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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Show HN: ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML

    142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  2. How NAT Traversal Works

    142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  3. TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm

    142 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  4. KeePassXC 2.6.1

    142 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  5. The rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab

    142 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  6. Our World in Data: Suicide

    141 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  7. Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)

    141 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  8. Google Update Tanks Traffic

    141 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  9. A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO

    141 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  10. Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game

    141 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  11. New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums

    141 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  12. How malicious Tor relays are exploiting users in 2020

    141 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  13. Django Async: What's new and what's next?

    141 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  14. PNG and Hidden Pixels

    140 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  15. Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences

    140 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  16. Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's

    140 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  17. Intel MKL on AMD Zen

    140 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  18. 3D face: fast, accurate and stable reconstruction

    140 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  19. Civilization VI UI, but made in WebFlow (a no-code tool)

    140 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  20. Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji

    139 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  21. If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now

    139 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  22. Psychedelic drugs reduce depressive symptoms by helping people accept emotions

    139 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  23. Do NLP Beyond English

    139 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  24. Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response

    139 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  25. Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust

    138 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  26. GoodRx S-1

    138 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  27. Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

    138 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  28. Parsing S-expressions in C (2019)

    138 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  29. Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

    138 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  30. LFE: Lisp Flavored Erlang

    138 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  31. Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?

    138 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  32. Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam

    138 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  33. Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth: study

    138 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  34. Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes

    137 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  35. Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark”

    137 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  36. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

    137 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  37. Handles Are the Better Pointers (2018)

    137 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  38. Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash

    136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  39. PHP Built-In Web Server

    136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  40. NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You

    136 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  41. Show HN: Visualize Graph Theory

    136 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  42. Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested

    136 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  43. The French Army Is Building Renaissance-Style Fortresses in Africa

    136 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  44. Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

    136 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  45. Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die

    136 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  46. Understanding DNS: Anatomy of a BIND zone file

    136 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  47. Professional sporting events increase seasonal influenza mortality in US cities

    136 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  48. Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies

    135 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  49. PlayCanvas, the Web-first game engine

    135 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  50. Landmark math proof clears hurdle in top Erdős conjecture

    135 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  51. A gentle intro to assembly with Rust

    134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  52. The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)

    134 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  53. Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks

    134 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  54. The $8M Heist from the Carnegie Library

    134 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  55. When Should You Not Use Rails?

    134 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  56. U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes

    134 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  57. Don't trust default timeouts

    134 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  58. Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members

    134 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  59. Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++

    134 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  60. Why Every City Feels the Same Now

    134 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  61. Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic

    133 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  62. Lost Advanced Civilizations

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  63. Reviewing the worst piece of code ever

    133 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  64. Antibiotics nearly double risk of developing IBD, doctors warn

    133 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  65. Don't Be a Sucker

    133 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  66. APL386 Unicode – An APL Font

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  67. The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015)

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  68. They Just Don’t Listen': SF Kimchi Maker Saw 'Food Tech' Practices Up Close

    132 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  69. Every Day 10k People Die Due to Air Pollution from Fossil Fuels

    132 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  70. Willscott/go-NFS: Golang NFSv3 server

    132 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  71. Show HN: dstack – an open-source tool to build data applications easily

    132 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  72. The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)

    132 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  73. The Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids

    132 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  74. Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds: study

    132 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  75. WebAssembly without the browser

    132 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  76. Jensen Huang’s vision for data center dominance may destroy the Arm ecosystem

    132 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  77. How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?

    131 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  78. Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users

    131 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  79. How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels

    131 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  80. Ask HN: Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?

    131 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  81. Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service

    131 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  82. Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment

    131 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  83. Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom

    131 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  84. UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists

    130 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  85. Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report

    130 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  86. An Inside Look at CloudKitchens

    130 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  87. A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory

    130 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  88. GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones

    130 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  89. Examples of ImageMagick Usage (2016)

    130 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  90. Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window

    130 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  91. Madhya Pradesh man cycles 105km to ferry son to Class X exam centre

    129 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  92. Bootstrap Icons

    129 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  93. Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps

    129 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  94. Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online

    129 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  95. The Illustrated TLS Connection

    129 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  96. Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)

    129 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  97. Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform

    129 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  98. Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors

    129 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  99. Today is Earth Overshoot Day – (08/22)

    128 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  100. SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal

    128 points • comment • aug 29, 2020