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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  2. Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  3. Can ageing be treated or cured?

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  4. Researchers show children are silent spreaders of virus that causes Covid-19

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  5. Interview with the programming team behind Phantasy Star Online

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  6. Square’s Cash App tests new feature allowing users to borrow up to $200

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  7. LibrePlanet 2021

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  8. Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Because They Were Never Meant To

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

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

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  10. Goldman Sachs Has Money. It Has Power. and Now It Has a Font

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  11. Bureaucracy Contributed to the Blast in Beirut

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  12. Zsh-Autocomplete

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  13. Labor Department lawyer leading Oracle case alleges interference by secretary

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  14. Programmable Synthetic Materials

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  15. Beirut blast: Explosion rocks city ahead of Hariri verdict

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  16. Curiosity rover spots dust devil on Mars

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  17. Ask HN: How to structure JV for SaaS given upfront salary/costs

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  18. ML “Recipes” & Analytics for B2B Sales and Marketing

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  19. The Tao of Language Agnosticism

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  20. CI/CD Observability: Tekton and Prometheus

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  21. Game Dev Examines Whether Nostalgia Is a Worthwhile Game Genre

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  22. Use of Reed-Solomon error correcting codes in Covid-19 pooled testing

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  23. Otto Aviation Officially Introduces Celera 500L “Bullet Plane”

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  24. A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

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

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  26. H.P. Lovecraft was a virulent racist. How Lovecraft Country confronts his legacy

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  27. Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks

    3 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  28. NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative Wins Green Light from SEC

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  29. Linux containers – a technical introduction (2015)

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  30. What Atlassian's futuristic Sydney tech hub will look like

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  31. As Covid-19 rages around the globe, other infectious diseases shrink away

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  32. Google Pay partners with 6 US banks to offer mobile checking accounts next year

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  33. Hyundai will launch three new electric cars, starting in 2021

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  34. 3D homes that take 24 hours and less than $4k to print

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  35. Bill Gates on Covid Vaccine Timing, Hydroxychloroquine, and 5G Conspiracy Theory

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  36. Coronavirus clobbers Uber, leading to $1.8B quarterly loss

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  37. Two European cases of coronavirus re-infection reported

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  38. Xkcd: Voting Software

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  39. It's likely better to test for accessibility than for Firefox

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  40. Why do razor blades get dull so quickly?

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  41. How TOTP Systems Like Google Authenticator Work

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  42. Top Vaccine Official Says He’ll Resign If FDA Caves to Political Pressure

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  43. Why CSS:before content doesn’t work on inputs and images

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  44. What’s this? A bipartisan plan for AI and national security

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  45. C O M P U T E R 1.0 – Textile display By Victoria Manganiello and Julian Goldman

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  46. The European Cities Using the Pandemic as a Cure for Airbnb

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  47. Population immunity is slowing down the pandemic in parts of the US

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  48. Walmart Wants to Get Its Greasy Hands on TikTok

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  49. Ask HN: Are there any tools for viewing activity across multiple GitHub repos

    3 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  50. How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  51. Only Mediocre Minds Nitpick

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  52. Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  53. Virus-Like “Jumping” DNA Regulates Human Neurons

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  54. Google announces plan to break password managers in name of security

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  55. Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  56. Sprint, one of America's most storied brands, is no more

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  57. China's ByteDance to consider international HQ for TikTok, outside U.S.

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  58. Law of Jante

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  59. From Cloud to Cloudlets

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  60. Twitch Prime is now called Prime Gaming

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  61. Greece and Egypt sign agreement on exclusive economic zone

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  62. Show HN: A zsh prompt to encourage you to commit frequently

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  63. Not a tinkerer: The painful, hardly instructive story how I became an engineer

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  64. The Viking Snowden: Denmark spy chief 'relieved of duty' after whistleblower

    3 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  65. Fast proxy to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  66. Marriage Counseling – 27 Worst Marriage Mistakes

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  67. 'Everyone tested positive':Covid devastates ag workers in California's heartland

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  68. Surprising results from one of the earliest Covid-19 surveys

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  69. Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  70. Visa, MasterCard Debit Fees Are Hurting Retailers, Sen. Richard Durbin Says

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  71. Coronavirus: Trump killed tens of thousands of Americans

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  72. If You Are Still Calling AI Artificial Intelligence, You Are Wrong

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  73. Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data [pdf]

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  74. If consumer confidence is so low, why is spending rising during the pandemic?

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  75. The role of vit D in the prevention of coronavirus 2019 infection and mortality

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  76. Why There Are So Few Moderate Republicans Left

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  77. NBA Players Will Return to Playoffs After Walkout

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  78. GraalVM 20.2.0

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  79. Power Grids Aren’t Evolving Fast Enough for Global Warming

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  80. Decades-Old Soviet Studies Hint at Coronavirus Strategy

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  81. Showcase Your Code with Grasshopper's Gallery

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  82. How to Roll Half a Dice

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  83. A.out

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  84. Show HN: Scraper.ai – Watch new job listings from sites like indeed.com

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  85. How many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  86. University of Utah pays $457,000 to ransomware gang

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  87. Dyalog APL (Morten Kromberg, Google Tech Talk, 2015)

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  88. Principal Component Analysis

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Do you own a E-ink tablet to take notes

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  90. Unopinionated framework faster than everything (0kb raw and gzipped)

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  91. REI to sell sprawling new and unused headquarters to shift to remote work

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  92. Girl thrown into air by kite in Taiwan

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  93. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Containers: A Foolproof, Hands-On Docker Tutorial

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  94. The Second Act of Social-Media Activism

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  95. Architect Spends 10 Years Building Bubble House Design, Lives in It for 36 Years

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  96. A Coronavirus Vaccine Requires Medical Essentials Like Vials and Needles

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  97. Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  98. Ask HN: How hard is creating an app to replace Uber and Lyft?

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  99. How bad was the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?

    3 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  100. How to Infrastructure Engineer: Noob Edition

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2020