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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. .NET 5 Now 'Feature Complete' with Preview 8, Go Live Release Candidates Up Next

    24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  2. Free Expression of Professors and Its Prudential Limits

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  3. Stealing local files using Safari Web Share API

    24 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  4. Why Epic can’t afford to lose the Unreal Engine in its fight with Apple

    24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  5. Charging a MacBook on the Wrong Side Can Significantly Lower Its Performance

    24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  6. Capitalism Cancels the Passions

    24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  7. How to politely crawl and analyze 500MM images

    24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  8. America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage

    24 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  9. Building GUIs with DearPyGui

    24 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  10. The Average New Car Loan Is Now over 70 Months

    24 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  11. California wealth tax could become first of its kind in the U.S.

    24 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  12. Universities Attended by CS PhD Students at Stanford (Reddit)

    24 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  13. Interviewing the “Passé” Way, For a Reason

    24 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  14. Microsoft Introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Donates It to CNCF

    24 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  15. History of software engineering

    24 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  16. Show HN: Little Ball of Fur 2.0 – A graph sampling Python library

    24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  17. Xkcd: 26-Second Pulse

    24 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  18. Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games

    24 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  19. ‘This Market Is Nuts’: S&P 500 Hits Record, Defying Economic Devastation

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  20. Aha – Take On Me – but OpenAi Jukebox tries to complete the song

    24 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  21. Amazingly realistic Facebook ads slamming the company by a street artist in NYC

    24 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  22. The Purpose of Technology

    24 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  23. Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, has died

    24 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  24. Vim Adventures – Learn Vim While Playing a Game

    24 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  25. IBM 5160

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  26. List of games that Buddha would not play

    24 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  27. The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth

    24 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  28. 750M genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys

    24 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  29. Do We Live in a Sick Society?

    24 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  30. Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”

    24 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  31. Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source

    24 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  32. NPM Was Down

    24 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  33. Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks

    24 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  34. There’s a rule in Russian grammar that every first-grader knows by heart

    24 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  35. Cleverer Automata Exist

    24 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  36. America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them

    24 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  37. Boeing publicises new name for 737 Max planes after crashes

    24 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  38. How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers

    24 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  39. Shelley: macOS menu bar app that runs shell scripts upon authorized HTTP request

    24 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  40. Padding Oracles: An Animated Primer

    24 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  41. Pseudo-Epidemics: Why COVID-19 is guaranteed to never end

    23 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  42. Step-by-Step Centralized Authentication for K8s with Keycloak and Ambassador

    23 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  43. Google adds virtual visiting card feature in Search in India

    23 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  44. Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations

    23 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  45. Palantir is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto to Denver

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  46. Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn

    23 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  47. Google to partner with BankMobile to offer digital bank accounts

    23 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  48. GNU tar blocking factor, blocks, records and checkpoints

    23 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  49. What It’s Like to Go into Lockdown for the Second Time

    23 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  50. Show HN: Script-httpd – Turn command line scripts into web services

    23 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  51. Ugrep: Faster Fuzzy Interactive Grep

    23 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  52. NPM Is Down

    23 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  53. Show HN: RISC-V disassembler in 200 lines of C

    23 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  54. Kubernetes 101

    23 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  55. Ultraviolet Hubble Movie

    23 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  56. Great Retsina, an Oxymoron No More

    23 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  57. Stop using 6-digit iPhone passcodes

    23 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  58. Microsoft removes the ability to disable Defender via the registery

    23 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  59. Self-driving cars are bullshit

    23 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  60. Michigan’s Postal Workers Say the Fix Is In

    23 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  61. Show HN: Papercups Support for React Native/Expo

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  62. Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One he is banning TikTok

    23 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  63. One Million Dollars in Huawei Mobile Services App Innovation Contest

    23 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  64. The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature

    23 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  65. We need a full investigation into Siri's surveillance campaign

    23 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  66. Homeland Security Is Quietly Tying Antifa to Foreign Powers

    23 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  67. The Latest Project to Preserve Pompeii Reveals New Treasures

    23 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  68. Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window

    23 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  69. Another anti-caste activist arrested in India

    23 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  70. Show HN: I Made a Clothing Database

    23 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  71. Ask HN: 5K 27“ computer monitor recommendation?

    23 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  72. “The Edge of Chaos” (2017)

    23 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  73. All signs point to herd immunity happening in parts of the U.S.

    23 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  74. Cannonball Record Broken: 25 Hours, 39 Minutes from NYC to LA

    23 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  75. TAWS – The Amiga Workbench Simulation

    23 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  76. Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services

    23 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  77. Stuck with Pound

    23 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  78. US homeland security surveilling journalists covering Portland protests

    23 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  79. Lockdown 'killed two people for every three who died of coronavirus' at peak

    23 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  80. CalREDIE under-reporting all California Covid-19 cases for past “few weeks”

    23 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  81. C's 'while' is spelled 'for' in Go

    23 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  82. Teen Has Filled the Scots Wikipedia with Thousands of Fake Translations

    23 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  83. Windows 10 turns thumbs down on CCleaner

    23 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  84. ‘It was me. I know it was me.’

    23 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  85. The health care scare

    23 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  86. John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel

    22 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  87. On Ethics in Software with the Authors of “The Pragmatic Programmer”

    22 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  88. China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  89. Show HN: kubectl-flame – Effortless profiling on Kubernetes

    22 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  90. Tell HN: I got banned from Twitter for literally no reason

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  91. Microsoft 365 will drop support for Internet Explorer 11 next year

    22 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  92. Show HN: AppleBot – Automate Things in Apple Dev Portal

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  93. The structure of KDE, or how anarchy sometimes works

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  94. 95% of Programming Isn’t Hard

    22 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  95. Alice in Wonderland and the theft of the public domain

    22 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  96. Show HN: A bunch of simple SaaS calculators

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  97. Twilight of the Imperial Chef

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  98. Joxa: A concurrent, distributed Lisp for the Erlang VM

    22 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  99. Domain Squatters Are the Scum of the Earth

    22 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  100. The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see (2015)

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2020