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Archives for 05 Aug 2020
  1. Touch Typing on a Gamepad
    (110 points | Comments)

  2. Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
    (212 points | Comments)

  3. Frances Allen has died
    (892 points | Comments)

  4. The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories
    (356 points | Comments)

  5. Compiler Explorer
    (303 points | Comments)

  6. Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after
    (394 points | Comments)

  7. Arcosanti
    (230 points | Comments)

  8. What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?
    (125 points | Comments)

  9. File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
    (176 points | Comments)

  10. Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
    (127 points | Comments)

  11. IBM Is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning
    (137 points | Comments)

  12. Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
    (129 points | Comments)

  13. Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
    (192 points | Comments)

  14. Is Hacker News Bullshit?
    (253 points | Comments)

  15. Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
    (121 points | Comments)

  16. Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever
    (108 points | Comments)

  17. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
    (789 points | Comments)

  18. Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
    (360 points | Comments)

  19. Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic
    (137 points | Comments)

  20. USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast
    (113 points | Comments)

  21. Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
    (417 points | Comments)

  22. Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis
    (180 points | Comments)

  23. WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)
    (200 points | Comments)

  24. A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
    (163 points | Comments)

  25. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
    (234 points | Comments)

  26. Chat Bubble Blindness
    (283 points | Comments)

  27. Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua
    (163 points | Comments)

  28. You don’t need reproducible builds
    (126 points | Comments)

  29. Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads
    (154 points | Comments)

  30. The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
    (260 points | Comments)

  31. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
    (1043 points | Comments)

  32. Gold price rises above $2k for first time
    (111 points | Comments)

  33. More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6
    (214 points | Comments)

  34. Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML
    (215 points | Comments)

  35. Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
    (231 points | Comments)

  36. When Should You Not Use Rails?
    (142 points | Comments)

  37. The Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic
    (172 points | Comments)

  38. How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
    (217 points | Comments)

  39. China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment
    (228 points | Comments)

  40. Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire
    (101 points | Comments)

  41. Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand
    (123 points | Comments)