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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever

    106 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  2. What Is the Minimal Set of Optimizations Needed for Zero-Cost Abstraction?

    105 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  3. ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  4. Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  5. AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries

    105 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  6. Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting

    105 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  7. What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery health?

    105 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  8. Brain Oriented Programming

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  9. Hyperloop: Pipes of Fancy

    105 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  10. Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

    105 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  11. Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms

    105 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  12. Bits of History, Words of Advice

    104 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  13. Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee

    104 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  14. Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition

    104 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  15. A bike shop should choose its customer wisely

    104 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  16. Show HN: Use React to build G Suite dialogs and add-ons

    104 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  17. My startup validation process

    104 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  18. Why Confidential Computing Is a Game Changer

    104 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  19. Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4

    104 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  20. A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS

    104 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  21. Jaron Lanier on social media

    104 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. PyIDM – Python open-source alternative to Internet Download Manager

    104 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  23. Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation

    104 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  24. Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design

    104 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  25. TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM

    104 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  26. RustConf 2020 Links

    103 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  27. Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)

    103 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  28. Understanding How the Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm Works

    103 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  29. AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller

    103 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  30. Show HN: Glitterly – Create and share videos of your app

    103 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  31. Ts-migrate: tool to automatically migrate JavaScript projects to TS

    103 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  32. Kenyan tea workers file UN complaint against Unilever over 2007 ethnic violence

    103 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  33. A website to make 3D geometry shapes out of paper

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  34. Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste

    102 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  35. Mosaic HIV Vaccines in Late-Stage Trials

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  36. SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  37. Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish – Microsoft plays their hand

    102 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  38. Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie

    102 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  39. Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer

    102 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  40. The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live

    102 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  41. How many pieces can a puzzle have?

    101 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  42. Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)

    101 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  43. FDA urges consumers not use certain hand sanitizer products

    101 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  44. Erlang: The New Scalable ETS Ordered_set

    101 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  45. Things the most successful people I know struggle with to be happy

    101 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  46. What is a Product Roadmap?

    101 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  47. Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line

    100 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  48. Show HN: Computer Music with Python

    100 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  49. How a $175 covid-19 test led to $2,479 in charges

    100 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  50. MiniFB: Small cross platform library to create framebuffer to draw pixels in

    100 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  51. Show HN: Tweek – Fast to-do weekly calendar app

    100 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  52. Partying like it’s 1999 – Initial public offerings are back in Silicon Valley

    100 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  53. Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool

    100 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  54. A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015)

    99 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  55. JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath

    99 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  56. Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries

    99 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  57. The Consortium for Python Data API Standards

    99 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  58. Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33

    99 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  59. 2020's Existentialist Turn

    99 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  60. Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy

    99 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  61. Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here

    99 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  62. TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders

    98 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  63. I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black

    98 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  64. NewLisp

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  65. Boston Dynamics' Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi

    98 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  66. A California wildfire nearly destroyed the historic Lick observatory

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  67. My Fourier Epicycles

    98 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  68. SourMint Malicious SDK

    98 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  69. BuckleScript Is Rebranding

    98 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  70. Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data

    98 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  71. My Custom Payment Implant

    98 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  72. Sumo Logic S-1

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  73. Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas

    98 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  74. Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok

    98 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  75. Deep Dive into PHP 8's JIT

    97 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  76. Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire

    97 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  77. Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets

    97 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  78. Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks

    97 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  79. Cloudflare Network Interconnect

    97 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  80. New ‘Unpatchable’ Exploit Found in Apple’s Secure Enclave Chip

    97 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  81. Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos

    97 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  82. Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

    97 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  83. Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH or Telnet terminal

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  84. Codata in action, or how to connect FP and OOP

    97 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  85. Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer

    97 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  86. A man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb (2015)

    97 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  87. RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics

    97 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  88. Rogue planets could outnumber the stars

    96 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  89. How close are computers to automating mathematical reasoning?

    96 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  90. Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (2000)

    96 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  91. The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)

    96 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  92. Cloudflare, Google, Bing Destroying the Infrastructure of the Free Web

    96 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  93. Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes

    96 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  94. How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (2017)

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  95. Guide to Rustc Development

    96 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  96. Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize

    96 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  97. Videos for learning Org Mode

    96 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  98. Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore

    96 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  99. Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US

    95 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  100. Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month

    95 points • comment • aug 28, 2020