day Trader Now

    34 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  12. Copywriting 101

    34 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  13. Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ – and don't like what they see

    34 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  14. How the Black Death made the rich richer

    33 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  15. How to Become Convincing

    33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  16. Khan Academy’s Transition to React Native

    33 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  17. Habits of Highly Focused People

    33 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  18. Dutch city redraws its layout to prepare for global heating effects

    33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  19. Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857

    33 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  20. A Wizard of Ultrasharp Imaging

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  21. “AI bookkeeper” startup that raised $100M and failed used humans instead of AI

    33 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  22. Covid Risk Chart

    33 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  23. Seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security (2014)

    33 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  24. Bugs and Battleships (2011)

    33 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  25. What if aviation doesn’t recover?

    33 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  26. You don’t need SMS-2FA

    33 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  27. Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents

    33 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  28. Ask HN: How can we get people to read submissions before commenting on them?

    33 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  29. The Essential Bradbury (2018)

    33 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  30. HK man arrested for possession of flag

    33 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  31. Ask HN: What are you using new programming languages for?

    33 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  32. Nostalgia Reimagined

    33 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  33. Three artists on the future of the gallery system

    33 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  34. Jeffrey Epstein court documents are improperly redacted; many names visible

    33 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  35. Show HN: Noteless - A Markdown-based note-taking app for Android

    33 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  36. I built a deep learning-powered emoji Slackbot

    33 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  37. Epigrams on Programming (1982)

    33 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  38. PostgreSQL’s New Join Type: LATERAL (2014)

    33 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  39. Are “reversible” computers more energy efficient, faster? (2004)

    33 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  40. Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Decades

    33 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  41. Ask HN: How do I get out of the procrastination abyss?

    32 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  42. NYU professor Scott Galloway predicts hundreds of universities will shutter

    32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  43. Linux Hardware Database

    32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  44. Steve Wozniak sues Google over YouTube Bitcoin scam

    32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  45. A dev, designer, and a PM are asked the same question: What is UX?

    32 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  46. Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?

    32 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  47. Instant access to your shell init files

    32 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  48. Goodbye to Grommet

    32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  49. Bidi Brackets for Dummies

    32 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  50. EU Court: YouTube Not Required to Share Email and IP-Addresses of Movie Pirates

    32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  51. In 2020, Words Are 'Violence,' Arson Is Not

    32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  52. Chronicles of Charnia

    32 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  53. Ceasefire – Where cooler heads prevail. App launched today

    32 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  54. Why’s Beijing So Worried About Western Values Infecting China’s Youth? (2017)

    32 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  55. GPT-3 can nearly pass a phone screen

    32 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  56. Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service

    32 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  57. Uzbl – Web Interface Tools Which Adhere to the Unix Philosophy

    32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  58. First new “The Far Side” cartoons from Gary Larson since 1995

    32 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  59. Flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking

    32 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  60. Summary: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

    32 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  61. Kodak surges 1,900% in 2 days after securing a $765M loan to make drugs

    32 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  62. The prison email company charging millions

    32 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  63. Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardware?

    32 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  64. Using neural-network soundscapes to protect natural environments

    32 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  65. Ask HN: Consulting in tech. How to start?

    32 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  66. Apple Removing Support for AMD GPUs in macOS Arm64

    32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  67. How to Create a Software Engineer Resume Hiring Managers Will Love

    32 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  68. Reinforcement Learning Under Moral Uncertainty

    32 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  69. U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, angering Beijing

    32 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  70. The long history of drinking games

    32 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  71. Show HN: Maildown – super simple email API

    32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  72. Zoom announces a $599 touchscreen device for remote workers

    32 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  73. Programming with Punched Cards (2005) [pdf]

    32 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  74. On how Flash games shaped the video game industry

    32 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  75. GitHub Successor Settings

    32 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  76. New York Times word usage frequency, 1970-2018

    32 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  77. Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering aimed at VFX creators

    32 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  78. A Number Theorist Who Solves the Hardest Easy Problems

    32 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  79. I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing

    32 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  80. New Microsoft Edge

    32 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  81. Foundations of Computational Linguistics

    31 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  82. Fanouts and Percentiles: Visualizing Latency in Distributed Systems

    31 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  83. An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework (1998)

    31 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  84. People with hidden immunity against Covid-19

    31 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  85. Intel Plunges as It Weighs Exit from Manufacturing Chips

    31 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  86. Legal Support for Substack Writers

    31 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  87. Why the next Olympics should include Fortnite

    31 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  88. Dog able to verbally communicate with people

    31 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  89. Launching Docs.github.com

    31 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  90. Meet the Mozarts

    31 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  91. The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC

    31 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  92. NYC Has Its First Day in Months with No Covid-19 Deaths

    31 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  93. This Website Is Killing the Planet

    31 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  94. A Silk Road Renaissance

    31 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  95. How the digital camera transformed our concept of history

    31 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  96. Be More Unlikeable

    31 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  97. Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987)

    31 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  98. Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States

    31 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  99. Coronavirus pandemic pushes U.S. economy to worst-ever contraction

    31 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  100. Latency and the Quest for Interactivity (1996) [pdf]

    31 points • comment • jul 25, 2020