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Hacker News (Jul 2020)

  1. Code only says what it does

    158 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  2. Botswana: Lab tests to solve mystery of hundreds of dead elephants

    158 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  3. Unmasking China's Invisible Fleet

    158 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  4. Show HN: Breathe – Peripheral Breath Trainer

    157 points • comment • jul 31, 2020

  5. Coronavirus protein treatment trial 'a breakthrough'

    157 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  6. Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy

    157 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  7. Academic acceleration in gifted youth: a 35-year longitudinal study

    157 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  8. Show HN: Pygooglenews – Python library for advanced Google News data mining

    157 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  9. Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS

    157 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  10. Building Domain Driven Microservices

    157 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  11. Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase

    157 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  12. Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)

    156 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  13. I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me

    156 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  14. Ted Williams's Strike Zone

    156 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  15. ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online courses in Fall 2020

    156 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  16. Tinc – A Virtual Private Network (VPN) Daemon

    156 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  17. Researchers create air filter that can kill the coronavirus

    156 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  18. Interactive Generative Art

    155 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  19. Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]

    155 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  20. Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names (Part II)

    155 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  21. Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea

    154 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  22. The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire

    154 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  23. Common mistakes writing React components with hooks

    154 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  24. D 2.093.0

    154 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  25. Tihle: A new emulator targeting TI graphing calculators

    154 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  26. We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos

    154 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  27. Verified seL4 on secure RISC-V processors

    154 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  28. Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida

    154 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  29. Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform

    154 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  30. Dopamine is not addictive (2017)

    153 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  31. Sandboxing and workload isolation

    153 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  32. The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation

    153 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  33. Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister

    152 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  34. What changed in OpenSSL after heartbleed

    152 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  35. Show HN: Sed to C translator written in sed

    152 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  36. Why Credit Card Fraud Is Still a Thing

    152 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  37. Concorde ‘B’ (2014)

    152 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  38. Voting misinformation flourishes on Facebook

    151 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  39. Clear explanation of Rust’s module system

    151 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  40. Is your chip card secure? Much depends on where you bank

    151 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  41. AWS Copilot

    151 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  42. Algorithms Are Now Commodities

    151 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  43. Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department

    151 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  44. The Walkman, Forty Years On

    151 points • comment • jul 03, 2020

  45. New Features in Gnuplot 5.4

    150 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  46. Entropy: An Introduction

    150 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  47. Caffenol: Developing Photos with Coffee and Vitamin C [video]

    150 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  48. German stock trading platform Xetra down, all securities affected

    150 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  49. Launch HN: Humanloop (YC S20) – A platform to annotate, train and deploy NLP

    150 points • comment • jul 29, 2020

  50. Noprocrast (2010)

    150 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  51. The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics

    149 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  52. A browser plugin for Unity

    149 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  53. USA buys up world stock of remdesivir

    149 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  54. Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19

    149 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  55. Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search

    149 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  56. Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win Traffic

    149 points • comment • jul 13, 2020

  57. LFortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler

    149 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  58. Hard Disk Hacking (2013)

    149 points • comment • jul 04, 2020

  59. D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)

    149 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  60. ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB

    149 points • comment • jul 22, 2020

  61. Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

    148 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  62. In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'

    148 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  63. VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality

    148 points • comment • jul 08, 2020

  64. Study finds learning music won’t make children smart

    148 points • comment • jul 30, 2020

  65. Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?

    148 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  66. I made a macro keypad with 3D-printed switches

    148 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  67. Show HN: UUIDs that are Shakespearean, grammatically correct sentences

    148 points • comment • jul 20, 2020

  68. With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books

    147 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  69. Don't bet on the most likely winner

    147 points • comment • jul 06, 2020

  70. Multiple service providers are blocking DuckDuckGo in India

    147 points • comment • jul 01, 2020

  71. Continuations by example: Exceptions, time-traveling search, threads, and more

    147 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  72. Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (2013)

    147 points • comment • jul 05, 2020

  73. Stripe Is Holding 25% of Our Funds, Indefinitely

    147 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  74. Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

    147 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  75. Pixelopolis, a self-driving car demo from Google I/O built with TensorFlow-Lite

    147 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  76. Have we let the LED indicator light go too far?

    147 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  77. Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?

    146 points • comment • jul 25, 2020

  78. Rewriting Fortran Software in Rust

    146 points • comment • jul 15, 2020

  79. Bringing the print statement back

    146 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  80. Classifying 200k articles in 7 hours using NLP

    146 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  81. Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX Spotted

    146 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  82. Keeping your Go modules compatible

    146 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  83. The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

    146 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  84. Full Employment

    146 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  85. Google faces €600k privacy fine in Belgium

    146 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  86. GnuTLS audit: passive cleartext recovery attack

    146 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  87. The Next Phase of the Retail Apocalypse: Stores Reborn as E-Commerce Warehouses

    145 points • comment • jul 19, 2020

  88. US homebuilding surges as coronavirus sparks flight to suburbs, rural areas

    145 points • comment • jul 17, 2020

  89. Major Proposed Changes to Linux From Scratch

    145 points • comment • jul 10, 2020

  90. xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker

    145 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  91. Datahike: Durable Datalog database powered by an efficient Datalog query engine

    144 points • comment • jul 24, 2020

  92. Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub

    144 points • comment • jul 27, 2020

  93. The company that sells lost airplane luggage

    144 points • comment • jul 12, 2020

  94. Luigi Model found in Mario 64 source code

    144 points • comment • jul 26, 2020

  95. The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

    144 points • comment • jul 16, 2020

  96. Iroquois Nationals, barred from World Games, gave gift of lacrosse to the world

    144 points • comment • jul 28, 2020

  97. The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

    143 points • comment • jul 18, 2020

  98. Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (2014)

    143 points • comment • jul 23, 2020

  99. Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming

    143 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  100. Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insights for open-source packages

    143 points • comment • jul 14, 2020