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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. We've been using the same bricks for over 5,000 years. It's time for a change

    28 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  2. New Stripe Website

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  3. Compressed Sensing (2016)

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  4. Unwoke – Jobboard for people that just want to work and not be activists

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  5. Oldschool PC fonts, release v2.0

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  6. Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival apps to develop competitors

    28 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  7. History of Egghead Software Stores

    28 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  8. Safe, fast-charging lithium battery handles five times the current

    28 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  9. Apple Silicon implements tricky x86 behaviors in hardware for faster emulation

    28 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  10. The Grace of Manta Rays

    28 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  11. Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  12. Don’t shoot the dogs: The growing epidemic of cops shooting family dogs

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  13. Mmhmm turns your boring Zoom call into a Weekend Update-style TV show

    28 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  14. Story Arcs: The Six Shapes of Stories

    28 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  15. Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree

    28 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  16. Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply (2019)

    28 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  17. Ex-Uber employees are being surprised by big tax bills

    28 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  18. John Lewis Was an American Founder

    27 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  19. Ask HN: Getting depressed about money. How do I make a meaningful amount “fast”?

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  20. Two Beautiful Rust Programs

    27 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  21. USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save a Buck

    27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  22. Local TV set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory

    27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  23. Show HN: A Simple Search Engine

    27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  24. K3d v3.0.0 released: run Kubernetes in your local machine just using Docker

    27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  25. A power-hungry CEO drained the light out of General Electric

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  26. A Python Substitute? I Tried the Best Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of

    27 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  27. Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts

    27 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  28. Show HN: Pyrustic – Software suite for developing your next Python desktop app

    27 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  29. Amazon announces second quarter results

    27 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  30. Hyaluronic acid does not hold a thousand times its weight in water

    27 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  31. Iowa reporter who exposed racist tweets fired for own tweets

    27 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  32. Vue 3: mid 2020 status update

    27 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  33. Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 111

    27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  34. Email Is Not Broken

    27 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  35. Scrite: Open-Source Scriptwriting Software

    27 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  36. Commodore Nowhere Near the Edge or Commodore Before Commodore (2007)

    27 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  37. Astrofox – motion graphics program for turning music visualizations into videos

    27 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  38. New material that cannot be cut

    27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  39. Using GPT-3 for Accounting

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  40. SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

    27 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  41. MS introduces new Edge with full-screen popup that can't be skipped

    27 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  42. Doing the Impossible

    27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  43. An issue with DuckDuckGo Search may prevent you from getting results

    27 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  44. From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes

    27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  45. Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

    27 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  46. Almost half of all jobs lost during pandemic may be gone permanently

    27 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  47. Scent dog identification of samples from Covid-19 patients – a pilot study

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  48. Meal timings affect your waistline

    27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  49. The Wrath of the Killdozer (2009)

    27 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  50. Apple, Nike and other major companies implicated in forced labour in China

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  51. “They would have said faster horses” – An example of asking wrong questions

    27 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  52. Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  53. “Zuck off”: Doctors, nurses, scientists rail against Zuckerberg

    27 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  54. Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings

    27 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  55. How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?

    27 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  56. List of important publications in computer science

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  57. The Imprisoner’s Dilemma

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  58. Show HN: Midnight.pub – Virtual Speakeasy

    26 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  59. Facebook boycott leaders ‘disappointed’ after meeting with Zuckerberg, Sandberg

    26 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  60. Important Women in CS Who Aren't Grace Hopper (2018)

    26 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  61. Ask HN: Why doesn't Grant Imahara warrant a black bar?

    26 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  62. UCDavis researcher, suspected spying, hiding in consulate now in custody

    26 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  63. The David Peters Problem

    26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  64. A collection of free Physics books from Springer

    26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  65. Show HN: I self learned to code and built a Slack app for team feedback - Kaapi

    26 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  66. Proximal Policy Optimization for Playing Super Mario Bros

    26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  67. Show HN: FAANG Compensation Calculators

    26 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  68. Now Resolved: FB iOS SDK Outage Causing Disruption to 3rd Party iOS Apps

    26 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  69. Majority of the world's richest people are self-made, says new report

    26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  70. How the Unix philosophy gave us “web apps” instead of “software”

    26 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  71. If Congress doesn’t act, unemployment and a ruined economy may come soon

    26 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  72. Ask HN: Why Do You Downvote?

    26 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  73. Ask HN: What's the best piece of software you use every day?

    26 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  74. Stock and Flow (2010)

    26 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  75. Marine glass sponge that builds silica skeletons

    26 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  76. Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab

    26 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  77. Crates.io Security Advisory

    26 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  78. Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'

    26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  79. A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison D’Etre for the App Store

    26 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  80. Platform Adjacency Theory

    26 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  81. FCC Fines HobbyKing Nearly $3M for Marketing Unauthorized Drone Transmitters

    26 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  82. A hacker is selling details of 142M MGM hotel guests on the dark web

    26 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  83. MP3 Is 25 Years Old

    26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  84. Wearable Sensors: A call to action for remote patient monitoring and assessment

    26 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  85. Moon's Mark Down (2016)

    26 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  86. Show HN: Fw – faster workspace (workspace productivity booster)

    26 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  87. Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)

    26 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  88. Leading the World’s Aurora Hunters

    26 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  89. Jared Kushner’s Testing Plan “Went Poof into Thin Air”

    26 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  90. Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your Computer

    26 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  91. Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test

    26 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  92. Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally

    26 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  93. The Power of Dopey Ideas

    26 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  94. Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What

    26 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  95. UN issues warning to US authorities to stand down against rioters

    26 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  96. If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention

    26 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  97. Show HN: StarCLI – Browse trending repos on GitHub by star, date, and more

    26 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  98. Alignment

    26 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  99. Small Lab Makes Big Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Tech

    26 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  100. Lyme disease vaccine found to be safe and effective in clinical trial

    25 points • comment • jul 31, 2020