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August 2020 discussion archive

Browse 139 retained Hacker News discussion records from August 2020, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)31 Aug 2020 · 279 points · 317 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust31 Aug 2020 · 648 points · 354 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. Blender 2.9031 Aug 2020 · 275 points · 90 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Motivation – Keli Language31 Aug 2020 · 285 points · 290 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)31 Aug 2020 · 270 points · 187 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage31 Aug 2020 · 271 points · 62 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs30 Aug 2020 · 667 points · 72 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. Level 3 Global Outage30 Aug 2020 · 914 points · 368 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts30 Aug 2020 · 270 points · 22 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 3529 Aug 2020 · 1,383 points · 668 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time29 Aug 2020 · 1,600 points · 486 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Neuralink Progress Update [video]28 Aug 2020 · 281 points · 373 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account28 Aug 2020 · 1,169 points · 1,474 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML28 Aug 2020 · 285 points · 92 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store28 Aug 2020 · 1,313 points · 935 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)28 Aug 2020 · 280 points · 364 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF28 Aug 2020 · 283 points · 55 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet27 Aug 2020 · 291 points · 183 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?27 Aug 2020 · 697 points · 321 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper27 Aug 2020 · 1,410 points · 685 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)27 Aug 2020 · 277 points · 83 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Scrollbar Blindness27 Aug 2020 · 877 points · 563 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy27 Aug 2020 · 611 points · 244 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder26 Aug 2020 · 602 points · 257 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework26 Aug 2020 · 1,326 points · 225 commentsPartial reading withheld
  26. SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition26 Aug 2020 · 284 points · 247 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com26 Aug 2020 · 843 points · 192 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. Africa declared free of wild polio25 Aug 2020 · 1,387 points · 241 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years25 Aug 2020 · 270 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. How to Write in Plain English25 Aug 2020 · 724 points · 313 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. Please read the paper before you comment25 Aug 2020 · 719 points · 327 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. Being OK with not being extraordinary24 Aug 2020 · 830 points · 382 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users24 Aug 2020 · 272 points · 128 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε24 Aug 2020 · 671 points · 286 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Persisting as a solo founder23 Aug 2020 · 699 points · 257 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)22 Aug 2020 · 712 points · 399 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life22 Aug 2020 · 1,257 points · 616 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication21 Aug 2020 · 269 points · 96 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports21 Aug 2020 · 289 points · 370 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book21 Aug 2020 · 799 points · 81 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better21 Aug 2020 · 745 points · 305 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests21 Aug 2020 · 824 points · 530 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 201921 Aug 2020 · 288 points · 187 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. College Notebook of Isaac Newton21 Aug 2020 · 283 points · 69 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable20 Aug 2020 · 701 points · 429 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others20 Aug 2020 · 884 points · 202 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Moving from YouTube to PeerTube20 Aug 2020 · 738 points · 451 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. Can't you just right click?19 Aug 2020 · 1,169 points · 746 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL19 Aug 2020 · 639 points · 98 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. What harm do minimum wages do?19 Aug 2020 · 269 points · 755 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial19 Aug 2020 · 279 points · 336 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. 'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader19 Aug 2020 · 284 points · 273 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?19 Aug 2020 · 1,403 points · 644 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices18 Aug 2020 · 1,858 points · 1,025 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. Laying the foundation for Rust’s future18 Aug 2020 · 643 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics18 Aug 2020 · 820 points · 227 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees18 Aug 2020 · 679 points · 266 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Modeling a Wealth Tax18 Aug 2020 · 645 points · 1,705 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo18 Aug 2020 · 276 points · 80 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them18 Aug 2020 · 646 points · 399 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Graphical Linear Algebra18 Aug 2020 · 287 points · 82 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Dependency17 Aug 2020 · 808 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th17 Aug 2020 · 699 points · 945 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]17 Aug 2020 · 985 points · 357 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi17 Aug 2020 · 282 points · 146 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Pure Skill Minesweeper16 Aug 2020 · 282 points · 99 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing16 Aug 2020 · 278 points · 176 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync16 Aug 2020 · 289 points · 62 