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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics

    70 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

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

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  3. Differentiable Control Problems

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  4. The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old ZIP file

    70 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  5. Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat – The White House

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  6. The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf]

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  7. Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016)

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  8. Former Uber Security Chief Charged with Concealing Hack

    70 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  9. 3D Printing Integrated Circuits: What's Possible Now and in the Future?

    70 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

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

    70 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  11. In Ashgabat

    70 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  12. Show HN: Discover shared videos and live broadcasts from Reddit

    70 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  13. Investigating the Milk, MIT's Historic Dairy Product (2015)

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  14. Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects

    69 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  15. Florida Current is weaker now than at any point in the past century

    69 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  16. How anti-trust laws are used to stop independent contractors from organizing

    69 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  17. Analyzing Python Code with Python

    69 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  18. A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2

    69 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  19. The Language of Science

    69 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  20. Medical debt collection firm R1 RCM hit in ransomware attack

    69 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  21. Excessive phone use linked to problems with productivity, relationships, health

    69 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  22. Android 11 is taking away the camera picker, forcing use of the built-in camera

    69 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  23. An Ecology of Mind: A daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson

    69 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  24. Mental Model: Second Order Thinking

    69 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  25. Facebook trying to position itself as friendlier to small businesses than Apple

    68 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  26. Google 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word

    68 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  27. Why Uber's business model is doomed

    68 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  28. Robots that can walk are now striding to market

    68 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  29. Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2

    68 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  30. Show HN: Tunshell – Remote shell into ephemeral environments behind NAT/firewall

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  31. On the problems with automated contact tracing

    68 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  32. Named Tensors

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  33. The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open

    68 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  34. What I've learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters

    68 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  35. Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own

    68 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  36. The Social Media Problem

    68 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  37. The week old Hollywood finally died

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  38. GCD and the magic of subtraction

    67 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  39. Technical Debt Doesn’t Exist

    67 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  40. Gammo – A pure-Ruby HTML5-compliant parser

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  41. I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  42. Tunable Delete Aware LSM Engine

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  43. How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data [pdf]

    67 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  44. Web History: Browsers

    67 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  45. Ask HN: Has anyone built a SaaS for local municipalities?

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  46. Launch HN: Liyfe Clinic (YC S20) – Telemedicine for breast cancer

    67 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  47. The Social Fabric of the U.S. Is Fraying Severely, If Not Unravelling

    67 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  48. Albanian Civil War

    67 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  49. Understanding Memory Fragmentation in Haskell

    67 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  50. The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age

    67 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  51. Show HN: Japanese Language Learning Forum

    67 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  52. Painting a better life through side SaaS hustles

    67 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  53. American Express to Acquire Kabbage

    66 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  54. TikTok to Sue Trump Administration over Ban, as Soon as Tuesday

    66 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  55. Coding and drawing

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  56. Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Intends to Step Down

    66 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  57. Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing

    66 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  58. TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  59. Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

    66 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  60. How to turn off Android TV's homescreen ads, 'staff picks'

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  61. Wilford Brimley has died

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  62. The fastest USB storage options for Raspberry Pi

    66 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  63. Now you C me, now you don't

    66 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  64. Researchers demonstrate the ability to fuse atoms inside room-temperature metals

    66 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  65. rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc

    66 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  66. Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013)

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  67. An Iterative Approach to Notes

    66 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  68. How to Build an Iconic Company – Keith Rabois [audio]

    66 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  69. In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it

    66 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  70. Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the Moon race

    66 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  71. The Medieval University Monopoly

    66 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  72. What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011)

    66 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  73. Secret Landscape: America's cold war infrastructure

    66 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  74. Dozens of Montana USPS drop boxes removed

    66 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  75. Stepping away from open source

    66 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  76. Epic vs. Apple: Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion for TRO [pdf]

    65 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  77. Apple announces Apple Music radio

    65 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  78. Huawei CEO: After September 15 No More Kirin Chips

    65 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  79. UC Santa Cruz Reinstates 41 Graduate Students After Months-Long Strike

    65 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  80. Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy

    65 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  81. An interesting mistake with Go's context package

    65 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  82. Notes from a Flat Earth Conference

    65 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  83. Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  84. Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine Gen2 7nm 2.6T Transistors

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  85. Lori Loughlin and husband sentenced in college bribery scandal

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  86. Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood

    65 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  87. A newsletter about mental models and rational thinking

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  88. How to Vote in the 2020 Election

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  89. Effect of Exercise-Related Factors on the Perception of Time

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  90. Children’s role in spread of virus bigger than thought

    64 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  91. US DHS seized $2B from travelers between 2000-2016

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  92. Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface

    64 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  93. Not enough foreigners applied for H1B visas this year, govt ran a second lottery

    64 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  94. Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  95. Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page

    64 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  96. Remains of 17th century bishop support Neolithic emergence of tuberculosis

    64 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  97. Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits

    64 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  98. Ask HN: Geopolitical forums similar to HN?

    64 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  99. Running a marathon was never crazier than during the 1904 St Louis Olympics

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  100. You may finally use JSHint for evil

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2020