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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  2. ‘Quantum secret sharing’ scheme allows 10 parties to communicate securely

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  3. Uber and Lyft Shutting Down in California

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  4. Genode OS Framework 20.08

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  5. Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other – AIER

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  6. Google Launches Nearby Share for Android

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  7. Nobel Noblemen

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  8. Experian admits to giving a “fraudster” a database with records of 24mln people

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  9. What Makes Jio Different?

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  10. Airbnb Confidentially Files for IPO

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  11. Scientists see signs of lasting immunity to Covid-19 even after mild infections

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  12. Show HN: I'm building a cloud cost tool for Terraform

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  13. Apple compares Epic Games to shoplifters in bizarre lawsuit response

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  14. Rumor: Pixel 5 is slower than the Pixel 4, has same camera as the Pixel 2

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  15. Atari Transputer Workstation

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  16. Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  17. New fossil of a 5-m ichthyosaur contains remains of a 4-m thalattosaur

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  18. The Next Big Language (2007)

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  19. Who invented the wheel and how did they do it

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  20. A Queer Indigenous Professor Who Died of Covid-19 Didn’t Exist

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  21. A quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during the pandemic, CDC says

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  22. TikTok – How the White House Helped U.S. Investors to Raid a Chinese Company

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  23. Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  24. Show HN: A tool for editing, optimizing and converting SVG files to JSX or PNG

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  25. Back when software was a craft

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  26. Understanding PurpleAir vs. AirNow.gov Measurements of Wood Smoke Pollution

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  27. Apple claims Epic asked for a ‘special deal’ for Fortnite payments

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  28. I got GPT-3 to predict the timeline of the pandemic

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  29. Analogies in Product Management

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  30. War on fat – how I lost 20 kilos by changing my eating habits

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  31. Objective data doesn't go deep enough to engender trust

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  32. Tuscany's medieval 'wine windows' have reopened

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  33. Transparent Public Toilets

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  34. Matt Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More [pdf]

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  35. Terrorism Experts Say QAnon Conspiracy Theory a Threat to National Security

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  36. Apple Has Reportedly Expressed 'Serious Interest' in Purchasing TikTok

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  37. Trump appointees short-circuited grid modernization

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  38. MIT's 'Implosion Fabrication' Shrinks Objects to Create Nanoscale Versions

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  39. Woz's 70th Birthday Party (Live)

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  40. California: Tell Senator That Blockchain-Based Immunity Passports Are a Bad Idea

    6 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  41. The Washington Post Releases U.S. Climate Data on GitHub

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  42. The Wikipedia War over Kamala Harris's Race

    6 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  43. Show HN: The Bear minimum – Building a super simple blog with Bear.app

    6 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  44. Nigerian ride-hailing bus service startup secures pre-seed investment

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  45. Twitter warns Bitcoin scam security breach could lead to $250M FTC fine

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  46. US offers $10M bounty on hackers meddling in the presidential election

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  47. Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to disrupt philanthropy has a race problem

    6 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  48. Ask HN: What are the best pre-launch landing pages you've stumbled upon?

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  49. Interview with TikTok Deep Faker Jesse Richards

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  50. Estimating True Infections

    6 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  51. Phone camera-based vital signs monitoring

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  52. How Academic ‘Blacklists’ Impede Serious Work on Climate Science

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  53. A Diagnosis (2014)

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  54. Six Tools for Clearer Communication

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  55. Twitter Banned Unity2020 – A New Movement

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  56. Why Microsoft Wants TikTok

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  57. During the pandemic a digital crimewave has flooded the internet

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  58. Ask HN: What is the fastest distro to boot Raspberry Pi in full screen Chromium?

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  59. The Business of Data

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  60. Why Upgrade PostgreSQL?

    6 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  61. 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  62. US warplane approaches Shanghai as tensions remain high amid consulate closures

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  63. New Zealand back into Covid lockdown

    6 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  64. SSH-lockbox: Personal centralised SSH key deployment to multiple boxes (and Git

    6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  65. From Russia with Love: How ClickHouse Saved Our Data

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  66. In the 75 years since Hiroshima, nuclear testing has killed untold thousands

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  67. The Lesson Americans Never Learn

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  68. The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  69. Apple Suspends Fortnite Maker Epic Games’ App Store Account

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  70. Real-time rendering of water caustics

    6 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  71. Bogus pyramids: Learning methods, Maslow and Bloom

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  72. This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  73. Sudon't

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  74. US Attorney charges against Joseph Sullivan for alleged cover-up of Uber hack

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  75. New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  76. FAA OKs Amazon's Delivery Drone

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  77. Why You're Still Not CEO

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  78. Show HN: ML Model Recognizes Sketch as you draw it

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  79. The mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  80. Facebook Bets Big on Future of NYC, and Offices, with New Lease

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  81. `content-visibility`: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  82. Century-old vaccine limits Covid spread, so bring it back, urge Israeli experts

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  83. From Head to Toe in the Ancient Maya World

    6 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  84. Economics Is a Disgrace

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  85. 3D printed terra cotta tiles restore devastated coral reefs

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  86. Show HN: One-Shot Recognition of Manufacturing Defects in Steel Surfaces

    6 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  87. Show HN: bsv – maximum performance data processing

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  88. Portmaster

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  89. Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  90. SpaceX: Starlink satellte production now 120 per month

    6 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  91. VCBrags did one last thing before deleting their account

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  92. Show HN: Vs Graphs. Visually compare products and more

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  93. Psychedelic Therapy Raises $30M Needed for FDA Approval

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  94. Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  95. Facebook removes troll network posing as Black Trump supporters

    6 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  96. Scientists Say Lithium Should Be Added to Drinking Water to Prevent Suicides

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  97. Ask HN: What kind of profitable business you can create with only $10K USD?

    6 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  98. Odds of Catching Covid on a Plane Are Slim

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  99. Neuralink Progress Update

    6 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  100. Three new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond

    6 points • comment • aug 03, 2020