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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Mozilla made $436M from search deals in 2018

    30 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  2. Respawn point: The inevitable reincarnation of the corporate office

    30 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  3. Dark Triad traits predict political correctness and alt-right attitudes [pdf]

    30 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  4. TikTok’s potential $588 per user valuation in Microsoft deal

    30 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  5. Show HN: Zesture – Control Mac/Windows Apps Using Hand Gestures

    30 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  6. ProtonMail founder: Apple uses monopoly to “hold all of us hostage”

    30 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  7. Lightroom App Update Wipes Users’ Photos and Presets

    30 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  8. Grafana raises $50M in Series B funding

    30 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  9. Viola Web Browser (2009)

    30 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  10. Alaska that never was: Seward's Success (2011)

    30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  11. Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white person on British currency

    30 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  12. How can Wall Street be so healthy when Main Street isn’t?

    30 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  13. Over 54,000 scanned Australian driver's licences found in open cloud storage

    30 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  14. Gone Phishing

    30 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  15. Silicon Valley investor tries to create 'microschool' in yard, backlash ensues

    30 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  16. A Guide to the IBM 3033 Processor Complex (1979) [pdf]

    30 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  17. Not the 'Beowulf' You Think You Know

    30 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  18. BespokeSynth: Software Modular Synth

    30 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  19. A Star Went Supernova in 1987. Where Is It Now?

    30 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  20. A general ink formulation of 2D crystals for wafer-scale inkjet printing

    30 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  21. Originality is not the only way

    30 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  22. My favorite product management templates

    30 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  23. An Interview with Simon Kelley, the author of dnsmasq

    30 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  24. Coronavirus crisis has made Brazil an ideal vaccine laboratory

    29 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  25. Mark Zuckerberg Is Despoiling a Tiny Coastal Village. The State Invited Him

    29 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  26. Prime Numbers for the Win (2009)

    29 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  27. The Last of the Hedgehogs: René Girard

    29 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  28. Foxconn, other Asian firms consider Mexico factories as China risks grow

    29 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  29. Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem

    29 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  30. Two more restaurants in Toronto just got rid of tipping

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  31. Wall Street Is Looting the American Retirement System

    29 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  32. Show HN: An animated graphing calculator implemented in a pixel shader

    29 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  33. The Founder's Journey: SaaS vs. Marketplace Revenue Models

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  34. Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  35. America Was Ripe for Humiliation

    29 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  36. Test-First Machine Learning

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  37. Reverse-engineering the adder inside the Intel 8086

    29 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  38. FBI worried doorbell cameras could tip owners off to police searches

    29 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  39. An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg

    29 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  40. Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011)

    29 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  41. New York incubator requires participants to grant IP rights

    29 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  42. Lawyer Explains How Meat and Dairy Industries Cost U.S. Taxpayer $414B a Year

    29 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  43. Richard Feynman's Perspective of Life

    29 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  44. Why did the atomic spy do it?

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  45. Ask HN: How do you build up your first career close to age 40?

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  46. Epic Games files lawsuit against Apple

    29 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  47. Big Sur: “Warning: PHP is not recommended”

    29 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  48. Bug in OpenSSH / Config Checker

    29 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  49. Show HN: Phuslu/Log – Structured Logging for Humans

    29 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  50. Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  51. Black babies more likely to survive when cared for by black doctors – US study

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  52. Apple Approved Malware: malicious code now notarized?

    29 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  53. The Messy Mediterranean

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  54. Ask HN: Should a Startup in the messy middle change TOS on every turn?

    28 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  55. What Would Happen If Trump Used Facebook to Dispute Election Results

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  56. How the US government built a top-secret iPod right under Steve Jobs’ nose

    28 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  57. Developers are fleeing the Unreal Engine

    28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  58. Canva – How SEO, Outreach and Content Led to a $6B Valuation

    28 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  59. Ask HN: How do you protect your Mailserver from DDoS Attacks?

    28 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  60. Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it

    28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  61. Show HN: Seamless head tracking for games using the TrueDepth camera (iOS)

    28 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  62. Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’

    28 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  63. Show HN: MP3 to Text

    28 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  64. The Everyday Inspiration for Anna Karenina

    28 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  65. Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world

    28 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  66. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (2009)

    28 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  67. A joke about the difference between mathematicians and physicists

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  68. How to Start Using Microservices

    28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  69. Humans evolved to be cooperative breeders

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  70. FAQs regarding Scots Wikipedia controversy

    28 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  71. Tesla Driver Watching Movie While Using Autopilot Crashes into Cop Car

    28 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  72. In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization

    28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  73. Great Courses, Great Profits – A Curriculum in Human Thought

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  74. Make the best of bad reviews by leveraging consumer empathy

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  75. OpenMath

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  76. Google CTF 2020

    28 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  77. The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018)

    28 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  78. Show HN: Tableau-like Data Visualization library (free), powered by WebAssembly

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  79. Ask HN: Why desktop apps are moving to browser but mobile apps to native?

    28 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  80. Google finances Fake News ecosystem

    28 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  81. Waiting for Gödel (2016)

    28 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  82. Utah and Georgia install tech that lets roads talk

    28 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  83. Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company into Literal Garbage

    28 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  84. Tell HN: the word "Niger" (the country) seems blocked in Venmo memos

    28 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  85. The Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule Has a Scale Length of 24m

    28 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  86. Ask HN: What was the best project management style you have been a part of?

    28 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  87. Show HN: A zero effort social image generator for your website

    28 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  88. Postal Service Warns Mail-In Ballots in 46 States May Not Be Delivered in Time

    28 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  89. Microsoft now lets you run Android apps in Windows 10

    27 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  90. Wait until you get to picture #30 1875 Howard County Sheriff's House and Jail

    27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  91. Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

    27 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  92. Solutions to Mathematics Textbooks

    27 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  93. Make Billionaires Pay Act

    27 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  94. China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (2019)

    27 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  95. Pedot can make our bodies play nice with implanted electronics

    27 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  96. Netflix cancels 'Altered Carbon' after just two seasons

    27 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  97. Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes

    27 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  98. Facebook Employees Slam Zuckerberg over Militia Groups and QAnon After Kenosha

    27 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  99. Astrobotic's CubeRover program awarded $2M NASA contract

    27 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  100. Kotlin 1.4 Released with a Focus on Quality and Performance

    27 points • comment • aug 17, 2020