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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Ask HN: What Alternative to StackOverflow?

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  2. The Haunted House – Privacy on Google Street View

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  3. Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom – Ted Chiang

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  4. Charty for WhatsApp – Visualize WhatsApp chats

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  5. Coca-Cola Using Hyperledger and Ethereum

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  6. British Airways Entertainment System Chat App Crash (2019)

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  7. Salesforce Notifies Some Staff of Job Cuts

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  8. Some People Get Covid-19 and Never Feel a Thing: Why?

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  9. What if everyone had an air-mile allowance?

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  10. Fortnite Introduces Direct Payment Option on iOS Despite AppStore Guidelines

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  11. Paul Buchheit: A Possible Third Solution to End the Pandemic

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  12. GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  13. Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  14. Beyond jsonb: a generalized, unstructured data type for Postgres

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  15. Show HN: The Tree Table is a portable table that mounts on a tree's trunk.

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  16. Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results

    16 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  17. The Life-Saving Car Technology No One Wants

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  18. A brief introduction to observational entropy

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  19. I Got Covid-19 in March and Never Got Better

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  20. Zuckerberg Denounces Apple's Monopolistic “Stranglehold” on Your iPhone

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  21. Jobs to Be Done Framework Is More Useful Than Personas

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  22. Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  23. Show HN: DrugSheet – Keep up with the clinical trials on Covid-19

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  24. NYC desperately needs its billionaires

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  25. Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  26. New Trump Rule Could Create ‘Bomb Trains,’ Environmentalists Say

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  27. Show HN: Unicorn Valley-Platform for crowdsourcing satirical/dumb startup ideas

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  28. Supply chain analysis of iPhone 5c cases and the pencil marks hidden inside them

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  29. Wave Function Collapse in Clojure

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  30. World’s first COVID19 reinfected patient

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  31. Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  32. Rust-Style Futures in C

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  33. N.Y. Schools Can Reopen, Cuomo Says, in Contrast with Much of U.S.

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  34. The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  35. Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  36. The Disaster Poet

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  37. Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  38. Facebook Bans Anarchist “Center for a Stateless Society”

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  39. Let’s do Befunge-93 (2014)

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  40. Netflix, Accused of Sexualizing Girls, Pulls Artwork for ‘Cuties’

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  41. Apple threatens to boot Epic–including Unreal Engine–off Mac and iOS

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  42. Create unique long URL's out of A's

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  43. Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  44. 2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Be in Trouble (2012)

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  45. Literary Machines (1987) [pdf]

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  46. How Nat Traversal Works

    16 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  47. Tools You Should Know as a Cybersecurity Engineer

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  48. U.S. to Act on China Software Beyond TikTok, Pompeo Says

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  49. New York Times ordered 59M publishing assets on a laptop using Go

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  50. Japan plans new coal powerplants

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  51. Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  52. America Never Learns the Limits of Bootstrapping

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  53. Fortnite Creator Sues Apple and Google After Ban from App Stores

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  54. QAnon Was a Theory on a Message Board. Now It’s Headed to Congress

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  55. TSMC to build 2nm fab in Hsinchu

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  56. Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  57. Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  58. Chadwick Boseman, star of ‘Black Panther’, dies of cancer at 43

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  59. Average Power: A Cautionary Note [pdf]

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  60. Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  61. Ask HN: How can we solve politics?

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  62. Show HN: Kiel – Minimalist Kotlin DSL for RecyclerView.Adapter

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  63. Facebook is not worth $33B (2010)

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  64. Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  65. Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  66. F.lux is no longer available here (2015)

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  67. Berlin reports rise in fatalities as new bike lanes fail to keep cyclists safe

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  68. Researchers have invented a new way to thwart facial recognition

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  69. Ergodicity Economics: A Primer

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  70. Show HN: Avatarz – A Library of 3D Avatars

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  71. RFC 188, by Damian Conway: Objects: Private keys and methods

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  72. Dynamic branch prediction using neural networks (2001)

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  73. How to Pick a Quack: Data

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  74. No Bathroom Relief in Sight for Thousands Living on the Street

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  75. Interactive Visualizations of Why Eigenvectors Matter

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  76. Show HN: I built a mini Social Blade on top of Google Sheets

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  77. How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – user data

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  78. Browse the Web with Your Voice

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  79. High-resolution electromagnetic calorimetry with noble liquids (1998)

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  80. Dijkstra on Haskell

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  81. Japan Is Running Diagnostic Tests on Its First Real Gundam

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  82. Richard Stallman: A Discussion on Freedom, Privacy and Cryptocurrencies

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  83. Palantir targeting 3 class voting structure giving founders perpetual control

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  84. When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  85. Understand HTTP3 in 5 Minutes

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  86. A student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of HN

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  87. TikTok Chief Executive Kevin Mayer Resigns

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  88. We Failed with ProductHunt Launch

    15 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  89. “We want Google to be the third half of your brain.” – Sergey Brin

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  90. How to get police out of schools

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  91. Why not RocksDB for streaming storage?

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  92. Linux Commands frequently used by Sysadmins – Part 2

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  93. The Truth about Vaccines

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  94. NYC is dead forever – here's why

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  95. Software engineering lessons from the flight deck

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  96. Dating App Scams

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  97. Top Biofuel Crops

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  98. The Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

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

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  100. MicroCOVID Project, Micromorts but for Covid

    15 points • comment • aug 30, 2020