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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use (2014)

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  2. Standard Space Habitats

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  3. DHS had access to messages from Portland protesters, document shows

    41 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  4. AdoptOpenJDK 8u265 Available

    41 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  5. The Renaissance of the Shell?

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  6. The Enigma of Gloom: On George Scialabba’s “How to Be Depressed”

    41 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  7. Show HN: WebAssembly Calling Card – visual creativity with WASM

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  8. Converting Boolean-Logic Decision Trees to Finite State Machines

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  9. Finding Linux Compatible Printers

    41 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  10. Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of 280 Crypto Addresses

    41 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  11. A Darker View of the Renaissance

    41 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  12. Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars

    41 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  13. Simon's Algorithm

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  14. Writing math papers in pre-LaTeX era (2010)

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  15. MS Paint IDE

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  16. Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming

    41 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  17. Amazon can be held liable for products sold on Marketplace, appeals court rules

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  18. Apple Is Taking Legal Action Against a Small Company Because of Its Logo

    41 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  19. Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  20. MetaMask replaces MIT License, claims ownership of all forks

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  21. Sketching Realistic Graphs (2005)

    41 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  22. “Hiding” network latency for fast memory in data centers

    41 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  23. A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  24. A massive fractal in days, not years [pdf]

    41 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  25. Why professors are writing crap that nobody reads

    41 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  26. Jabra: We know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops. Sorry, no refunds

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  27. Five charged with felonies for tweeting or retweeting a cop’s photo

    41 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  28. Data Structures Cheat Sheet

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  29. Ways to fetch financial data for algo trading

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  30. America's window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing

    40 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  31. Breaking into ASOS

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  32. “What color is the Sun?” An example of science education pathology (2012)

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  33. Show HN: GA Insights – Never Log into Google Analytics Again

    40 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  34. Promised Land: Religious ideology and solarpunk science fiction

    40 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  35. I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (2008) [pdf]

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  36. How airplanes counteract St. Elmo's Fire during thunderstorms

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  37. What it means to be a developer is changing

    40 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  38. Peter Thiel: The Education Bubble Is Becoming Dangerous (2018) [video]

    40 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  39. Editor Overload

    40 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  40. Imaging Edge Webcam

    40 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  41. A fleet of computers helps settle a 90-year-old math problem

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  42. The Jellyfish Problem

    40 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  43. Why most doctors don't wash their hands

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  44. Cornell Notes: Take Effective Notes

    40 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  45. A super quick rundown on SEO

    40 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  46. Titan in Depth: Security in Plaintext

    40 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  47. The Cube Rule of Food Identification

    40 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. Amazon Renames Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming

    40 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  49. Tell HN: YC's First Lightning Tech Talk and Hiring Event Is on September 10th

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  50. Belgian experts 'shocked' as AstraZeneca seeks liability waiver for vaccine

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  51. World of Warcraft Source Code Turns One Million

    39 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  52. No handshakes. A bad economy. These car salesmen shifted tactics– and succeeded

    39 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  53. Building storage-first serverless apps with HTTP APIs service integrations

    39 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  54. I Was a Useful Idiot for Capitalism

    39 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  55. DragonFly LDM – Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing System (3D Electronics Printer)

    39 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  56. Ask HN: What are the most interesting things in tech lately?

    39 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  57. TriFinger: An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity

    39 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  58. Anti-Racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart

    39 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  59. Apple Judge ‘Inclined’ to Unblock Epic’s Unreal Engine but Not Fortnite

    39 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  60. Why I started GigoBooks, and how I got the idea for a startup

    39 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  61. Writing a simple Python to C compiler: hello, fibonacci

    39 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  62. Alberta government gives green light to Calgary-Edmonton Hyperloop project

    39 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  63. Steve Crocker on the History of RFCs

    39 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  64. Your calendar should be an allowlist, not a blocklist

    39 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  65. Nvidia datacentre revenues surpasses gaming for first time

    39 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  66. Testing a $1300 120,000lm water-cooled LED

    39 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  67. Mimicking Boston Dynamics with Raspberry Pi

    39 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  68. Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

    39 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  69. A guide to DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps

    39 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  70. Three Ways to Hack a Printed Circuit Board

    39 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  71. Frank Ramsey: A more human philosophy

    39 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  72. A Honeybee’s Tongue Is More Swiss Army Knife Than Ladle

    38 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  73. Tesla Blown Away as Renault Dominates Europe’s July EV Sales Party

    38 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  74. Monads and Intensionality – Lucid is not an aberration

    38 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  75. Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck

    38 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  76. Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa with Plastic

    38 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  77. The Anti-Capitalist Software License

    38 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  78. Do-it-Yourself Vaccines for Covid-19

    38 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  79. Belarus president: “Until you kill me, there will be no other elections”

    38 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  80. Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs

    38 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  81. Huawei says it’s running out of chips for smartphones because of US sanctions

    38 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  82. Waking Life: Johan Varendonck had to study what was available: his daydreams

    38 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  83. Apple's new iPhone operating system will decimate part of Facebook's business

    38 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  84. The Difficulties of Tracking Running Processes on Linux

    38 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  85. NSCAI Eric Schmidt says Mass Surveillance killer tool/opportunity pg 88-99 [PDF] (2019)

    38 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  86. The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning

    38 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  87. How to Pretend That You Are Smart

    38 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  88. EUtility Electric Tractor is powered by a battery, not diesel

    38 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  89. Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs

    38 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  90. Half of US adults say dating has gotten harder in the last 10 years

    38 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  91. Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Stealing Money from People Around the World

    38 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  92. Securing Lasting Freedoms for All

    38 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  93. Software Can Recreate 3D Spaces from Random Internet Photos

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  94. Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  95. Lynn Conway's Career Retrospective

    37 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  96. Fortnite Removed from App Store

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  97. Show HN: A searchable list of VC jobs

    37 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  98. The pesticide that caused bee colonies to collapse is killing birds now

    37 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  99. Anthony Thyssen's Homepage (1994)

    37 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  100. Programmers say Uber Eats is systematically underpaying their workers

    37 points • comment • aug 21, 2020