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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. The Art of Not Thinking

    519 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  2. After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform

    517 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  3. VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment

    516 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  4. Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps

    504 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  5. Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government

    501 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  6. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

    500 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  7. Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases

    495 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  8. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

    490 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  9. Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)

    489 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  10. Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

    486 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  11. Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

    481 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  12. The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

    480 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  13. Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

    478 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  14. Unity Software Inc S-1

    477 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  15. Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster

    474 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  16. Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well

    473 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  17. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

    468 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  18. Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed

    468 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  19. I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform

    464 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  20. Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

    463 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  21. Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months

    462 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  22. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

    456 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  23. G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck

    455 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  24. Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary

    454 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  25. Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot

    454 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  26. Dear Apple: Your Services Are No Longer Required

    453 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  27. Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash

    451 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  28. To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab

    447 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  29. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

    446 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  30. Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps

    444 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  31. Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut

    438 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  32. Google: Open Letter to Australians

    437 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  33. To head off regulators, Google makes certain words taboo

    435 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  34. 70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet

    435 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  35. Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

    434 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  36. Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test

    434 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  37. We quit our jobs to build a cabin

    434 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  38. WordPressiOS Locked by App Store

    433 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  39. Is TDD Dead? (2014)

    433 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  40. Open Problems in Robotics

    432 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  41. A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode

    432 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  42. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

    432 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  43. Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

    432 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  44. Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years

    431 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  45. Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model

    430 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  46. Oatly: The New Coke?

    428 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  47. Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic

    428 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  48. Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay

    422 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  49. The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

    421 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  50. Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

    421 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  51. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

    420 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  52. How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?

    418 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  53. The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

    417 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  54. "Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla

    413 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  55. Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

    412 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  56. A crash course on hacking satellites

    412 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  57. Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation

    412 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  58. Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public

    411 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  59. We Can Do Better Than SQL

    410 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  60. Ghost.org deleted my website

    409 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  61. Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR

    407 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  62. Firefox Voice

    407 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  63. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

    405 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  64. Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000

    405 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  65. Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store

    403 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  66. Epic direct payment on mobile

    402 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  67. NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]

    402 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  68. Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story

    402 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  69. The UX of Lego Interface Panels

    401 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  70. I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action

    401 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  71. China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs

    400 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  72. Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language

    399 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  73. Firefox 80

    398 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  74. Factorio and Software Engineering

    398 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  75. Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus

    397 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  76. Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action

    393 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  77. Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

    392 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  78. The new Jupyter Book

    392 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  79. 2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park

    391 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  80. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

    390 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  81. PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later

    390 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  82. What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days

    390 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  83. US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails

    389 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  84. Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)

    389 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  85. Mozilla’s Uncertain Future

    389 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  86. Fire your bad customers

    388 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  87. Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?

    388 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  88. The Architecture of Open Source Applications

    386 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  89. Celebrate Woz's 70th

    386 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  90. Vitamin D, part 1: back to basics

    383 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  91. Asana S-1

    381 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  92. Rust 1.46

    380 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  93. Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?

    380 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  94. Mac keyboard shortcuts

    380 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  95. System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution

    379 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  96. Let's build a full-text search engine

    378 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  97. Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution

    378 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  98. Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after

    377 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  99. Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

    376 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  100. Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

    376 points • comment • aug 06, 2020