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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

    198 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  2. LXD – next generation system container manager release 4.3

    198 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  3. Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed

    198 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  4. Blog Anonymously

    198 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  5. Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'

    197 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  6. Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the camera on iOS 14

    197 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  7. Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons for the Istio project

    197 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  8. Sledding athletes are taking their lives

    197 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  9. 1.1B Taxi Rides Using OmniSciDB and a MacBook Pro

    197 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  10. Deschooling Society (1970)

    196 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  11. Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

    196 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  12. Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired

    196 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  13. GitHub was down

    196 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  14. EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator

    196 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  15. Norwegian Air cancels order for 97 Boeing aircraft, sues Boeing

    196 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  16. Entr: Rerun your build when files change

    195 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  17. Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023

    195 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  18. Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem

    195 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  19. The Slack Social Network

    195 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  20. Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars

    195 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  21. Brick Block (2016)

    195 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  22. Brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans: study

    195 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  23. Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

    195 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  24. Doordash and Thousands of Other Companies Passively Send Your Data to Facebook

    194 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  25. Semgrep: Lightweight static analysis for many languages

    194 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  26. In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released

    194 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  27. Why is CSS the way it is?

    194 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  28. Google Common Lisp style guide

    194 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  29. RCE on Telia Routers

    194 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  30. Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server

    194 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  31. Highlights from Git 2.28

    193 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  32. Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 years ago

    193 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  33. How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah

    193 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  34. Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018)

    193 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  35. PostgreSQL Templates

    193 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  36. The Regular Expression Visualizer, Simulator and Cross-Compiler Tool

    193 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  37. LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors

    193 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  38. Banned math book

    193 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  39. U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars

    193 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  40. AI in physics: are we facing a scientific revolution?

    192 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  41. Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

    192 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  42. The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization

    192 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  43. Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking

    192 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  44. Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

    191 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  45. Twilio: Someone broke into our AWS S3 silo, added 'non-malicious' code to JS SDK

    191 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  46. All of us test in production all the time (2019)

    191 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  47. Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

    190 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  48. Solar Orbiter first images revealed

    190 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  49. ZSA Moonlander: A next-generation ergonomic keyboard

    190 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  50. Pine64 announce the Pinecil, TS100 compatible RISC-V soldering iron

    189 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  51. The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating up

    189 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  52. What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?

    188 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  53. JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

    188 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  54. GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot Vulnerability: 'BootHole'

    188 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  55. Palantir Announces Confidential Submission of Draft S-1

    188 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  56. PureDarwin – Darwin-based open source OS

    187 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  57. UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space

    187 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  58. Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

    187 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  59. Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting

    187 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  60. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel

    187 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  61. The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty

    187 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  62. Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks

    187 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  63. Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twitter Hack

    186 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  64. When India kicked out Coca-Cola, local sodas thrived (2019)

    186 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  65. France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

    186 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  66. The Zen of Erlang (2016)

    186 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  67. Georgia Tech professors revolt over reopening, say current plan threatens lives

    186 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  68. How a Kalman filter works, in pictures

    186 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  69. Japan auto companies triple Mexican pay rather than move to US

    185 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  70. São Paulo Labor Judge Rules Uber Must Pay Full Employee Benefits to Drivers

    185 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  71. Highly automated digital audio workstation extensible in Guile

    184 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  72. Apple reports Q3 results

    184 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  73. Why companies lose their best innovators (2019)

    184 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  74. Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

    184 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  75. Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts

    184 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  76. Apple for the first time makes a top-of-the-line iPhone model in India

    184 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  77. Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual

    183 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  78. Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking

    183 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  79. Google removes all Danish music from YouTube

    183 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  80. Covid-19 is causing a wide range of disorders in the nervous system

    182 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  81. Minimal single-board computer based on Motorola 68000

    182 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  82. Rust for JavaScript Developers – Functions and Control Flow

    182 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  83. The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)

    182 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  84. Straightened Trees

    181 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  85. Boom supersonic jet readies for rollout

    181 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  86. Computational Music Synthesis

    181 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  87. Launch HN: BaseDash (YC S20) – Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet

    181 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  88. The GitHub Availability Report

    180 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  89. We Need a Yelp for Doctoral Programs

    180 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  90. CUDA 11.0

    180 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  91. How Pulse Oximeters Work (2015)

    180 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  92. 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

    179 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  93. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

    179 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  94. Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (2016)

    179 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  95. “The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World

    179 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  96. Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit NATO'

    179 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  97. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

    178 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  98. MagiCan

    178 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  99. The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51

    178 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  100. Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

    178 points • comment • jul 16, 2020