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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. ‘Altered Carbon’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Netflix

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  2. The Hatpin Peril (2014)

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  3. Beirut Explosion

    37 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  4. Show HN: Create diagrams stitching images on a grid using HCL (like Terraform)

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  5. Dutch minister of health makes a GitHub commit

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  6. Your mind will not be uploaded (2014)

    37 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  7. June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  8. Nine in ten Americans view data privacy as a human right according to new report

    37 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  9. EtherOops – packet-in-packet attacks on Ethernet cables to bypass firewalls

    37 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  10. Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers

    37 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  11. The TikTok ban and the openness trap

    37 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  12. Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities – IN the U.S.

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  13. Fortnite Removed from App Store

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  14. Backbone Cabal

    37 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  15. 'How to destroy surveillance capitalism,' a book-length rebuttal to S. Zuboff

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  16. A14X Bionic to Be ‘Nearly on Par’ with 8-Core Intel Core I9-9880H

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  17. Belly of the Beast: Illicit Photos from Inside the Soviet GEV Plane “Ekranoplan”

    37 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  18. Baby boomers show concerning decline in cognitive functioning

    37 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  19. Creators Should Move to Their Own Domains and Set Up Direct Monetization

    37 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  20. How we used Postgres extended statistics to achieve a 3000x speedup

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  21. California: Tell Your Senators Ill-Conceived “Immunity Passports” Won’t Help Us

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  22. Status as a Service (2019)

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  23. Teaching quantum information science to high-school students

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  24. Revolution in Belarus People are demanding Lukashenko to go home

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  25. Beyond Bitswap

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  26. Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  27. UK officially in recession for first time in 11 years

    36 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  28. The Unraveling of America

    36 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  29. Carl Bergstrom on data manipulation, fake news,& using science as a lie detector

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  30. The ELIZA Effect (2019)

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  31. A Seed Stage Mental Framework to Limit Failure as a Startup Founder

    36 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  32. Easily replicate/clone your Linux install

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  33. Defunctionalization and Freyd’s Theorem

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  34. Bernard Bailyn, Eminent Historian of Early America, Dies at 97

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  35. Cachy: Out of tree Linux scheduler improving CPU cache usage

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  36. Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013)

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  37. Best Consumer Hard Drives: August 2020

    36 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  38. San Francisco will put ‘CEO tax’ on the ballot this November

    35 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  39. Apple News+ in iOS 14 opens articles in Apple News, intercepting website traffic

    35 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  40. Mass arrests after BlackBerry cracked five years after seizure

    35 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  41. House Costs Just $20k-But It’s Nicer Than Yours

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  42. Chadwick Boseman Is Dead

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  43. The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (2017) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  44. How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  45. LA Mayor Shuts Off Power at Hollywood Hills House That Hosted Large Parties

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  46. Failure by WHO team to visit Wuhan sparks concerns over virus probe

    35 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  47. We hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issue

    35 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security

    35 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  49. Best Package Manager for C

    35 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  50. Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  51. The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away

    35 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  52. Tackling open challenges in offline reinforcement learning

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  53. The West Is Becoming More Like China

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  54. A picture of change for a world in constant motion

    35 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  55. Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  56. In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  57. What Programmers Can Learn from Modular Synthesis and Unix

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  58. Ten countries kept out Covid, but did they win?

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  59. Reading is good. Reading in order to discuss is better

    35 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  60. US companies grant execs big bonuses before declaring bankruptcy

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  61. Conventional Commits

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  62. Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

    35 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  63. Kim Jong Un's sister now said to control North Korea party nerve center

    35 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  64. Speaking Knots

    35 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  65. Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it doesn't hurt you

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  66. Wirecard’s Boon is shutting down

    35 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  67. Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload

    35 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  68. Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  69. Herman Cain's verified twitter account shares posthumous attack on Biden/Harris

    34 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  70. Alarm as FDA willing to issue Covid-19 vaccine before stringent safety testing

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  71. Instagram Reels

    34 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  72. You May Finally Use JSHint for Evil

    34 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  73. Spotify hit with outage after forgetting to renew a certificate

    34 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  74. Nagara Rimba Nusa: A Take on Indonesia's New Capital City

    34 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  75. Mesosphere (open-source Nintendo Switch kernel) now boots most commercial games

    34 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  76. China will not accept U.S. 'theft' of TikTok: China Daily

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  77. “Time of the Magicians” – philosophy's great decade?

    34 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  78. First Lenovo laptop with Fedora now available

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  79. Microsoft .NET SDK is violating the GDPR, object now

    34 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  80. Ancient Beads Point to Far-Flung Relationships in Southern Africa

    34 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  81. Ask HN: How do I “make the switch” towards becoming a director or VP

    34 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  82. Same laptop, different CPUs, Ryzen is faster, has better battery and cheaper

    34 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  83. Can modern software be snappy? (2008)

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  84. Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies into Existence

    34 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  85. On Tolerating Complexity

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  86. Mail-in ballots were part of a plot to deny Lincoln reelection in 1864

    34 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Do you have a daily cash stream?

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  88. As Epic attacks Apple and Google, it ignores the same problems on consoles

    34 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  89. Functional SARS-CoV-2-specific immune memory persists after mild Covid-19

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  90. Ask HN: Why do many sites now put username+password entry on different pages?

    34 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  91. Salmonella outbreak linked to onions in 43 US states

    34 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  92. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  93. The Prophecies of Q

    34 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  94. Optical Tweezers

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  95. Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)

    34 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  96. “Dark” Personalities Are More Likely to Signal Victimhood

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  97. Edalize: An abstraction library for interfacing EDA tools

    34 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  98. Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

    34 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  99. Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  100. What coronavirus will do to our offices and homes

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2020