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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor

    375 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  2. Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip

    375 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  3. Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy

    372 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  4. The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918

    369 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  5. Response to Google open letter

    368 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  6. Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world

    368 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  7. Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook

    368 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  8. Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google

    367 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  9. ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)

    363 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  10. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

    361 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  11. OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD

    359 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  12. Emacs 27.1

    359 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  13. Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule

    358 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  14. Karpathy's MinGPT

    358 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  15. GPU Accelerated JavaScript

    358 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  16. An Update on MDN Web Docs

    357 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  17. Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis

    357 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  18. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

    357 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  19. Why is America stuck with bad headlights?

    357 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  20. Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal

    352 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  21. Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever

    352 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  22. Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?

    351 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  23. Docker to rate limit image pulls

    350 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  24. A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

    348 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  25. Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A

    348 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  26. Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?

    347 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  27. Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

    347 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  28. The Death of Corporate Research Labs

    347 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  29. PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

    346 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  30. Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release

    346 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  31. That coworker who never stops refactoring

    346 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  32. The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories

    346 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  33. Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors

    346 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  34. Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931

    345 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  35. Patrick Collison's Questions

    345 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  36. Briar Project

    344 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  37. The Clean Network – United States Department of State

    344 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  38. Architecture of the Nintendo DS

    344 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  39. NSA Owns Everything (2015)

    344 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  40. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

    343 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  41. The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’

    343 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  42. Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference

    343 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  43. UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface

    342 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  44. The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis

    342 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  45. How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite

    342 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  46. A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32

    342 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  47. Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

    341 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  48. Hacking Portable Air Conditioners

    341 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  49. Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)

    341 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  50. Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

    341 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  51. Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

    340 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  52. Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?

    340 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  53. Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

    339 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  54. A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects

    339 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  55. Citibank's $900M Blunder

    338 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  56. Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

    338 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  57. OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

    338 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  58. Life Is Short (2016)

    337 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  59. The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all

    337 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  60. Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety

    336 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  61. Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says

    334 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  62. TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources

    333 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  63. Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming

    333 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  64. 27-inch iMac gets a major update

    331 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  65. MicroPython

    331 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  66. What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017)

    330 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  67. Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes

    329 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  68. AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

    329 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  69. Django 3.1

    328 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  70. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

    328 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  71. Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock

    327 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  72. Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home

    326 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  73. Mutt email client 25 years old

    324 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  74. Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny

    324 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  75. Creating a QR Code step by step

    323 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  76. Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras

    322 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  77. Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook

    320 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  78. How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company

    320 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  79. Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902

    320 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  80. Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip

    319 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  81. New Racket Language Website

    319 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  82. Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

    319 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  83. My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I

    318 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  84. Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps

    317 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  85. Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up

    317 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  86. Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017)

    317 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  87. Write Your Own Virtual Machine

    315 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  88. The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago

    314 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  89. Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

    314 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  90. Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea

    314 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  91. Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year

    314 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  92. TikTok and the Sorting Hat

    314 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  93. macOS Security and Privacy Guide

    313 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  94. Air pollution is worse than we thought

    312 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  95. Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands

    312 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  96. Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern

    312 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  97. Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children

    308 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  98. D3 6.0

    308 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  99. Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder

    307 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  100. 2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company

    306 points • comment • aug 18, 2020