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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Stop Panicking about the Post Office

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  2. Bill Gates advocates for stopping end-to-end encryption

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  3. The neuroscience of getting and staying motivated (EPFL)

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  4. How will the world vaccinate seven billion?

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  5. The Rise of Chick-Fil-A

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  6. The Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who cant speak Scots

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  7. 300k cargo ship workers still trapped at sea by the coronavirus pandemic

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  8. I Invented the iPhone in 1977

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  9. Penguin’s Moonlit Maze – The Dawn of Nation-State Digital Espionage (2017) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  10. Mozilla extends Firefox search deal with Google

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  11. Ask HN: What is your strategy to handle recruiters asking for salary?

    15 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  12. Git Guide: Zero to Rebase

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  13. Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares with Authorities in the US

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  14. How Much Do Countries Spend on Healthcare Compared to the Military?

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  15. Trump demands cut of TikTok sale fee

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  16. We Can Do Better Than SQL (2019)

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  17. A Tech Star Blackmailed

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  18. Parsing: A Timeline (2014)

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  19. Eviction Moratorium Poses Nightmare Scenario for Small Landlord

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  20. Costco's brilliant, contrarian and successful business model highlights

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  21. A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. This grad student solved it in days

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  22. Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  23. Considerations for Updating the Bootloader Over-the-Air (OTA)

    15 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  24. Uchronia: An Alternate History List

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  25. Show HN: A device I built to improve my sleep

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  26. Amazon launches Braket quantum computing service in general availability

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  27. Docker install and upgrade guide – CentOS and Ubuntu

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  28. Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders at All

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  29. Luminar to go public in $3.4B merger

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  30. Dené–Yeniseian Languages

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  31. The phone that almost ruined my social life

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  32. Hacktoberfest 2020! Yay!

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  33. Facebook is now merging instagram and messenger chats into one service

    14 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  34. Musk: ‘China rocks’ while the U.S. is full of ‘complacency and entitlement’

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  35. New York Attorney General seeks to dissolve NRA

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  36. Fed Unanimously Approves Shift on Inflation Goal, Ushering in Era of Low Rates

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  37. Knurling-Rs Announcement

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  38. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  39. The Joel Test for Software Teams is 20 years old this weekend

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  40. Chenjiandongx/oscar: Next generation building tool for nothing

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  41. Trump Considering Ban on Alibaba

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  42. Locals rediscover resorts absent of foreign tourists

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  43. Fascism is back. Blame the Internet

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  44. Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  45. The Linux Foundation in 2020 Helps Serial GPL Violators Get Away with It

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  46. Ask HN: Advice for Dealing with Crippling Procrastination?

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  47. Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they cause

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. Bridges 2020 Virtual Conference

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  49. ‘Zoom is fine, but it can’t match being back in the office’

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  50. An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  51. Show HN: Auto Generate REST API Client from Flask

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  52. Epic Games introduces direct payments on iOS (routing around iOS store payments)

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  53. A network-based explanation of why most Covid-19 infection curves are linear

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  54. Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  55. Nepalese journalist who reported on Chinese encroachment in Nepal found dead

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  56. A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  57. China’s Dangerous Taiwan Temptation

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  58. A majority of Americans think social media sites are politically biased

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Why is Enterprise software UX so bad compared to Consumer Software?

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  60. Exxon Mobil replaced by a software stock after 92 years in the Dow

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

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

    14 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  62. Newly declassified footage of the most powerful nuclear test ever

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  63. Children with no Covid-19 symptoms may shed virus for weeks

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  64. Republicans Aid Kanye West’s Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  65. Don't Name Classes After Patterns. Mostly

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  66. The “Full Stack Professor” Who Left Academia for the Internet

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  67. Pataphysical Software: Ridiculous Solutions for Imaginary Problems [pdf]

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  68. The daydream that never stops (2017)

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  69. U.S. Tech Stocks Are Now Worth Over $9T, Eclipsing Entire European Stock Market

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  70. Trinity Cube (2015)

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  71. Jeff Bezos Becomes the First Person Ever Worth $200B

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  72. Rust-Style Futures in C

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  73. 101 GDPR Complaints on EU-US data transfers filed

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  74. Judge Agrees to End Paramount Consent Decrees

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  75. The Dreamup: A codeless alternative to the Web

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  76. Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  77. Tesla fights back against owners hacking their cars to unlock performance boost

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  78. A Year of 379 Computer Days

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  79. Show HN: PayPal emailed me today about 2001 request

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  80. Amazon Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  81. News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple over App Store Terms

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  82. Trump banning TikTok/WeChat from operating in 45 days if not sold by companies

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  83. (Visualization)What caused 1 Million U.S. wildfires over the last 30 years?

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  84. 'Everybody’s entitled to their opinion – but not their own facts'

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  85. Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Engineers: Introduction

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  86. Why it's so hard to find dumbbells in the US

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  87. Amazon Wins FAA Approval for Drone Fleet

    13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  88. Train PyTorch models with differential privacy

    13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  89. Google has lost sight of what made Chrome a good browser

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  90. Burning laptops and flooded homes: Courts find Amazon liable for faulty products

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  91. Convicted of On-Line Sex Crimes, but with No Victims

    13 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  92. The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  93. The challenges of hydrogen for airliners, part 2: ecosystem

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  94. 235M Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Users Exposed in Data Leak

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  95. The Peloponnesian War officially ended in 1996

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  96. Modelling Business Logic as Data

    13 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  97. Apple: We Won’t Make an Exception (Fortnite)

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  98. Israel military detects 6 blasts, each 11 seconds apart, before Beirut explosion

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  99. Covid-19 signals the end of the American era

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  100. Show HN: Sizle.io – React Presentation Builder

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2020