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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock

    128 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  2. OpenSSF: Open Source Security Foundation

    128 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  3. Anti-piracy outfit hires VPN expert to help track down The Pirate Bay

    128 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

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

    128 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  5. Idris 2 version 0.2.1

    128 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  6. Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development

    127 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  7. Former Chief Security Officer for Uber Charged with Obstruction of Justice

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  8. Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  9. Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly

    127 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  10. FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets

    127 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  11. US plans to produce ‘Iberian’ ham in Texas and Georgia

    127 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  12. All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995)

    126 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  13. Motherboard Specifications on MotherboardDB

    126 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  14. There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore

    126 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  15. The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB

    126 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  16. Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing

    126 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  17. I just lost 1,400 BTC

    126 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  18. Go 1.15 Released

    126 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  19. Uber and Lyft competitors ready if service is suspended in California

    125 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  20. Nitrokey

    125 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  21. How to Read a Log Scale

    125 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  22. The machines USPS is removing can sort more than 36,000 pieces of mail per hour

    125 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  23. Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers

    125 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  24. A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk

    124 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  25. Generative Art with CSS (2019)

    124 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  26. The Forgotten Ones: HP Nanoprocessor

    124 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  27. Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

    124 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  28. Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

    124 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  29. The Dark Core of Personality (2018)

    124 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  30. Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, has died

    124 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  31. Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video]

    124 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  32. Unicornify

    124 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  33. DIY Single-Chip 2D Retro Game Console

    124 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  34. Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT

    124 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  35. Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced

    124 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  36. Ask HN: Parents, what are you doing for school this fall?

    124 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  37. File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness

    124 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  38. Launch HN: Depict.ai (YC S20) – Product recommendations for any e-commerce store

    123 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  39. Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization

    123 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  40. What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?

    123 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  41. Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

    123 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  42. Tesla Fremont to Soon Activate World’s Largest Unibody Casting Machine

    123 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  43. Alacritty v0.5

    123 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  44. How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?

    123 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  45. The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018)

    123 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  46. TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  47. “Cold Tube” cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner

    122 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  48. The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs

    122 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  49. Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters

    122 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  50. AWS Tagging Best Practices

    122 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  51. Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC

    122 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  52. Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang

    122 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  53. Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes

    122 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  54. We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory

    122 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  55. Artificial brains may need sleep too

    121 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  56. Inventing Monads

    121 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  57. Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US

    121 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  58. The mesmerizing geometry of Malaysia’s most complex cakes

    121 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  59. Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking

    121 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  60. A step towards new nitrogen products

    121 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  61. Pumas AI: A platform for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation

    121 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  62. Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network

    121 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  63. Vertigo – a public domain 3D flight simulator (2003)

    120 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  64. Show HN: JavaScript-free personal bio hosting

    120 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  65. StackExchange Performance Stats

    120 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  66. A-Levels: The Model is not the Student

    120 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  67. Who to ignore – bullshit filters

    120 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  68. IBM Is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning

    120 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  69. How to build great products (2013)

    120 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  70. Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app

    120 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  71. Cheap FPGA Development Boards

    120 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  72. TypeScript 4.0

    120 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  73. Sum Types in Julia and Rust

    119 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  74. How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19

    119 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  75. Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data

    119 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  76. ZipPy: fast and lightweight Python 3 implementation using the Truffle framework

    119 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  77. Slate, create beautiful, responsive API documentation

    119 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  78. California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001

    119 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  79. Spacetime wave packets: New class of laser defies laws of light physics

    119 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  80. You don’t need reproducible builds

    119 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  81. Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages

    119 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  82. PCI Express Retimers vs. Redrivers: An Eye-Popping Difference (2019)

    119 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  83. Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)

    119 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  84. PP-YOLO Surpasses YOLOv4 – State-of-the-art object detection techniques

    118 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  85. Why facial recognition has led to false arrests

    118 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  86. Ea­ves­drop­ping En­cryp­ted LTE Calls With Re­VoL­TE

    118 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  87. An Introduction to Godel's Theorems (Second Edition) [pdf]

    118 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  88. Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch

    118 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  89. Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (2018)

    118 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  90. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

    118 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  91. Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly

    117 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  92. Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads

    117 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  93. Non-obvious remote work techniques

    117 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  94. It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area

    117 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  95. Why I’m Willing to Pay a Premium for Security, Privacy, and Peace of Mind

    117 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  96. Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement

    117 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  97. Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving

    117 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  98. ANSI Z535 Compliant Safety Sign Generator

    117 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  99. Haskell In New Clothes

    117 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  100. How to delete all your files

    117 points • comment • aug 23, 2020