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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook)

    57 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  2. Frustrated? It's not you, it's Rust

    57 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  3. Effective Airflow Development

    57 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  4. Colorize Old Photos with DeOldify

    57 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  5. Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS

    57 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  6. Show HN: SpaceVim Release v1.5.0

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  7. Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree

    57 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  8. How Are Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Changes Affecting Workers?

    57 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  9. Convert Figma Layouts to Flutter, SwiftUI and Tailwind. OSS and 99% Tested

    57 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  10. A guide to Semantic Segmentation

    57 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  11. HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers?

    57 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  12. FB Executive Supported India’s Modi, Disparaged Opp. In Internal Messages

    57 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  13. Winklevoss 500k Bitcoin Argument

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  14. Dear Staging: We’re Done

    57 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  15. Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

    57 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  16. The Computer Chronicles (1983 – 2002)

    57 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  17. High bitrate video streaming with GStreamer RTP

    57 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  18. Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91

    57 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  19. U.S. government issues travel warning for New Zealand due to '23 active cases'

    57 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  20. “Japanese Lindberghs” Made a 10k Mile-Flight in 1937

    57 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  21. Setting out for calls and conferences

    56 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  22. Osquery: Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows and macOS infrastructure

    56 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  23. The New ‘Gold Rush in Space’

    56 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  24. American Airlines bans masks with exhaust valves and vents

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  25. Show HN: Google Meet Studio Mini – Change your appearance with a browser script

    56 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  26. The Mega-Tsunami of July 9, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska (1999)

    56 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  27. The Student-Blaming Has Begun

    56 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  28. DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)

    56 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  29. Computerphile: From Algol 60 to Pascal [video]

    56 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  30. American darknet vendor and Costa Rican pharmacist charged

    56 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  31. Tesla employee foregoes $1M payment, works with FBI to thwart attack

    56 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  32. Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting

    56 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  33. Bootstrap Icons v1.0.0

    56 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  34. A Do-It-Yourself paper digital computer (1959)

    56 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  35. Tesla Gets Crushed in Germany by EVs from Volkswagen, Renault, and Hyundai Group

    56 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  36. I don't trust Signal (2018)

    56 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  37. Shadow traffic: site visits that are not captured by typical analytics providers

    56 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  38. A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, promise

    56 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  39. What Alternate Reality Games Can Teach Us About QAnon

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  40. All about Woad

    55 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  41. Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology [pdf]

    55 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  42. Overriding C++ virtual functions at run time

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  43. An Anecdote About ML Type Inference (1994)

    55 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  44. What killed Quayside, Sidewalk Labs’ ambitious smart city in Toronto?

    55 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  45. Major Microsoft Outage

    55 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  46. Apple to terminate developer account of Epic Games on August 28th

    55 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  47. Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74

    55 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  48. This Is What Your Unsolicited Advice Sounds Like

    55 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  49. Ten takeaways from ten years at Retraction Watch

    55 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  50. Height Modernization: Recalibrating where the U.S. physically sits on the planet

    55 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  51. Show HN: I made a steganography program

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  52. UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  53. SpaceX: Good Splashdown of Dragon Confirmed

    55 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  54. App stores, trust and anti-trust

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  55. Postmaster general reorganizes USPS ahead of November election

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  56. Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking

    55 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  57. New Particle Collision Math May Offer Quantum Clues

    54 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  58. Harry Potter and the Mnemonic Major System

    54 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  59. Mighty Buildings (YC W18) can 3D-print houses, even the roof

    54 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  60. Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux

    54 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  61. Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – study

    54 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  62. The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

    54 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  63. Shipshape RenderMan Art Challenge

    54 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  64. Two Features of JavaScript that you might not know

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  65. Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  66. Using machine learning to detect deficient coverage in colonoscopy screenings

    54 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  67. Germany eyes a four-day week to help prevent mass layoffs

    54 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  68. Wellbeing levels fell with the pandemic but improved under lockdown, data shows

    54 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  69. Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years

    54 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Is it a good practice to provide open-source version of your paid app?

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  71. Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

    54 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  72. Visualizing TSNE Maps with Three.js

    54 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  73. Ammonia as a fuel for compression ignition engines

    54 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  74. Google accidentally enables home smart speakers to listen in to everyday sounds

    53 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  75. Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder

    53 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  76. Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities

    53 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  77. Bletchley Park: New crisis for code-breaking hub

    53 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  78. Kiruna, Forever Changing

    53 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  79. Windows new feature: Access your Android phone’s apps directly from your PC

    53 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  80. Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2

    53 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  81. Smaug, the brand new OVHcloud backbone network infrastructure

    53 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  82. HBO Max cranks up the Widevine DRM, leaves Linux users in the cold

    53 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  83. Ask HN: Negotiating My Hourly Rate

    53 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  84. Agrivoltaics: Save solar plant land costs with sheep and agriculture

    53 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  85. Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch (2013)

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  86. The Sail ISA specification language

    53 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  87. How SHRDLU got its name (2003)

    53 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  88. Risk BowTie Method

    53 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  89. Inline CSS works better in a component world

    53 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  90. On Blockchain Commit Times: How miners choose Bitcoin transactions [pdf]

    52 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  91. Run for Your Life

    52 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  92. Allowing CMake functions to return(value)

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  93. Star Citizen Alpha 3.10

    52 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  94. Dnjs: A pure subset of JavaScript that wants to replace configuration languages

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  95. AI Assistants Have Poor Usability: Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri (2018)

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  96. Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  97. Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  98. Managing Teams Through Interfaces

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  99. On the Delaware, a promising new era in cleanup of an urban river

    52 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  100. NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone

    52 points • comment • aug 14, 2020