The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2020

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Factorio 1.0 factorio.com · Akronymus · 14 Aug 2020

1.9k pts 615 comments

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Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices oculus.com · superted · 18 Aug 2020

1.9k pts 1k comments

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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store theverge.com · ardit33 · 13 Aug 2020

1.7k pts 1.4k comments

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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products blog.mozilla.org · rebelwebmaster · 11 Aug 2020

1.6k pts 1.5k comments

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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time aasm.org · oftenwrong · 29 Aug 2020

1.6k pts 486 comments

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Mozilla Lifeboat mozillalifeboat.com · gkoberger · 12 Aug 2020

1.5k pts 308 comments

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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper remarkable.com · punnerud · 27 Aug 2020

1.4k pts 685 comments

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Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app? blickentwapft · 19 Aug 2020

1.4k pts 644 comments

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Africa declared free of wild polio bbc.com · riffraff · 25 Aug 2020

1.4k pts 241 comments

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I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 newyorker.com · fergie · 29 Aug 2020

1.4k pts 668 comments

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Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework arwes.dev · keiferski · 26 Aug 2020

1.3k pts 225 comments

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Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store qoto.org · mynameismonkey · 28 Aug 2020

1.3k pts 935 comments

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Thank You MDN ilovemdn.org · peterbe · 12 Aug 2020

1.3k pts 319 comments

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Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life degoogle.jmoore.dev · ra7 · 22 Aug 2020

1.3k pts 616 comments

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Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects msn.com · Shivetya · 6 Aug 2020

1.2k pts 469 comments

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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account macrumors.com · tosh · 28 Aug 2020

1.2k pts 1.5k comments

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Can't you just right click? lapcatsoftware.com · bangonkeyboard · 19 Aug 2020

1.2k pts 746 comments

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20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions twitter.com · phoe-krk · 6 Aug 2020

1.1k pts 444 comments

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Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime reddit.com · huhtenberg · 5 Aug 2020

1k pts 400 comments

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Laws of UX lawsofux.com · seesawtron · 2 Aug 2020

1k pts 293 comments

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I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] judiciary.house.gov · atarian · 17 Aug 2020

985 pts 357 comments

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Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi ptx2.net · ptx2 · 1 Aug 2020

967 pts 230 comments

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Level 3 Global Outage puck.nether.net · dknecht · 30 Aug 2020

914 pts 368 comments

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Frances Allen has died ibm.com · ntumlin · 5 Aug 2020

892 pts 101 comments

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Single Page Applications using Rust sheshbabu.com · rkwz · 11 Aug 2020

886 pts 482 comments

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New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others cbc.ca · apsec112 · 20 Aug 2020

884 pts 202 comments

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Scrollbar Blindness svenkadak.com · _maye · 27 Aug 2020

877 pts 563 comments

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Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies storycreatorapp.com · michaelaubry · 4 Aug 2020

868 pts 291 comments

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Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com · thesephist · 26 Aug 2020

843 pts 192 comments

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Being OK with not being extraordinary tiffanymatthe.com · tmatthe · 24 Aug 2020

830 pts 382 comments

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Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86 androidpolice.com · atriix · 14 Aug 2020

827 pts 475 comments

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Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests latimes.com · gamblor956 · 21 Aug 2020

824 pts 530 comments

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Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics umami.is · bananaoomarang · 18 Aug 2020

820 pts 227 comments

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Dependency xkcd.com · kjhughes · 17 Aug 2020

808 pts 294 comments

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How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model deprocrastination.co · vitabenes · 11 Aug 2020

804 pts 280 comments

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Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book fast.ai · amardeep · 21 Aug 2020

799 pts 81 comments

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I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency twitter.com · caiobegotti · 9 Aug 2020

792 pts 185 comments

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Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 blog.mozilla.org · LinuxBender · 5 Aug 2020

789 pts 471 comments

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A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video] youtube.com · Taek · 3 Aug 2020

785 pts 131 comments

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Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo iphoneincanada.ca · _qulr · 8 Aug 2020

771 pts 333 comments

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Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees theverge.com · uptown · 10 Aug 2020

769 pts 747 comments

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Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better psyche.co · _zhqs · 21 Aug 2020

745 pts 305 comments

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Moving from YouTube to PeerTube battlepenguin.com · djsumdog · 20 Aug 2020

738 pts 451 comments

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US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days asia.nikkei.com · baylearn · 7 Aug 2020

734 pts 1.3k comments

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How to Write in Plain English plainenglish.co.uk · zackhsi · 25 Aug 2020

724 pts 313 comments

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I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base troyhunt.com · vquemener · 7 Aug 2020

722 pts 133 comments

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Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust github.com · adamnemecek · 15 Aug 2020

721 pts 447 comments

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Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall wsj.com · tempsy · 14 Aug 2020

719 pts 1.1k comments

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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved nngroup.com · kaonwarb · 4 Aug 2020

719 pts 769 comments

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Please read the paper before you comment buttondown.email · azhenley · 25 Aug 2020

719 pts 327 comments

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Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court californiaglobe.com · hirundo · 16 Aug 2020

716 pts 369 comments

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Joan Feynman has died aps.org · basementcat · 12 Aug 2020

713 pts 103 comments

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The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) cable.co.uk · vanilla-almond · 22 Aug 2020

712 pts 399 comments

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Web by Google (TM) landshark.io · alangibson · 16 Aug 2020

706 pts 478 comments

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Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable petapixel.com · fraXis · 20 Aug 2020

701 pts 429 comments

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Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th twitter.com · MBCook · 17 Aug 2020

699 pts 945 comments

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Persisting as a solo founder vishnu.tech · vishnumohandas · 23 Aug 2020

699 pts 257 comments

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Young children would rather explore than get rewards news.osu.edu · kyle_morris_ · 13 Aug 2020

698 pts 237 comments

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Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app? twitter.com · spenvo · 27 Aug 2020

697 pts 321 comments

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The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free currentaffairs.org · praptak · 3 Aug 2020

683 pts 474 comments