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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics

    73 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  2. Florida’s justification for raiding whistleblower Rebekah Jones is looking shaky

    73 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  3. Hate Your Job

    73 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  4. Why scientists are turning to Rust

    73 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  5. Converting millions of viewers to millions of Euros with Serverless

    73 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  6. A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (2004)

    73 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  7. Show HN: Emacs4CL: 35 line .emacs to turn Emacs into Common Lisp dev environment

    73 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  8. FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State

    73 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  9. Android is a truly terrible software development platform

    73 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  10. US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill

    73 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  11. Inuttitut, a language shaped by humility, poetry, and the land

    73 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  12. Cloudquery: Easily ask questions about your cloud infrastructure

    73 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  13. Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study

    73 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  14. John Le Carré Missed Nothing

    72 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  15. Ripple: A wireless token-passing protocol for multi-hop wireless mesh networks

    72 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  16. Tillis Pushes Prison Time for Online Streamers After Hollywood Cash Blitz

    72 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  17. Urbit Precepts Discussion

    72 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  18. 12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50-year-old IBM 1401 mainframe

    72 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  19. Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity

    72 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  20. The US has suffered a cyberbreach. It's hard to overstate how bad it is

    72 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  21. Tesco removes 20m items of plastic from Christmas range

    72 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  22. Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

    72 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  23. I Built a Smart Thermostat

    72 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  24. A QR code built from Emoji

    72 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  25. Tell HN: Levono won't process orders from ProtonMail addresses

    72 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  26. Generating Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers with Coins and a Cup

    71 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  27. Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

    71 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  28. DNS hijacked on GoDaddy?

    71 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  29. How New York became a metropolis of stoops

    71 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  30. The Kidnapping of the Lunik (1967)

    71 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  31. Modifying and running a binary by recompiling a reverse engineered disassembly

    71 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  32. Stressed banks: evidence from the largest-ever supervisory review [pdf]

    71 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  33. The Laws of Core Data

    71 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  34. Whitewood Under Siege: The front lines of the pallet wars (2013)

    71 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  35. KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer

    71 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  36. The Atari 2600 Webserver

    71 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  37. Violence breaks out at Wistron Corp’s iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru

    71 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  38. A mathematical formalisation challenge by Peter Scholze

    71 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  39. Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will

    71 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  40. Ask HN: Is anyone working on a less painful intubation tube?

    71 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  41. The Safecracker of Last Resort (2018)

    70 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  42. Amazon Wants to Train 29M People to Work in the Cloud

    70 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  43. Qualcomm Details The Snapdragon 888: 3rd Gen 5G and Cortex-X1 on 5nm

    70 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  44. Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases

    70 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  45. ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing

    70 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  46. Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon

    70 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  47. Circulation of Elites

    70 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  48. I've designed Python fantasy cards to learn it easier

    70 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  49. The Philosophy of Anger

    70 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  50. Time to get excited about the growing Windows on ARM Ecosystem

    70 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  51. She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  52. North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient state computer system

    69 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  53. Show HN: Free HTML/CSS Landing Page Templates Without JavaScript

    69 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  54. The Secret History of Windows Task Manager from Retired Microsoft Engineer

    69 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  55. 17 USC 1201, DMCA Exemptions and Software Freedom

    69 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  56. Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play

    69 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  57. No one can manage projects, especially technology projects

    69 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  58. Fractal Architectures: A Software Craftsman's take to Infrastructure as Code

    69 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  59. Combinatorial Theory Journal Launches with Innovative Open Access Funding Model

    69 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  60. Forbidden Stories – Cartel Project: global network of investigative journalists

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  61. Sin and Siege: The End of the Crusades

    69 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  62. Owncast Instances

    69 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  63. Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup

    69 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  64. Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)

    69 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  65. Ask HN: What are your best tips or resources when it comes to marketing?

    69 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  66. Vector 0.11 Release: K8s, ARC, and metrics collection

    69 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  67. Binary Search Reconsidered (2018)

    69 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  68. Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High

    68 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  69. Essentials of Compilation

    68 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  70. What Happened In 2020

    68 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  71. WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads

    68 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  72. Who Owns the Stars: The Trouble with Urbit

    68 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  73. Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made with little forethought?

    68 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  74. Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate

    68 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  75. Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things

    68 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  76. PicoLisp Chess

    68 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  77. ReScript 8.4

    68 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  78. Unreal Engine 4.26

    68 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  79. Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today

    68 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  80. Agents raid home of Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

    68 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  81. AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 VCPUs

    68 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  82. SEC filed an emergency action against Silicon Sage Builders for securities fraud

    68 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  83. Kit-Kat Xclock

    68 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  84. Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2

    67 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  85. Platforms, bundling and kill zones

    67 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  86. Turning vaguely reassuring finite-state machines into regular expressions

    67 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  87. Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (2015)

    67 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  88. An Update on PromQL Compatibility Across Vendors

    67 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  89. Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?

    67 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  90. How to Escape the Modern Rat Race

    67 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  91. WMF Board considering the removal of Jimmy Wales' trustee position

    67 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  92. React's UseRef Deep Dive

    67 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  93. Surplus Extraction

    66 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  94. Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

    66 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  95. A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover

    66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  96. Snebu – Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility

    66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  97. Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen

    66 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  98. Beowulf: A New Translation

    66 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  99. Blabrecs

    66 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  100. Orthodox C++

    66 points • comment • dec 27, 2020