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Web by Google (TM)16 Aug 2020 · 706 points · 478 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. SQLite 3.3316 Aug 2020 · 272 points · 108 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court16 Aug 2020 · 716 points · 369 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust15 Aug 2020 · 721 points · 447 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver15 Aug 2020 · 287 points · 112 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light15 Aug 2020 · 290 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You15 Aug 2020 · 662 points · 403 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall14 Aug 2020 · 719 points · 1,069 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives14 Aug 2020 · 632 points · 518 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Unicode in five minutes (2013)14 Aug 2020 · 279 points · 41 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 8614 Aug 2020 · 827 points · 475 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. What's the future of Servo?14 Aug 2020 · 578 points · 418 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Factorio 1.014 Aug 2020 · 1,878 points · 615 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. A Database of Historical Cookbooks14 Aug 2020 · 272 points · 63 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]13 Aug 2020 · 674 points · 642 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store13 Aug 2020 · 1,704 points · 1,432 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees13 Aug 2020 · 595 points · 489 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. Young children would rather explore than get rewards13 Aug 2020 · 698 points · 237 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Thank You MDN12 Aug 2020 · 1,283 points · 319 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)12 Aug 2020 · 631 points · 323 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Mozilla Lifeboat12 Aug 2020 · 1,518 points · 308 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative12 Aug 2020 · 285 points · 85 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. Raise Less Money12 Aug 2020 · 288 points · 107 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership12 Aug 2020 · 290 points · 412 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. Joan Feynman has died12 Aug 2020 · 713 points · 103 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health12 Aug 2020 · 277 points · 161 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix11 Aug 2020 · 272 points · 431 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility11 Aug 2020 · 284 points · 386 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products11 Aug 2020 · 1,602 points · 1,456 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. Single Page Applications using Rust11 Aug 2020 · 886 points · 482 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model11 Aug 2020 · 804 points · 280 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election11 Aug 2020 · 612 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees10 Aug 2020 · 769 points · 747 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds10 Aug 2020 · 637 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think10 Aug 2020 · 291 points · 412 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments09 Aug 2020 · 683 points · 420 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency09 Aug 2020 · 792 points · 185 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. People work longer and different hours under lockdown09 Aug 2020 · 285 points · 267 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership09 Aug 2020 · 274 points · 26 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo08 Aug 2020 · 771 points · 333 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever07 Aug 2020 · 567 points · 448 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Microsoft Fast Design07 Aug 2020 · 623 points · 204 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base07 Aug 2020 · 722 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days07 Aug 2020 · 734 points · 1,265 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. First Impressions of Rust06 Aug 2020 · 274 points · 188 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions06 Aug 2020 · 1,062 points · 444 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.006 Aug 2020 · 635 points · 65 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects06 Aug 2020 · 1,194 points · 469 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates06 Aug 2020 · 621 points · 506 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Frances Allen has died05 Aug 2020 · 892 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.005 Aug 2020 · 789 points · 471 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Chat Bubble Blindness05 Aug 2020 · 283 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime05 Aug 2020 · 1,043 points · 400 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies04 Aug 2020 · 868 points · 291 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. 1Password for Linux development preview04 Aug 2020 · 612 points · 341 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)04 Aug 2020 · 272 points · 105 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved04 Aug 2020 · 719 points · 769 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk04 Aug 2020 · 268 points · 172 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis04 Aug 2020 · 653 points · 127 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]03 Aug 2020 · 785 points · 131 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)03 Aug 2020 · 592 points · 825 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone03 Aug 2020 · 278 points · 204 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets03 Aug 2020 · 292 points · 116 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Thomas Sowell interview03 Aug 2020 · 575 points · 424 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free03 Aug 2020 · 683 points · 474 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat02 Aug 2020 · 585 points · 463 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. Mastodon 3.202 Aug 2020 · 274 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. Laws of UX02 Aug 2020 · 1,037 points · 293 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 197502 Aug 2020 · 576 points · 288 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters02 Aug 2020 · 272 points · 243 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi01 Aug 2020 · 967 points · 230 commentsPartial reading withheld