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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

'Spring forward' to daylight saving time brings surge in deadly crashes
24 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
From Manchester to Barcelona: Building a better story about the internet
24 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
A Hundred Years of Fellini
24 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Electric VTOL Aircraft News
24 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Apple Is an Internet Company
24 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Ask HN: Is there a markup language for forms?
24 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
2020 Habit Tracker Template (Free)
24 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Out of Control: How consumers are exploited by the adtech industry
24 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Ask HN: True Apartment Costs in SF?
24 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Climate change means the US must start building big things again
24 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
Frontier, an ISP in 29 states, plans to file for bankruptcy
24 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Inter-Networking
24 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Mysterious radio signal from space seems to have suddenly vanished
24 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation
24 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Coronavirus: Early estimate of epidemiology and epidemic predictions [pdf]
24 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
FEMA says it may bill fire victims if it can’t get $4B from PG&E
24 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
3 weeks writing code in Go
24 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
Linux Kernel's Scheduler Causing Issues for Google Stadia Game Developers
23 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Chart: Brexit Costs Nearly Match UK's Total EU Contributions
23 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Surprising Ways to Use the Digital Whiteboard to Explain Anything
23 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Complementary React Libraries in 2020
23 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Mathematical Fit: A Case Study (2016)
23 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Web front-end performance checklist 2020
23 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
The Great New England Vampire Panic (2012)
23 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
If Mac OS X has a secret shame, it's the Finder (2003)
23 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Sonos Sues Google: It wanted to sue Amazon but could only risk suing one
23 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Cigarette butts are polluting the ocean more than plastic straws
23 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We’ve terminated this account
23 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Pythagoras and the Mystery of Numbers (2011)
23 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
Things Americans need to learn from the rest of the world’s health care systems
23 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue
23 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
Business Plot
23 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
Disasters
23 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
“To Reach the Pure Realm of the Imaginary:” A Conversation with Cixin Liu
23 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
The AI Community Needs Fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
23 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
Xkcd: 4.5 Degrees
23 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
Jepsen Results against Etcd 3.4.3
23 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
Incels: America’s Newest Domestic Terrorism Threat
23 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Jim Lehrer, Longtime PBS News Anchor, Is Dead at 85
23 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Pgagroal: A high-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL
23 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
How to use your competition to predict the future of your market
23 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Ask HN: Started job 3 months ago...not going as planned
23 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
How Long Will Australia Be Livable?
23 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Instance-First Development (2004)
23 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Almost Everyone at CollegeHumor Lost Their Jobs Today
23 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Uber and Lyft approved in Vancouver, B.C., rollout coming in days
23 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Ars Technica's 2020 Tech Company Deathwatch
23 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript
23 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Instruments of Destruction: Project Management on the Death Star
23 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Dear Employee, We Don't Like the Car You Drive
23 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Cancer death rate posts biggest one-year drop ever
23 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty
23 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
The Value of a Byte in Cell Biology Research
23 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Visual neurons don’t work the way scientists thought
23 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
Leader-Follower (1999)
23 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
Ask HN: Where do you look for a remote part-time programming job? Do they exist?
23 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Breakdown of technical issues related to the crash of Kobe Bryant's helicopter
22 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Whole Exome Sequencing May Skip Large Segments of DNA
22 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
The Equality Conundrum: What kind of equality is good?
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue
22 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Show HN: Excalidraw – Sketch Hand-Drawn Like Diagrams
22 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Proposals for Go 1.15
22 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
A repertoire of math books from general math, college math to pure/applied math
22 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm
22 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
Cassowary – Modern cross-platform HTTP load-testing tool written in Go
22 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
People are calling SWAT teams to tech executives' homes
22 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
Show HN: Neon – Generative art piece made using 2D vector field
22 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
The joys of maintaining your own server
22 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
5G Underwhelms in Its First Big Test
22 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
Milk Fat Intake and Telomere Length in US Adults: The Role of Milk Fat Fraction
22 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
The Environmental Impact of Making Snow (2012)
22 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour
22 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Show HN: Chaskiq – an open source alternative to Intercom, Drift and others
22 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
2k drones light up night sky in Shanghai to welcome new year
22 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
The Farewell Address
22 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
23andMe sold the rights to a drug it developed from its genetic database
22 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
Dialogflow and Sendgrid = AI Mailbox
22 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Athlete’s Heart (2003)
22 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
Storm Oil
22 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
Yes, Ageism Is a Problem in Tech. But Vanity Is a Bigger One
22 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
Running a realistic factory honeypot to capture real threats [pdf]
22 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Texas Instruments to close two Dallas-area factories
22 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Blue light may not be as disruptive to our sleep patterns as originally thought
22 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
Iran has discovered an oil field with an estimated 53B barrels of crude
22 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of “Prozac Nation,” is dead at 52
22 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
systemE, a lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
22 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
Control-F and Building Resilient Information Networks
22 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Diagram as Code
22 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
The problem with parallelisation
22 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson
22 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
Study finds there is “no safe level” of pm2.5 air pollution
22 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
Show HN: Anytype – self-hosted open-source operating environment
22 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
Nuclear Power: Game over (2016) [pdf]
21 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
U.S. Believes Ukraine Plane Was Shot Down by Iran: U.S. Official
21 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
Tesla autopilot clips wing mirror of parked car
21 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
Calico Labs Publications
21 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
EFF Asks SCOTUS to Stop Broad Interpretations of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
21 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel, a Proudly Difficult Person
21 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
Docker Data Containers (2018)
21 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
How Transformers Work
21 points • comment • jan 05, 2020