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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Cost of a 51% attack for different cryptocurrencies?

    105 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  2. The Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook (2012)

    105 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  3. Who’s Watching Your Porch?

    104 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  4. Emacs Lisp Animations

    104 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  5. A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops

    104 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  6. Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks

    104 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  7. Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more like a gas car'

    104 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  8. Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin

    104 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  9. Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy

    104 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  10. Amazon soars after earnings beat

    103 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  11. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series

    103 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  12. Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015) [pdf]

    103 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  13. Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond

    103 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  14. Google vs. Oracle: The Supreme Court will decide software development’s future?

    103 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  15. Confessions of a lotus-eater

    103 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  16. Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016)

    103 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  17. Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target

    103 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  18. Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot

    103 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  19. What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell

    103 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  20. Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News

    102 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  21. De-Anonymization via Clickjacking in 2019

    102 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  22. Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO

    102 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  23. The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)

    102 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  24. Shifting Careers to Autonomous Vehicles

    102 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  25. API Security Best Practices

    102 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  26. The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things

    102 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  27. All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen

    102 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  28. Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown

    101 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  29. Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says

    101 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  30. The Astonishing Prescience of Nam June Paik

    101 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  31. A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft

    101 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  32. The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark

    101 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  33. It's too late to collect sand

    101 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  34. Shenzhen’s economy under strain: blame the trade war?

    101 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  35. China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus

    101 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  36. Finnish PM Marin calls for 4-day-week and 6-hours working day in the country

    101 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  37. Ishikawa diagram

    101 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  38. Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale)

    101 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  39. A billionaire retailer whose shops had no stock

    100 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  40. Telega.el: GNU Emacs Telegram client (unofficial)

    100 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  41. Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment

    100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  42. I quit contracting 6 months ago

    100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  43. Why “Gradient” Descent?

    100 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  44. What Makes a Successful Founder?

    100 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  45. Kubernaughty: A collection of documentation, how-tos, tools for K8s

    100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  46. The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases

    100 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  47. What the death of iTunes says about digital habits

    99 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  48. Catching SQL errors at build time

    99 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  49. 'Universal memory' research passes new milestone

    99 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  50. The Y2K bug is back, causing headaches for developers again

    99 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  51. Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities

    99 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  52. American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer

    99 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  53. WinWorld: online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software

    99 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  54. Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (1991)

    98 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  55. Better-initramfs: initramfs supporting SSH, lvm, luks, raid, uswsusp and more

    98 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  56. MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem

    98 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  57. Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  58. WebAssembly is easy – a hello world example

    98 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  59. Lidar Company Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor

    98 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  60. To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  61. Tree rings show the Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts

    98 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  62. FDA approves first US phage therapy trial (2019)

    98 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  63. Reiser5

    98 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  64. Pilecki's Report

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  65. Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover

    98 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  66. ACLU: ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays. We’re Suing

    97 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  67. Airlines scour the world for scarce 737 Max simulators

    97 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  68. Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data

    97 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  69. How to Read Self-Help

    97 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  70. Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication?

    97 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  71. To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)

    97 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  72. Show HN: Neural networks tutorial series with code

    97 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  73. En svensk tiger

    97 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  74. How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015)

    97 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  75. Using neural networks to solve advanced mathematics equations

    97 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  76. Why should bottlepy stick to a file?

    96 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  77. Ask HN: Are you contracting on the side (while working full time)?

    96 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  78. How to Allocate Memory (2016)

    96 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  79. Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

    96 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  80. An unidentifiable mechanism that helps bypass the Great Firewall of China

    96 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  81. ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology

    96 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  82. Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?

    96 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  83. The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office

    96 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  84. Highlights from Git 2.25

    96 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  85. Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 72.0.1 and ESR 68.4.1

    96 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  86. Revolution Pi – The Industrial Raspberry Pi

    96 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  87. How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan

    95 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  88. Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning

    95 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  89. Gravity: Upstream Kubernetes packaging tools

    95 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  90. Show HN: Vusic – A Simple Web Player for Apple Music Built with Vue and Vuex

    95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  91. 15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force Washington state road closure

    95 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  92. MDatePickerView – Quick and Easy iOS Date Picker

    95 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  93. How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics

    95 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  94. How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

    95 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  95. Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire (2017)

    95 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  96. What Is Color Management?

    95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  97. Stack-Oriented Programming

    95 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  98. World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature

    95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  99. 100 years ago, prohibition went into effect

    95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  100. LISP I Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf]

    94 points • comment • jan 18, 2020