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Top of Month - Jul 2020

1. Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
   (15 Jul 2020 | 2595 points | Comments)

2. Oppose the Earn IT Act
   (1 Jul 2020 | 2229 points | Comments)

3. Grant Imahara Has Died
   (14 Jul 2020 | 1963 points | Comments)

4. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
   (15 Jul 2020 | 1782 points | Comments)

5. Del.icio.us
   (29 Jul 2020 | 1649 points | Comments)

6. Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund
   (30 Jul 2020 | 1594 points | Comments)

7. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
   (9 Jul 2020 | 1489 points | Comments)

8. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
   (14 Jul 2020 | 1285 points | Comments)

9. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
   (29 Jul 2020 | 1243 points | Comments)

10. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
    (4 Jul 2020 | 1130 points | Comments)

11. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
    (23 Jul 2020 | 1125 points | Comments)

12. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
    (8 Jul 2020 | 1106 points | Comments)

13. Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
    (31 Jul 2020 | 1106 points | Comments)

14. Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
    (30 Jul 2020 | 1105 points | Comments)

15. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
    (8 Jul 2020 | 1099 points | Comments)

16. OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
    (18 Jul 2020 | 1079 points | Comments)

17. When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
    (16 Jul 2020 | 1074 points | Comments)

18. Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
    (7 Jul 2020 | 1055 points | Comments)

19. We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
    (8 Jul 2020 | 1034 points | Comments)

20. Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
    (15 Jul 2020 | 1025 points | Comments)

21. Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
    (18 Jul 2020 | 989 points | Comments)

22. Websites that look like desktop GUIs
    (4 Jul 2020 | 981 points | Comments)

23. Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
    (20 Jul 2020 | 972 points | Comments)

24. You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
    (14 Jul 2020 | 964 points | Comments)

25. Systems Design for Advanced Beginners
    (21 Jul 2020 | 945 points | Comments)

26. LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
    (2 Jul 2020 | 928 points | Comments)

27. Cloudflare was down
    (17 Jul 2020 | 926 points | Comments)

28. 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
    (6 Jul 2020 | 885 points | Comments)

29. I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
    (13 Jul 2020 | 880 points | Comments)

30. Things I wish I’d known about CSS
    (17 Jul 2020 | 878 points | Comments)

31. NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
    (17 Jul 2020 | 864 points | Comments)

32. German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
    (14 Jul 2020 | 858 points | Comments)

33. New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
    (26 Jul 2020 | 841 points | Comments)

34. DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
    (1 Jul 2020 | 824 points | Comments)

35. How to Understand Things
    (11 Jul 2020 | 816 points | Comments)

36. Abstract Wikipedia
    (2 Jul 2020 | 798 points | Comments)

37. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
    (10 Jul 2020 | 787 points | Comments)

38. Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)
    (12 Jul 2020 | 782 points | Comments)

39. YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]
    (7 Jul 2020 | 775 points | Comments)

40. On Trouser Pockets
    (18 Jul 2020 | 769 points | Comments)

41. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
    (23 Jul 2020 | 756 points | Comments)

42. The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations
    (2 Jul 2020 | 754 points | Comments)

43. Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
    (16 Jul 2020 | 746 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
    (22 Jul 2020 | 738 points | Comments)

45. Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
    (28 Jul 2020 | 737 points | Comments)

46. New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans
    (9 Jul 2020 | 731 points | Comments)

47. Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive
    (2 Jul 2020 | 707 points | Comments)

48. Ennio Morricone has died
    (6 Jul 2020 | 701 points | Comments)

49. Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
    (22 Jul 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

50. Invert, always, invert
    (21 Jul 2020 | 678 points | Comments)

51. Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
    (3 Jul 2020 | 675 points | Comments)

52. How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
    (8 Jul 2020 | 672 points | Comments)

53. ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
    (28 Jul 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
    (14 Jul 2020 | 657 points | Comments)

55. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
    (5 Jul 2020 | 654 points | Comments)

56. Resignation Letter
    (14 Jul 2020 | 654 points | Comments)

57. First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
    (22 Jul 2020 | 654 points | Comments)

58. Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
    (24 Jul 2020 | 653 points | Comments)

59. Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
    (7 Jul 2020 | 651 points | Comments)

60. Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
    (22 Jul 2020 | 650 points | Comments)

61. The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool
    (20 Jul 2020 | 642 points | Comments)

62. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
    (20 Jul 2020 | 638 points | Comments)

63. The Four Quadrants of Conformism
    (24 Jul 2020 | 638 points | Comments)

64. A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
    (7 Jul 2020 | 631 points | Comments)

65. Nubank acquires Cognitect
    (23 Jul 2020 | 618 points | Comments)

66. When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
    (24 Jul 2020 | 611 points | Comments)

67. Orthodox Privilege
    (15 Jul 2020 | 610 points | Comments)

68. Apple Lightning
    (1 Jul 2020 | 597 points | Comments)

69. Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
    (23 Jul 2020 | 597 points | Comments)

70. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
    (10 Jul 2020 | 596 points | Comments)

71. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
    (24 Jul 2020 | 593 points | Comments)

72. UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs
    (17 Jul 2020 | 589 points | Comments)

73. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
    (24 Jul 2020 | 588 points | Comments)

74. De-escalating social media conflict
    (4 Jul 2020 | 583 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
    (13 Jul 2020 | 575 points | Comments)

76. Medium is not the home for your ideas
    (22 Jul 2020 | 574 points | Comments)

77. Just Too Efficient
    (12 Jul 2020 | 570 points | Comments)

78. New Stuff
    (8 Jul 2020 | 564 points | Comments)

79. Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
    (19 Jul 2020 | 562 points | Comments)

80. Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
    (5 Jul 2020 | 561 points | Comments)

81. I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]
    (15 Jul 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

82. Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
    (16 Jul 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

83. Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays
    (28 Jul 2020 | 559 points | Comments)

84. 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
    (28 Jul 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

85. Riot is now Element
    (15 Jul 2020 | 550 points | Comments)

86. One hour of slow breathing changed my life
    (27 Jul 2020 | 550 points | Comments)

87. Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
    (15 Jul 2020 | 547 points | Comments)

88. An update on our security incident
    (18 Jul 2020 | 547 points | Comments)

89. Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
    (10 Jul 2020 | 546 points | Comments)

90. The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys
    (19 Jul 2020 | 543 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
    (11 Jul 2020 | 537 points | Comments)

92. The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
    (13 Jul 2020 | 526 points | Comments)

93. Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
    (8 Jul 2020 | 525 points | Comments)

94. Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design
    (14 Jul 2020 | 524 points | Comments)

95. Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
    (31 Jul 2020 | 524 points | Comments)

96. Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
    (17 Jul 2020 | 522 points | Comments)

97. Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard
    (17 Jul 2020 | 521 points | Comments)

98. Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
    (6 Jul 2020 | 519 points | Comments)

99. Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
    (3 Jul 2020 | 518 points | Comments)

100. LSD chemist William Pickard to be released from prison
     (25 Jul 2020 | 515 points | Comments)