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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go

    380 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  2. Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript

    380 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  3. Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing

    379 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  4. More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts

    379 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  5. Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

    379 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  6. Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

    378 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  7. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

    378 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  8. Google’s top search result is Google

    377 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  9. 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

    377 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  10. Ron Graham has died

    377 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  11. Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

    377 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  12. Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening

    376 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  13. Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

    375 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  14. Sampler for Mac Touchbars

    374 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  15. Atlas of Surveillance

    374 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  16. Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

    374 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  17. Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]

    374 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  18. Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

    373 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  19. ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data

    373 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  20. Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations

    372 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  21. Firefox 79

    370 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  22. Wiki.js

    370 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  23. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

    370 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  24. Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away

    370 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  25. Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds

    367 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  26. Lights and Shadows

    366 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  27. Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

    366 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  28. Bible API

    364 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  29. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    363 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  30. Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)

    363 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  31. TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

    363 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  32. Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire

    361 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  33. Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts

    360 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  34. Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

    360 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  35. Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

    360 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  36. Apache Arrow 1.0

    358 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  37. MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations

    358 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  38. Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

    358 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  39. 2+1=4, by quinoa

    357 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  40. A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts

    357 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  41. Low-Background Steel

    355 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  42. LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide

    355 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  43. IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration

    353 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  44. Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit

    352 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  45. Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case

    352 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  46. A researcher on how to live a happy life

    351 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  47. How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works

    347 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  48. Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s repairmen

    346 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  49. Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will now be a crime in Mexico

    346 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  50. Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users

    346 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  51. Not a Wheelchair [video]

    346 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  52. New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads

    346 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  53. Ways to make a web component

    345 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  54. Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal

    345 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  55. YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels

    345 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  56. Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year

    344 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  57. Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

    344 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  58. The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]

    342 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  59. Mars images rendered in 4K [video]

    342 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  60. How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less

    342 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  61. 'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle

    341 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  62. The personal info of what could be Instacart customers is being sold online

    340 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  63. Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs

    340 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  64. A new funding model for open source software

    340 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  65. Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

    339 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  66. The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)

    339 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  67. The saddest “Just Ship It” story

    339 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  68. Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits

    336 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  69. How to pay your rent with your open source project

    334 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  70. I Don't Want to Be a Founder

    334 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  71. I made a simple geolocation service

    333 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  72. Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database

    333 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  73. Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

    331 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  74. California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

    331 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  75. Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents

    328 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  76. A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago

    328 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  77. Cracking down on research fraud

    327 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  78. Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)

    327 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  79. Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers

    327 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  80. Apple Security Research Device Program

    325 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  81. Svelte and TypeScript

    324 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  82. Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked

    323 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  83. Rust explained using easy English

    323 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  84. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

    323 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  85. Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust

    323 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  86. Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

    322 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  87. Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps

    322 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  88. Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

    320 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  89. The Fourth of July

    319 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  90. Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains

    319 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  91. The TikTok War

    318 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  92. Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls

    318 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  93. Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media

    317 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  94. Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'

    317 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  95. Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

    316 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  96. Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

    316 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  97. Tour of Rust

    315 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  98. Video Vectorization

    315 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  99. Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores

    315 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  100. Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense

    314 points • comment • jul 29, 2020