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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station (2015)

    94 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  2. Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones

    94 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  3. In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis

    94 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  4. College as an incubator of Girardian terror

    94 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  5. Some aspects of memory get better as we age

    94 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  6. MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump

    94 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  7. Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer

    94 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  8. Sorting Algorithms in C

    93 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  9. The Build is Always Broken

    93 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  10. Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [pdf]

    93 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  11. MSL: A New Programming Language for Text Editing and Fact Verification [pdf]

    93 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  12. The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux

    93 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  13. Amazon Prime video gives amateur how-to’s, conspiracy theories a stage

    93 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  14. Show HN: CrossHair – SMT Assisted Testing for Python

    93 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  15. Beethoven’s audacious acts of musical risk-taking

    93 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  16. Dependent Type Systems as Macros [pdf]

    93 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  17. Raw WebGPU

    93 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  18. A History of Silicon Valley

    93 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  19. Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox

    93 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  20. A Next-Generation Trash Can

    93 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  21. Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off rivals

    92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  22. Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  23. AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances

    92 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  24. The Wuhan Virus

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  25. Mach2 – Windows Feature Control Multi-Tool

    92 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  26. Unremarkables

    92 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  27. Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009)

    92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  28. Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behind recent cyberattacks

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  29. Hyundai and Kia back Arrival, a British startup making electric delivery vans

    92 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  30. The Deadlock Empire – Slay Dragons, Master Concurrency (2016)

    92 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  31. Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (1999)

    92 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  32. Writing a Chip-8 Emulator with Rust and WebAssembly (2017)

    92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  33. Interactive explanation of a procedural music system

    92 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  34. The Difficulty of Disclosure, Surebet247 and the Streisand Effect

    92 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  35. India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World

    91 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  36. Visual Subnet Calculator

    91 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  37. Automatic Differentiation via Contour Integration

    91 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  38. Google offers certificate to help IT career growth

    91 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  39. Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (2014)

    91 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  40. Panopticon

    91 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  41. You Bet [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  42. No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites

    91 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  43. Avast caught selling user data

    91 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  44. Lies vs. Statistics: VPN Virtual Server Locations

    91 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  45. Amazon takes a swipe at Honey, PayPal’s $4B acquisition

    90 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  46. LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD

    90 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  47. Nine States Face Economic Contraction, Most Since 2009 Crisis

    90 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  48. Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem

    90 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  49. Concrete Semantics

    90 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  50. Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors

    90 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  51. The FDA Announces Two More Antacid Recalls Due to Cancer Risk

    90 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  52. A surprising new source of attention in the brain

    90 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  53. Show HN: Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter

    90 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  54. Pharmaceutical Executive Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial

    90 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  55. Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing

    90 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  56. What Nihilism Is Not

    90 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  57. US Pressed Dutch Gov over ASML Sale

    90 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  58. Cartesio – Low-cost Cartesian plotter robot

    90 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  59. Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Difficulty Bomb

    89 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  60. A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri

    89 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  61. Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

    89 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  62. It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too

    89 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  63. Show HN: DOME, a framework for making 2D games with Wren

    89 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  64. Software is a focus intensive industry

    89 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  65. Coq is a Lean Typechecker

    89 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  66. The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth – Gary Gygax’s first published D&D module

    89 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  67. “Like” at Your Own Risk

    89 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  68. Telescope captures most detailed pictures yet of the sun

    89 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  69. Bio-coal: A renewable and producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass

    89 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  70. Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript engine, with a focus on portability

    88 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  71. What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops?

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  72. OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  73. Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  74. Those Mythological "Jobs Of Tomorrow"

    88 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  75. UN experts say hacking of Bezos phone suggests effort to influence news coverage

    88 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  76. Travelex being held to ransom by hackers

    88 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  77. Optacon

    88 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  78. Show HN: Set with Friends – A Real-Time multiplayer online card game

    88 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  79. Swift as a C Language REPL

    87 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  80. Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate [audio]

    87 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  81. How Tesla's battery costs impact its gross margins

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  82. Why Citationsy.com Doesn’t Have a Cookie Notice

    87 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  83. Variations on symmetric nearest neighbour smoothing

    87 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  84. Introducing Increment subscriptions

    87 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  85. Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate, workers say

    87 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  86. Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)

    87 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  87. The Automated Dungeon Master

    87 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  88. The phases product teams go through

    86 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  89. Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility

    86 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  90. A review of the effects of installing air filters in classrooms

    86 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  91. AGPL License

    86 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  92. Particle accelerator fits on the head of a pin

    86 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  93. Machine Unlearning

    86 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  94. A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900

    86 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  95. VidGear: Video processing library for Python lovers

    86 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  96. Shenzhen court rules AI-written article has copyright

    86 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  97. Beware the Mean

    86 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  98. Hacking a job search with fifty dollars of free LinkedIn credit

    86 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  99. FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral interview questions

    86 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  100. David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades

    85 points • comment • jan 26, 2020