top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-08-01

Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi

https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

967 upvotes – 230 comments

Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tiktok-through-executive-action-as-soon-as-saturday.html

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 653 comments

Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24020899

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 481 comments

What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days

https://meekg33k.dev/what-i-learned-from-doing-60-technical-interviews-in-30-days-ckda9sn7s00iftss13b0wd0ky

5 years ago

408 upvotes – 298 comments

NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=13OkD0C_TWU

5 years ago

405 upvotes – 96 comments

Hacking Portable Air Conditioners

https://pmarks.net/ac/

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 241 comments

TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance-exclusive-idUSKBN24X3SK

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 645 comments

Bogleheads

https://www.bogleheads.org/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 98 comments

Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering

https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/01/pkg-go-dev-sucks.html

5 years ago

214 upvotes – 107 comments

Data isn't just being collected from your phone, it's being used to score you

https://www.chron.com/opinion/article/Data-isn-t-just-being-collected-from-your-phone-15449776.php

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 159 comments

We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized

http://cshl.nautil.us/article/593/why-were-a-lot-better-at-fighting-cancer-than-we-realized

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 137 comments

JS1024 Results – 1k JavaScript Demos

https://js1024.fun/results/2020

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 43 comments

Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really?

https://tiemoko.com/blog/blue-team-rust/

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 99 comments

Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020

https://prolost.com/blog/skatewarrior

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 17 comments

Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough

https://brendancahill.io/brensblog/dereksivers

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

Designing a Physics Engine

https://blog.winter.dev/2020/designing-a-physics-engine/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 42 comments

T-Mobile: Are you blocking specific words and suspending accounts?

https://reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/i1fk1z/tmobile_are_you_blocking_specific_words_and/

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 57 comments

“Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zombie-cicadas-infected-mind-controlling-fungus-west-virginia/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python

https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 90 comments

Samsung to halt production at its last computer factory in China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china-pc-idUSKBN24X3K4

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 36 comments
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