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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  2. Metasploit – A Walkthrough of the Powerful Exploitation Framework

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  3. Lucid Motors has ambitious plans to defy skeptics and take on Tesla

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  4. Revealed: MoD and UK’s most snr scientist weren’t consulted on £400m OneWeb deal

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  5. Axios on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  6. How to Pre-Sell a Product That Does Not yet Exist

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  7. Tesla shares rally for no reason

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  8. Trump says he will ban TikTok

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  9. Versioned HDF5

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  10. Admit It, You Do Laundry During Work Video Calls

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  11. Ask HN: What keeps you from writing a blog?

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  12. We Distort Probability

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  13. Infiltrating the network using a malicious ZigBee lightbulb

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  14. Fermi Estimates on Postgres Performance

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  15. The wrong way to filter sockets with BPF

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  16. Children who suffer violence or trauma age faster, study finds

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  17. WhatsApp Schools in Lebanon

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  18. Books that shaped my Journey into Hardware Development

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  19. CEO Secrets: ‘What I learned from leaders’ behaviour off-camera’

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  20. Ask HN: At what time do you go to bed / get up?

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  21. Robotic Manipulation Fall 2020

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  22. Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  23. State of Julia (JuliaCon 2020)

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  24. Coronavirus Chased Off Tourists–Lots of Locals Don’t Want Them Flocking Back

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  25. How do I install a Python command line tool or script? (hint: pipx)

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  26. Setup a Forever Free Ad Blocking WireGuard VPN Server W PiHole in the Cloud Free

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  27. The Anti-Capitalist Software License

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  28. Liquid information flow control [pdf]

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

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

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  30. Data Visualization Tips

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  31. The Bit Player – Documentary about Claude Shannon

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  32. Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  33. Show HN: Meet Transcript – Record Google Meet Caption & Screenshot to Google Doc

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  34. 998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  35. The Least Liked Programming Languages

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  36. Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  37. The Only Way to Know What Customers Want Is to Release Your Product

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  38. When You Can't Measure It, You Won't Fix It

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  39. How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources (JavaScript and CSS) in WordPress

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  40. Ask HN: Beginner non-trivial transpiler projects to learn from?

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  41. One-third of people with Covid-19 lie about their symptoms, study shows

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  42. Ask HN: What is a rational business model for a digital society?

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  43. Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  44. Nevada lab confirms first coronavirus reinfection in the US

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  45. Larry King Got Duped into Starring in Chinese Propaganda

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  46. Evolution of SoundCloud’s Architecture

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  47. Lazarus (a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE)

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  48. A word in your ear: why the rise of audiobooks is a story worth celebrating

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  49. God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  50. Usability Methods for Designing Programming Languages for Software Engineers

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  51. A Dozen Lessons on Building a Business from Sarah Tavel (2017)

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  52. Operation Rosehub (Mad Gadget) (2017)

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  53. Harvard and Sony built a tiny surgery robot inspired by origami

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  54. What small businesses make the most millionaires?

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  55. The race to develop paper-based tests for coronavirus

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  56. Incrementally Improving the DOM

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  57. Ask HN: What tech companies allow all employees to be remote?

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  58. Is it possible to damage a FPGA with VHDL code?

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Do you stream? Why and what?

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  60. Bizarre Notifications Pop Up on Android Phones, Was a Hacker to Blame?

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  61. Palantir plans direct listing for September

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  62. Amazon tells employees to delete TikTok immediately–then takes it back

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  63. ‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  64. Army of a million microscopic robots created to explore on tiny scale

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  65. TypeScript v4.0.2 Released

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  66. The doomed Cleveland balloonfest of '86

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  67. Ask HN: Have you been successful in getting your coinbase account recovered?

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  68. K Community Showcase

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  69. The Trillion Dollar Question Facing Every Major American City

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  70. Henrietta Lacks and Her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  71. Theoretical vs. practical cryptography in the (Linux) kernel

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  72. How to Test Every American for Covid-19, Every Day

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  73. Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  74. An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  75. Horse Grooming Guide by Expert – Cleaning Guide

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  76. Weapons and Equipment of the Special Forces of the Qing Dynasty

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  77. Show HN: Headcrab, a modern Rust debugger library

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  78. New Zealand's exchange (NZX) down for fourth day after cyber attacks

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  79. Scientists inspired by 'Star Wars' create artificial skin able to feel

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  80. Show HN: We build a calendar for people that schedule to-dos

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  81. Get ready for the 'tech alt-right' to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  82. AMA with the JetBrains WebStorm Team

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  83. How China Controlled the Coronavirus

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  84. Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Before Completing Tests

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  85. Ask HN: Best free mind map software online? Limited use is ok

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  86. Hackers Bled 118 Bitcoins Out of Covid Researchers in U.S.

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  87. Using emails for retention – How to automate

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  88. Stimulus and Credit

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  89. Security Onion

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  90. Out of Sight ≠ Out of Mind

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  91. 'Stop Hiding Behind Your Platform:' Sweden Welcomes Amazon with Scathing Letter

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  92. It's Official: CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing for Covid-19

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  93. Holding VCs accountable to commitments made to Black startups and founders

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  94. Missiles are advancing so quickly that their names need to change

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  95. Enough with the Linux Security Fud

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  96. Speed Up Pkgsrc on Retrocomputers

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  97. Math Riddle from the 1980’s Finally Solved – Could Be Used to Improve Computers

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  98. Ask HN: Why do VoIP vendors hate their customers?

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  99. Physicists discover new two-dimensional material

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  100. What Happens When You Don’t Shower for Five Years

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020