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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Factorio 1.0

    1871 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  2. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

    1854 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  3. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

    1688 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  4. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

    1592 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  5. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

    1585 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  6. Mozilla Lifeboat

    1510 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  7. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

    1399 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  8. Africa declared free of wild polio

    1359 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  9. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

    1353 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?

    1333 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  11. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

    1315 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  12. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

    1302 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  13. Thank You MDN

    1270 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  14. Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

    1227 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  15. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

    1182 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  16. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

    1167 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  17. Can't you just right click?

    1159 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  18. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

    1047 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  19. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime

    1037 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  20. Laws of UX

    1027 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  21. I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]

    980 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  22. Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi

    956 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  23. Level 3 Global Outage

    911 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  24. Frances Allen has died

    888 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  25. Single Page Applications using Rust

    880 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  26. New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others

    879 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  27. Scrollbar Blindness

    867 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  28. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

    826 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  29. Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

    815 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  30. Being OK with not being extraordinary

    811 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  31. Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

    804 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  32. Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

    804 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  33. Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book

    789 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  34. I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency

    786 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  35. Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

    781 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  36. How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model

    777 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  37. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

    771 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  38. A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]

    770 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  39. Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees

    762 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  40. Dependency

    751 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  41. Moving from YouTube to PeerTube

    732 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  42. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

    731 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  43. Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo

    730 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  44. US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

    728 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  45. Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

    715 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  46. Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court

    714 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  47. How to Write in Plain English

    713 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  48. Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

    712 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  49. Joan Feynman has died

    712 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  50. The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

    709 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  51. Please read the paper before you comment

    709 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  52. I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base

    699 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  53. Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

    695 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  54. In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

    695 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  55. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

    688 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  56. Young children would rather explore than get rewards

    684 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  57. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

    680 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  58. Persisting as a solo founder

    680 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  59. Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th

    675 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  60. Web by Google (TM)

    672 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  61. αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

    664 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  62. If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

    663 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  63. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]

    653 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  64. Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

    645 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  65. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs

    641 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  66. Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them

    640 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  67. Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis

    636 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  68. Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds

    633 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  69. The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free

    633 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  70. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

    632 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  71. Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

    629 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  72. Laying the foundation for Rust’s future

    627 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  73. Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives

    626 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  74. How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL

    622 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  75. Microsoft Fast Design

    620 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  76. Modeling a Wealth Tax

    619 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  77. Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

    602 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  78. 1Password for Linux development preview

    601 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  79. Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election

    597 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  80. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

    590 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  81. MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

    588 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  82. Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You

    588 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  83. Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees

    569 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  84. What's the future of Servo?

    568 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  85. NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975

    567 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  86. US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat

    564 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  87. Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy

    560 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  88. Thomas Sowell interview

    552 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  89. Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data

    551 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  90. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

    543 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  91. Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

    540 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  92. Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

    540 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  93. What’s Flying Above Us?

    539 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  94. Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

    538 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  95. App Review process updates

    534 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  96. Why Johnny Won't Upgrade

    532 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  97. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

    528 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  98. Ethereum Is a Dark Forest

    527 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  99. SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

    527 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  100. Rideshare operations are being suspended in California

    525 points • comment • aug 20, 2020