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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

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

    47 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  2. Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients

    46 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  3. Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?

    46 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  4. New York Times Quietly Scrubs Chinese Propaganda

    46 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  5. How Do You Decode a Hapax? Also, What’s a Hapax? (2017)

    46 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  6. Google Kicks Fortnite Off from play store

    46 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  7. Users as people and the participatory economy

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  8. Atmospheric Water Harvesting

    46 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  9. How to give access to AWS resources without creating 100s of IAM Users?

    46 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  10. Is your chart a detective story or a police report?

    46 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  11. Predatory journal accepts fake story about scooters and hydroxychloroquine

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  12. Covid-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse

    46 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  13. New Pulumi Open Source Projects for Kubernetes

    46 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  14. The Challenges and Delights of Photographing the Night Sky

    46 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  15. Pytov – C-like syntax Python

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  16. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

    46 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  17. Secrets of Elite College Admissions

    46 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  18. Show HN: Lulim Jewelry – Design and 3D print your own custom wedding band

    46 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  19. Svxlink: Advanced repeater controller and Echolink software for Linux

    46 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  20. Google killed a small smart glass maker after acquiring it

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  21. Apple confirms cloud gaming services violate App Store guidelines

    46 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  22. The Third Wave (experiment)

    46 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  23. Pioneers of Soviet Computing (2010)

    46 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  24. Note to self – never give up on your dreams

    45 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  25. Incentivized Guardianship

    45 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  26. A layman's guide to understanding the Cloud

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  27. Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe

    45 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  28. Trump's WeChat ban threatens Apple's smartphone sales in China

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  29. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  30. FDA issues emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  31. Mozilla Is Dead

    45 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  32. Researchers in Germany are giving out scholarships in “idleness”

    45 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  33. New analysis method predicts disruptive solar flares

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  34. GKE’s new dataplane uses the eBPF-based Cilium project

    45 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  35. How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019)

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  36. The Magic of Engineered Serendipity

    45 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  37. FDA approves human trial for treatment to cure HIV

    45 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  38. Braess' Paradox and the Price of Anarchy (2019)

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  39. NumPy another Iverson Ghost (2018)

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  40. Internet Archive now lets you search through radio transcripts

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  41. Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts

    45 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  42. Using 'this' incorrectly in C#

    45 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  43. ArXiv’s 1.7M+ Research Papers Now Available on Kaggle

    45 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  44. Applying tech frameworks to biotech: key differences

    45 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  45. The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983)

    45 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  46. Court: No, You May Not Force Your Way into a Home and Strip Search Six Children

    45 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  47. Ubuntu VM on macOS with libvirt+QEMU

    45 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. Tehran skyscraper combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park

    45 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  49. Interactive HTML Trees with No JavaScript

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  50. MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

    44 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  51. I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping

    44 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  52. High-tech tracking reveals ‘secret world of birds’

    44 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  53. Win “Active Hours” underscores how you’re not in control of your devices (2016)

    44 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  54. Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

    44 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  55. Twingate: New Linux Client & Designing Remote Access for Developers

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  56. The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)

    44 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  57. Former Apple engineer says US govt turned an iPod into secret geiger counter

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  58. Apparatus with Magnets

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  59. fpx: easy USB‑C power for all your devices

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  60. GoldBack – Currency With Actual Gold In Bills That Can Be Used Anywhere

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  61. Micro frontends with Stacker

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  62. Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  63. Altucher: NYC Is Dead Forever

    44 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  64. Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool

    43 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  65. Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices directly via TCP,UDP

    43 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  66. Effectiveness of honey for symptomatic relief in respiratory tract infections

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  67. Hardware Accelerator for Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Neural Networks

    43 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  68. Create a fully functioning command line interface with 1.5 lines of code

    43 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  69. DIY Bertin Matrix with 569 Dominoes and No Glue

    43 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  70. Building Kind Social Networks (2018)

    43 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  71. New insights into “bradykinin storms” suggest potential therapies for Covid-19

    43 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  72. Warren Buffett traded Goldman Sachs for gold

    43 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  73. A Command Line vs. GUI Meeting

    43 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  74. Responsible Use of Machine Learning APIs

    43 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  75. Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm library written in JavaScript

    43 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  76. Comix-35 Home Computer

    43 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  77. U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  78. Lit: The Language Interpretability Tool

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  79. 40M Americans are at risk of eviction without a stimulus bill

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  80. Japan’s Entry in Flying-Car Race Takes to the Air

    43 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  81. Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in new motion

    43 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  82. 1930s Household Refrigerators (2013)

    43 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  83. With Poetry, packaging in Python is a solved problem

    43 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  84. An overview of the science on function length

    42 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  85. Show HN: A fast RSS reader I built with a friend

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  86. Low adoption of features and the sad realization

    42 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  87. More Than 1k Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work?

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  88. The golden age of computer user groups

    42 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  89. Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power (2017)

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  90. Show HN: We're building a virtual meetup platform

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  91. AVR support merged into Rust nightly

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  92. Geographical Amusement: The rise of the cartographic board game

    42 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  93. What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6

    42 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  94. Outrun lets you execute a local command using the power of another Linux machine

    42 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  95. Ask HN: How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs?

    42 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  96. The history of economic growth is a tale of cleanliness

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  97. Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

    42 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  98. Principal Component Analysis

    42 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  99. Mancala

    42 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  100. Secure Modular Runtimes

    42 points • comment • aug 25, 2020