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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel

    311 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  2. Onyx is violating the Linux kernel's license, refuses to release source code

    311 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  3. Why OKRs might not work at your company

    308 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  4. Yoloface-500k: ultra-light real-time face detection model, 500kb

    307 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  5. Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation

    305 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  6. A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers: JITs are not very Just-in-time

    305 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  7. I Got My Attention Back (2017)

    305 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?

    304 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  9. Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out

    304 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  10. Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA

    304 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  11. My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive

    303 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  12. AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings

    303 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  13. Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech

    303 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  14. Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites

    302 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  15. Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned

    301 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  16. Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat

    300 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  17. Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know

    300 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  18. Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language

    299 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  19. Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh

    299 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  20. Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

    299 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  21. Moldova Shuts Down Bootleg Helicopter Factory

    299 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  22. Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]

    299 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  23. Regional Air Mobility: Why we don’t plan to operate flights under 20km

    299 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  24. The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)

    298 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  25. Designing a New Old Home: Part 1

    297 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  26. Amazon Ion

    297 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  27. PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C

    297 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  28. Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

    296 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  29. Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets

    296 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  30. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    296 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  31. Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49

    295 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  32. Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless

    295 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  33. Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking

    294 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  34. Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says

    294 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  35. Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial

    293 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  36. Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?

    293 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  37. Krita, OpenGL and Qt

    293 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  38. Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

    293 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  39. Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition

    292 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  40. Dark Web Price Index 2020

    291 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  41. A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune

    290 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  42. Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

    289 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  43. Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence

    287 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  44. On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses

    287 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  45. Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK

    286 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  46. Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1

    286 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  47. Rich Tables in the Terminal

    286 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  48. EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation

    285 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  49. EU’s Top Court Restricts Personal-Data Transfers to U.S., Citing Surveillance

    285 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  50. Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems

    284 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  51. Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)

    284 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  52. How much your computer can do in a second (2015)

    283 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  53. ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well

    283 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  54. How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser

    282 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  55. A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)

    282 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  56. Should I Use a Carousel?

    281 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  57. TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google

    281 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  58. MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

    281 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  59. The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0

    279 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  60. San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast

    278 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  61. Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer

    278 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  62. Did a Chinese Hack Kill Nortel?

    278 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  63. Philosophers on GPT-3

    278 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  64. Python malware on the rise

    277 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  65. Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds

    276 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  66. The Whimsical Website Club

    276 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  67. Building a Developer Cult

    276 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  68. Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS

    275 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  69. Neural programmer better than Quicksort

    275 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  70. Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable

    274 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  71. Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

    274 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  72. Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems

    273 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  73. Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)

    272 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  74. Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning

    271 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  75. How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers

    270 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  76. MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (2016)

    270 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  77. Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?

    270 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  78. Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

    270 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  79. Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

    269 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  80. Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog

    269 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  81. The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design

    269 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  82. Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say

    268 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  83. Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban

    268 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  84. Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol

    267 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  85. The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with

    266 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  86. The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)

    265 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  87. Best Data Science Books According to the Experts

    265 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  88. The stock market and economy have parted ways

    265 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  89. Nvidia is now worth more than Intel

    265 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  90. Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries

    265 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  91. Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?

    264 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  92. Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open

    264 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  93. ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy

    264 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  94. The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized

    264 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  95. Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb's vibrations

    264 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  96. US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China

    264 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  97. OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub

    264 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  98. Glucosamine Supplementation Reduces All-Cause Mortality: Study

    264 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  99. It's Time to Start Writing (2019)

    263 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  100. Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking

    263 points • comment • jul 18, 2020