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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Drawn-on-skin electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  2. False Covid-19 claims taken down by Facebook and Twitter

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  3. Vaccine Nationalism Makes a Deadly Disease Even Worse

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  4. Converting boolean-logic decision trees to finite state machines

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  5. Time to forget global tipping points (2013)

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  6. Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  7. Show HN: Typelit.io – Improve your touch typing by practicing on classic books

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  8. Versioned Finite State Machines in Postgres

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  9. People who recover from Covid-19 don’t need to be retested for 3 months says CDC

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  10. An OSS community that converts cars to electric. Part 3: Johannes Huebner

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  11. Ask HN: Why did Apple deprecate OpenGL and OpenCL?

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  12. Oracle is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok’s US business

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  13. Tech worker quarantined at home builds co-working space in Second Life

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  14. Mpemba effect: what conditions make hot water freeze faster than cold water?

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  15. Firefox adds protections against redirect tracking

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  16. Pineapples could be key to treating the new coronavirus

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  17. Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  18. Why has the UK done so badly on Covid-19? There are still no simple answers

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  19. Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote?

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  20. Coronavirus creeps into US mink farms, “unusually large numbers” dead

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  21. Secure Coding Done Right

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  22. Appeals court grants Uber and Lyft temporary reprieve after threats to shut down

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  23. Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  24. Ray Dalio: Changing World Order, Big Cycle of the US & the Dollar Ch4 Pt1

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  25. Syria Says Donald Trump Stealing Its Oil, After U.S. Company Makes Deal to Drill

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  26. Malicious Chinese SDK in 1,200 iOS Apps with Billions of Installs

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  27. The US is building a new Great Firewall

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  28. A collection of resources on wait-free and lock-free programming

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  29. TikTok owners show true colors with communist flag

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  30. The Birth of the USPS and the Politics of Postal Reform

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  31. What RN is missing in order to be the default framework to build apps

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  32. Google’s Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Exactly What the Market Needs

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  33. China and Russia ditch dollar in move towards ‘financial alliance’

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  34. Starship SN5 150m Hop official video

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  35. Enabling the Stripe and Lyft Platforms Through Modern Safety Science

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  36. Ask HN: Can we get a black bar in memoriam of Turing Award winner Frances Allen?

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  37. More data, but still confusion over how much children spread SARS-CoV-2

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  38. LG officially announces its battery-powered air purifier mask

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  39. Bill Gates invests $78M in satellite antenna firm Kymeta

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  40. State Department Announces Great Firewall for the US

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  41. Video shows San Jose police tasing, beating couple after hotel birthday party

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  42. Show HN: Instant web chat inside your LAN

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  43. Air India repatriation flight crash-lands, at least 17 killed

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  44. SARS-CoV-2 detected in waste waters in Barcelona on March 12, 2019

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  45. Ask HN: What would happen if we prevented the creation of billionaires?

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  46. A Modular Underscore.js

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  47. A case against “Platform Teams”

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  48. Migrating big astronomy data to the cloud

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  49. Slack on Slack: Delivering impactful internal products

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  50. How Did It Happen? America’s Unique Failure to Control the Virus

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  51. Ask HN: Best public-facing issue trackers?

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  52. OnePlus is preloading its phones with Facebook bloatware

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  53. Brain-to-Body Mass Ratio

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  54. TCP window scaling, timestamps and SACK

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  55. Amazon Looks at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores into Fulfillment Centers

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  56. The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  57. Paul Thurrott: Microsoft shouldn’t buy the US operations of TikTok

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  58. When DRY Doesn’t Work, Go Wet

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  59. Y Combinator CEO Faces the Crisis and His Critics

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  60. Show HN: Rate Your Politicians and Compare Candidates

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  61. Unreal Engine on iOS and Mac in Jeopardy

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  62. Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  63. Salesforce lays off 1000-2000

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  64. Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream – how to take power back

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  65. How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  66. World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

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

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  68. ASCII Shader Made in Unity

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  69. Diatom

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  70. Apple’s Best Times Are Behind It. For Real This Time

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  71. The Ambiguous Agassiz

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  72. Biogen conference likely led to 20k Covid-19 cases in Boston area

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  73. Ventilation should be part of the conversation on reopenings. Why isn’t it?

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  74. The End of Politics

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  75. Will This Old Financial Tool Transform Tech Investing?

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  76. Amazon Support vs Google Support

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  77. Show HN: Problem Pad – Discover Problems That Need Solving

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

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

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  79. Airbnb plans to confidentially file for IPO this month

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  80. Israel to Establish Ties with Arab Neighbor and Suspend Annexation

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  81. How Debian Packaging Works

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  82. The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  83. Saturn's Hexagon

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  84. How we used Open Data APIs to go from $0 to $2000 MRR within weeks

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  85. While Big Tech Prospers, an Eviction Crisis Looms Next Door

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  86. Concurrent Pascal-S

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  87. Police: Rioters trapped officers in burning building with rebar and concrete

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  88. Web Scraping for Business -Leverage the Power of Data

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  89. Joint NBA and NBPA Statement

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  90. As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  91. Up to 75% of cyberattacks originate from US soil, says top Moscow security chief

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  92. An excerpt from Part 2 of “Unreported Truths” – a brief history of lockdowns

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  93. Alan Kay's answer to What is it like to be an Apple Fellow?

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  94. In San Diego, ‘Smart’ Streetlights Spark Surveillance Reform

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  95. When the US dollar is worth nothing will Utah lead with a new American currency?

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  96. Show HN: Milvus – An open-source vector similarity search engine

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  97. Mao's Factories in Cold War China

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  98. Homemade tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike (2017)

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  99. Finding the Best 64-bit Simulation PRNG

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  100. Show HN: Cointop, coin tracking for hackers

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020