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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Libretro/RetroArch – Hacker vandalised buildbot and GitHub organization

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  2. Self-charging, thousand-year battery

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  3. Balaji Srinivasan's plan to save journalism

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  4. 8 Tips for Attending Virtual Conferences

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  5. What3words: The app that can save your life

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  6. Star Trek DS9's Take on Homelessness Is All Too Real

    11 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  7. Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (2019)

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  8. Did Fortnite just kill the App Store as we know it?

    11 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  9. Yield Curve

    11 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  10. Reports: “4K” Nintendo Switch revision slated for 2021 launch

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  11. Charter can charge online video sites for network connections, court rules

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  12. Strange Rhythms: On Rosemary Mayer’s 1971 diary

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  13. Exxon Mobil dropped from the Dow after 92 years, replaced by a software stock

    11 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  14. Clearview AI CEO: ‘over 2,400 police agencies’ are using its facial recognition

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  15. OneCoin Took in Billions. Then Its Leader Vanished

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  16. Nascar: The Science of Racing Safely

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  17. FDA ‘Grossly Misrepresented’ Blood Plasma Data, Scientists Say

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  18. Subdomain hack associated with a removed S3 bucket

    11 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  19. TypeScript adds support for Template String types

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  20. Spaceship Earth

    11 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  21. The Least Liked Programming Languages

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  22. Easy Trick to Reduce APK Size on Android

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  23. The Decolonial Atlas

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  24. IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Teams

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  25. Python daemon ate my syslog message

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  26. Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with Covid-19 containment measures

    11 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  27. Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability

    11 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  28. Gmail Down/Degraded Performance

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  29. A documentation system: tutorials / How tos / reference / explanation

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  30. Ongoing incident with compromised mod accounts

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  31. Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  32. WordPress claims Apple cut off updates to its free app because it wants 30%

    11 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  33. AMA with the Creator of Photopea

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  34. Hands-On WebAssembly: Try the Basics

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  35. In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  36. Ask HN: What're the advantages of becoming an Apache project?

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  37. Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI?

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  38. Performance Impact of Parallel Disk Access

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  39. Good Sales Emails by leading SaaS companies (100 great examples)

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  40. Show HN: Qew – a tiny queueing library written in TypeScript

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  41. Sumo Logic S-1

    11 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  42. Not a Monopoly

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  43. Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  44. Red: Improving Audio Quality with Redundancy

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  45. Word Mover's Embedding: Cheap WMD For Documents

    11 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  46. Epic Games just set an antitrust trap for Apple; Tim Cook walked right into it

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  47. The Terminal Jockey's Toolbelt

    11 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  48. Ask HN: Did obtaining an AWS Solutions Architect certification help you?

    11 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  49. Virgin Galactic reveals initial vehicle design for high speed travel

    11 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  50. Secret iPod

    11 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  51. USPS warns 46 states voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  52. My Favorite Robots

    11 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  53. The Matrix Was Intended to Be a Trans Story, Says Lilly Wachowski

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  54. Facebook Quietly Ends Racial Ad Profiling – Revue

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  55. Psychology, Price and Profit

    11 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  56. San Francisco flattened the curve early. Now, coronavirus cases are surging

    11 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  57. Arm rival SiFive raises $60M from SK Hynix, Aramco

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  58. First ever double hurricane could hit the Gulf of Mexico

    11 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  59. Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Machines

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  60. Show HN: Code Golf – Solve problems in the least number of characters

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  61. Texas Luring Jobs Away from California with Promises of Electricity

    11 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  62. Byteconf Flutter, a free live-streamed Flutter conference

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  63. Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic pain

    11 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  64. LibreSSL Documentation Status Update

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  65. Cultural Revolution

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  66. Election Cybersecurity: Preparing for the 2020 U.S. Elections

    11 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  67. A Bayesian Shops on Amazon

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  68. Swift type checking is undecidable

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  69. Charles Sanders Peirce and the first absolute measurement standard (2009)

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  70. If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. (2018)

    11 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  71. The CDC's Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  72. Patient-Led Research for Covid-19

    11 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  73. Trump executive order seeks to ban TikTok and WeChat in 45 days

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  74. Categories of Optics (2018)

    11 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  75. Comment Flagging on HN as of Late

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  76. How to (Actually) Change Someone’s Mind

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  77. S&P 500 Sets First Record Since February, Erasing Its Coronavirus Plunge

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  78. Open Amiga Sampler – New Amiga Hardware Announcement

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  79. A Future Without Aging with Aubrey de Gray

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  80. Experimental evidence supportive of the quantum DNA model

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  81. Ask HN: With Mozilla’s problems, should I be concerned about the future of Rust?

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  82. Is the White House Banning Fortnite and League of Legends?

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  83. Ask HN: Where are you moving to? (US only)

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  84. I want to contribute to your project, how do I start?

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  85. Most Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  86. Iranian hacker group becomes first known APT to weaponize DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  87. Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom (2016)

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  88. Chinese hackers have (allegedly) stolen Taiwan's chip designs, SDKs and source

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  89. Hopfield Networks Is All You Need

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  90. In a flash, a changed world

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  91. What to pack in your evacuation bag

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  92. Introduction to Terraform

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  93. Why Linux’s biggest ever kernel release is no big deal

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  94. How (Not) to Code a Finite State Machine (1988) [pdf]

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  95. Why Are So Many People on Capitol Hill Getting Infected?

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  96. Apple cuts off Wordpress app to get a cut of domain sales

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  97. Show HN: I built a simple, reliable, and affordable brand monitoring service

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  98. Libretro: “Our GitHub Libretro organization just got hacked”

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  99. Ask HN: Why is daily or n * daily deployment so popular?

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  100. The No-Money-Down Million Dollar Tech Stack

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2020