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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Japan ends state of emergency with no lockdown

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  2. Show HN: Tasky – Flow diagram task management

    13 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  3. Open Problems in Robotics

    13 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  4. July 15 Twitter Attacks

    13 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  5. Npmjs reducing salaries for employees up to 50% post acquisition by GitHub

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  6. FB execs quietly remove fact check from a piece of climate change denial

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  7. DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say

    13 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  8. Ongoing Meow attack has nuked 1k databases without telling anyone why

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  9. Should we treat data as labor? (2018)

    13 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  10. Why Most LED Headlight Upgrades Don't Really Work: An Expert Explains

    13 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  11. Attention without awareness in blindsight (1999) [pdf]

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  12. Prospektor – Running customer validation on autopilot

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  13. Signal Reflection

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  14. Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  15. Show HN: I collected 500 python & SQL questions from data science interviews

    13 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  16. European Police Hacked Secret Phone Network, Used AI for Major Bust

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  17. Emojicode – full-blown programming language consisting of emojis

    13 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  18. Show HN: Spending GCloud for startups credits on a free demo

    13 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  19. Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked (BBC)

    13 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  20. Canada's Covid Alert Mobile App

    13 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  21. YouTube will opt-in all existing videos (over 8mins) for mid-roll ads

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  22. Ultra-Black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes [pdf]

    13 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  23. Differences of OT/CRDT: General Transformation Frameworks, Co-Editor Consistency

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  24. Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  25. Nazis in our classes: 50-year-old lesson about fascism still terrifying us today

    13 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  26. Police Clear Seattle’s Protest ‘Autonomous Zone’

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  27. Sweeping climate-crisis plan would bring US to zero emissions in 30 years

    13 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  28. Senate says no to reporting foreign aid to politicians

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  29. Henrietta Lacks

    13 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  30. What if you abandon your smartphone?

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  31. European Court of Justice invalidates US-EU privacy agreement [pdf]

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  32. Show HN: Mathematico – A mathematics tutorial every day for the whole summer

    13 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  33. Large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  34. Becoming a Coder

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  35. Where Will Everyone Go? Modeling How Climate Refugees Move Across Continents

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  36. Quantum interference of currents in an atomtronic SQUID

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  37. Hackers Are Finding Footage on Police Body Cams They Bought on eBay

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  38. Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016) [pdf]

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  39. Ask HN: What seeds you sowed years ago that you are reaping fruits of now?

    12 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  40. Exotic “Blinking” Crystals May Convert CO2 into Fuels, Power Quantum Computers

    12 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  41. Police called to IKEA after thousands sign up for hide and seek (2019)

    12 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  42. Leonardo da Vinci had ADHD

    12 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  43. Paradise lost or found?

    12 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  44. Zuckerberg Never Fails to Disappoint

    12 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  45. The socioeconomics of sewage: Analysing waste may assist census takers

    12 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  46. Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers

    12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  47. Tesco coupons easily faked to save £750 on Hotels.com bookings worldwide

    12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  48. Show HN: HN Mail – Topic-based HN newsletter service

    12 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  49. ICBMs Still Matter

    12 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  50. Alphabet announces second quarter 2020 results

    12 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  51. The Security Value of Inefficiency – Schneier on Security

    12 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  52. The First Best Seller: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  53. Almost 30M in U.S. Didn’t Have Enough to Eat Last Week

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  54. I Got a Job Two Weeks After My Coding Bootcamp

    12 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  55. Ask HN: Tired of Leetcode style interviews. What to do?

    12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  56. German police can access any WhatsApp message without any malware

    12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  57. The disturbing and under-researched legacy of depleted uranium weapons

    12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  58. A new default Referrer-Policy for Chrome: strict-origin-when-cross-origin

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  59. Eric Weinstein: The Mathematician Turned Physicist and Economist

    12 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  60. Why companies struggle with recalcitrant IT

    12 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  61. Apple Privacy Changes

    12 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  62. NYT Reporter Taylor Lorenz Bullied by Tech VCs

    12 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  63. jklp: a 36-key ergonomic keyboard

    12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  64. A journalist does not deserve to be harassed by VCs for doing her job

    12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  65. How the Evolution of Porn Changed Adolescence – Megan Maas – TEDxMSU

    12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  66. Influencer culture should be burnt to the ground

    12 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  67. The forehead-slappingly stupid attempt to cancel Steven Pinker

    12 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  68. Earth's Population Will Begin Shrinking Within 50 Years, Scientists Predict

    12 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  69. Open Source Sustainability

    12 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  70. Ask HN: When do you think?

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  71. Don't buy a duck, Debug with Duck

    12 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  72. A new study unveils the mechanism of the nanoparticle gelation transition

    12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  73. Top user-made games on ROBLOX played as much as top company-made games on Steam

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  74. From Siberia to Tibet: Life on a Train

    12 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  75. Ask HN: CS book club material recommendations

    12 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  76. A Modest Proposal for Hourly Billing

    12 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  77. Ask HN: Is There a Manual for Babies?

    12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  78. The Gimmick of the Novel of Ideas

    12 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  79. How to STOP everything being so critical and urgent

    12 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  80. MessagePack vs. CBOR (RFC7049)

    12 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  81. An elite group of scientists tried to warn Trump against lockdowns in March

    12 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  82. Fuck PayPal SDK, Developer Support and all their business

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  83. Show HN: A book recommendation engine backed by 7 million book ratings

    12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  84. The Internet Is Multilingual but You Need to Learn Mandarin

    12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  85. Thread: Why deep reading clubs are fucking rad

    12 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  86. Why is infrastructure as code such a big deal?

    12 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  87. Ask HN: I want to make school more afforadable

    12 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  88. Doom II Programming Quirk Can Take 12 Years to Spawn a Demon

    12 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  89. Don't Talk to the Police

    12 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  90. The Eurozone’s grappling with crisis, class war and the North-South divide

    12 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  91. John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80

    12 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  92. The Palatino FAQ (1998)

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  93. How Wong Kar-wai inspired filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Barry Jenkin

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  94. Open-endedness: The last grand challenge (2017)

    12 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  95. Ask HN: Is “Ownership Vacuum” a Thing?

    12 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  96. Evidence is growing that peopling of Americas began more than 20k years ago

    12 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  97. EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA

    12 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  98. Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

    12 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  99. Ten Paradoxes of Technology – great essay for all technologists [pdf]

    12 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  100. Jesus Christ was also misunderstood, Masayoshi Son tells investors

    12 points • comment • jul 06, 2020