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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Precise Higher-Order Meshing of Curved 2D Domains

    64 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  2. You may finally use JSHint for evil

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  3. A network of 17th-century female spies (2019)

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  4. Self – Fun Through Simplicity

    64 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  5. Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface

    64 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  6. Bliss: A language for systems programming (1971) [pdf]

    63 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  7. Taylor Series and Accelerometers

    63 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  8. How to Fix Gimbal Lock in N-Dimensions

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  9. Producing Open Source Software (2017)

    63 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  10. BBC Master on Steroids

    63 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  11. Tesla 5-1 Stock Split

    63 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  12. 20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  13. Griffon: a desktop application development platform for the JVM

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  14. WebAssembly Is Not a Stack Machine (2019)

    63 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  15. The Native-American Origins of Gumbo

    63 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  16. Show HN: Made in India CSS

    63 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  17. Self-Contained Development Environments (2018) [pdf]

    63 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  18. Rethinking the Science of Skin

    63 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  19. GCC x86 Performance Hints (2012)

    63 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  20. Announcement of LibreOffice 7.0

    63 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  21. Why Understanding Beats Knowledge

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  22. Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50M a Year Selling Drivers' Data

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  23. Common Mistakes to Avoid in HTML

    63 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  24. How to use the next-gen open-sourced .Avif image format, 50% smaller than JPEG

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  25. The Ekranoplan Is Stranded Off a Beach

    62 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  26. Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird

    62 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  27. Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night sky

    62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  28. Write a mini-Redis in Rust: learn async programming with Tokio

    62 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  29. Virtual Machines for Multi-Tenancy in Varnish

    62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  30. Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

    62 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  31. Serverless: I'm a Big Kid Now

    62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  32. Talk to Your Data: One Model, Any Relational Database

    62 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  33. Show HN: Orchest – Data Science Pipelines

    62 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  34. S&P 500 Return Attribution: Its 1% economy

    62 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  35. The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

    62 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  36. RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation, implemented in TensorFlow 2.0

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  37. A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed [pdf]

    62 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  38. Show HN: MyDeskTour – Show off your desk setup

    62 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  39. Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor

    62 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  40. Microsoft Open Source

    62 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  41. .NET Team Survey: Native AOT

    62 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  42. Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs

    62 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  43. Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold

    62 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  44. Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4

    62 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  45. CMDR-DOS: Commodore DOS on FAT32

    62 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  46. United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies

    61 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  47. Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  48. Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service

    61 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  49. Neuroimaging results altered by varying analysis pipelines

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  50. ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted – It’s Why You Feel Awful

    61 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  51. ‘DiceKeys’ creates a master password for life with one roll

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  52. Instagram Morphs into an Information Powerhouse

    60 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  53. Moving from Common-Sense Knowledge About UEFI to Dumping UEFI Firmware

    60 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  54. TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google

    60 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  55. Declarative Data Visualization

    60 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  56. Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  57. Sled Theoretical Performance Guide

    60 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  58. New planets confirmed in machine learning first

    60 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  59. Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)

    60 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  60. Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)

    60 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  61. Show HN: Teal – a serverless VM and programming language

    60 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  62. Advancing our approach to digital currency

    60 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  63. We Chose a Distributed SQL Database to Complement MySQL

    60 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  64. To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (2012)

    60 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  65. Office Life at the Pentagon Is Disconcertingly Retrograde

    59 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  66. No New Categories

    59 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  67. From farm to factory: the unstoppable rise of American chicken

    59 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  68. Live View of Hurricane Laura

    59 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  69. 92,857 BTC (1,092,603,630 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

    59 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  70. Airbnb is offering a sleepover at the last Blockbuster

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  71. Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?

    59 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  72. Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States

    59 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  73. Greenland Ice Sheet has melted to the point of no return

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  74. Where the missing middle of housing isn't missing

    59 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  75. ZzFXM – A tiny JavaScript music system

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  76. The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old zip file

    59 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  77. Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  78. How to tokenize Japanese in Python

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  79. Tech Companies Want You to Believe America Has a Skills Gap

    58 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  80. Bitcoin-collateralized loans coming to Coinbase

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  81. Ask HN: Has anyone else seen TCP connection issues in AWS US East this week?

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  82. ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (2012)

    58 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  83. Scale-Free Vertical Tracking Microscopy, a.k.a. Gravity Machine

    58 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  84. Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears

    58 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  85. BQN: An APL Variant from Marshall Lochbaum

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  86. The Architecture of the Medieval Page (2018)

    58 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  87. Medical research director sees light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  88. Open Source PCR Thermocycler

    58 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  89. Lucid – the origin story

    58 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  90. All publicly available EEG datasets

    58 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  91. I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  92. Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab

    58 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  93. Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol

    58 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  94. We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors

    58 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  95. Exercise, eat right, get good sleep: The top ways to prevent so many diseases

    58 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  96. Samsung committing to three generations of Android OS upgrades

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  97. MOSEC 2020: Attack Secure Boot of Apple's Secure Enclave Processor [pdf]

    58 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  98. Hello “Hello World”

    57 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  99. Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook)

    57 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  100. High bitrate video streaming with GStreamer RTP

    57 points • comment • aug 25, 2020