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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

    222 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  2. Kotlin 1.4

    221 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  3. Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better

    221 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  4. What is 5D chess?

    220 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  5. SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)

    220 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  6. Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

    220 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  7. TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban

    220 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  8. Former Uber executive charged with paying 'hush money' to conceal breach

    219 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  9. A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers

    219 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  10. The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting

    218 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  11. Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks

    217 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  12. Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’

    217 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  13. Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?

    217 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  14. Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT

    217 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  15. UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips

    217 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  16. TSA considers new system for flyers without ID

    217 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  17. Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard connections show how money can distort research

    217 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  18. C.I.A. Lacing (2014)

    217 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  19. How Purism avoids Intel’s Active Management Technology

    216 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  20. How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans

    216 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  21. Portland passes low-density zoning reform

    216 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  22. Instagram faces $500B in fines alleging it harvested biometric data

    215 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  23. Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it

    215 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  24. Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go

    215 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  25. Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email

    215 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  26. Launch HN: Tella (YC S20) – Collaborative video editing in the browser

    215 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  27. California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators

    214 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  28. Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds

    214 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  29. Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships

    214 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  30. React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features

    214 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  31. Show HN: Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem

    214 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  32. Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power

    214 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  33. Why Software Should Be Free (2002)

    213 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  34. Show HN: Royalty-Free SVG Illustrations and Animations

    212 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  35. Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes

    212 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  36. Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)

    212 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  37. Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML

    212 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  38. RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

    212 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  39. What's new in PHP 8?

    211 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  40. C will never stop you from making mistakes

    211 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  41. A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy

    211 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  42. Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands

    210 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  43. Kali Linux 2020.3

    210 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  44. How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020

    210 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  45. Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads

    210 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  46. NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography

    210 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  47. New case studies about Google’s use of Go

    210 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  48. The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue

    209 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  49. GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

    209 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  50. Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005)

    209 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  51. Build Your Own FPGA (2012)

    208 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  52. The Legend of GayBlade

    208 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  53. Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok

    208 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  54. Using Microsoft Word with Git

    208 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  55. Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be

    207 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  56. One Year of Nushell

    207 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  57. Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

    207 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  58. Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering

    206 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  59. Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative

    206 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  60. Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer

    206 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  61. Metcalf Sniper Attack

    206 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  62. Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year

    205 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  63. More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6

    205 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  64. Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find

    204 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  65. Let’s implement a Bloom Filter

    204 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  66. Data isn't just being collected from your phone, it's being used to score you

    203 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  67. Italian Ruby

    203 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  68. Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light

    202 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  69. Why Write ADRs

    202 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  70. Band-Limiting Procedural Textures

    202 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  71. An Archive of a Different Type

    202 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  72. ‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria

    202 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  73. U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme

    202 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  74. Spinning Up in Deep RL

    202 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  75. GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

    201 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  76. Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster

    201 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  77. Objective-Rust

    201 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  78. Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities

    201 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  79. NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser

    200 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  80. DearPyGui

    200 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  81. WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)

    199 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  82. EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover

    199 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  83. RethinkDB 2.4.1

    198 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  84. Do I Need Kubernetes?

    198 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  85. We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized

    198 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  86. Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results

    198 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  87. Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor

    198 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  88. Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts

    198 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  89. Hard work vs. Long work (2011)

    198 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  90. An Introduction to OpenBSD [video]

    197 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  91. Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds

    197 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  92. Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer

    197 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  93. Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution

    197 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  94. Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel

    197 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  95. Bare Metal Rust Generics

    196 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  96. The Panopticon Is Already Here

    196 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  97. ‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5

    196 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  98. Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book

    196 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  99. German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management

    196 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  100. Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?

    196 points • comment • aug 12, 2020