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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

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

    263 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?

    262 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  3. Basics of Haskell – Code and exercises

    261 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  4. How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?

    261 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  5. One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat

    260 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  6. How McKinsey helps companies avoid responsibility

    260 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  7. Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps

    259 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  8. Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python

    259 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  9. Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices

    259 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  10. It’s easier to manage four people than one person

    258 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  11. We thought it was just a respiratory virus

    257 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  12. British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet

    257 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  13. Is It Time to Kill the Penny?

    256 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  14. Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams

    256 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  15. Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API

    256 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  16. SlateStarCodex Is Back Up

    256 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  17. We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)

    255 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  18. Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image

    255 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  19. 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels

    255 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  20. Are we in an AI Overhang?

    254 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  21. Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines

    253 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  22. Machine Learning Research at Apple

    252 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  23. Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

    252 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  24. Bitwarden second security audit report

    251 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  25. Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)

    251 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  26. Robinhood and How to Lose Money

    251 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  27. MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac

    250 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  28. How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)

    250 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  29. Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states

    249 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  30. Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'

    248 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  31. Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

    248 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  32. The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law

    248 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  33. Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

    246 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  34. XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

    246 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  35. The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia

    245 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  36. Announcing The Zig Software Foundation

    245 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  37. Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft

    245 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  38. Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64

    245 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  39. IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    244 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  40. Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform

    244 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  41. Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

    244 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  42. Firefox Picture-in-Picture

    244 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  43. Int. students may need to leave US if classes are 100% Remote

    244 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  44. Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier

    243 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  45. Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better

    243 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  46. How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)

    243 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  47. Scuba diver accidentally discovers prehistoric industrial complex in Mexico

    243 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  48. Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites

    243 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  49. Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template

    242 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  50. Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS

    242 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  51. The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (2017)

    242 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  52. Debubble

    241 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  53. Impressive backyard engineering on an obscure YouTube channel

    241 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  54. OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64

    241 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  55. TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?

    240 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  56. The anti-privacy EARN IT Act could change the internet as we know it

    240 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  57. Writing a software book and making over $100k

    239 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  58. Beginner's Guide to Abstraction

    239 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  59. Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

    239 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  60. KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released

    239 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  61. An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system

    238 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  62. The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh

    238 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  63. MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

    238 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  64. Open-Source Music Production Tools

    238 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  65. Build a toy quantum computer at home

    238 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  66. How do I design a game from scratch? A primer on core loops

    237 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  67. The Incredibly Stupid One

    236 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  68. Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

    236 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  69. The stable marriage problem and modern dating

    236 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  70. A Surprise AWS Bill

    236 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  71. Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments

    236 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  72. Colorize Your CLI

    236 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  73. Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)

    236 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  74. Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker

    235 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  75. How Best Buy saved itself (2019)

    235 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  76. Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography

    235 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  77. No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker

    235 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  78. Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide

    235 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  79. I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects

    234 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  80. Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

    234 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  81. Show HN: React Guitar – A guitar component for React

    234 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  82. Why are CEOs failing software engineers?

    234 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  83. Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built

    233 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  84. Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”

    233 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  85. Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save

    233 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  86. What is the core of the Python programming language?

    232 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  87. Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time

    232 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  88. Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?

    231 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  89. Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux

    230 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  90. A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

    230 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  91. Publishing thousands of police discipline records that New York kept secret

    230 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  92. Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

    229 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  93. The BEAM Book (2017)

    229 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  94. Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”

    229 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  95. Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

    228 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  96. How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA

    228 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  97. GPT-3 Creative Fiction

    227 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  98. Nano 5.0

    227 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  99. Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power

    227 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  100. ProcMon for Linux

    227 points • comment • jul 17, 2020