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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

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

    196 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  2. First tax year with Stripe Atlas

    195 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  3. Timescale Cloud: Multi-cloud, fully-managed time-series in AWS, Azure, and GCP

    195 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  4. QEMU should move from C to Rust

    195 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  5. Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”

    194 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  6. Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?

    194 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  7. JS1024 Results – 1k JavaScript Demos

    194 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  8. FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics

    193 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  9. Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun

    193 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  10. EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas

    193 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  11. Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B

    193 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  12. The Three Bay Areas (2017)

    192 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  13. Foiling Electric Boat

    192 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  14. OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM

    192 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  15. How I got my Japanese permanent residency

    191 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  16. Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

    191 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  17. Art of chording

    190 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  18. Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research

    190 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  19. Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

    190 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  20. Palantir S-1

    190 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  21. Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?

    190 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  22. Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift

    190 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  23. Where do argc and argv come from?

    189 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  24. Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups

    189 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  25. Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

    188 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  26. Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)

    188 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  27. Emotional resilience and burnout in leadership

    188 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  28. We should discuss soil as much as coal (2019)

    188 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  29. Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases

    188 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  30. JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready

    188 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  31. When Asbestos Was a Gift Fit for a King

    188 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  32. Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really?

    188 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  33. Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing

    188 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  34. Assange, Manning and Snowden Nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

    188 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  35. Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

    187 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  36. The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

    187 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  37. Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders

    187 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  38. Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue

    187 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  39. Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team

    187 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  40. Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac

    186 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  41. Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains

    186 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  42. I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches

    186 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  43. Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine

    186 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  44. InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents

    186 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  45. Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped

    186 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  46. Transparent OLEDs

    186 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  47. Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member

    185 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  48. Is Hacker News Bullshit?

    184 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  49. Apple revoked longtime Mac developer's code signing certificate with no warning

    184 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  50. Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition

    183 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  51. A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python

    183 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  52. YTS torrent tracker part of new anti-piracy scheme

    183 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  53. In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

    183 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  54. P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free

    183 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  55. Arizona DMV Sells Drivers' Photos and SSNs to Private Investigators

    183 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  56. Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada

    182 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  57. Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak

    182 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  58. I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible

    182 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  59. Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

    182 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  60. Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough

    182 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  61. The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple

    182 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  62. Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter

    182 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  63. Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making

    182 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  64. Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom

    182 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  65. Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality

    181 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  66. Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along

    181 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  67. ThinkPad 560E

    181 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  68. Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal

    180 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  69. One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail elections in New Jersey

    180 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  70. Barbados introduces plan to allow visitors to work remotely there for a year

    180 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  71. Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives?

    180 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  72. Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers

    180 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  73. Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

    180 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  74. Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020

    179 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  75. Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%

    179 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  76. London traders hit $500M jackpot when oil went negative

    179 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  77. Show HN: My notes on Working with Go

    179 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  78. Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors

    179 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  79. Emulating Windows system calls in Linux

    178 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  80. Japan facing credit card number shortage

    178 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  81. India announces plan to connect 600k villages with optical fiber in 1000 days

    178 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  82. How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images

    178 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  83. So you want to roll your own crypto?

    178 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  84. The Joy of Cryptography

    178 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  85. A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist

    177 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  86. How Happy Couples Argue: Study (2019)

    177 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  87. Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin

    176 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  88. China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment (BBC News)

    176 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  89. An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon

    176 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  90. Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without

    176 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  91. Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate

    176 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  92. FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes

    176 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  93. YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants

    175 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  94. Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis

    175 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  95. Belarus election: Police use live fire on protesters in Brest

    175 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  96. Hiroshima (1946)

    175 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  97. Don't ask to ask, just ask

    175 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  98. Crux SQL

    174 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  99. Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity

    174 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  100. The longest train ride in the world (2019)

    174 points • comment • aug 25, 2020