The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2020

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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack coindesk.com · megadeth · 15 Jul 2020

2.6k pts 1.3k comments

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Oppose the Earn IT Act foundation.mozilla.org · joeyespo · 1 Jul 2020

2.2k pts 543 comments

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Grant Imahara Has Died hollywoodreporter.com · jmcgough · 14 Jul 2020

2k pts 255 comments

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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study news.ncsu.edu · sizzle · 15 Jul 2020

1.8k pts 1.1k comments

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Del.icio.us del.icio.us · kome · 29 Jul 2020

1.6k pts 506 comments

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Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund twitter.com · metafunctor · 30 Jul 2020

1.6k pts 351 comments

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U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation reuters.com · threatofrain · 9 Jul 2020

1.5k pts 1.2k comments

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Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad roguelazer.com · Spellman · 14 Jul 2020

1.3k pts 630 comments

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When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited] twitter.com · tomduncalf · 29 Jul 2020

1.2k pts 548 comments

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Where Am I? NYTimes or Google? theinternetbytes.com · rwoll · 4 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 355 comments

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Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products wsj.com · mgav · 23 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 351 comments

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Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B bloomberg.com · caution · 31 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 674 comments

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Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages lwn.net · jonquark · 8 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 523 comments

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Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 timjrobinson.com · TimJRobinson · 30 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 2k comments

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Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting smitop.com · smitop · 8 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 540 comments

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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin maraoz.com · maraoz · 18 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 526 comments

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When your coworker does great work, tell their manager jvns.ca · asicsp · 16 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 367 comments

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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips fossi-foundation.org · tomcam · 7 Jul 2020

1.1k pts 385 comments

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We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002) web.mit.edu · alanpage · 8 Jul 2020

1k pts 135 comments

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Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies blog.pragmaticengineer.com · signa11 · 15 Jul 2020

1k pts 524 comments

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Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org domainnamewire.com · feross · 18 Jul 2020

989 pts 135 comments

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Websites that look like desktop GUIs simone.computer · fanf2 · 4 Jul 2020

981 pts 183 comments

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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare” easydns.com · StuntPope · 20 Jul 2020

972 pts 385 comments

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You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? mrlacey.com · gregdoesit · 14 Jul 2020

964 pts 507 comments

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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners robertheaton.com · _ttg · 21 Jul 2020

945 pts 110 comments

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LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke twitter.com · dondonleroy · 2 Jul 2020

928 pts 360 comments

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Cloudflare was down cloudflarestatus.com · dewey · 17 Jul 2020

926 pts 476 comments

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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders lucaiaconistewart.com · chha · 6 Jul 2020

885 pts 197 comments

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I Know What You Download on BitTorrent iknowwhatyoudownload.com · easterncalculus · 13 Jul 2020

880 pts 754 comments

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Things I wish I’d known about CSS cssfordesigners.com · harshamv22 · 17 Jul 2020

878 pts 330 comments

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NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client newpipe.schabi.org · Nginx487 · 17 Jul 2020

864 pts 590 comments

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German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving mobile.reuters.com · codechicago277 · 14 Jul 2020

858 pts 611 comments

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New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases bleepingcomputer.com · based2 · 26 Jul 2020

841 pts 519 comments

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DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers github.com · commotionfever · 1 Jul 2020

824 pts 488 comments

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How to Understand Things nabeelqu.co · ingve · 11 Jul 2020

816 pts 116 comments

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Abstract Wikipedia meta.wikimedia.org · infodocket · 2 Jul 2020

798 pts 227 comments

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Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera support.apple.com · ra7 · 10 Jul 2020

787 pts 954 comments

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Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) lettersofnote.com · andrewnc · 12 Jul 2020

782 pts 122 comments

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YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] youtube.com · lmilcin · 7 Jul 2020

775 pts 554 comments

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On Trouser Pockets sambleckley.com · diiq · 18 Jul 2020

769 pts 390 comments

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Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 23 Jul 2020

756 pts 279 comments

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The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations arxiv.org · lnyan · 2 Jul 2020

754 pts 92 comments

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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? krebsonsecurity.com · MindGods · 16 Jul 2020

746 pts 499 comments

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Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this? faang0722 · 22 Jul 2020

738 pts 614 comments

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Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google lwn.net · beachwood23 · 28 Jul 2020

737 pts 332 comments

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New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans privateinternetaccess.com · corty · 9 Jul 2020

731 pts 236 comments

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Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive spacejam.com · olingern · 2 Jul 2020

707 pts 266 comments

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Ennio Morricone has died hollywoodreporter.com · weinzierl · 6 Jul 2020

701 pts 132 comments

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Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database buzzfeednews.com · pseudolus · 22 Jul 2020

698 pts 397 comments

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Invert, always, invert anup.io · anupj · 21 Jul 2020

678 pts 172 comments

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Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing zettlr.com · DerWOK · 3 Jul 2020

675 pts 261 comments

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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012) daedtech.com · DerCommodore · 8 Jul 2020

672 pts 432 comments

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ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly bbc.co.uk · goodcanadian · 28 Jul 2020

669 pts 449 comments

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Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice ygcodes · 14 Jul 2020

657 pts 263 comments

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Resignation Letter bariweiss.com · kirillzubovsky · 14 Jul 2020

654 pts 646 comments

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The Wrong Abstraction (2016) sandimetz.com · mkchoi212 · 5 Jul 2020

654 pts 240 comments

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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO eso.org · rbanffy · 22 Jul 2020

654 pts 171 comments

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Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign index.hu · pabo · 24 Jul 2020

653 pts 413 comments

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Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked markosaric.com · luu · 7 Jul 2020

651 pts 446 comments

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Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear scientificamerican.com · prawn · 22 Jul 2020

650 pts 189 comments