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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

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

    78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  2. Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

    78 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  3. Nim – version 1.2.6 and 1.0.8 released

    78 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  4. Ask HN: How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age?

    78 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  5. Mon Valley communities test “time credits”, a new form of currency

    77 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  6. What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Language

    77 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  7. Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  8. Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem

    77 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  9. Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python

    77 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  10. Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle

    77 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  11. Pavel Durov on the TikTok Sale to U.S. company

    77 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  12. 'Music is as good as gold or oil': A man spending billions on old hits

    77 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  13. Searx instances

    76 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  14. Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (2008)

    76 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  15. Microsoft Surface Duo – Dual-screen Android phone

    76 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  16. Shakuntala Devi – The Human Computer (2016)

    76 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  17. A more detailed, colorful map

    76 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  18. The Door Problem (2014)

    76 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  19. Epic Games is also suing Google over Fortnites removal from the Play Store

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  20. Fox Two: The Story of the Aim-9 Sidewinder (2014)

    76 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  21. Debian turns 27

    76 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  22. San Francisco exodus is real, and historic, report shows

    76 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  23. Benign data races considered harmful

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  24. The Hard Problem of Breakfast

    76 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  25. What's Going On with Intel?

    75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  26. Jetpack Compose Alpha is released

    75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  27. Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms

    75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  28. Brexit fuels brain drain as skilled Britons head to the EU

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  29. Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air energy facility (2019)

    75 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  30. A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating

    75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  31. Metaplane – A metadata catalog for modern data teams

    75 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  32. The Market for Discontinued Photographic Film

    75 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  33. The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)

    75 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  34. Most common mistakes during interviews

    75 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  35. Weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid

    75 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  36. A new company promises a 5G keyboarded BlackBerry in 2021

    75 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  37. Fossilised 429-million-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision

    75 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  38. ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 blasts through Kickstarter goal

    75 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  39. TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app

    75 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  40. Zin Boats reinvents the electric boat in a bid to become the Tesla of the sea

    75 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  41. TF-Coder, a tool that writes tricky TensorFlow expressions

    75 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  42. “Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure”

    74 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  43. IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  44. Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal

    74 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  45. How the world’s largest garbage dump evolved into a green oasis

    74 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  46. Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  47. Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  48. Why does the government let a company like Herbalife stay in business?

    74 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  49. Melancholy of obsolete futures: on Soviet Brutalism

    74 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  50. System on Chip wrapping the SERV RISC-V soft processor

    74 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  51. Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions

    74 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  52. The World of Legacy IT Systems

    74 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  53. Horcrux Encrypted Messaging

    74 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  54. Auden on No-Platforming Pound (2019)

    74 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  55. Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators

    74 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  56. Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  57. Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy

    73 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  58. How to update U-Boot for PostmarketOS on the Pine Phone

    73 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  59. 100 years to solve an integral: The history of the Mercator map

    73 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  60. Child sexual abuse material could be going undetected because of ‘false reports’

    73 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  61. Don't Get Stuck

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  62. A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World

    73 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  63. Solaris 10 Zones on Illumos Tribblix

    73 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  64. The Mozilla Manifesto

    73 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  65. But I was helping the compiler

    72 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  66. Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  67. Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years

    72 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  68. Former VW Executive Is Arrested in Croatia in Emissions Case

    72 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  69. Bcrypt Step-by-Step

    72 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  70. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

    72 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  71. Retrobatch – flexible batch image processing for Mac

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  72. Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (2019)

    72 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  73. Expert overclockers successfully push DOOM Eternal past 1k frames per second

    72 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  74. Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  75. Karate: Test Automation Made Simple

    72 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  76. The Ecommerce Surge

    72 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  77. China uses Hong Kong security law against US and UK-based activists

    72 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  78. ‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives (2019)

    72 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  79. Writing a Lisp to x86-64 compiler

    71 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  80. EBS Storage Improvements

    71 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  81. Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card

    71 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  82. Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory

    71 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  83. ZX Spectrum Next – Issue 2

    71 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  84. Yet another tool for making copy/paste/run experience better (Windows)

    71 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  85. Live HDR+ and Dual Exposure Controls on Pixel 4 and 4a

    71 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  86. Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients

    71 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  87. Darwin, Machines, and the Future: A conversation with George Dyson

    70 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  88. WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks

    70 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  89. PHP 8.0.0 beta 2

    70 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  90. OPDS – Easy to Use, Open and Decentralized Content Distribution

    70 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  91. Upcoming changes to Cortana

    70 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  92. Constant Time LFU

    70 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  93. Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]

    70 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  94. Amazon Music attempted to forbid podcasters from disparaging Amazon

    70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  95. Leveraging machine learning to fuel new discoveries with the ArXiv dataset

    70 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  96. Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics

    70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  97. A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound

    70 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  98. Thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml

    70 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  99. Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  100. Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020