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August 2020 Archive
91.
Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants (apnews.com)
558 points by pizza on Aug 13, 2020 | 746 comments
92.
Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust (bevyengine.org)
556 points by adamnemecek on Aug 11, 2020 | 103 comments
93.
Ethereum Is a Dark Forest (medium.com)
553 points by gottagetmac on Aug 28, 2020 | 447 comments
94.
Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition (npr.org)
552 points by stephenbez on Aug 19, 2020 | 1242 comments
95.
Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data (nullsweep.com)
545 points by BCharlie on Aug 25, 2020 | 379 comments
96.
What’s Flying Above Us? (skycircl.es)
544 points by zuhayeer on Aug 17, 2020 | 164 comments
97.
App Review process updates (developer.apple.com)
541 points by BigBalli on Aug 31, 2020 | 639 comments
98.
After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform (forbes.com)
539 points by elsewhen on Aug 30, 2020 | 471 comments
99.
Why Johnny Won't Upgrade (jacquesmattheij.com)
537 points by janvdberg on Aug 26, 2020 | 571 comments
100.
Rideshare operations are being suspended in California (lyft.com)
534 points by el_duderino on Aug 20, 2020 | 1078 comments
101.
SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] (youtube.com)
530 points by lpellis on Aug 4, 2020 | 383 comments
102.
The Art of Not Thinking (tiffanymatthe.com)
529 points by tmatthe on Aug 3, 2020 | 162 comments
103.
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment (vtm.netxs.online)
524 points by mssdvd on Aug 22, 2020 | 141 comments
104.
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases (theverge.com)
518 points by pier25 on Aug 22, 2020 | 371 comments
105.
Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps (hackerone.com)
510 points by tonny747 on Aug 29, 2020 | 196 comments
106.
Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code (github.com)
509 points by Gehinnn on Aug 28, 2020 | 61 comments
107.
Apple, Epic, and the App Store (stratechery.com)
508 points by kaboro on Aug 17, 2020 | 762 comments
108.
Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government (bbc.co.uk)
508 points by sjcsjc on Aug 19, 2020 | 251 comments
109.
Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second (github.com)
503 points by lorenzfx on Aug 6, 2020 | 151 comments
110.
Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) (agner.org)
500 points by arto on Aug 28, 2020 | 104 comments
111.
Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools (thesephist.com)
497 points by thesephist on Aug 22, 2020 | 150 comments
112.
Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers (capitalandgrowth.org)
490 points by jkuria on Aug 10, 2020 | 515 comments
113.
The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft (thedrive.com)
490 points by tomohawk on Aug 27, 2020 | 246 comments
114.
Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps (buzzfeednews.com)
487 points by danso on Aug 27, 2020 | 294 comments
115.
Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well (play.google.com)
485 points by cinntaile on Aug 13, 2020 | 499 comments
116.
Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed (techcrunch.com)
483 points by Scaevolus on Aug 4, 2020 | 418 comments
117.
I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform (elazzabi.com)
482 points by elazzabi_ on Aug 11, 2020 | 338 comments
118.
Unity Software Inc S-1 (sec.gov)
482 points by swyx on Aug 24, 2020 | 288 comments
119.
Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes (QRpicture.com)
482 points by pickledcods on Aug 14, 2020 | 106 comments
120.
Dear Apple: Your Services Are No Longer Required (lowendmac.com)
480 points by raydev on Aug 18, 2020 | 216 comments