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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Corsair Gaming S-1

    95 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  2. Lithium ranked the highest performance web application platform

    95 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  3. Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”

    95 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  4. Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

    95 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

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

    95 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  6. The Most Counterintuitive Recession Ever

    95 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  7. Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad

    95 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

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

    95 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  9. DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers

    95 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  10. Run LLVM Assembly in the Browser

    94 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  11. YouTube-DL Is Dying?

    94 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  12. My AI Timelines Have Sped Up

    94 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  13. Amazon’s Project Kuiper is more than the company’s response to SpaceX

    94 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  14. Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/Ubuntu

    94 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  15. Why the U.S. government is allowing bears, wolves to be hunted in their dens

    94 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  16. Pibooth: A PhotoBooth application for Raspberry Pi and opencv compatible devices

    94 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  17. It’s strange what people put up with in C#

    94 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  18. Sets and Probability

    94 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  19. How to become a good theoretical physicist

    93 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  20. Synfig Studio – FOSS industrial-strength 2D film-quality animation software

    93 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  21. Epic has published an in-game Macintosh commercial spoof in response to Apple

    93 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  22. Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff?

    93 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  23. Beyond KrØØk: Even more Wi‑Fi chips vulnerable to eavesdropping

    93 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  24. Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects

    93 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  25. An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits

    93 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  26. Yml Coding

    92 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  27. Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash

    92 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  28. New TypeScript Website

    92 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  29. Squad Wealth

    92 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  30. Mystery of superior Leeuwenhoek microscope solved after 350 years (2018)

    92 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  31. The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore

    92 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  32. OpenVMS on x86

    92 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  33. Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%

    92 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  34. Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant

    92 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  35. Filecoin: Proof of Storage Systems

    92 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  36. Testing Database Transactions in Go

    92 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  37. C# .NET Core versus Java fastest programs

    91 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  38. Amazon investing $10B to compete against SpaceX in satellite broadband

    91 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  39. More than 100 coal-fired plants have been converted to natural gas since 2011

    91 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  40. Myths About Failure

    91 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  41. Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from Google play

    91 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  42. PHP the Wrong Way

    90 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  43. Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42 TFLOPs of FP32 Performance

    90 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  44. Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis

    90 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  45. Helping Native Bees Thrive in a Honeybee World

    90 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  46. U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market

    90 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  47. Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

    90 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  48. GH Archive

    90 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  49. Writing an SSDP Directory in Elixir

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  50. Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000)

    90 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  51. Ubuntu Philosophy

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  52. Impossible Figures Library

    90 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  53. Effective testing for machine learning systems

    90 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  54. REBOL Shell Interface

    89 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  55. Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison

    89 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  56. Ansible 2.10

    89 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  57. MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball

    89 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  58. US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," leaving "buckets of mail"

    89 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  59. Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks

    89 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  60. OpenDyslexic: A Typeface for Dyslexia

    88 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  61. Plan the Sprint, Not the Project

    88 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  62. Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

    88 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  63. A Simple Scheme Compiler (1997)

    88 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  64. Photoreal Roman Emperor Project

    88 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  65. Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination

    88 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  66. Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  67. Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots

    88 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  68. Bevy: A Game Engine in Rust

    88 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Is a SaaS provider expected to have a trademark in every country?

    88 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  70. Most Americans don’t have enough assets to withstand 3 months without income

    88 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  71. When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? (2018)

    88 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  72. Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app

    87 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  73. Available for preorder today, Surface Duo

    87 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  74. Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering Mysterious Cave at S. China Sea Base

    87 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  75. How to not fear your death: An Epicurean perspective

    87 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  76. California bullet train contractors botched bridge project

    87 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  77. Study: Cheap gas, not renewables, caused nuclear woes (2018)

    87 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  78. The time it takes to run a paid newsletter

    87 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  79. User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)

    87 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  80. Cellular Automata as Convolutional Neural Networks

    87 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  81. Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity

    87 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  82. Antibody tests show what parts of NYC were hit hardest

    87 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  83. The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters

    87 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  84. Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

    87 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  85. Elena Programming Language

    86 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  86. KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  87. Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

    86 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  88. Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors

    86 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  89. Stef's Free Online Smalltalk Books

    86 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  90. Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules

    86 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  91. She’s Got Game

    86 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  92. Convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims

    86 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  93. Court ruling clears way for energy storage on the grid

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  94. Jobseekers face exploitation as online recruitment is riddled with fake news

    86 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  95. SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

    86 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  96. Found: A Miniature Incan Llama at the Bottom of Lake Titicaca

    86 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  97. We'll be stuck in this recession for years, economists say

    86 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  98. Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface

    86 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  99. Network Coding in P2P Networks

    86 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  100. Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole in the blade

    85 points • comment • aug 25, 2020