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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Clear and Present Leadership

    144 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  2. Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)

    144 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  3. A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

    144 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  4. KeePassXC 2.5.2

    143 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  5. Google Sheets was down

    143 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  6. Realm of Racket

    143 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  7. US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amendment Rights

    143 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  8. Mars rover is frozen in place following software error

    143 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  9. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010)

    142 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  10. In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky

    142 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  11. Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company's climate failures

    142 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  12. DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes

    142 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  13. Worrydream Refs

    142 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  14. Actix Web – Project Future

    141 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  15. Neumorphism in User Interfaces

    141 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  16. Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data

    141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  17. Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads

    141 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  18. Analyzing churn rates, free trials, and other metrics

    141 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  19. The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC

    141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  20. Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright

    141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  21. Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartphone sold in the US

    141 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  22. When to Overcommunicate

    141 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  23. Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold

    141 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  24. Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020

    141 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  25. Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

    141 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  26. To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018)

    141 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  27. U.S. cancer death rate drops by largest annual margin ever, report says

    140 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  28. Simple Tiny Compiler in C

    140 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  29. Cryptocurrency in the 2020s

    140 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  30. How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)

    140 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  31. Equinix is acquiring Packet

    140 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  32. Why so many things cost exactly zero

    139 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  33. Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life

    139 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  34. Restack: Full-Stack ReasonML

    139 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  35. Detroit's salt mine: City beneath the city

    138 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  36. Better technology means higher expectations, which creates more work

    138 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  37. Show HN: A self-hosted email engine

    138 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  38. Boeing docs show staffers discussing ways to manipulate regulators on 737 Max

    138 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  39. Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS

    138 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  40. Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

    137 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  41. Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan

    137 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  42. F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core (2018)

    137 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  43. How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built

    137 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  44. Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters

    137 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  45. Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

    137 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  46. Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London

    137 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  47. NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation

    136 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  48. Papyrus, a Rust REPL

    136 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  49. Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]

    136 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  50. New 10.3″ Waveshare E Ink Monitor

    136 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  51. On Pair Programming

    136 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  52. A game in a pure language (part 1): introduction and problems with Idris

    136 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  53. YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

    136 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  54. African grey parrots spontaneously 'lend a wing'

    136 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  55. The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session

    135 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  56. Things and Stuff of 2019

    135 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  57. Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)

    135 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  58. State of SaaS Product Onboarding

    135 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  59. Bubble talk (2015)

    134 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  60. 'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was official's son (2019)

    134 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  61. A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change

    134 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  62. PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax

    134 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  63. A note on reading big, difficult books

    134 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  64. The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

    134 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  65. Ending Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

    134 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  66. OpenSK: a fully open-source security key implementation

    134 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  67. Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python

    133 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  68. Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices

    133 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  69. A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI

    133 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  70. Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview

    133 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  71. AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery

    133 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  72. Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API

    133 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  73. The Shapes of Code

    133 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  74. Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers

    133 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  75. Google YOLO clickjacking (2018)

    132 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  76. Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics

    132 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  77. Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong

    132 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  78. Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount

    132 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  79. Viaweb's First Business Plan (1995)

    132 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  80. Space Invaders

    132 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  81. Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

    132 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  82. Database containing details of 56M US residents found on the public internet

    131 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  83. FFmpeg libav tutorial – from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more

    131 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  84. Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers

    131 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  85. Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA

    131 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  86. Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs

    131 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  87. Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot

    131 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  88. AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a tax cut

    131 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  89. Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says

    130 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  90. Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

    130 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  91. Wc in D: 712 Characters Without a Single Branch

    130 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  92. People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows

    130 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  93. A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

    130 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  94. I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future

    130 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  95. New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase

    130 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  96. Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy

    130 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  97. How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white

    130 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  98. The Hunt for the Fastest Zero

    130 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  99. R7RS versus R6RS (2018)

    130 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  100. Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs'

    130 points • comment • jan 28, 2020