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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. A review of Bel, Eve, and a silly VR rant

    85 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  2. Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C [pdf]

    85 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  3. Nasal vaccine against Covid-19 prevents infection in mice

    85 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  4. A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)

    85 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  5. Luminar Plans $3.4B Reverse-Merger IPO

    85 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  6. Turkish Lira Rates Blow Out to 1000% After Currency Intervention

    85 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  7. 90% economy, 120% gastronomy: Covid-19 seems to have changed lifestyles for good

    85 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

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

    85 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  9. Implement an emulator for a fantasy CPU in JavaScript

    85 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  10. World's First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  11. Why did the A-level algorithm say no?

    85 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  12. Go vs. Rust: Writing a CLI Tool

    85 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  13. JFrog S-1

    85 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  14. Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs

    85 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  15. Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans

    84 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  16. Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct

    84 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  17. Show HN: Kvak.io – Online Notepad

    84 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  18. Coronavirus ravages California’s Central Valley, following a cruel familiar path

    84 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  19. Albatrosses who catch pirates on the high seas

    84 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  20. MIT Drake

    84 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  21. The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above

    84 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  22. The semver trick (2019)

    84 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  23. The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors

    84 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  24. New fitness habits being created during Covid?

    84 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  25. The Puzzle Toad

    84 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  26. Validating Kubernetes YAML for best practice and policies

    83 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  27. ‘CSS X’

    83 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  28. Apple to start requiring written consent for third party API usage in apps

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  29. MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming

    83 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  30. Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  31. How the ARM32 Kernel Starts

    83 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  32. Solr 8.6.1

    83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  33. Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults

    83 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  34. The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China

    83 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  35. What Is the Small Web?

    83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  36. Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney

    83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  37. Supercapacitors from Standard Bricks

    83 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  38. Slack Incident Resolved – Degraded service affecting multiple features

    83 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  39. Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  40. Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings

    83 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  41. White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  42. UT Dallas Computer Science professor claims to have proven RP = NP

    82 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  43. Drogon – C++14/17-based rapid HTTP and web application framework

    82 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  44. Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)

    82 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  45. In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon

    82 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  46. Parabola on ReMarkable: A Guide [pdf]

    82 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  47. Bayes Theorem: A Framework for Critical Thinking

    82 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  48. Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor

    82 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  49. Behaviors resembling ADHD may be linked to increased entrepreneurial behavior

    82 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  50. Reckoning with Our Mistakes

    82 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  51. Depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is

    82 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  52. Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

    82 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  53. Show HN: Boook.link – Share a book with links to all stores

    82 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  54. Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System

    82 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  55. SpaceX raises $1.9B

    82 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  56. Software bug causes YAM cryptocurrency to implode two days after launch

    82 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  57. The entire Mozilla MDN team is laid off

    81 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  58. Breaking the D-Link DIR3060 Firmware Encryption – Recon – Part 1

    81 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  59. Casio FX-880P Personal Computer Teardown

    81 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  60. Inside A £30 Record Player

    81 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  61. Python Hash Tables: understanding dictionaries

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  62. How Drakeo the Ruler recorded an album from jail

    81 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  63. Cardboard theft

    81 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  64. Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit

    81 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  65. Freedom is not simple

    81 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  66. Riots and Political Theory: A Reading List

    81 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  67. Clear Channel’s billboards will start tracking consumers in Europe

    81 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  68. Malaria No More

    81 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  69. On-Device Supermarket Product Recognition

    80 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  70. Launch HN: SuperTokens (YC S20) – Securely manage session tokens

    80 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  71. K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  72. Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks

    80 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  73. Facebook agrees to pay France €106M in back taxes

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  74. How real are real numbers? (2004)

    80 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  75. Predictions as a Substitute for Reviews

    80 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  76. How to make a bee hotel [pdf]

    80 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  77. All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984)

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  78. Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics

    79 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  79. Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem

    79 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  80. Blissymbols

    79 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  81. Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

    79 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  82. On Using Twitter

    79 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  83. The mine that built the atomic bomb

    79 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  84. Why did a hedge fund manager worth $700M take a $630k job managing an oil fund?

    79 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  85. Python Textbook as a Jupyter Notebook

    79 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  86. Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh

    79 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  87. Ask HN: How does your data science or machine learning team handle DevOps?

    79 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  88. As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics

    79 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  89. Large explosion in Beirut

    79 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  90. Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf]

    79 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  91. A flutter in time: Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect

    79 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  92. Unraveling the linothorax mystery (2013)

    78 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  93. Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language

    78 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  94. Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace

    78 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  95. Show HN: A simple FOSS and self-hosted budgeting app

    78 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  96. Intel Progress on Their “MOS” Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels

    78 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  97. Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)

    78 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  98. OpenRCT2 0.3

    78 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  99. Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (2015) [pdf]

    78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  100. Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

    78 points • comment • aug 27, 2020