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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Jay Z, Charles Schwab-Backed Ethereum App Opens Doors to Public

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  2. Notepad++ banned in China after “Stand with Hong Kong” update

    20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  3. Apple Takes Legal Action Against Small Company For Using a Pear Logo

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  4. Time-reversal of an unknown quantum state

    20 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  5. Making Navigation Work (2017)

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  6. Detection of Rapidly Growing Informal Settlements

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  7. Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4B SPAC merger

    20 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  8. Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences

    20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  9. Builders who will thrive in the new world

    20 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  10. Neurophilosopher argues morality is rooted in brain science, not reason

    20 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  11. Is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  12. Citigroup clerical error of $900M; a beneficiary refuses to hand back $175M

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  13. Hardware interrupts with Ben Eater [video]

    20 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  14. Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors

    20 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  15. Who do I trust and why? Digital Ocean, Google Chrome and Motion Sensors

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  16. SpaceX: Musk's 'Mars ship' prototype aces 150m test flight

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  17. An Argument for Race Abolitionism (2020)

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  18. Thriverism

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  19. Canada Is Allowing Dying People to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  20. 2000 Year Old Analog Computer - Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism

    20 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  21. Single-family housing in the Bay Area linked to more racially segregated cities

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  22. Ask HN: Are you planning to leave big cities?

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  23. U.S. Department of Energy Unveils Blueprint for the Quantum Internet

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  24. Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech

    20 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  25. Why do Covid fatalities remain low when infection numbers are rising?

    20 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  26. Masks Do More Than Protect Others: Reducing the Inoculum to Protect Wearers

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  27. William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91

    20 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  28. Compiler numbers, and why they don't matter

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  29. Why Tokyo’s New Transparent Public Restrooms Are a Stroke of Genius

    20 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  30. 2020: An Isolation Odyssey

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  31. Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT (2016) [video]

    20 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  32. The danger from climate change no longer outweighs risks of nuclear accidents

    19 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  33. ‘AeroNabs’ Promise Powerful, Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  34. Bitwarden Announces Integrated Password Security with Identity-Based SSO

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  35. A Lesson in Acceptance

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  36. Uber and Lyft granted an emergency stay

    19 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  37. Idris: A Language for Type-Driven Development

    19 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  38. Smooth teleoperator: The rise of the remote controller

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  39. George Hotz: “Tesla's Going to Win Level 5” Vehicle Automation

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  40. In alarming move, CDC says people exposed to Covid-19 do not need testing

    19 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  41. Oral Histories

    19 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  42. Game engines are basically eating the world

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  43. Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  44. CCP Uses 'Friendship Groups' to Infiltrate and Divide Europe

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  45. Secret Service sought tactical aircraft to protect White House in May

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  46. Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal

    19 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  47. Excuse Me for Being an Optimist in “The End Times” of Our Current World

    19 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  48. Former Cisco engineer pleads guilty to causing Webex account chaos

    19 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  49. Is Joe Rogan right about young men and video games?

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  50. Computability in Linear Algebra (2004)

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  51. Are bread riots coming to America?

    19 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  52. The information catastrophe

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  53. ‘He’s Destroyed Conservatism’: The Republican Case Against Trump’s GOP

    19 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  54. After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy in Platform

    19 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  55. Freelance Legal Help

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  56. Why Australia buried 23 F-111s after the aircraft’s retirement

    19 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  57. Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  58. Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  59. Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree

    19 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  60. How the Pandemic Defeated America

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  61. Apple says Epic is ‘putting the entire App Store model at risk’

    19 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  62. Using MicroCOVIDs to Quantify Your Covid Risk

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  63. Quotes from Moral Mazes (2019)

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  64. Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians [pdf]

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  65. Innovators are shaping Africa’s ‘informal economy’

    19 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  66. Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  67. With $16bn in cryptocurrency, Ripple attempts a reset

    19 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  68. Chadwick Boseman has died at 43

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  69. Tim Cook's Style of Leadership

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  70. Canada Is Allowing Dying People to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms

    19 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  71. Ask HN: Why not give unpaid leaves?

    19 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  72. Trump issues executive orders with effective bans of TikTok, WeChat

    19 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  73. Gimp project gets $68.34 monthly

    18 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  74. Paradox of Tolerance

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  75. Unsporting scandium (2014)

    18 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  76. Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation

    18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  77. Elon Musk Gets Approval to Tunnel Expansion Beneath Las Vegas

    18 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  78. Taking my home work setup seriously: ergonomics and setting in for the long haul

    18 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  79. YouTube announces it'll no longer allow videos containing "hacked information"

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  80. Rust 1.45.2

    18 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  81. Trump issues executive orders against ByteDance and WeChat

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  82. ‘Enforcement’ Coming at Ocean Beach Park Where Weekly Drum Circle Crowds Gather

    18 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  83. Show HN: Download Free Hi-Res Art, Posters and Illustrations

    18 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  84. Tor 0day: Replying to the Tor Project

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  85. NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  86. Satellite Images Show Wakashio Being Towed Toward Antarctica as Mystery Deepens

    18 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  87. The Illusion of Control in Web Design (2018)

    18 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  88. The Key to Understanding Vladimir Putin

    18 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  89. Tesla and FBI prevented $1M ransomware hack

    18 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  90. FSF Heroes

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  91. Trump: Microsoft should pay ‘key money’ to Treasury for facilitating TikTok deal

    18 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  92. Immortal Beloved (1812)

    18 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  93. YouTube auto-playing unmuted Trump ad on main page

    18 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  94. Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of “Black Panther,” dies at 43

    18 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  95. Microsoft backs Epic against Apple in legal fight over Unreal Engine on iOS

    18 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  96. Vitamin C levels in patients with SARS-CoV-2-associated ARDS

    18 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  97. Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

    18 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  98. Ask HN: What helps you push through?

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  99. ReScript (previously BuckleScript and Reason)

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  100. Canada to Silicon Valley’s international talent: ‘We want you’

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2020