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  1. Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (2000)31 May 2020 · 279 points · 97 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests31 May 2020 · 622 points · 379 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket31 May 2020 · 820 points · 94 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Google gave our business listing to a competitor31 May 2020 · 590 points · 167 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?31 May 2020 · 2,634 points · 531 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Fuchsia overview30 May 2020 · 287 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Zero-day in Sign in with Apple30 May 2020 · 1,076 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit30 May 2020 · 2,856 points · 798 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. A simple way to get more value from metrics30 May 2020 · 280 points · 68 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS30 May 2020 · 278 points · 175 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?29 May 2020 · 755 points · 661 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”29 May 2020 · 1,061 points · 1,467 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Deno Is a Browser for Code28 May 2020 · 276 points · 196 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Tools for Better Thinking28 May 2020 · 1,092 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page28 May 2020 · 696 points · 74 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor28 May 2020 · 1,011 points · 181 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. Why we have so many problems with our teeth28 May 2020 · 281 points · 251 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)28 May 2020 · 677 points · 265 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. The Day AppGet Died27 May 2020 · 1,930 points · 535 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Htmx – high power tools for HTML27 May 2020 · 728 points · 166 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned27 May 2020 · 588 points · 470 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files27 May 2020 · 1,087 points · 477 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results27 May 2020 · 1,375 points · 542 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms27 May 2020 · 707 points · 1,625 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative27 May 2020 · 1,120 points · 366 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next26 May 2020 · 655 points · 349 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive26 May 2020 · 1,227 points · 977 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform26 May 2020 · 685 points · 349 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks26 May 2020 · 275 points · 99 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. AWS services explained in one line each26 May 2020 · 1,668 points · 344 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. I've collected over 600 pitch decks25 May 2020 · 606 points · 87 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something25 May 2020 · 827 points · 102 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?25 May 2020 · 282 points · 81 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology25 May 2020 · 1,030 points · 649 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres25 May 2020 · 269 points · 88 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog25 May 2020 · 276 points · 34 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Software will eat software in a remote-first world25 May 2020 · 619 points · 431 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”25 May 2020 · 594 points · 282 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs24 May 2020 · 574 points · 308 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD24 May 2020 · 288 points · 129 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.624 May 2020 · 604 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users24 May 2020 · 623 points · 102 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Product Marketing for Engineers24 May 2020 · 688 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics23 May 2020 · 290 points · 67 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. GraphBLAS – Graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra23 May 2020 · 289 points · 41 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down23 May 2020 · 1,178 points · 513 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims23 May 2020 · 791 points · 399 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?23 May 2020 · 269 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public23 May 2020 · 1,543 points · 574 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Netflix stops charging customers who never watch23 May 2020 · 723 points · 500 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?22 May 2020 · 649 points · 246 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?22 May 2020 · 1,006 points · 669 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?22 May 2020 · 2,031 points · 998 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. GitLab 13.022 May 2020 · 282 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes22 May 2020 · 292 points · 149 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health22 May 2020 · 571 points · 281 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Siri, What Time Is It in London?22 May 2020 · 728 points · 748 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015)21 May 2020 · 278 points · 268 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus21 May 2020 · 596 points · 591 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment21 May 2020 · 291 points · 452 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. An introduction to RabbitMQ21 May 2020 · 586 points · 255 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. X21 May 2020 · 896 points · 128 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory21 May 2020 · 615 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. What Is Nix?20 May 2020 · 598 points · 333 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images20 May 2020 · 669 points · 553 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]20 May 2020 · 283 points · 152 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL320 May 2020 · 993 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS20 May 2020 · 747 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?20 May 2020 · 1,294 points · 430 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux19 May 2020 · 706 points · 531 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Notion for everyone19 May 2020 · 1,044 points · 454 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data19 May 2020 · 736 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case19 May 2020 · 771 points · 275 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data19 May 2020 · 1,237 points · 549 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents19 May 2020 · 288 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]18 May 2020 · 1,239 points · 269 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code18 May 2020 · 744 points · 257 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices18 May 2020 · 1,063 points · 652 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube18 May 2020 · 1,783 points · 1,177 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms18 May 2020 · 590 points · 214 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML18 May 2020 · 925 points · 182 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content18 May 2020 · 1,525 points · 546 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. The Miracle Sudoku [video]18 May 2020 · 596 points · 143 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage18 May 2020 · 1,393 points · 514 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo18 May 2020 · 274 points · 51 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Don't set the language of your website based on user location17 May 2020 · 594 points · 293 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs17 May 2020 · 676 points · 619 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. It’s Time to Get Back to RSS17 May 2020 · 798 points · 365 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Lomuto's Comeback17 May 2020 · 288 points · 98 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)17 May 2020 · 650 points · 345 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Serve Videos Instead of GIFs16 May 2020 · 273 points · 230 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka16 May 2020 · 597 points · 276 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs16 May 2020 · 1,186 points · 615 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Game Programming Patterns (2014)16 May 2020 · 635 points · 86 