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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

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

    158 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  2. Office Drama on macOS

    157 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  3. MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset

    157 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  4. Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge for App Store ban

    157 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  5. The BEAM Has Spoiled Me

    157 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  6. Save the USPS

    157 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  7. The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water

    157 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  8. 1-Euro Houses

    157 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  9. Introduction to Statistical Learning

    156 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  10. What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project

    156 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  11. ‘AeroNabs’ – Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19

    155 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  12. CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected

    155 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  13. Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats

    155 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  14. Andy Matuschak's Notes

    155 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  15. Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012)

    155 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  16. Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python

    155 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  17. A collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering

    155 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  18. Epic Systems workers are organizing

    155 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  19. Launch HN: Batch (YC S20) – Replays for event-driven systems

    154 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  20. Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel

    154 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  21. Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux

    154 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  22. A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)

    154 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  23. Microsoft backs Epic in court filing

    154 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  24. Samsung to halt production at its last computer factory in China

    154 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  25. US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase

    153 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  26. Redefining what sustainable fishing means

    153 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  27. J Notation as a Tool of Thought

    153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  28. Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop

    153 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  29. We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one

    153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  30. Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs

    153 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  31. People slept on grass beds 200k years ago

    153 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  32. How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally

    153 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  33. Cloud Traffic

    152 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  34. A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]

    152 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  35. The Languages Which Almost Became CSS

    152 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  36. Knuth versus Email (1999)

    152 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  37. Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool

    152 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  38. Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet

    151 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  39. Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn

    151 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  40. A New Chapter for PyPy

    151 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  41. Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear

    151 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  42. Accused spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma evidently beat the polygraph

    151 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  43. New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation

    150 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  44. Exploring mullender.c – A deep dive into the first IOCCC winner

    150 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  45. Redis Labs Raises $100M

    150 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  46. TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company

    150 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  47. Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood

    150 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  48. Awesome-sysadmin: A curated list of amazingly open source sysadmin resources

    149 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  49. A CRISPR first produces squid as clear as glass

    149 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  50. Real Time Machine Learning (2019) [pdf]

    149 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  51. MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue

    149 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  52. How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France

    149 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  53. How much things can change

    149 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  54. Graphics Programming Projects

    149 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  55. Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy

    149 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  56. Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

    149 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  57. I’m A Teapot – HTTP status code 418

    149 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  58. Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool

    148 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  59. Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language

    148 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  60. Architecture Playbook

    148 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  61. Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

    148 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  62. A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid

    148 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  63. How to deploy a React app for free

    148 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  64. The battle to invent the automatic rice cooker

    148 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  65. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

    148 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  66. Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads

    147 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  67. Thoughts on Voice Interfaces

    147 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  68. Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe

    147 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  69. Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server

    147 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  70. Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite

    147 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  71. Trust Models

    147 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  72. Humanly Traversable Wormholes

    146 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  73. Hubble finds that Betelgeuse's dimming is likely due to ejection of gases

    146 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  74. Inside Information and Kodak Stock

    146 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  75. The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make

    146 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  76. Future of DeepSpeech / STT after recent changes at Mozilla

    146 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  77. Reverse Engineering for Beginners [pdf]

    146 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  78. Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies

    146 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  79. Perl7 is a fork of values

    146 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  80. Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design

    146 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  81. The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space

    146 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  82. Debian Janitor: 60k Lintian Issues Automatically Fixed

    146 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  83. Small Businesses Are Dying by the Thousands – and No One Is Tracking the Carnage

    145 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  84. WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2

    145 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  85. Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021

    145 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  86. On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines

    145 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  87. Lord of the Manor: a medieval city builder game

    145 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  88. Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800

    145 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  89. Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a face doesnt fit

    144 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  90. Show HN: Will It CORS? – an automatic CORS explainer

    144 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  91. Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS

    144 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  92. I had Covid-19, and these are the things nobody tells you

    144 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  93. Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints

    144 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  94. FreeCol: Turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization

    144 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  95. Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland

    143 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  96. A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018)

    143 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  97. Chevron Is Trying to Crush a Prominent Climate Lawyer

    143 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  98. How We Got the Favicon (2017)

    143 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  99. KeePassXC 2.6.1

    142 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  100. Show HN: ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML

    142 points • comment • aug 22, 2020