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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Major Australian ISP down over cyber attack

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  2. Shut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable for Aiding Trafficking

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  3. Neopixel LED Face Mask

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  4. Laser Beams Reflected Between Earth and Moon

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  5. How A Plan to Save the US Power System Disappeared

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  6. How I Managed to Switch from Windows to Linux over the Years

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  7. Russian Charged with Trying to Recruit Employee to Plant Malware in US Company

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  8. Ask HN: How to spend your day when you are searching for the next idea?

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  9. We need better evidence on non-drug interventions for Covid-19

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  10. Make Android Self-Hosting

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  11. What's the most important US law that seemed insignificant when passed?

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  12. Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  13. Researchers document first case of Covid-19 reinfection

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  14. HCQ and azithromycin found to increase coronavirus deaths by 27%

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  15. Glossary of Collective Nouns by Subject

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  16. Show HN: Not happy with your politician? Give him feedback

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  17. Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  18. NeurIPS Paper Reviews Released, Controversies Resurface

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  19. World's thinnest (2mm) mechanical watch that can be used

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  20. Ask HN: I was invited to speak at a computer museum. What should I tell them?

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  21. Flexible OLED Display in Action

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  22. Generating nice callgraphs, part II

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  23. The Unraveling of America

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  24. Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  25. Virgin Galactic debuts design of future Mach 3 high-speed aircraft

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  26. Google Pixel 4a: Everything you need to know

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  27. The $300M button and other lessons

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  28. DARPA AlphaDogfight Finals: AI agents compete to face a human F-16 pilot

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  29. Dolphins Have Hidden Fingers. So Do Seals. These Sea Creatures Did Not

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  30. Using the Sun to gravitationally lens an exoplanet

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  31. Airbnb has filed confidential IPO paperwork

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  32. The Unraveling of the American Era

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  33. Thank You, Geoff

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  34. Ask HN: Getting foot in door as a Software Engineering Student

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  35. Power And Performance Optimization At 7/5/3nm

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  36. Unredacted suit shows Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  37. Tom Chi (Google-X): How to Address Our Carbon Debt to Heal the Planet

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  38. Tesla’s Relentless Innovation Brought 13 Improvements to the Octovalve in 3 Mo

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  39. How We Made Flash Gordon – By Brian Blessed and Mike Hodges

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  40. Rats nest:Visiting researcher from China at UCLA is arrested

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  41. How can Google Meet improve? Bring notes

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  42. In Utah, These Entrepreneurs Are Creating Their Own Version of Eden

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  43. For Facebook, weakening India’s democracy is just the cost of business

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  44. Chinese Tech Landscape Overview [pdf]

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  45. How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  46. Hong Kong newspaper raided, publisher Jimmy Lai detained under new law

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  47. The Air Force’s Latest GPS Alternative: Earth’s Magnetic Fields

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  48. Sysadmin Infographic

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  49. What Is Hall Effect?

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  50. TikTok: Pompeo says Trump to crack down on Chinese software in coming days

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  51. Bret Victor the Future of Programming

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  52. TikTok – The end of all human life

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  53. NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise soldiers

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  54. Python scylla-driver: how we unleashed the Scylla monster’s performance

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  55. No longer looking for shortcuts

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  56. Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  57. Most Research in Deep Learning Is a Total Waste of Time – Jeremy Howard

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  58. One Man’s Unsolicited Opinion on the WordPress 5.6 All-Women Release Squad

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

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

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  60. Opacus: A library that enables training PyTorch models with differential privacy

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  61. Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  62. GitHub Audio

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Why is windows 10 atrociously slow?

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  64. Retro Gaming's Misogyny Is Brought to Light After a Violent Tragedy

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  65. Muse – Your Tool for Thought

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  66. Fitbit launches a $330 Apple Watch competitor

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  67. Canadian government sides with telecoms in appeal of CRTC’s lower wholesale rate

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  68. Show HN: Cover Faces from Protest Photos

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  69. Human genes renamed to prevent autoconversion to dates by Microsoft Excel

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  70. Oculus Connect is now ‘Facebook Connect,’ and it’s happening September 16th

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  71. Why America Is Afraid of TikTok

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  72. Startups Braced for the Worst. The Worst Never Came

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  73. Error: Uglifyjs is deprecated – use uglify-JS instead

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  74. China Intervenes in TikTok Deal

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  75. SKAdNetwork and iOS 14 Privacy Changes

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  76. Instagram wants suspected bot accounts to provide government IDs

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  77. The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  78. Show HN: Open AI's GPT-3 generates prose inspired by “Infinite Jest”

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  79. “Ily” – a word that qualifies–or adverbs–an adverb

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  80. All the Covid safety rules are little more than theater

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  81. Why Evangelicals voted for Trump: religious persecution

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  82. SSH Considered Harmful – Why You Should Be Using Persistent Sessions

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  83. Do Software Code Smell Checkers Smell Themselves?: A Self Reflection

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  84. Facebook, the PR Firm

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  85. A Raspberry Pi 4 Performs Against Intel's Latest Celeron, Pentium CPUs

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  86. Ask HN: Alternatives to Calendly that you know or use?

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  87. Tech Companies Report Profits as 40M Americans Face Evictions

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  88. Low-code platforms and Full-code developers – a match made in hell?

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  89. President Trump website 404 page displays Joe Biden lost

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  90. Don't let your children use TikTok, former MI6 intelligence chief urges

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  91. Covid-19 Transmits in Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  92. Software developers: How plans to automate coding could mean big changes ahead

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  93. The benefits of User Personas when designing the ultimate User Experience

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  94. Tips to learn Git (version control)

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  95. Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written by American in Mangled English

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  96. Stealing Keys from the Sound of the Lock

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  97. Suomi: Like Hacker News, but for Finns written in elixir

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  98. Quantify the ventilation rate of an indoor space using an affordable CO2 monitor

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  99. Startupschool Build Sprint Panic

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  100. Implementing Vulkan-capable LibreOffice user interface using the Skia library

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2020