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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ Mac addresses until late last year

    33 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  2. License Zero: Comments on “The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free”

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  3. “Rich People Can’t Stop”: The Luxe Quarantine Lives of Silicon Valley’s Elite

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  4. Microsoft Kills Windows 10's Automatic Driver Search

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  5. Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi with just a tap

    33 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  6. Ask HN: How to Sell Software?

    33 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  7. The Julia Language – A fresh approach to technical computing

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  8. Security researcher discloses Safari bug after Apple delays patch

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  9. Help us test one-to-one voice and video conversations on Signal Desktop

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  10. USPS Announces Temporary Price Increase

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  11. Ebpf.io

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  12. Loot boxes in online games and their effect on consumers [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  13. Small-Step Live Programming by Example [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  14. Millions of U.S. Jobs to Be Lost for Years, IRS Projections Show

    33 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  15. Tesla Autopilot Accidents: 1 out of 4,5M Miles; US Average: 1 out of 479,000

    33 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  16. Oriented electric fields as future smart reagents in chemistry [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  17. Portland sees peaceful night of protests following withdrawal of federal agents

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  18. Pure and Applied Chess

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  19. Seven months later, what we know about Covid-19 – and the questions that remain

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  20. Tell HN: Amazon Cloud Drive is banning encrypted content and backup data

    33 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  21. DigitalOcean App Platform

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  22. The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the liability system (2012) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  23. Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013)

    33 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  24. Linux 5.9 Brings Safeguard Following Nvidia's Recent “GPL Condom” Incident

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  25. Stone structures in Saudi Arabia may be among oldest monuments in world

    33 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  26. Three algorithm-less streaming sites revive the wacky Web from days of yore

    33 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  27. Ask HN: Do You Despise Marketing?

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  28. radEventListener: Client-side Framework Performance

    33 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  29. Beware of find-my-phone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, NSA tells mobile users

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  30. Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core to Be Faster Than an Arm Cortex-A73

    33 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  31. New York Attorney General sues to dissolve NRA

    32 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  32. 3D scene reconstruction from RGB (no depth) video

    32 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  33. BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car's features

    32 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  34. $200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill switch

    32 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  35. Show HN: Practical Python – Python projects for beginners

    32 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  36. A manager’s essential guide to holding regular check-ins

    32 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  37. Show HN: 1-1 virtual coffees with top tech talent sourced from Twitter

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  38. Marpa will parse anything that can be written in BNF

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  39. Three quarters of people in the UK now do at least some online grocery shopping

    32 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  40. 'Street Crisis' team to replace San Francisco police on mental health calls

    32 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  41. Lyft and Uber suspending California rides at midnight

    32 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  42. Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  43. Babylonian Mathematics (2003) [pdf]

    32 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  44. Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming (1972)

    32 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  45. How A Cheese Goes Extinct

    32 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  46. Systems and Constraints

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  47. California short on firefighting crews after Covid-19 lockdown at prison camps

    32 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  48. Tell HN: I just made my first sale

    32 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  49. Use of AI to select Superstars in sports

    32 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  50. Lenovo Starts Offering Up Fedora Linux Pre-Loaded Systems from Their Web Store

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  51. Do any Open Source Licences require source history?

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  52. Has to Be a Joke, Because If It’s Not

    32 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  53. Toronto police pay $16.5m to protesters wrongfully held at 2010 G20 summit

    32 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  54. Trump Says U.S. Should Get Slice of TikTok Sale Price

    32 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  55. A Tuna's Worth

    32 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  56. Did they even hang bears?

    32 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  57. MikroOrm v4 /w GraphQL example project that I created over the weekend

    32 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  58. The New American Status Symbol? A Second Passport

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  59. Facebook algorithm found to actively promote holocaust denial

    32 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  60. Concepts – Laws, Principles, Mental Models, Cognitive Biases

    32 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  61. I'm 33. Starting my CS degree on Monday

    32 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  62. Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  63. NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  64. International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2020 – Research Papers

    31 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  65. Scaling Services with Shard Manager

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  66. The Rogue Wave of Enterprise SaaS

    31 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  67. REI is going remote and selling its corporate headquarters

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  68. Another 1.006M Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

    31 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  69. Writing a Test Case Generator for a Programming Language

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  70. The First Sentence Is a Handshake (2014)

    31 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  71. A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the Covid-19 Pandemic

    31 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  72. Lyft may also suspend services in CA due to AB5

    31 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  73. Covid-19: What do we know about “long Covid”?

    31 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  74. Exploring LibreOffice 7.0

    31 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  75. Venture capital firms to include “diversity riders” in term sheets

    31 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  76. My Life Pouring Concrete

    31 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  77. Axial-DeepLab: Long-Range Modeling in All Layers for Panoptic Segmentation

    31 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  78. Case-Insensitive Ext4

    31 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  79. Buckingham Palace art collection to go on gallery display for the first time

    31 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  80. Rippling’s funding round gives founder second unicorn chance

    31 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  81. A Virginia couple that gave birth to the billable hour

    31 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  82. Product-led Growth

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  83. People

    31 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  84. Thanks to Time Dilation, Earth’s Core Is 2.5 Years Younger Than Its Surface

    31 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  85. Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  86. Garmin received decryptor for WastedLocker ransomware

    31 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  87. Covid-19 brought the 'largest criminology experiment in history'

    31 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  88. Agoge

    31 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  89. Show HN: PuffinBASIC – A cross-platform modern BASIC interpreter written in Java

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  90. Trump says he will look into a pardon for Edward Snowden

    31 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  91. Modelling a Wealth Tax: A Response to Paul Graham

    31 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  92. Hackers are defacing Reddit with pro-Trump messages

    31 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  93. Sequential Consequences

    31 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  94. The Monolith That Breaks Up Itself

    30 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  95. Some Ugly Code Can Get Nvidia's Linux Driver Working with Accelerated XWayland

    30 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  96. I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur

    30 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  97. Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human history' like this one

    30 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  98. Uber and Lyft push back on Seattle mayor’s plan to pay drivers more money

    30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  99. Lifespan of electronics 2.3 years shorter than intended by design

    30 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  100. Google offers to help others with the tricky ethics of AI

    30 points • comment • aug 29, 2020