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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Hi,thinking of creating an app to limit AWS account spend, need honest opinions

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  2. Virginia T. Norwood: The Mother of Landsat

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  3. Malcolm Gladwell: How I Rediscovered Religion

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  4. Former Producer: Why I’m now leaving MSNBC

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  5. The Last of the Zoroastrians

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

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

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  7. Show HN: Speechtext.ai – Automated Transcription Service with Human Accuracy

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  8. Ask HN: So how bout those Donald trump YouTube ads?

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  9. Facebook’s Ties to India’s Ruling Party Complicate Its Fight Against Hate Speech

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  10. Libraries and dependencies I'm willing to take

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  11. Roku Built Itself into a Major Gatekeeper in Premium Streaming

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  12. Ask HN: What processes/methods do you find helpful in your day to day work?

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  13. NSA discloses new Russian-made Drovorub malware targeting Linux

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  14. Black women with natural hairstyles are less likely to get job interviews

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  15. Huawei has limited options as U.S. sanctions cut off supply to smartphone chips

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  16. Evidence mounts that water exists in two liquid forms

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  17. Sony Vaio UX Micro PC (2006)

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  18. American Passports Are Useless Now

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  19. Russian GRU 85th GTsSS Deploys Previously Undisclosed Drovorub Malware [pdf]

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  20. Is Buy and Hold the Best Strategy in Crypto?

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  21. Robinhood Has Mastered the Stock Market Game. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  22. Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD Processors Vulnerable to New Side-Channel Attacks

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  23. How Edge Detection in Images Works

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  24. TikTok Plans to Challenge Trump Administration over Executive Order

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  25. Washington’s China Policy Has Lost Its Wei

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  26. Thousands protest in Berlin against coronavirus restrictions

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  27. Gender Is What You Make of It

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  28. Open Exosuit Project Helps Physically Challenged Walk

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  29. United States to Ban TikTok as Soon as Saturday

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  30. Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  31. Getting started with automatic differentiation in Julia with Zygote – train XOR

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  32. A fleet of modern drones visited flight deck of new British aircraft carrier

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  33. Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  34. How to Start a Shopify Store in Just 5 Simple Steps

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  35. The Rise of Mohammed Bin Salman

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  36. Timeline: TikTok hit global fame and now faces a US ban

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  37. Forces behind Toutiao: China’s content king

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  38. Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  39. Wow Create Automatically a Voice over for Your YouTube Video

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  40. Some Coronavirus Patients Are Reporting Symptoms That Last Months

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  41. Does new physics lurk inside living matter?

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  42. Private Property and Social Hierarchies as Concurrency Control Mechanisms

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  43. Mask Up and Shut Up

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  44. Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System (2008) [pdf]

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  45. White House scrapped a testing plan because virus hit mostly blue states

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  46. Launch HN: Batch (YC S20) – Replays for event-driven systems

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  47. Proof of stake – an unexpected catalyst for the next crypto bubble

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. OS13k – A Tiny Web Based OS and Game Engine

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  49. Volunteers Build First Nationwide Database of Police Records

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  50. Price collapsing – Audi e-tron Forum

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  51. They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  52. Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  53. Patreon as a Platform Is in Trouble (Important)

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  54. Continent-Size Pressure Waves Are Rippling Through Earth’s Atmosphere

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  55. Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  56. A landing page template that shows you how to write unignorable web copy

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  57. Increases in Fox News Viewership Reduced Compliance with Social Distancing

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  58. How to avoid Tax Legally

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  59. Ask HN: How do you handle your team getting exhausted with unwanted meetings?

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  60. What Windows 95 Changed

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  61. Show HN: Create procedural GIF animations in browser by defining f(x，y，time)→RGB

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  62. Scientists Turn Normal Red Bricks into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  63. Microsoft Flight Simulator pulls off a trick, mostly, with 2 petabytes

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  64. Uber, Lyft Must Convert Drivers into Employees, Judge Rules

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  65. How to Improve On-Call with Better Practices and Tools

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  66. The LG Wing is a “T” shaped, dual-screen smartphone

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  67. Apple didn't force in-app purchases on Wordpress

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  68. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women survivors of the atomic bombs

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Our YC W2021 video application. Do you get what we do?

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  70. Lebanon's Slaves, Lebanon's Shame

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  71. Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  72. Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  73. Rigid Manifesto (Agile for Enterprise)

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  74. The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  75. SpaceX Dragon Endeavour Splashdown in 4K

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  76. Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  77. Scientists Created AI to Analyze People's Dreams on a Scale

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  78. Neuralink Update [video]

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  79. Covid-19, T-cell immunity and vaccine industry

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  80. Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons (2003)

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  81. Angular Strict Mode

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  82. The basics of hiring Remote Employees

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  83. Sowing doubt: people around world receive mystery seed parcels

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  84. Movie theaters are on life support – how will the film industry adapt?

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  85. ‘Zombie’ Microbes Redefine Life’s Energy Limits

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  86. State Department: We're responsible for Russian, Iranian text message campaign

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  87. Why Do Solar Farms Keep Killing Birds? Call the AI Bird Watcher

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  88. How the Cortex and Thanos projects collaborate to make scaling Prometheus better

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  89. Marie Tharp’s maps revolutionized our knowledge of the seafloor

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  90. ByteDance in talks with India’s Reliance for investment in TikTok

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  91. Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl's Radiation Free

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  92. The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  93. With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  94. Drand: A production-grade, publicly verifiable randomness beacon

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  95. Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  96. Urban Exiles Are Fueling a Suburban Housing Boom Across the U.S.

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  97. Who says a woman can’t be gangsta? Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  98. Is the PC the real next gen winner?

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  99. When Will IoT Become a National Security Issue?

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  100. Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020