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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. How cameras helped and sometimes harmed black people

    22 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  2. How Remote Work Could Destroy Silicon Valley

    22 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  3. Show HN: Create beautiful mockups and graphics for your app in a few clicks

    22 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  4. The Venus of Laussel – La Femme à La Corne

    22 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  5. UBC quietly changes references to Taiwan amid sensitive political climate

    22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  6. The dirty secret behind Ben Shapiro's extraordinary success on Facebook

    22 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  7. If Apple cares so much about privacy, why does it approve clipboard snoopers?

    22 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  8. It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowards Who Let It Happen

    22 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  9. N.Y.P.D. Says It Used Restraint During Protests. Here’s What the Videos Show

    22 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  10. Proteus: Underwater research lab worthy of a Bond villain

    22 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  11. Starting your fundraising pitch deck

    22 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  12. Abraham Wald's Work on Airplane Survivability (1984) [pdf]

    22 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  13. Show HN: Open-source online speech recognition

    22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  14. The Edge Computing opportunity is not what you think

    22 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  15. A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery

    22 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  16. SUVs Are Worse for the Climate Than You Ever Imagined (2019)

    22 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  17. Bacteria That Turns to Stone

    22 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  18. Treasury to acquire 30% of company for $700M. Company is worth $120M

    22 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  19. Triputer

    22 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  20. Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?

    22 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  21. Judgments of Henry David Thoreau (2015)

    22 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  22. Hackers Broke into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories

    22 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  23. How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice

    22 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  24. Enhance your TensorFlow Lite deployment with Firebase

    22 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  25. Damn Cool Illusion

    22 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  26. 'cancel culture' is about old elites losing power in the social media age

    22 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  27. Python pattern matching: Guards and or-patterns might just not compose well

    22 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  28. Why the US’ response to Covid-19 is terrible

    22 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  29. Cancel culture takes the fun out of life, says comedian John Cleese

    22 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  30. Richard Feynman cut straight to the heart of complex ideas

    22 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  31. Why is the NY Times threatening to reveal blogger Scott Alexander’s identity?

    21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  32. Building personal moats and killer features

    21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  33. Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families

    21 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  34. Virginia Woolf kept her brother alive in letters

    21 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  35. Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by temblors, study suggests

    21 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  36. Microsoft Lays Off Employees from Azure Team

    21 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  37. Microsoft’s new x86 DataCenter class machines running Windows (2018)

    21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  38. Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

    21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  39. U.S. Orders China to Close Its Houston Consulate in 72 Hours

    21 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  40. Why should we all wear face masks?

    21 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  41. An insomniac's journey to regular sleep

    21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  42. Goodbye

    21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  43. Show HN: Non-grid-based path finder

    21 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  44. China's Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users

    21 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  45. Amazon has 10k employees dedicated to Alexa

    21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  46. An injection may block Covid-19, but feds have failed to act

    21 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  47. The Desolate Visions of Andy Warhol

    21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  48. Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App

    21 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  49. Sydney now runs on 100% renewable energy

    21 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  50. Micosoft moving Windows desktop to cloud

    21 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  51. SPAC Man Begins

    21 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  52. Did Mexico just make it *illegal* to install Linux?

    21 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  53. Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton (2009)

    21 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  54. Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public

    21 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  55. Jordan Pier's vintage electronics repair YouTube channel deleted

    21 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  56. You don’t need SMS-2FA

    21 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  57. Big Tech Funds a Think Tank Pushing for Fewer Rules. For Big Tech

    21 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  58. Tesla becomes manufacturing partner for biotech firm working on C-19 vaccine

    21 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  59. Objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion

    21 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  60. BuzzFeed starts selling products directly to consumers

    21 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  61. The key points of Software Design X-Rays

    21 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  62. Assessing Abstractions

    21 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  63. Opinion – I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing

    21 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  64. Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones? (2013)

    21 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  65. Every officer-involved shooting in the United States since 2015

    21 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  66. “Ok Google” Only Giving Progressive Words

    21 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  67. Tunnels and Trolls

    21 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  68. CERN engineers use FreeCAD app

    21 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  69. Jeff Dean on Inclusiveness

    21 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  70. Handshakes are silent, but hash rates on the HNS protocol just made some noise

    21 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  71. Choosing words to clearly describe data

    21 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  72. Greatest Mistake of Our Time

    21 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  73. Show HN: Learn How to Build, Launch and Run a Shopify App

    20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  74. InfraMap: Open-source tool generates human-readable graph from Terraform files

    20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  75. Sorry New York Times, I decline to be interviewed

    20 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  76. A Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workbench for FreeCAD

    20 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  77. Yakhchāl

    20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  78. Why Repair Techs Are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland

    20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  79. Lecture on Mediation and Subjectivity/Objectivity in Art [video]

    20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  80. Defund Facial Recognition Before It's Too Late

    20 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  81. I was jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in America

    20 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  82. Airbnb asks for donations to their hosts

    20 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  83. The First American Restaurants’ Culinary Concoctions

    20 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?

    20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  85. Quaternions: The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

    20 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  86. Show HN: I compiled book recommendations from 1300+ leaders

    20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  87. Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm

    20 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  88. Solar farm in Australia could power Singapore via 4,500km undersea cable

    20 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  89. High-performance self-supervised image classification

    20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  90. Twitter is now restricting posts that contain cryptocurrency addresses

    20 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  91. Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone in Case He Long Denounced

    20 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  92. Why are we anchored often?

    20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  93. Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest

    20 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  94. Changing the way you sit could add years to your life

    20 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  95. Red Hat to remove contentious terms like master and slave from its source code

    20 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  96. Apple Wins Fight over $14.9B Tax Bill in Blow to EU

    20 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  97. Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave'

    20 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  98. Go vs. C#: Compiler, Runtime, Type System, Modules

    20 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  99. The Week America Lost Control of the Pandemic

    20 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  100. Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: Cloudflare Workers Security Model

    20 points • comment • jul 29, 2020