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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

DEA seized father’s life savings at airport without alleging any crime occurred
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
F-Droid at 36c3
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook
54 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Show HN: A pure reference counting GC in Go
54 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman Compared Reporters to Sexual Predators
54 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Good times create weak men
54 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Real-Time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python
53 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Auto-cpufreq – Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
The Oldest Living Civilization (1944)
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
List of Prolific Writers
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
.NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
A Decade of London in Google Street View
53 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
‘Buffett Indicator’ Warns Stocks Doomed for Worse Crash Than 2008
53 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster
53 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Xenobot, a new kind of programmable organism
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Team USA Trainer Rob on Reddit about Kobe's work ethic 6 years ago
53 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Show HN: Build your own ridesharing, gig, on-demand apps Firebase and HyperTrack
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Stuxnet
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release
53 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
A Simple Way to Setup/Build/Deploy React App and API on GKE/Kubernetes
53 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Clifford torus
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference to Find More Welcoming Location
53 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Associations between intelligence and childlessness in men (2019) [pdf]
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
She was a star of New York real estate, but her life story was a lie
53 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
My butthole has been a location on Facebook since 2012 and I can’t get it remove
53 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
9-gigapixel image of the Milky Way contains 84M stars
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Unprecedented Teamwork Repairs Collapsed Freeway in Record Time (2007)
52 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Google Reaches 1T in market value
52 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Show HN: Get a Kubernetes LoadBalancer where you never thought it was possible
52 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
.NET Core, .NET 5; the Exodus of .NET Framework?
52 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Iran Air Flight 655 (Wikipedia)
52 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
U.K. Police Will Soon Be Able to Search Through U.S. Data Without Asking a Judge
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
High-tax states are losing people, money and seats in Congress
52 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Who Is Titian? Exploring the Life and Art of the Renaissance Master of Color
52 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
GDB Custom Commands: Dynamic Arrays
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Ask HN: How do you handle conflicts with your peers?
52 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
52 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Time to Stop the ‘Doomsday Clock’. – Lawrence M. Krauss
52 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds
52 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Making Slide Shows with Ffmpeg
52 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping
52 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Plastic pollution: 'Hidden' chemicals build up in seabirds
52 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Mural Raises $23M to Reimagine Visual Collaboration
52 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Uncalendar Review (2015)
52 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Bash-my-AWS – simple CLI commands for managing AWS resources
52 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Omnieq: Credit Spread Scanner
51 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Tree planting is a great idea that could become a dangerous climate distraction
51 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
K (2005)
51 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
A plant that seems to remember (2015)
51 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
How to Port from Python 2 to Python 3 (2019)
51 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Precision Opportunities for Demanded Bits in LLVM
51 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
What Neapolitans understand about death (better than most)
51 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Two Years Not Ten Years: Redesigning Infrastructure Approvals [pdf]
51 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Novel Coronavirus situation reports
51 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America
51 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
A stiff sentence: redacting Julian Assange from the record
51 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
A Look at Celerity’s Second-Gen 496-Core RISC-V Mesh NoC
51 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Ships, Bananas, Logistics, Math and a Big Dose of Engineering
51 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Synchronization gear
51 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
How to Learn How to Surf [video]
51 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Firefox considering off-by-default preference for loading user.js files
51 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Chaos Mesh: a chaos engineering solution to system resilience on Kubernetes
50 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
OpenWrt 19.07.0 first stable release
50 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets
50 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Top Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Killed on Trump’s Orders, Officials Say
50 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Library Science Helped Me Understand Databases
50 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Is M-Pesa Kenyan or British? (2017)
50 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Ottawa Library fines people using unreliable automatic calling system (1994)
50 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
New Safe Memory Reclamation Feature in UMA
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Stannard Rock Light
50 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Facebook is running anti-vax ads, despite its ban on vaccine misinformation
50 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Memory Management Reference (2018)
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Espanso: Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust
50 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Intellectual Humility
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Wealth is what you don't spend
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora (2014)
50 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Sonos: Working with big tech sucks
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Show HN: html-vault – create self-contained HTML for password protected content
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Disprove quantum immortality without risking your life (2019)
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
ShellHub enables teams to easily access any Linux device behind firewall and NAT
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’?
49 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective
49 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out"
49 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Tell HN: YC is hosting a Work at a Startup Expo in Los Angeles on March 7
49 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Myths about Diabetes
49 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Paid protesters supporting Meng Wanzhou at her extradition hearing
49 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Emacs Tools for Screenplays (2014)
49 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
49 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
49 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Fungal Architecture
49 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Cash registers in Poland fail due to new year bug (PL)
49 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation
49 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited
49 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Android programming, looking for good guides for beginners
48 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
A Bright Future for Moore’s Law?
48 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Boeing 737 Max: Worker said plane 'designed by clowns'
48 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Gmail of an old man with 0 mails blocked
48 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?
48 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
How hard can it be to move our developer account to our new not-for-profit?
48 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
How to Do Code Reviews
48 points • comment • jan 24, 2020