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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Why MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery

    18 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Did we learn anything revelatory from yesterday's tech CEO testimony?

    18 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  3. Berkeley council: unarmed civilians will perform traffic stops, not police

    18 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  4. Apache Solr JSON Facet API – Relatedness and Semantic Knowledge Graphs

    18 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  5. Pylance: Fast, feature-rich language support for Python in VSCode

    18 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  6. The Untold Story of the Hamster, a.k.a. Mr. Saddlebags (2011)

    18 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  7. Gradio – Painting Generator (StyleGAN)

    18 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Developers, how do you automate your email workflows?

    18 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  9. The Spectre of Caste in Silicon Valley

    18 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  10. Bill Gates' Twitter also hacked

    18 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  11. Username/username is a special repository that adds README.md to your profile

    18 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  12. The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics (2011)

    18 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  13. 24M Americans fear missing next rent payment as benefits dry up

    18 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  14. Sweden, Which Never Had Lockdown, Covid Cases Plummet as Rest of Europe Suffers

    18 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  15. How a Chinese agent used LinkedIn to hunt for targets

    18 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  16. How are you using Huggin?

    18 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  17. Blow for UK organised crime as 'command and control' network is hit

    18 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  18. Paycheck Protection Program Recipient Map

    18 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  19. Facebook reveals holographic optics for thin and light VR headsets

    18 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  20. Show HN: Curated Software alternatives and comparisons with no ads

    18 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  21. Microsoft sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook

    17 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  22. How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

    17 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  23. Socialism’s DIY Computer

    17 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  24. Think like a scientist talk like a populist

    17 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  25. DNSSEC explained: Why you might want to implement it on your domain

    17 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  26. Ask HN: Would a marketing YouTube channel analyzing SaaS apps interest you?

    17 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  27. Don't Dox Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex)

    17 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  28. Mastering Bitcoin - by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

    17 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  29. Repl.it: Dear users coming from Glitch

    17 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  30. Library of Growth Marketing Strategies

    17 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  31. Most trees alive today won’t survive in the climate expected 40 years from now

    17 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  32. Accelerating iOS on QEMU with hardware virtualization (KVM)

    17 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  33. Show HN: Maildown – markdown based email API

    17 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  34. Why Is a Tech Executive Installing Security Cameras Around San Francisco?

    17 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  35. More on T Cells, Antibody Levels, and Our Ignorance

    17 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  36. Ask HN: What do you think will be “the next big thing”?

    17 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  37. San Francisco tech CEO kicked out of Carmel Valley restaurant

    17 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  38. AMD 2Q 2020 Earnings Result

    17 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  39. New Zealand sets standards for government use of algorithms

    17 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  40. Guy got the license plate “NULL” and it was a total disaster

    17 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  41. Apple has finally embraced key-based 2FA. So should you

    17 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  42. Scrapinghub/Scrapyrt: Scrapy Realtime

    17 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  43. CVE-2020-1350 Vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server

    17 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  44. On Portland's streets: Anger, fear, and a fence that divides

    17 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  45. It looks to me that Nintendo tried turning the SNES into a full blown 'computer'

    17 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  46. Breaking into Product Management – A Guide

    17 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  47. Ten years of the sun in one hour releases mesmerising space film

    17 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  48. The most logical explanation is that Covid-19 comes from a laboratory

    17 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  49. Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

    17 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  50. A Theory of History and Society: Technology, Constraints and Measurement (TCM)

    17 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  51. Do Colorless Ideas Sleep Furiously? (1997)

    17 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  52. 'Beavis and Butt-Head' Revived at Comedy Central

    17 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  53. Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Russia Report

    17 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  54. Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness (2005) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  55. Visual Studio Code June 2020 (version 1.47)

    17 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  56. The Kindle Fire has a profanity filter

    17 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  57. BCAA's impact health and lifespan indirectly via amino acid balance

    17 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  58. I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing

    17 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  59. Patent for 6800 CPU includes a diagram of a Slushy Machine

    17 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  60. Quora Banned Me for Saying the Earth Isn't Flat

    17 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  61. “Irresponsible” hydroxychloroquine study is not being retracted

    17 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  62. The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

    17 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  63. Randy Linden has released the source code to SNES Doom

    17 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  64. How the Russians penetrated Illinois election computers

    17 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  65. 'Functioning' React app by describing requirements to GPT-3

    17 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  66. Surviving Burnout – Learning to Identify Burnout

    17 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  67. Fox Sports will use virtual fans created in Unreal Engine to fill empty stadiums

    17 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  68. Belling the Cat

    17 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  69. Big Tech Loves Big Oil

    17 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  70. Hundreds petition to retract paper they call “unscholarly, overtly racist”

    17 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  71. Google’s former CEO hosts an exclusive retreat in Yellowstone each July

    16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  72. Beneath a Steel Sky

    16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  73. We hacked a Tesla model 3 to all wheel drive and it’s fantastic

    16 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Learning about distributed systems?

    16 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  75. Show HN: Find remote jobs with great culture fit

    16 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  76. Trump Floats Whether to ‘Delay the Election,’ Something He Cannot Legally Do

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  77. Portland police declare riot as anti-cop protesters torch union headquarters

    16 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  78. U.S. GDP Fell 9.5 Percent: Live Updates

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  79. Some Canadian businesses want to let Americans back in. Most Canadians don’t

    16 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  80. The Best Place to Build a Subway

    16 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  81. Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts

    16 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  82. Nuclear Radiation Is Floating Above Northern Europe and Nobody Knows Why

    16 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  83. Ryzen processor overclocking under Linux

    16 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  84. Richard Wright, Masaoka Shiki, and the Haiku of Confinement

    16 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  85. Apple expands iPhone repair services to hundreds of new locations across the US

    16 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  86. U.S. Position on Maritime Claims in the South China Sea

    16 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  87. CDC reports the rich sleep better at night

    16 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  88. Ask HN: If given freedom to choose, what full-time job would you choose and why?

    16 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  89. From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of the spacesuit in photos

    16 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  90. Sequential Consistency in Practice

    16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  91. The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang

    16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  92. Designing Distributed Systems

    16 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  93. Will Garmin Pay $10M Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?

    16 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  94. Call with David Ungar (2015) [video]

    16 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  95. I’m the President of MIT America Needs Foreign Students

    16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  96. Engineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask

    16 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  97. Mylar: Experimental platform for web apps with end-to-end encryption (2014)

    16 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  98. Open Markov Processes

    16 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  99. Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?

    16 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  100. Hydroxychloroquine lowers Covid-19 death rate, Henry Ford Health study finds

    16 points • comment • jul 03, 2020