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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Unusual Maps

    173 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  2. XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers

    173 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  3. GraalVM

    173 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  4. Global wave discovery ends 220-year search

    172 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  5. A leap of faith: Committing to open source

    172 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  6. SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up

    172 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  7. Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)

    172 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  8. F (2006)

    172 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  9. How NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon

    171 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  10. Literate DevOps

    171 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  11. Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams

    171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  12. Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool

    171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  13. Multi-Tenant Architectures

    171 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  14. Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go

    171 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  15. File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design

    171 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  16. Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]

    171 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  17. AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings

    171 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  18. Why is there only one Snap Store?

    171 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  19. Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository

    171 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  20. Chrome Music Lab

    170 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  21. Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

    170 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  22. Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps

    170 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  23. University of Utah pays $457k to ransomware gang

    170 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  24. An attempt to make a font look more handwritten

    169 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  25. The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic

    169 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  26. What happens when you load a URL? (2015)

    169 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  27. Justice Department is scrutinizing takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit

    169 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  28. Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games

    169 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  29. The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element

    168 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  30. YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used

    168 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  31. How to Leave Work at Work

    168 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  32. We Know How to Prevent Megafires

    168 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  33. Racket 7.8

    168 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

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

    168 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  35. Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths

    168 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  36. Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more

    167 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  37. Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fight against hate speech

    167 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  38. Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals

    167 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  39. Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron

    167 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  40. Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?

    167 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  41. Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (2010)

    166 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  42. Designing a Physics Engine

    166 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  43. Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf]

    166 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  44. Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?

    166 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  45. Launch HN: Quell (YC S20) – Immersive gaming and combat workout

    165 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  46. Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff

    165 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  47. Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]

    165 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  48. Brain-Gut Circuit Lets Microbiota Directly Affect the Sympathetic Nervous System

    165 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  49. Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

    165 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  50. Help Make the 19th Century Searchable

    164 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  51. Rethinking the App Store

    164 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  52. Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills

    164 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  53. Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics

    164 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  54. The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

    164 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  55. T-Mobile: Are you blocking specific words and suspending accounts?

    164 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  56. Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL

    164 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  57. Code for The Economist's election model for 2020

    163 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  58. Nine-year-old bug in the Go standard library enables DoS

    163 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  59. Jacksonpollock.org (2003)

    163 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  60. Launch HN: Nestybox (YC S20) – Containers beyond microservices

    163 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  61. Cloth masks do protect the wearer

    163 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  62. Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings

    163 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  63. Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?

    163 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  64. Wiki Bankruptcy

    163 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  65. C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps

    162 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  66. One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment

    162 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  67. Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks

    162 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  68. What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads

    162 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  69. Snowflake S-1

    162 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  70. Darktable 3.2.1

    162 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  71. 5G Just Got Weird

    162 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  72. Practical Data Ethics

    161 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  73. “Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia

    161 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  74. Surviving Django, if you care about databases

    161 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  75. OCaml Workshop 2020 Online Conference is live now

    161 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  76. Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots

    161 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  77. Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions

    161 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  78. Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture [pdf]

    161 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  79. Show HN: Olaf – Acoustic Fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser

    160 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  80. Programming with RISC-V Vector Instructions

    160 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  81. Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA

    160 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  82. TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce

    160 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  83. Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit

    160 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  84. Reversing Mental Age with Psychedelics

    160 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  85. Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

    160 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  86. Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development

    160 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  87. Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021

    159 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  88. Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech

    159 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  89. Show HN: Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX

    159 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  90. DIY Satellite Ground Station to Receive NOAA Images

    159 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  91. Nuclear Reactor Development History

    158 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  92. A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)

    158 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  93. The Rapier Physics Engine

    158 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  94. Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings

    158 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  95. Google's differential privacy library

    158 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  96. "Rust does not have a stable ABI"

    158 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  97. The demise of the second-hand bookshop

    158 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  98. WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web

    158 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  99. SIMD Everywhere: 0.5.0

    158 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  100. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2003)

    158 points • comment • aug 30, 2020