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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Amazon will start displaying 3rd party seller names and addresses on its US site

    31 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  2. Well Hello

    31 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  3. Ask HN: How many hours do you work?

    31 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  4. Alphabet-owned Verily suspended spot bonuses to fund diversity initiatives

    31 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  5. A linguistic glitch tricks us into thinking bank deposits are deposited in banks

    30 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  6. Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea

    30 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  7. AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns

    30 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  8. Information Management: A Proposal (1989)

    30 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  9. Freedom ≠ money. Freedom = the power to say no

    30 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  10. Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States

    30 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  11. Who’s sharing my data, and who the hell is Dave M. Rogenmoser?

    30 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  12. Phylogenetic analyses uncover ancient roots of Indo-European folktales (2016)

    30 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  13. Tesla Model Y Road Trip Review: a no-compromise electric SUV

    30 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  14. Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light

    30 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  15. The US is 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps

    30 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  16. Facebook Unpublished Anti-Trump Group MeidasTouch

    30 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  17. The Brussels Effect

    30 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  18. The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, Azure Cloud

    30 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  19. Mozilla VPN

    30 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  20. Quora Bans Me for Saying the Earth Isn’t Flat

    30 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  21. Gig workers find it harder to make money as unemployment drives up competition

    30 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  22. U.S. tech giants face hard choices under Hong Kong's new security law

    30 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  23. Is It Okay to Go to the Beach?

    30 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  24. Ask HN: 9-5 Burnout?

    30 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  25. Windows Task Manager Runs Doom (896 Cores)

    30 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  26. Google Steers Users to YouTube over Rivals

    30 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  27. Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang

    30 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  28. Google to Auto Delete History

    30 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  29. Social Bonds Are Fraying Fast in America’s Cities

    30 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  30. A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’

    30 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  31. ‘End of academic freedom’: HKU to fire pro-democracy activist law prof Benny Tai

    30 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  32. AMA: Blue Leaks, 269gb of data from police intelligence.Server in Germany seized

    30 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  33. Google, Facebook, Twitter halt govt data requests after Hong Kong security law

    30 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  34. Goldman Sachs Reaches $3.9B Settlement with Malaysia over 1MDB Corruption Case

    30 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  35. Henry Ford study found hydroxychloroquine helps lower Covid-19 death rate

    29 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  36. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle

    29 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  37. The New Siberians

    29 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  38. Blender green screen VFX of incredible detail – made by a single person

    29 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  39. Harvesting Hydrogen from Nanogardens

    29 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  40. Container Networking Security Issue (CVE-2020-8558)

    29 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  41. Certificate Transparency: a bird's-eye view

    29 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  42. Preserving arcade games (2014) [video]

    29 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Essential life skills to function as a human being?

    29 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  44. Scientists Discover First Methane Leak in Antarctica; Warn of Warming Threat

    29 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  45. Show HN: Vue.js sliding header(s) for top navigation bar

    29 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  46. Weed-destroying bots: Kansas startup scales chemical-free farming with bot fleet

    29 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  47. Benchmarking the Major Cloud Vision AutoML Tools

    29 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  48. Exploring how different framings of the same learning task affect performance

    29 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  49. Open Letter from Gilead CEO: Remdesivir Pricing

    29 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  50. DoNotPay Unsubscribes You from Spam–and Tries to Get You Paid

    29 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  51. Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios

    29 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  52. Bitcoin wallet Ledger’s database hacked for 1M emails

    29 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  53. The danger of surrogate metrics (2007)

    29 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  54. Show HN: Form-validation.js – JavaScript form validation library

    29 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  55. Why Big Tech Is More Competent Than the US Government

    29 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  56. Chemistry of Fireworks

    29 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  57. Lightweight, open-source, universal paper wallet generator

    29 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  58. China orders U.S. to shut Chengdu consulate, retaliating for Houston

    29 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  59. Firefox push[ing] irrelevant notifications

    29 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  60. PSU punishes prof who duped academic journal with hoax 'dog rape' article (2019)

    29 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  61. History of Russian Spacecrafts

    29 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  62. Global temperatures likely to hit at least 1C warming for next five years

    29 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  63. What the hell is happening in Portland?

    29 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  64. Chinua Achebe, the Art of Fiction No. 139 (1994)

    29 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  65. Color-changing ink turns clothes into giant chemical sensors

    29 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  66. Optimizing an Open Source Texture Synthesis Library

    29 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  67. Call it the ‘boss tax:’ Seattle finally finds a potent way to tax the rich

    29 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  68. Show HN: Tiny password manager with all data stored encrypted on your machine

    29 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  69. Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data

    29 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  70. List of Peter Thiel's Online Writings

    29 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  71. I'm an Unemployed Waitress. Don't Dine Out at All

    29 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  72. Reopening Bars Is Easy. Schools Are Difficult

    29 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  73. JavaScript Records and Tuples Proposal goes to stage 2

    28 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  74. An alchemist who failed to make gold but still made history in porcelain

    28 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  75. Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk (2016)

    28 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  76. Covid-19 Treatment with Zinc Plus Low Dose Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  77. Slack Is Fumbling Developers

    28 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  78. Ask HN: If you could start your career all over again, what would you change?

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  79. Should the frame be recognized as an art form?

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  80. Where are the bones of Hans Holbein?

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  81. Decompiling the SARS-CoV-2 genome into readable functions

    28 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  82. How People Learn – The Brain Basics

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  83. Use of Assertions (2014)

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  84. Show HN: Simple Bash Prompt – a fast, pretty, extendable and pure bash prompt

    28 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  85. Coronavirus revealed the unexpected strengths of Germany’s model of government

    28 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  86. Starfucker – A GitHub API exploration

    28 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  87. BMW wants to sell subscriptions to in-car features

    28 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  88. Conversation and Ideas

    28 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  89. Ask HN: How should open source support critical dependencies?

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  90. Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’

    28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  91. No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2020

    28 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  92. Every Public Engineering Career Ladder

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  93. Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed Across Its Divisions

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  94. Dismemberment Killing of Tech CEO ‘Looks Like Professional Job’

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  95. Rebooting Justice

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  96. Show HN: Simplemvc.js – A highly opinionated web back end framework

    28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  97. Tech firms begin to abandon Hong Kong because of security law

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  98. Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  99. Poor Countries Are Running Out of Time to Get Rich

    28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  100. Feds Vowed to Quell Unrest in Portland. Local Leaders Are Telling Them to Leave

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020