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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

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

    52 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

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

    52 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  3. If nearly 40% of Americans aren’t working, what are they doing? (2015)

    52 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  4. Are apps even that relevant anymore?

    52 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  5. Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics; visualize your data (2016)

    51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  6. Implementing Traceroute in Go – Blog

    51 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  7. Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dogs

    51 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  8. DeGoogle My Life

    51 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  9. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Permanently Flipped Workplace

    51 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  10. Apple's App Store Polices Mean Xbox Game Streaming Not Allowed

    51 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  11. Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)

    51 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  12. A Neural-Based Program Decompiler (2019)

    51 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  13. Microsoft joins App Store backlash after xCloud game streaming blocked

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  14. Millions of Americans could lose their electricity as shutoff moratoriums expire

    51 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  15. Lightmatter's Mars SoC Bends Light to Process Data

    51 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  16. Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone

    51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  17. U.S. Stocks Rise After S&P 500’s Record Close

    51 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  18. Cracking Phobos UUID

    51 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  19. Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process

    51 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  20. Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019)

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  21. Origins of Venmo (2014)

    51 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. New Jersey police are pressing felony charges for retweeting an officer’s photo

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  23. YouTube Alternatives at a Glance

    51 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  24. 2500x: Convert Your Images to HTML tags

    50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  25. ‘Oumuamua: A Hydrogen Iceberg?

    50 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  26. New type of taste cell discovered in taste buds

    50 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  27. People on SO have been working together on a single polyglot program for 4 years

    50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  28. Researchers discover the microbiome's role in attacking cancerous tumors

    50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  29. Abstracting Abstract Machines (2010) [pdf]

    50 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  30. Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem

    50 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  31. Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?

    50 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  32. An overview of the parasitic plant Langsdorffia

    50 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  33. Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom

    50 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  34. Music for Plants

    50 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  35. Why is my Nest Thermostat talking to Facebook?

    50 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  36. Do Not Trust Google

    50 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  37. OneLook – Dictionary Search with Wildcards

    50 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  38. Oral History of Sophie Wilson (2012) [pdf]

    50 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  39. Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado

    50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  40. The Atomic Tank? (2018)

    50 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  41. University Endowment Sued for Under performing the S&P 500

    50 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  42. How to Start A Niche Content Site

    50 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  43. Spectrum Analyzer Software for OpenRAMAN

    50 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  44. Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup, can't turn them off

    50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  45. Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  46. Music: A Mathematical Offering (2008)

    50 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  47. Simple Bacteria Offer Clues to the Origins of Photosynthesis

    50 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  48. The World’s Richest Families 2020

    50 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  49. The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View

    50 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  50. IoT Smart Lock Vulnerability Spotlights Bigger Issues

    49 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  51. Building FunctionTrace, a graphical Python profiler

    49 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  52. FuzzCon – European Online Conference About Fuzzing

    49 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  53. The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release

    49 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  54. New and improved Workers Docs

    49 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  55. Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text

    49 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  56. GPT-3 writing tool that generates surprisingly compelling characters/plot twists

    49 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  57. Connecting the Atari ST to the Internet with an ESP8266 (2017)

    49 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  58. California court: Amazon liable for defective products sold by 3rd parties

    49 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  59. The magic of ion channels in the neurons

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  60. Ex-NSA Hacker Finds a Way to Hack Mac Users via Microsoft Office

    49 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  61. Show HN: Mys – an attempt to create a statically typed Python-like language

    48 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  62. VC bias in viewing pitch decks can affect fundraising success

    48 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  63. Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network

    48 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  64. ‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  65. Galileo's Proposed Authentication Algorithm: Part 1

    48 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  66. Archaeologist discovers rare items under the floor of Oxburgh Hall

    48 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  67. Do Human crowds during protests resemble animal swarming behavior?

    48 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  68. Picking Locks with Audio Technology

    48 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  69. Terminating a Frozen SSH Session

    48 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  70. Product Activity Coefficient: A single metric to drive customer success teams

    48 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  71. Marmalade: A Very British Obsession

    48 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  72. Duality of Vector Spaces (2017)

    48 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  73. Implementing UFCS for C++ in Clang

    48 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  74. Photon – a live demo of a natural language interface to databases

    48 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  75. Losses at Revolut more than triple to £106m

    48 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  76. Signal Reflection

    48 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  77. Bletchley Park Trust to undergo organisational restructure

    48 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  78. TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database [pdf]

    48 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  79. One year of automatic DB migrations from Git

    48 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  80. Intel Xe-LP GPU Architecture Deep Dive

    48 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  81. Prosopagnosia: The artist in search of her face

    47 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  82. Hk Apple Daily Owner Arrested, Company Raided Under New National Security Law

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  83. Twelve years later, Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses

    47 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  84. Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability

    47 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  85. Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

    47 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  86. Why I don't give .edu discounts

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  87. DNA Methylation Clocks' Predictive Capacity for Aging Phenotypes and Healthspan

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  88. One-Page Chess [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  89. America might wield its ultimate weapon of mass disruption

    47 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  90. Weboob

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  91. Christopher Alexander: A Primer [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  92. Pi-KVM: easy and cheap DIY KVM over IP with mouse, virtual drive, VNC and IPMI

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  93. OpenAI API

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  94. Cheri C/C++ Programming Guide: Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions [pdf]

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  95. Micro-Optimizing .tar.gz Archives by Changing File Order

    47 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  96. Sharing Knowledge in a Remote team, across Timezones

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  97. Self-Classifying MNIST Digits Using Neural Cellular Automata

    47 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  98. Stock Market: What Happens If Tesla Enters S&P 500

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  99. Bill Gates calls Microsoft’s TikTok deal a poisoned chalice

    47 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  100. HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k

    47 points • comment • aug 26, 2020