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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

Request for Technically Risky Projects
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
Zoom Fatigue and Remote Work
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Nextdoor CEO Takes Blame for Censorship of Black Lives Matter Posts
16 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3 were both scrapped because Source 2 was unfinished
16 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Arm Is Said to Attract Nvidia Interest
16 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
At the Type Archive
16 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
New York bans use of facial recognition in schools statewide
16 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
Psycho bosses are bad for business
16 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
Google kills off Microsoft’s RAM-saving feature for Chrome on Windows 10
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
The British Government Takes on the British Civil Service
16 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Second Coronavirus Strain May Be More Infectious, Some Scientists Are Skeptical
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Google parent company Alphabet sees its first revenue decline in history
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Pine64’s $199.99 14 inch Pine Pro laptop now available for pre-order
16 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
On periodisation: or, what’s the best way to chop history into bits? (2016)
16 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Judge temp bar on federal officers from using force, threats, dispersal: journos
16 points • comment • jul 24, 2020
30-Year Mortgage Rate Reaches Lowest Level Ever: 2.98%
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Show HN: Wumbo – a new temporary email generator
16 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
16 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
Array Functions and the Rule of Least Power
16 points • comment • jul 19, 2020
A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link
16 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Free Productivity Templates – by experienced project delivery manager
16 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
The Internet Is Broken, We Need a New One
16 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Xkcd #2330: Acceptable Risk
16 points • comment • jul 12, 2020
Bottle Cap Thread Calculator
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America
16 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
DPD to pilot 'world first' electric delivery truck in London
16 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Rowling, Rushdie and Atwood warn against ‘intolerance’ in open letter
16 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
16 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
The moderator problem: How Reddit and related news sites decline
15 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan
15 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Blueleaks data shows FBI tracking Bitcoin laundering on dark web
15 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
MetaMate – A common, centralized API for every service
15 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel
15 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Sharp Elbows (1984)
15 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
America’s Innovation Engine Is Slowing
15 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Ask HN: What are some free software tools you want?
15 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Multiple YouTube channels simultaneously hijacked to stream BTC scams
15 points • comment • jul 29, 2020
Jack Dorsey to fund UBI experiment that could affect up to 7M people
15 points • comment • jul 10, 2020
McKinsey is making $100M (and counting) advising on the government’s response
15 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
When cancel culture comes to newsrooms
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Ask HN: What's the deal with overlapping NYC IPs?
15 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Color E-ink Screen, 199 Euros
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
15 points • comment • jul 11, 2020
Monopolies Are Why Salt and Water in a Bag Became a Scarce Item
15 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
15 points • comment • jul 17, 2020
TikTok’s Chinese parent is scrambling to hang on to its hit app
15 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Equity for All?
15 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Do computers make us more safe or less safe?
15 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Banana Republic Corruption
15 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Stanford's John Ioannidis Tried to Warn Trump Against Lockdowns in March
15 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
A hot new startup called “Google” (1999)
15 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out
15 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
Show HN: Stretchbit – your personal health coach
15 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Peter Mertens, Former Head of Audi R&D: “We All Did Sleep”
15 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
Ask HN: Favorite remote work realtime collaboration tool(s)?
15 points • comment • jul 25, 2020
JPMorgan Python Training Guide: Solid Intro to Snaky Language
15 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
How to Plan a Space Mission
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
On the Closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs
15 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
The Fake Nerd Boys of Silicon Valley
15 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
MLB Already Has a Coronavirus Outbreak. What Happens Now?
15 points • comment • jul 27, 2020
Pinephone Manjaro Linux: Working SMS/Calls/Cell Data/WiFi/Cam
15 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
It’s Time to Reinvent Democracy
15 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Afghan girl kills two Taliban fighter after parents murdered
15 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
Yoloface-500k-v2:Faster and more accurate
15 points • comment • jul 21, 2020
Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
15 points • comment • jul 02, 2020
Twitter permanently bans white supremacist David Duke
15 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Amazon sales soar as pandemic fuels online shopping
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
ReactOS hits a milestone – hiring a full-time developer
15 points • comment • jul 18, 2020
Charter Communications petitioned the FCC to impose DATA CAPS on customers
15 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
The racist double standards of international development
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
U.S. military is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined (2019)
15 points • comment • jul 09, 2020
Barbados Welcome Stamp Program
15 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
I Simplified My Smartphone to Regain Control of My Life
15 points • comment • jul 05, 2020
A New Understanding of Herd Immunity
15 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Want to improve? You've got to read
15 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Alphabet rises as Cloud, other revenues soften Q2 ad decline
15 points • comment • jul 30, 2020
San Francisco tech CEO kicked out of restaurant following racist rant
15 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
Apple promises to support Thunderbolt on its new ARM Macs
15 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
WhatsApp Is Down
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
15 points • comment • jul 31, 2020
Mean Squared Terror – GridSearch Is Not Enough
15 points • comment • jul 06, 2020
Tesla on Autopilot collides with police vehicle in Arizona
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2020
Forster in Cambridge
15 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
React Spectrum by Adobe
15 points • comment • jul 15, 2020
An Elegy for the Landline in Literature
15 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
The Money Laundry: Tracking Criminality of the Banking Industry
14 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Ask HN: How in the world is $TSLA worth more than $TM?
14 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
On Lacework
14 points • comment • jul 22, 2020
I Hate Quora
14 points • comment • jul 01, 2020
EU Court Bans Privacy Shield Data-Transfer Pact
14 points • comment • jul 16, 2020
Show HN: I made tailzilla – A online code editor for Tailwind CSS
14 points • comment • jul 26, 2020
Hacker News Front Page Ranking Algorithm (2009)
14 points • comment • jul 04, 2020
Ask HN: What is the purpose of mobile applications?
14 points • comment • jul 23, 2020
An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test
14 points • comment • jul 28, 2020
hexpeek: a hex editor for huge files
14 points • comment • jul 07, 2020
Why “I don’t have time” is a lie
14 points • comment • jul 08, 2020
The universe might have a fundamental clock that ticks very, very fast
14 points • comment • jul 13, 2020
Ask HN: Authors Said I Suck After I Made Some Reviews on Open Source Software
14 points • comment • jul 06, 2020