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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money

    313 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  2. How is search so bad? A case study

    312 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  3. How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

    312 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  4. Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month

    310 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  5. A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code

    310 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  6. The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City

    309 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  7. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets

    307 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  8. Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System

    307 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  9. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

    306 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  10. Hacker News Classics (2018)

    305 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  11. Lisping at JPL (2002)

    304 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  12. Bash $* and $@ (2017)

    304 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  13. Haters

    304 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  14. CollegeHumor shuts down

    304 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  15. Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway

    304 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  16. First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S.

    304 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  17. Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust

    304 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  18. TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex

    303 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  19. U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams

    303 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  20. Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it

    303 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  21. RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation

    302 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  22. Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me

    302 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  23. Let's Reverse Engineer Discord

    302 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  24. NOAA Satellites Helped Save a Record 421 Lives in 2019

    301 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  25. Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US

    301 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  26. How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

    301 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  27. Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

    300 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  28. Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics

    300 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  29. Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall

    300 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  30. Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript

    298 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  31. Coding Interview Problems with Detailed Solutions, Test Cases, Program Analysis

    298 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  32. 3D Buzz is shutting down

    297 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  33. CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

    297 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  34. Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam

    296 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  35. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

    296 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  36. Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger

    295 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  37. WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

    295 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  38. Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?

    294 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  39. Design Tips for Developers

    292 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  40. Academic Torrents

    291 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  41. How to Find New Music

    291 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  42. How to make roguelike games in Rust

    291 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  43. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support

    288 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  44. California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate

    288 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  45. Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards

    287 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  46. Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age

    287 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  47. Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor

    287 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  48. Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”

    286 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  49. Thunderbird’s New Home

    286 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  50. Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)

    285 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  51. FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law

    285 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  52. MirageJS: An API mocking library for frontend development

    284 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  53. For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests

    284 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  54. KnightOS was an interesting operating system

    283 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  55. Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

    282 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  56. How I make $400/month with my technical eBook

    282 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  57. Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?

    282 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  58. iOS 13's Music App Sucks

    281 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  59. Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

    281 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  60. Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English

    280 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  61. Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

    280 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  62. Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

    280 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  63. The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

    279 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  64. Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass

    279 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  65. Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]

    277 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  66. Ask HN: I think I’ve burnt out. What should I do?

    277 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  67. How strong is your knot?

    277 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  68. A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript

    276 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  69. Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years

    276 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  70. Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit

    276 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  71. The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo

    276 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  72. Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’

    275 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  73. Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete

    274 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  74. South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon

    274 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  75. U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says

    274 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  76. AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue

    274 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  77. CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)

    273 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  78. SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets

    273 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  79. HTTP static server one-liners

    273 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  80. PHP in 2020

    273 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  81. A list of places to post about your startup/launch

    273 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  82. Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)

    273 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  83. Layoffs hit Quora

    272 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  84. SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24

    272 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  85. A Tour of Standard ML

    272 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  86. Happy New Year HN!

    271 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  87. Show HN: Binarysearch.io – Learn Algorithms Together

    271 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  88. Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube

    271 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  89. Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink

    270 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  90. Ted versus The Media Lab [video]

    270 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  91. Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It

    270 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  92. A watershed moment for protein structure prediction

    270 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  93. Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs

    269 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  94. Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines

    269 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  95. Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?

    269 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  96. What is Rust and why is it so popular?

    268 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  97. State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization

    268 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  98. MIT 6.004: Computation Structures

    268 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  99. Bruce Schneier: Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough

    267 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  100. SpiderFoot: OSINT collection and reconnaissance tool

    267 points • comment • jan 31, 2020