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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Clover: An all-in-one notebook

    117 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  2. Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management

    116 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  3. Implementing a Type-safe printf in Rust

    116 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  4. The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished

    116 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  5. Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

    116 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  6. Dropshipping: Hustlers making millions from goods they never handle

    116 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  7. Launch HN: Virtually (YC S20) – Build live online trainings

    116 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  8. Can we do better than our C compiler?

    116 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  9. AtomVM: Erlang on Microcontrollers

    116 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  10. Ask HN: There are 5 S-1 posts on the front page, what explains the rush?

    116 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  11. Conventions for Command Line Options

    116 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  12. Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D

    116 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  13. Show HN: I've built self-opening trash bin, I relax myself feeding garbage to it

    116 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  14. Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

    116 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  15. Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management

    116 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  16. Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  17. A Clean Start for the Web

    115 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  18. FBI release a report on Russian Linux Malware called Drovorub [pdf]

    115 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  19. Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster

    115 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  20. Discrete Cosine Transform in Video Compression – Explain Like I'm Five

    115 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  21. Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand

    115 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  22. Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended

    114 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  23. Firefox 80 and my confusion over its hardware accelerated video on Linux

    114 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  24. There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)

    114 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  25. Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations

    114 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  26. Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed

    114 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  27. Apple Removes Epic Games Account from App Store

    114 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  28. Hotel in Tokyo installs flight simulator in room (2019)

    114 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  29. Syntax changes from C++11 to C++20

    114 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  30. Veteran submariner on how sonar crews tirelessly hunt enemies they can't see

    114 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  31. Show HN: NeuralCam Live – Using ML to Turn iPhones into Smart Webcams

    113 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  32. Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages

    113 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  33. Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A

    113 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  34. Fallen Boulder Reveals 313M-Year-Old Fossil Footprints at Grand Canyon

    113 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  35. USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast

    112 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  36. U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

    112 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  37. Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence

    112 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  38. First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail

    112 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  39. SSH Keygen – RSA, DSA, Ecdsa, EdDSA

    112 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  40. GPT-3 Explorer

    112 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  41. Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable

    112 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  42. Show HN: Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating

    112 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  43. My One Day at Recurse Center

    112 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  44. Ask HN: How does your organisation train programmers?

    112 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  45. SpaceX says Starlink internet has ‘extraordinary demand,’

    112 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  46. Kapton: Miracle Material with a Tragic History

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  47. AKAI MPC 3000 sampler/sequencer drum machine

    111 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  48. The Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets

    111 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  49. GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

    111 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  50. Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch

    111 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  51. Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches

    111 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  52. Development of Warajevo: ZX Spectrum Emulator Made During the Bosnian War

    111 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  53. $250k books sold, to save lives

    111 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  54. Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ data’ vs Facebook, Google

    111 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  55. Apple blocked Facebook's attempt to tell users about 30% App Store 'tax'

    111 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  56. Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed

    111 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  57. Kubernetes 1.19

    111 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  58. How the ARM32 Linux kernel decompresses

    111 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  59. How Taiwan’s Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem

    110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  60. Atlas: End-to-End 3D Scene Reconstruction from Posed Images

    110 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  61. Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

    110 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  62. Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended

    110 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  63. Significant JavaScript projects from 2006 to 2020

    110 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  64. Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions

    110 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  65. Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020

    110 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  66. Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk

    110 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  67. ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model

    109 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  68. i8080 precise replica in Verilog, based on reverse engineering of real die

    109 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  69. A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History

    109 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  70. The World of Competitive Lockpicking

    109 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  71. Teletext Bad Apple

    109 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  72. Elastic 7.9

    108 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  73. Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]

    108 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  74. Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]

    108 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  75. μPlot v1.1 – now with log scales support

    108 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  76. Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money [pdf]

    108 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  77. Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man

    108 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  78. China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%

    108 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  79. Gold price rises above $2k for first time

    108 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  80. OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (2006)

    108 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  81. Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel

    108 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  82. Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types

    108 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  83. Touch Typing on a Gamepad

    107 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  84. Is the US about to split the internet?

    107 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  85. AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

    107 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  86. Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks

    107 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  87. Ordeal by Title IX

    107 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  88. The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design

    107 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  89. Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever

    106 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  90. SS7 cellular network flaw being exploited to drain bank accounts

    106 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  91. A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018)

    106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  92. DEF Con 28: Safe Mode

    106 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  93. Bill English has died

    106 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  94. What Shell Am I Using?

    106 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  95. Planning for My Kidnapping

    106 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  96. Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas

    106 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  97. Realtime California Air Quality

    106 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  98. Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment

    106 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  99. A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox

    106 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  100. How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world

    106 points • comment • aug 16, 2020