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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. The famous Peter Thiel interview question

    69 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  2. Understanding Memory Cards

    69 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  3. GNU Typist (2017)

    68 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  4. Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  5. Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago

    68 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  6. Noether’s Theorem – A Quick Explanation (2019)

    68 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  7. D for Data Science: Calling R from D

    68 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  8. A Proof of Useful Work for Artificial Intelligence on the Blockchain

    68 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  9. The world is not enough

    68 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  10. Ask HN: My Suspicion Regarding “M247 Ltd”

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  11. Toronto area sent nuclear alerts by mistake

    68 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  12. SoftBank is still writing big checks

    68 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  13. The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls

    68 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  14. The music moves us, but how? (2018)

    68 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  15. Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new crypto license

    68 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  16. Average Denuvo cracking time is now 75 days

    68 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  17. Job Tenure and the Myth of Job Hopping

    68 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  18. US feds, states could join forces on Google probes: report

    67 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  19. Satellaview

    67 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  20. The other side of technical skill: domain knowledge and long-term vision

    67 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  21. Why So Many Londoners Live in 'Two-Up, Two-Down' Housing

    67 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  22. Directsum.jl – Abstract tangent bundle vector space type operations

    67 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  23. Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization

    67 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  24. Glacier National Park to remove all 'glaciers will be gone by 2020' signs

    67 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  25. Comments on the MISRA C coding guidelines (2011)

    67 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  26. Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Gray Matter Volume

    67 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  27. 23andMe licenses its own drug compound to Spanish firm Almirall

    66 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  28. DAIN: Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation

    66 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  29. Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake

    66 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  30. Announcing RDS/Aurora Snapshot Export to S3

    66 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  31. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel

    66 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  32. Show HN: Pong in 512 bytes (boot sector)

    66 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  33. The Swinging 1660s

    66 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  34. Climate Target Update Tracker

    66 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  35. Are Daily Scrum meetings worth it?

    66 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  36. Show HN: A keyboard shortcut library for React

    66 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  37. Green Wave

    66 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  38. The two party system is killing our democracy

    65 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  39. The Qt Company is stopping Qt LTS releases. KDE is going to be fine

    65 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  40. Tabula Scripta: A spreadsheet for small data-driven apps

    65 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  41. Self_update: In-place updates for Rust executables

    65 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  42. On Composition (2019)

    65 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  43. The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents'

    65 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  44. Kids do program – Experiences from the course

    65 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  45. Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution

    65 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  46. Privacy implications of the QUIC protocol [pdf]

    65 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  47. Kops – Kubernetes Operations

    65 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  48. The Mac Malware of 2019

    65 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  49. Boeing Backs Simulator Training for 737 Max Pilots in Reversal

    65 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  50. Towards fungal computer (2018)

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  51. Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio

    64 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  52. Napoleon’s Vision for a New Imperial Rome

    64 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  53. Show HN: Study, research and learn with thinking notebook – MindForger 1.50.0

    64 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  54. Doug Tygar, author of Why Johnny Can't Encrypt, has died

    64 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  55. U.S. retailers rush to comply with CCPA

    64 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  56. Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (2016)

    64 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  57. Glot.io – An open source multi-lang pastebin with runnable snippets and API

    64 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  58. TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges

    64 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  59. Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness

    64 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  60. Nearly half of Americans didn’t go outside for recreation in 2018

    63 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  61. Some learning is a whole-brain affair, study shows

    63 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  62. Robotic gripper uses acoustic levitation for contact-free manipulation

    63 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  63. Study finds dopamine, biological clock link to snacking, overeating and obesity

    63 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  64. I Started a $80K/Month Business Connecting Freelancers with Companies

    63 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  65. There are too many screens, time to go back to gauges

    63 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  66. How did British officers live in the scorching heat of India?

    63 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  67. Mount Vesuvius eruption: Extreme heat 'turned man's brain to glass'

    63 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  68. Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a bad idea

    63 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  69. NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework

    62 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  70. First Node.js-Based Ransomware: Nodera

    62 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  71. Comac engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the engines

    62 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  72. Playdate – December 2019 Update

    62 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  73. Backblaze acknowledges using curl, becomes the new largest single-shot donor

    62 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  74. Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll

    62 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  75. Show HN: Sandy – A tiny Sandbox to run untrusted code ️

    62 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  76. Von Neumann and Turing's Universal Machine

    62 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  77. Reusable vs. Re-editable Code (2018) [pdf]

    62 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  78. Barn Find MOS MCS6502 – A Restoration

    62 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  79. Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed at increasing opioid use

    62 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  80. More Than 750M Worldwide Would Migrate If They Could

    62 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  81. RedHat urges US Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces

    62 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  82. Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change

    61 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  83. Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4

    61 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  84. Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white'

    61 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  85. Police tracked a terror suspect until his phone went dark after Facebook warning

    61 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  86. Five methods for Filtering data with multiple conditions in Python

    61 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  87. Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?

    61 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  88. I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later

    61 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  89. Microsoft had shifted at least $39B in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico

    61 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  90. Schöningen Spears

    61 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  91. Blazor Mobile, Uno Platform, and WebAssembly

    61 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  92. Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git

    61 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  93. Time-Lock Encryption (2011)

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  94. Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks

    61 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  95. A simple C++11 thread pool implementation

    61 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  96. Hackett, a Haskell-Like Lisp in Racket

    61 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  97. The Trapper Keeper (2017)

    61 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  98. Polyphonic overtone singing explained visually (2014) [video]

    61 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  99. How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case

    61 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  100. Technology Will Soon Give Us Precise Control Over Our Brains and Genes?

    61 points • comment • jan 06, 2020