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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Columbus’s Ultimate Goal: Jerusalem (2006) [pdf]

    25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  2. Some guy builds a VR time machine that lets them relive their past

    25 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  3. Did Einstein say that?: Testing content vs. context in quotations (2017)

    25 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  4. War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility

    25 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  5. Don't Tell. Persuade. Here's How

    25 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  6. Retrie: Haskell Refactoring Made Easy

    25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  7. Persuasion: A Free Society Is Worth Fighting For

    25 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  8. TayPO, a Unifying Framework for Reinforcement Learning

    25 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  9. From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project

    25 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  10. Writer Neal Stephenson Thinks We've Gotten Dystopia All Wrong

    25 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  11. The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

    25 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  12. Mountain Beavers and Control of Mountain Beaver Damage (2005)

    25 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  13. Ask HN: If WinServer2019 was made free to use tomorrow,would you start using it

    25 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  14. Widespread mask wearing could prevent second waves of COVID-19, study says

    25 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  15. A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

    25 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  16. Turning Arabian Desert air into bottled water

    25 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  17. The History of the Picnic (2019)

    25 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  18. The Selfie and the Self: In Defence of Duckface (2019)

    25 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  19. SCMP: US Dollar Risk of a Sudden Collapse

    25 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  20. Voice, an invite-only social network where everyone is verified

    25 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  21. Show HN: Search for ingredients to pair with other ingredients

    25 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  22. The Plot to Kill the Open Technology Fund

    25 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  23. Distributed system definition at DEC SRC bulletin board (1987)

    25 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  24. Aiming ultrasound at the brain raises hope of new treatments

    25 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  25. Can Archaeology Dogs Smell Ancient Time?

    25 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  26. What's wrong with WhatsApp

    25 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  27. Media Continues to Misreport US Unemployment Numbers

    25 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  28. Show HN: I built a programming language for beginners

    25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  29. How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat

    25 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  30. Mike Pompeo Said the US Is Considering Banning TikTok

    25 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  31. Global Travel Reopening Tracker

    25 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  32. Shell Scripts for Managing Markdown Notes

    25 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  33. Low-tech Covid test costs $1 w results in 1 hour

    24 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  34. The return of the $70 video game has been a long time coming

    24 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  35. Richard Stallman's personal site – How I do my computing

    24 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  36. Fractally Broken

    24 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  37. New GitHub phishing attack due to missing DMARC

    24 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  38. CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle

    24 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  39. “GitHub is the Instagram of programming”

    24 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  40. What does Microsoft want with Linux and Open Source? [video]

    24 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  41. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

    24 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  42. In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan

    24 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  43. Wheat = Individualism, Rice = Collectivism? (2018)

    24 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  44. Google and Apple Remove Palestine from World Maps, Replace with Israel

    24 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  45. Mozilla suspends Firefox Send service while it addresses malware abuse

    24 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  46. Severe Covid-19 patients have unique phenotype

    24 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  47. Random Strings and Integers That Aren’t

    24 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  48. Show HN: Would You Survive the Titanic?

    24 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  49. Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2020 Results

    24 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  50. First Timers Only

    24 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  51. The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity

    24 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  52. Building an Offline Page for Theguardian.com

    24 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  53. Live Reloading for a Production Next.js App

    24 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  54. Ask HN: FB suggests friends after visiting same city, don't use FB phone. How?

    24 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  55. Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'

    24 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  56. The western U.S. is locked in the grips of the first human-caused megadrought

    24 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  57. Palantir announces confidential draft S-1

    23 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  58. Panasonic aims to boost energy density in Tesla batteries by 20%

    23 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  59. BeerMaps – Search and explore local craft breweries

    23 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  60. Foam Concrete

    23 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  61. Association of low to moderate alcohol drinking with better cognitive function

    23 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  62. The Arctic Is on Fire Again, and It's Even Worse This Time

    23 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  63. Epoxy: Interactive Model Iteration with Weak Supervision

    23 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  64. The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  65. Show HN: Acquisition Blog Post Generator

    23 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  66. Show HN: Oops I deleted my bin/ dir

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  67. JIT Compilers Are Implemented and Fast: Julia, PyPy, LuaJIT, Graal and More

    23 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  68. Microsoft’s Edge browser is crashing if you have Google set as default search

    23 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of reading books?

    23 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  70. 239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

    23 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  71. If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave?

    23 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  72. Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios

    23 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  73. There’s a War Going on over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page

    23 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  74. Crooks have acquired proprietary Diebold software to “jackpot” ATMs

    23 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  75. A Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target over His Tweets

    23 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  76. Coronavirus in Schools: Teachers Fear for Their Lives

    23 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  77. Show HN: I've created a tool to design sequence diagrams with my team

    23 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  78. Trump May Attempt to Force Long-Time H-1B Visa Holders Out of U.S.

    23 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  79. The Worst for U.S. Renters and Apartment Owners Is yet to Come

    23 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  80. The Classic Typewriter Page

    23 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  81. Nearly one in three children have dangerous amounts of lead in bloodstream

    23 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  82. Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President

    23 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  83. Show HN: Deploy Scikit and Keras Models with a Simple Drag and Drop

    23 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  84. Eye Shapes of the Animal World Hint at Differences in Our Lifestyles (2015)

    23 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  85. D3.js based chart library billboard.js 2.0 is out, more smaller and faster

    23 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  86. App Makers Break Their Apps to Avoid Paying Apple

    23 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  87. Show HN: An Actually-Tiny Basic for Arduino

    23 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  88. Warning of serious brain disorders in people with mild coronavirus symptoms

    23 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  89. Ludum Dare in 48 hours with Rust and WebAssembly

    22 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  90. Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location?

    22 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  91. Climate-Strike License

    22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  92. Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun

    22 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  93. Visual Debugging Using Gdbgui

    22 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  94. Center for Computational Biology

    22 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  95. Supreme Court says generic domains like booking.com can be trademarked

    22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  96. On Laughter and Dreaming in Pushkin (2017) [pdf]

    22 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  97. Technology Panic

    22 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  98. Mars is, at best, no less risky a place than Earth

    22 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  99. Show HN: DotYouTube – A tiny Chrome extension to block YouTube pre-roll ads

    22 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  100. Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries

    22 points • comment • jul 09, 2020