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?16 May 2020 · 283 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?16 May 2020 · 578 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?15 May 2020 · 780 points · 445 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub15 May 2020 · 975 points · 420 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M15 May 2020 · 957 points · 507 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Pretending OOP Never Happened15 May 2020 · 290 points · 339 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Tampering of Mortgage Funds15 May 2020 · 287 points · 78 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Do not Draw a Penis14 May 2020 · 969 points · 367 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently14 May 2020 · 871 points · 418 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum14 May 2020 · 276 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people13 May 2020 · 1,077 points · 626 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data13 May 2020 · 566 points · 271 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Deno 1.013 May 2020 · 2,081 points · 583 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?13 May 2020 · 1,336 points · 2,248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist13 May 2020 · 956 points · 342 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension13 May 2020 · 1,915 points · 788 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. A first look at Unreal Engine 513 May 2020 · 1,734 points · 676 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government13 May 2020 · 659 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Show HN: SHA-256 Animation13 May 2020 · 1,053 points · 102 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges13 May 2020 · 269 points · 160 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think13 May 2020 · 1,035 points · 422 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. Every software system used at Gitlab13 May 2020 · 283 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. React Native for Windows and Mac12 May 2020 · 715 points · 477 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned12 May 2020 · 607 points · 168 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Can AI Become Conscious?12 May 2020 · 286 points · 397 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. What Was TON And Why It Is Over12 May 2020 · 287 points · 162 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months12 May 2020 · 273 points · 215 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever12 May 2020 · 2,953 points · 1,339 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)12 May 2020 · 283 points · 112 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X12 May 2020 · 268 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?12 May 2020 · 961 points · 719 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra12 May 2020 · 835 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth11 May 2020 · 677 points · 199 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order11 May 2020 · 571 points · 1,177 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Apache NiFi11 May 2020 · 279 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology11 May 2020 · 1,224 points · 200 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io11 May 2020 · 643 points · 119 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Make LLVM Fast Again10 May 2020 · 582 points · 235 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. Second-Guessing the Modern Web10 May 2020 · 721 points · 453 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. Pi-hole 5.010 May 2020 · 587 points · 248 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life10 May 2020 · 703 points · 272 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Tell HN: Call Mom10 May 2020 · 569 points · 222 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Ask HN: How to stop anxiety from too many choices?10 May 2020 · 287 points · 103 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font10 May 2020 · 673 points · 285 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers10 May 2020 · 774 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. Show HN: Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at the shell09 May 2020 · 285 points · 42 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor09 May 2020 · 607 points · 256 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models09 May 2020 · 719 points · 74 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Meshroom – Open-source photogrammetry software09 May 2020 · 283 points · 76 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. Write Libraries, Not Frameworks09 May 2020 · 1,044 points · 327 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?08 May 2020 · 566 points · 522 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com08 May 2020 · 655 points · 470 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone08 May 2020 · 732 points · 202 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?08 May 2020 · 269 points · 117 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. We Chat, They Watch08 May 2020 · 1,417 points · 512 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default07 May 2020 · 615 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile07 May 2020 · 286 points · 345 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?07 May 2020 · 726 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. Zoom Acquires Keybase07 May 2020 · 1,879 points · 712 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More06 May 2020 · 824 points · 356 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics06 May 2020 · 770 points · 249 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. GitHub Codespaces06 May 2020 · 1,769 points · 601 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life06 May 2020 · 1,084 points · 815 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body06 May 2020 · 1,108 points · 974 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?06 May 2020 · 779 points · 755 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation06 May 2020 · 270 points · 129 commentsPartial reading withheld
  161. Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce05 May 2020 · 791 points · 901 commentsPartial reading withheld
  162. Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day05 May 2020 · 274 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  163. Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system04 May 2020 · 701 points · 536 commentsPartial reading withheld
  164. 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners04 May 2020 · 269 points · 114 commentsPartial reading withheld
  165. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help04 May 2020 · 1,527 points · 714 commentsPartial reading withheld
  166. Show HN: Caddy 204 May 2020 · 778 points · 240 commentsPartial reading withheld
  167. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs04 May 2020 · 641 points · 279 commentsPartial reading withheld
  168. Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers04 May 2020 · 652 points · 195 commentsPartial reading withheld
  169. New 13-inch MacBook Pro04 May 2020 · 726 points · 1,079 commentsPartial reading withheld
  170. Bye, Amazon04 May 2020 · 3,816 points · 1,097 commentsPartial reading withheld
  171. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS03 May 2020 · 632 points · 41 commentsPartial reading withheld
  172. Popcorn Linux03 May 2020 · 283 points · 75 commentsPartial reading withheld
  173. Signs that a business idea will probably fail03 May 2020 · 287 points · 86 commentsPartial reading withheld
  174. Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost03 May 2020 · 288 points · 91 commentsPartial reading withheld
  175. Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?03 May 2020 · 666 points · 222 commentsPartial reading withheld
  176. Medium-hard SQL interview questions02 May 2020 · 1,230 points · 287 commentsPartial reading withheld
  177. How to sell a B2B product02 May 2020 · 643 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  178. What Happens Next? Covid-19 Futures, Explained with Playable Simulations02 May 2020 · 286 points · 90 commentsPartial reading withheld
  179. Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)02 May 2020 · 268 points · 217 commentsPartial reading withheld
  180. Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)02 May 2020 · 762 points · 126 commentsPartial reading withheld
  181. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms01 May 2020 · 785 points · 102 commentsPartial reading withheld
  182. Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting01 May 2020 · 279 points · 48 commentsPartial reading withheld
  183. ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry01 May 2020 · 1,464 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld