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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  2. Death of a Forgotten Anomaly

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  3. Show HN: 33% Memory Reduction by Reordering Struct Fields

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  4. Martin Fowler – Kinesis Advantage2 – Review after three years of use

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  5. Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to your side projects?

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  6. A Princess makes Google remove ~200 links to her rant about killing muslims

    13 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  7. Automated mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer’s apps

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  8. Trump accuses 'deep state' FDA of slowing vaccine development

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  9. Amazon given go ahead to launch thousands of satellites

    13 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  10. Show HN: Vigyaa Anonymous – A safe place to write and read anonymously

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  11. A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  12. Show HN: UberCheats: a Chrome Extension to detect if UberEats is underpaying you

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  13. Ask HN: Are companies averse to hiring remote developers from the Bay Area?

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  14. Female-led countries had half as many Covid deaths as those with male leaders

    13 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  15. Popular fertility app shared data without user consent, researchers say

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  16. The Absurd (Lack of) Support for Android Developers

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  17. Apple threatens to cutoff all Epic iOS and Mac developer accounts [pdf]

    13 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  18. Show HN: Melancholy Corner – an online vaporwave/lo-fi radio station

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  19. Police Want Your Smart Speaker–Here's Why

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  20. TikTok owners will relocate to London from Beijing, Sun newspaper says

    13 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  21. A data science approach to 138 years of congressional speeches

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  22. Two Strains of Polio Down, One to Go

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  23. Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  24. Turnitin and the Debate over Anti-Plagiarism Software (2014)

    13 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  25. Why do humans prefer to mate in private?

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  26. Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Dissuading Voting

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  27. We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  28. Show HN: Guestboard 2.0 – Our Alternative to FB Events – Now with Video Chat

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  29. German Court Suspends Driver for Adjusting Wiper Speed in Tesla Model 3

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  30. Ask HN: Overcoming Burnout / Imposter Syndrome

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  31. Jack: $10M to Dr. Ibram Kendi and the Center for Antiracist Research at BU

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  32. Reclaiming Becket: London’s great saint needs a reboot

    13 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  33. You Could Download Video Games from the Radio in the 1980s

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  34. Samsung 870 QVO SATA 2.5“ SSD 8TB

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  35. The Case for Adding 672M More Americans

    13 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  36. Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car–driver admits he was watching a movie

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  37. Gayl Jones is releasing her first novel in two decades

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  38. Why People Become Internet Trolls

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  39. Huawei: 5G Is About Capacity, Not Speed: One-on-one with CTO Paul Scanlan

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  40. Overcast’s latest beta update tells listeners which podcasts are tracking them

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  41. Japanese Wonder Weapons

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  42. Linus Torvalds: “I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry” (2018)

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  43. Helping people spot the spoofs: a URL experiment

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  44. Putin says Russia has approved 'world first' Covid-19 vaccine

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  45. The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  46. Lean HTTP Server for Gleam

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  47. Insurers are putting the lives of sick and disabled at risk during COVID-19

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  48. Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn't Be

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  49. Intel defends AVX-512 against critics who wish it to die a 'painful death'

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  50. Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  51. South China Morning Post – WeChat to Be Banned in US

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  52. Standing on the outside looking in: X-rays through glass

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  53. Threat to kill wild boar that stole nude bather's laptop prompts outcry

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  54. Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car–driver admits he was watching a movie

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  55. The Seduction of Bad Posts

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  56. The Rank Hypocrisy of a TikTok Ban

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  57. Bangalore Becomes 'Bengaluru' (2014)

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  58. Tackling Cancer Metastasis with Engineered Blood Platelets

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  59. GPT3 → Dataset → Task Model?

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  60. The Joy of Cryptography

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  61. Show HN: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  62. BMW's New Diamond Motorcycle Chain Never Needs Lube or Adjustment

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  63. APL is more French than English (1978)

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  64. Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  65. Book Summary: Why Nations Fail – Understanding why countries are rich or poor

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  66. The Early History of Smalltalk

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  67. Chemists efficiently synthesize natural anti-cancer compound cepafungin I

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  68. Google Play Music will begin shutting down in September

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  69. Why Peat-Free Gardening Is Essential for the Environment

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  70. Judging a Book by Its Cover: Protecting words, now and then

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  71. Apple lets China's WeChat bypass its rules, former app review chief claims

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  72. A simple telephony honeypot received 1.5M robocalls across 11 months

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  73. California under counted Covid-19 cases after TLS certificate expired

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  74. WireGuide VPN Protocol

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  75. Microsoft "mirrors" Android apps into Windows 10 with new Your Phone update

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  76. How Apple is bullying small developers

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  77. Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  78. Ask HN: How do you start getting into VC?

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  79. The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  80. Git Sucks, What Am I Doing Wrong?

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  81. Facebook Grants Researchers Access to Study 2020 Election

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  82. Show HN: Founderpath – Raise $10k-$1m in 72 hours, free revenue analytics

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  83. Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  84. How to learn higher math: An illustrated guide

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  85. NSF grant changes raise alarm about commitment to basic research

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  86. Ask HN: Sold any support contracts for open source?

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  87. The Subtle Tricks Shopping Sites Use to Make You Spend More

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  88. Paper Money with an Expiration Date

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  89. I wrote a technical book in under 200 hours

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  90. Let's not forget, Bill Gates hasn't always been the good guy

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  91. Don’t reconnect mailing machines, USPS tells plants. Tacoma does it anyway

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  92. Show HN: Transient – A tool for creating VMs for testing and development

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  93. Fairphone users can buy new camera without replacing the phone itself

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  94. The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  95. Facebook Abandoned Drilling Equipment Beneath the Ocean Floor

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  96. Manage Active Directory Objects with the New Windows Ad Provider for Terraform

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  97. Is this the best collection of Halo games yet?

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  98. Where do Business Mafias come from?

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  99. Debunking reports claiming Covid-19 definitely wasn’t made in a lab

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  100. Artificial Stupidity

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020