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Top of Month - Aug 2020

1. Factorio 1.0
   (14 Aug 2020 | 1878 points | Comments)

2. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
   (18 Aug 2020 | 1858 points | Comments)

3. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
   (13 Aug 2020 | 1704 points | Comments)

4. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
   (11 Aug 2020 | 1602 points | Comments)

5. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
   (29 Aug 2020 | 1600 points | Comments)

6. Mozilla Lifeboat
   (12 Aug 2020 | 1518 points | Comments)

7. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
   (27 Aug 2020 | 1410 points | Comments)

8. Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
   (19 Aug 2020 | 1403 points | Comments)

9. Africa declared free of wild polio
   (25 Aug 2020 | 1387 points | Comments)

10. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
    (29 Aug 2020 | 1383 points | Comments)

11. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
    (26 Aug 2020 | 1326 points | Comments)

12. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
    (28 Aug 2020 | 1313 points | Comments)

13. Thank You MDN
    (12 Aug 2020 | 1283 points | Comments)

14. Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
    (22 Aug 2020 | 1257 points | Comments)

15. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
    (6 Aug 2020 | 1194 points | Comments)

16. Can't you just right click?
    (19 Aug 2020 | 1169 points | Comments)

17. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
    (28 Aug 2020 | 1169 points | Comments)

18. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
    (6 Aug 2020 | 1062 points | Comments)

19. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime
    (5 Aug 2020 | 1043 points | Comments)

20. Laws of UX
    (2 Aug 2020 | 1037 points | Comments)

21. I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
    (17 Aug 2020 | 985 points | Comments)

22. Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
    (1 Aug 2020 | 967 points | Comments)

23. Level 3 Global Outage
    (30 Aug 2020 | 914 points | Comments)

24. Frances Allen has died
    (5 Aug 2020 | 892 points | Comments)

25. Single Page Applications using Rust
    (11 Aug 2020 | 886 points | Comments)

26. New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
    (20 Aug 2020 | 884 points | Comments)

27. Scrollbar Blindness
    (27 Aug 2020 | 877 points | Comments)

28. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
    (4 Aug 2020 | 868 points | Comments)

29. Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com
    (26 Aug 2020 | 843 points | Comments)

30. Being OK with not being extraordinary
    (24 Aug 2020 | 830 points | Comments)

31. Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
    (14 Aug 2020 | 827 points | Comments)

32. Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
    (21 Aug 2020 | 824 points | Comments)

33. Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
    (18 Aug 2020 | 820 points | Comments)

34. Dependency
    (17 Aug 2020 | 808 points | Comments)

35. How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model
    (11 Aug 2020 | 804 points | Comments)

36. Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book
    (21 Aug 2020 | 799 points | Comments)

37. I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
    (9 Aug 2020 | 792 points | Comments)

38. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
    (5 Aug 2020 | 789 points | Comments)

39. A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]
    (3 Aug 2020 | 785 points | Comments)

40. Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
    (8 Aug 2020 | 771 points | Comments)

41. Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
    (10 Aug 2020 | 769 points | Comments)

42. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
    (21 Aug 2020 | 745 points | Comments)

43. Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
    (20 Aug 2020 | 738 points | Comments)

44. US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
    (7 Aug 2020 | 734 points | Comments)

45. How to Write in Plain English
    (25 Aug 2020 | 724 points | Comments)

46. I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base
    (7 Aug 2020 | 722 points | Comments)

47. Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust
    (15 Aug 2020 | 721 points | Comments)

48. In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
    (4 Aug 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

49. Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall
    (14 Aug 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

50. Please read the paper before you comment
    (25 Aug 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

51. Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court
    (16 Aug 2020 | 716 points | Comments)

52. Joan Feynman has died
    (12 Aug 2020 | 713 points | Comments)

53. The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
    (22 Aug 2020 | 712 points | Comments)

54. Web by Google (TM)
    (16 Aug 2020 | 706 points | Comments)

55. Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable
    (20 Aug 2020 | 701 points | Comments)

56. Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
    (17 Aug 2020 | 699 points | Comments)

57. Persisting as a solo founder
    (23 Aug 2020 | 699 points | Comments)

58. Young children would rather explore than get rewards
    (13 Aug 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

59. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
    (27 Aug 2020 | 697 points | Comments)

60. The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
    (3 Aug 2020 | 683 points | Comments)

61. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
    (9 Aug 2020 | 683 points | Comments)

62. If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees
    (18 Aug 2020 | 679 points | Comments)

63. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]
    (13 Aug 2020 | 674 points | Comments)

64. αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
    (24 Aug 2020 | 671 points | Comments)

65. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
    (30 Aug 2020 | 667 points | Comments)

66. Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
    (15 Aug 2020 | 662 points | Comments)

67. Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis
    (4 Aug 2020 | 653 points | Comments)

68. Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
    (31 Aug 2020 | 648 points | Comments)

69. Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
    (18 Aug 2020 | 646 points | Comments)

70. Modeling a Wealth Tax
    (18 Aug 2020 | 645 points | Comments)

71. Laying the foundation for Rust’s future
    (18 Aug 2020 | 643 points | Comments)

72. How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
    (19 Aug 2020 | 639 points | Comments)

73. Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
    (10 Aug 2020 | 637 points | Comments)

74. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
    (6 Aug 2020 | 635 points | Comments)

75. Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
    (14 Aug 2020 | 632 points | Comments)

76. Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)
    (12 Aug 2020 | 631 points | Comments)

77. Microsoft Fast Design
    (7 Aug 2020 | 623 points | Comments)

78. Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
    (6 Aug 2020 | 621 points | Comments)

79. 1Password for Linux development preview
    (4 Aug 2020 | 612 points | Comments)

80. Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
    (11 Aug 2020 | 612 points | Comments)

81. Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
    (27 Aug 2020 | 611 points | Comments)

82. MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder
    (26 Aug 2020 | 602 points | Comments)

83. Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees
    (13 Aug 2020 | 595 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
    (3 Aug 2020 | 592 points | Comments)

85. US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
    (2 Aug 2020 | 585 points | Comments)

86. What's the future of Servo?
    (14 Aug 2020 | 578 points | Comments)

87. NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975
    (2 Aug 2020 | 576 points | Comments)

88. Thomas Sowell interview
    (3 Aug 2020 | 575 points | Comments)

89. Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever
    (7 Aug 2020 | 567 points | Comments)

90. Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
    (9 Aug 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

91. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
    (13 Aug 2020 | 558 points | Comments)

92. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust
    (11 Aug 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

93. Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
    (28 Aug 2020 | 553 points | Comments)

94. Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
    (19 Aug 2020 | 552 points | Comments)

95. Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
    (25 Aug 2020 | 545 points | Comments)

96. What’s Flying Above Us?
    (17 Aug 2020 | 544 points | Comments)

97. App Review process updates
    (31 Aug 2020 | 541 points | Comments)

98. After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform
    (30 Aug 2020 | 539 points | Comments)

99. Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
    (26 Aug 2020 | 537 points | Comments)

100. Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
     (20 Aug 2020 | 534 points | Comments)