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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Visa Buys Plaid

    531 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  2. Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

    530 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  3. California Attorney General delays .org sale

    530 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  4. U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report

    527 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  5. Firefox Multi-Account Containers

    522 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  6. The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org

    519 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  7. Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

    509 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  8. Pandas 1.0

    502 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  9. Dive into Deep Learning

    502 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  10. Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

    501 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  11. Am I Unique?

    497 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  12. Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

    494 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  13. The Internet of Beefs

    494 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  14. Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

    493 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  15. GNU Recutils

    493 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  16. Ask HN: Are books worth it?

    491 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  17. Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

    491 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  18. Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)

    490 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  19. Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

    490 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  20. Christopher Tolkien has died

    486 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  21. What happened to Mint?

    484 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  22. Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

    484 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  23. WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency

    483 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  24. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

    482 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  25. Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error

    482 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  26. Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

    482 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  27. SQLite Is Serverless

    481 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  28. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

    481 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  29. An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)

    478 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  30. US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019

    477 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  31. How I write back ends

    473 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  32. C Compiler from Scratch

    472 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  33. Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online

    470 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  34. GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data

    469 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  35. Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (2012) [pdf]

    468 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  36. Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming

    467 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  37. Hard deadlines are not user-first

    466 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  38. Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes

    464 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  39. JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers

    462 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  40. Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)

    459 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  41. Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy

    458 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  42. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

    456 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  43. Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python

    456 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  44. What Will Happen in the 2020s

    452 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  45. Translating Quake 3 into Rust

    449 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  46. New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law

    449 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  47. Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology

    448 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  48. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

    447 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  49. Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me

    443 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  50. Back pain is a problem which is badly treated

    443 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  51. Language Learning with Netflix extension

    443 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  52. The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

    442 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  53. Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction

    442 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  54. How to Invest in Startups

    436 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  55. Pantone 448 C

    436 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  56. Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

    436 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  57. Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer

    433 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  58. Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia

    433 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  59. AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs

    427 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  60. Lessons from six years as a solo consultant

    425 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  61. Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future

    424 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  62. Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable

    424 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  63. My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work

    423 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  64. Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study

    422 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  65. ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)

    421 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  66. Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack

    420 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  67. 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers

    419 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  68. Microsoft Application Inspector

    415 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  69. Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics

    414 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  70. How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

    413 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  71. Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019

    413 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  72. Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web

    412 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  73. Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

    411 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  74. I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M

    411 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  75. Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images

    410 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  76. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

    410 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  77. Show HN: A set of standard document templates

    409 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  78. Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

    409 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  79. A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

    408 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  80. Why Learn Awk? (2016)

    407 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  81. After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free

    407 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  82. Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s

    407 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  83. Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service

    406 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  84. Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives

    404 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  85. The Era of the Trident Engine

    404 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  86. 250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web

    404 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  87. Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?

    403 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  88. Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3

    402 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  89. Notes on Technical Writing

    400 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  90. Medications that change who we are

    399 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  91. I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS

    397 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  92. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)

    396 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  93. Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet

    395 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  94. Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon

    395 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  95. Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time

    394 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  96. Why are some things darker when wet?

    394 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  97. Why I Procrastinate (2019)

    392 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  98. How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

    392 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  99. New Cambridge Analytica Leaks

    391 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  100. Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?

    388 points • comment • jan 10, 2020