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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Apple Touch Bar is so useless, this guy decided to adopt a pet in it

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Why did you quit your job(s)?

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  3. AI Generated Voices

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  4. Outlaw Universities – Discrimination in Academia

    7 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  5. Python ' =' Is Not 'Is Not': Comparing Objects in Python

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  6. The Polygons of Another World

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  7. Ask HN: Jupyter-like notebook for technical communicators?

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  8. Linear Regression in C with comments (in case someone wants to try out)

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  9. The Power of Types for Errors

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  10. SEC in Your DevOps: Adding the OWASP Dependency Check to Your Jenkins Pipeline

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  11. Elon Musk Shares Starship Details Including 20-30 year service life

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  12. Persistant SSH Threats?

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  13. Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? [pdf]

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  14. Ask HN: Why Are There `Remote: Only US` or `Remote: Only Europe` Jobs?

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  15. The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android phone runs well -- for a beta

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  16. Intel is prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but needs AMD CPUs to test them

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  17. Big O notations that every developer should know about

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  18. Mathematical languages shape our understanding of time in physics

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  19. Subverting a password checker with a pair of scissors (2015)

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  20. Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 [pdf]

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  21. Production-Ready Kappa Architecture for Timely Data Stream Processing

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  22. Signal in LIGO/Virgo Data. Found by a Burst Search

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  23. WhatsApp backs off controversial plan to sell ads

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  24. 2020’s new emoji include the transgender flag and more gender-inclusive options

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  25. ISS one-take hour-long video tour shot by astronauts earlier this year

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  26. Only the Government Can Save Us from Clearview A.I

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  27. With Coronavrus in the News, We Must Also Be Aware of Chronic Wasting Disease

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  28. Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  29. Black Shark 5G Will Be the World’s First Phone with 16GB RAM

    7 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  30. We Owe Food Regulation to a 19th-Century Chemist Who Poisoned His Colleagues

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  31. Mexico: Defender of monarch butterflies found dead two weeks after he vanished

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  32. Remote Kubernetes Development with Garden – The Best of Both Worlds

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  33. Interview with the CEO Who Wrote Viral Job Ad for “Household Manager/Cook/Nanny”

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  34. Rural Venezuela Crumbles as President Shores Up the Capital and His Power

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  35. Deaths Surpass 200, and State Department Urges Against Travel to China

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  36. Elon Musk: Tesla's Full Self-Driving 'Feature-Complete' Is Coming 'Soon'

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  37. DHS Starts Collecting DNA from Some Detainees at US Border

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  38. Is It Unhealthy That I Paid My Best Friend to Have Sex with Me?

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  39. AT&T Refusing to Connect Calls to Freeconference.com – Misses FCC Deadline

    7 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  40. The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  41. Show HN: Blendful–Crowdfunding for Pesticide Testing on Your Favorite Foods

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  42. WHO declares the new coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  43. The Future of America's Contest with China

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  44. Against Unnecessary Databases

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  45. How Seamless, Grubhub, and Yelp are Defrauding us

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  46. Burial in Kenya as Titles to Land

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  47. The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com

    7 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  48. Open-source software judges accuracy of computer predictions of cancer genetics

    7 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  49. Boeing addresses new 737MAX software issue that could keep plane grounded longer

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  50. REST or GraphQL? A Simple Answer

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  51. TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch

    7 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  52. Apple is testing a way to completely turn off location tracking in iOS

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  53. New study finds psychedelics result in lasting increases in nature relatedness

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  54. Facebook exec: we got Trump elected, and we shouldn’t stop him in 2020

    7 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  55. Blue-Green Deployments and Immutable Infrastructure

    7 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  56. Gwyneth Paltrow Is Insane and Goop Is Hurting Everyone

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  57. Ask HN: What data points do POS systems send to Credit Card Companies / Banks?

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  58. London Police to deploy facial recognition cameras

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  59. Building Containers Without Docker

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  60. Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist (2013)

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  61. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring January 2020

    7 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  62. Kube Explained: Part 2 – Containers

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  63. Biodiversity alters strategies of bacterial evolution

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  64. Show HN: Dynamically trace go programs with eBPF

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  65. Bernie Sanders – bill blocking funding for war without congressional permission

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  66. Iran admits shooting down Ukrainian airliner 'unintentionally'

    7 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  67. Bleath Gill: Whatever Happened to the Heroes? (2011)

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  68. The PARA method for organizing digital information

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  69. Show HN: A tiny brainfuck interpreter written in Rust

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  70. How Birmingham council bluffed European Commission to build Symphony Hall (2014)

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  71. Near-Infinite-Lasting Power Sources Could Derive from Nuclear Waste

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  72. Australia fires portend a future of climate apartheid

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  73. Wuhan coronavirus death toll rises to 17 with 547 infected says China

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  74. Presentations from AI Experts in 2019

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  75. CDC issues quarantine for first time in 50 years to Wuhan passengers in CA

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  76. What Is the Future of Podcasting?

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  77. Airbnb patents AI that judges if you have neuroticism, narcissism, psychopathy

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  78. Schedule a Python Script to Run Daily

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  79. Rocket League Is Ending Support for macOS and Linux

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  80. Microsoft update for Office 365 makes Bing default search engine in Chrome

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  81. Summary of Jeff Bezos' 1998 letter to shareholders – customer-focused

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  82. The rise of digital brands using snail mail (2018)

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  83. E INK smartphones will be the big new trend of 2020

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  84. Ask HN: How do you store your tax documents?

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  85. Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning caching strategies?

    7 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  86. The TeX Pestilence (Why TeX/LaTeX Sucks)

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  87. A Polished and Not-at-All Half-Baked Take on Static vs. Dynamic Typing

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  88. What Is Blended Learning Training

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  89. Scientists Witnessed a Dead Star ‘Dragging’ the Fabric of Reality

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  90. The English Wikipedia has reached 6M articles

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  91. Things you can do with a browser in 2020

    7 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  92. Mathematicians have solved traffic jams, and they’re begging cities to listen

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  93. Modeling what would happen to the UK if the Gulf Stream shuts down

    7 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  94. Contracted Earnings Reports Signal Impending US Recession

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  95. Illinois governor clears thousands of marijuana convictions (2019)

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  96. Ask HN: How to Work for Equity

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  97. Support for Windows 7 has ended

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  98. Daffodils and Telephone Directories

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  99. Boris Johnson gives green light for Huawei 5G infrastructure role

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  100. Ask HN: How surface-to-air missile can be fired unintentionally not deliberately

    7 points • comment • jan 10, 2020