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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Ham radio is not dying, it's evolving

    305 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  2. Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

    305 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  3. Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore

    304 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  4. Why is this idiot running my engineering org?

    302 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  5. Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research

    301 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  6. Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches

    300 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  7. Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?

    300 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  8. Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious

    299 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  9. Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish

    299 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  10. Report: Most Americans have no real choice in internet providers

    298 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  11. The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary

    298 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  12. Compiler Explorer

    298 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  13. Autodesk criticised by architects

    298 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  14. RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users

    298 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  15. Ask HN: How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?

    298 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  16. Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams

    297 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  17. Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript

    296 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  18. New 50-metre deep crater opens up in Arctic tundra

    296 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  19. The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)

    296 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  20. On All That Fuckery

    295 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  21. Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?

    294 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk

    293 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  23. Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript

    293 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  24. Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business

    293 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  25. Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers

    293 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  26. Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

    292 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  27. Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission?

    291 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  28. The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets

    289 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  29. Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets

    289 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  30. Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle

    288 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  31. Trump says he is considering pardon for Edward Snowden

    288 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  32. Low latency tuning guide

    287 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  33. Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students

    286 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  34. That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think

    286 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  35. USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System

    286 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  36. Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light

    286 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  37. Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative

    284 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  38. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020

    284 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  39. China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership

    283 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  40. Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

    283 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  41. Raise Less Money

    283 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  42. Motivation – Keli Language

    283 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  43. NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver

    282 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  44. College Notebook of Isaac Newton

    281 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  45. Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019

    281 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  46. Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

    280 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  47. Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML

    279 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  48. I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF

    279 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  49. SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition

    279 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  50. Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync

    278 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  51. The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility

    278 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  52. Graphical Linear Algebra

    277 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  53. People work longer and different hours under lockdown

    276 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  54. 'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader

    276 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  55. Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone

    276 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  56. The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet

    274 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  57. Oh Shit, Git?

    274 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  58. Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi

    274 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  59. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

    272 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  60. Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)

    272 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  61. Pure Skill Minesweeper

    271 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  62. Unicode in five minutes (2013)

    271 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  63. Mastodon 3.2

    271 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  64. Chat Bubble Blindness

    270 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  65. Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?

    270 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  66. A Database of Historical Cookbooks

    270 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  67. Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo

    268 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  68. First Impressions of Rust

    268 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  69. Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users

    267 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  70. Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage

    267 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  71. Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

    267 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  72. Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)

    266 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  73. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years

    266 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  74. Blender 2.90

    266 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  75. EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership

    266 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  76. Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health

    265 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  77. Neuralink Progress Update [video]

    265 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  78. Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial

    265 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  79. Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters

    264 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  80. One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

    263 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  81. Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

    263 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  82. A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)

    263 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  83. Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)

    263 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  84. The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut

    263 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  85. Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

    261 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  86. Navy F/A-18 squadron commander's take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot

    261 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  87. Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication

    261 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  88. SQLite 3.33

    261 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  89. Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

    260 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  90. Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

    260 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  91. Julia 1.5 Highlights

    260 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  92. Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish

    259 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  93. Local-first software (2019)

    259 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  94. One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever

    258 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  95. Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts

    257 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  96. Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts

    257 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  97. Game Design Curriculum

    256 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  98. Infinity: open-source search engine

    256 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  99. Adding a fiber link to my home network

    256 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  100. Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js

    255 points • comment • aug 16, 2020