771
333
Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/
6 years ago
456
410
Oatly: The New Coke?
https://divinations.substack.com/p/oatly-the-new-coke#
427
154
Firefox Voice
https://voice.mozilla.org/firefox-voice/
360
391
Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)
https://hndex.org/7798063
359
214
Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091577
345
178
UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface
https://the-other-side.blog/upi-the-basics/
329
249
How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-chinese-officials-hijacked-my-company-11596233617
326
529
Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091707
321
274
Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
https://www.protocol.com/google-smart-speaker-alarm-adt
303
136
Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript
https://romefrontend.dev/blog/2020/08/08/introducing-rome.html
260
79
Typing Is Hard
https://typing-is-hard.ch/
124
So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics
247
118
Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/snapdragon-chip-flaws-put-1-billion-android-phones-at-risk-of-data-theft/
241
122
IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach
https://twitter.com/kmcquade3/status/1291801858676228098
229
55
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register
http://www.righto.com/2020/08/latches-inside-reverse-engineering.html
218
89
C.I.A. Lacing (2014)
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/cialacing.htm
207
228
Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/drivers-who-keep-their-windows-down-are-exposed-80-percent-more-air-pollution
204
181
Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/debt-collector-profits-soar-with-people-flush-and-easy-to-find
201
126
Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/143865832
196
327
Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24088582
171
47
An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/08/handwritten-font/
168
53
Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.02307.pdf
156
17
Real Time Machine Learning (2019) [pdf]
https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/Real%20Time%20Machine%20Learning%20Proposers%20Day_v3.pdf
147
28
The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014)
https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100
146
25
Audio from Scratch with Go: Extracting Breakpoints
https://dylanmeeus.github.io/posts/audio-from-scratch-pt7/
A Linux driver to connect PATA/IDE directly to GPIO
https://github.com/Manawyrm/pata-gpio
141
319
Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53692545
135
27
Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html
131
95
Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182
129
21
Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT
http://www.weaselhat.com/2020/08/07/formulog-ml-datalog-smt/
61
Cheap FPGA Development Boards
https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards
121
127
Haskell In New Clothes
https://github.com/serras/hinc
GPT-3 Explorer
https://belay-labs.github.io/gpt-explorer/introducing-gpt-explorer
111
33
Bootstrap finance and the cost of other people's money [pdf]
http://library.cust.edu.pk/teacher_resources/Cases&Articles/Entrepreneurship/BootstrapFinance-TheArtofStart-Ups.pdf
109
45
A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/kuniko-tsurita-literary-manga-history-gender/614971/
107
29
Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)
https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/38770
106
188
Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/21/2002655117
11
A website to make 3D geometry shapes out of paper
https://felixboiii.github.io/paper-plotter/
102
SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/spacex-and-ula-win-2022-pentagon-rocket-launch-contracts.html
100
112
Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/07/coronavirus-live-news-africa-passes-1-million-cases-checkpoints-outside-new-york-city
98
35
Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer
http://warpseq.com
96
32
Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000)
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0011122
Why the U.S. government is allowing bears, wolves to be hunted in their dens
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/08/new-hunting-rules-alaska-national-preserves/
92
104
Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-tiktok-have-held-preliminary-talks-about-possible-combination-11596925449
90
Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24089601
88
22
Show HN: A simple FOSS and self-hosted budgeting app
https://github.com/inoda/ontrack
87
Water beetles that survive being swallowed by frogs
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-being-swallowed-alive-water-beetle-stages-backdoor-escape-from-frogs-gut/
84
All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984)
https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php
80
What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Language
https://newrepublic.com/article/158761/learned-worst-novelist-english-language
78
93
'Music is as good as gold or oil': A man spending billions on old hits
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/08/music-hits-elton-john-beyonce-merck-mercuriadis
74
16
Excessive phone use linked to problems with productivity, relationships, health
https://cognitiontoday.com/2020/08/phone-addiction-coping-solutions-research-statistics/