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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js

    255 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  2. Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014)

    255 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  3. Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix

    255 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  4. Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases

    254 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  5. Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

    254 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  6. Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad

    254 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  7. Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)

    254 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  8. Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15

    254 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  9. Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores

    254 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  10. Typing Is Hard

    253 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  11. The cult of the free must die

    253 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  12. Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look

    253 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  13. What harm do minimum wages do?

    253 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  14. I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India

    252 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  15. SEC Enforcement of Insider Trading Dropped to Lowest Point in Decades

    252 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  16. How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin

    252 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  17. Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations

    252 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  18. Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT

    252 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  19. New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion

    251 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  20. No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US

    250 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  21. Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook

    250 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  22. Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git

    250 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  23. Linux from Scratch

    249 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  24. Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W

    248 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  25. No Hello (2013)

    248 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

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

    248 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  27. Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base

    248 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  28. Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing

    248 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  29. Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research

    246 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  30. The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program

    245 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  31. How I helped fix Canadaʼs Covid Alert app

    245 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  32. Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous

    244 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  33. Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server

    244 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  34. GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about

    244 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  35. Adventures in Improving AI Economics

    244 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  36. Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones

    243 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  37. Bogleheads

    243 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  38. Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine

    243 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  39. So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)

    243 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  40. Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push

    243 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  41. I sold my side-project for $30k

    243 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  42. Show HN: ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D

    242 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  43. tilde.town: A social network over SSH

    242 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  44. Expiring vs. permanent skills

    241 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  45. Linux 5.8-rc1

    241 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  46. Gmail and Google Drive Outage

    241 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  47. Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

    238 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law

    238 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  49. Malloc Geiger Counter

    237 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  50. Street View of 1940s New York

    236 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  51. Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s (2019)

    236 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  52. Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces

    235 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  53. A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015)

    235 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  54. Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

    234 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  55. US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos

    234 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  56. I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes

    234 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  57. Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing

    234 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  58. Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)

    233 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  59. Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook

    232 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  60. Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps

    232 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  61. The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes

    232 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  62. Endless Doom Scroller

    232 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  63. Hands-on WebAssembly

    231 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  64. Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code

    231 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  65. IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach

    231 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  66. Parallel Seam Carving

    231 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  67. Simple SQL in Python

    231 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  68. When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices

    231 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  69. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed

    230 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  70. How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries

    230 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  71. My best SEO tactic so far

    230 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  72. Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome

    230 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  73. Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities

    229 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  74. JuliaDB

    229 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  75. Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok

    229 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  76. Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study

    228 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  77. What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition

    228 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  78. Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP

    228 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  79. A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29-year-old BSD

    228 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  80. Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft

    228 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  81. PostgreSQL beginner guide

    227 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  82. The Recursive Universe

    226 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  83. Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks

    226 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  84. Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers

    226 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  85. The dual PhD problem of today’s startups

    226 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  86. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register

    226 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  87. The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)

    226 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  88. Arcosanti

    226 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  89. Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money

    225 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  90. Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less

    225 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  91. Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue

    225 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  92. Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups

    224 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  93. The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas

    224 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  94. Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds

    224 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  95. Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier

    224 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  96. Automotive Grade Linux

    224 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  97. Zoom Partial Outages

    223 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  98. Essentials of Programming Languages

    223 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  99. Show HN: EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service

    223 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  100. Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?

    222 points • comment • aug 25, 2020