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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

    266 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  2. Anatomy of a Scam

    265 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  3. New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

    264 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  4. PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee

    264 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  5. Loudness war

    264 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  6. The Infinite Loop That Wasn't

    262 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  7. Life Is Driven by Network Effects

    262 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  8. Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)

    262 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  9. Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers

    261 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  10. Recover HD Using a Magnet

    260 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  11. Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

    260 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  12. The Unison language

    260 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  13. A harassment campaign on Goodreads

    260 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  14. Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser

    260 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  15. A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain

    258 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  16. DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

    258 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  17. Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team

    258 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  18. Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging

    258 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  19. Porting Quake to the iPod Classic

    258 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  20. I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

    257 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  21. MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983

    256 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  22. Who wants to play the status game?

    256 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  23. Progress of anti-aging therapies by clinical trial stage

    254 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  24. Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game

    254 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  25. Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

    254 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  26. Did you ever need to run a piece of C# code on Windows 3.11?

    254 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  27. EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard

    253 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  28. Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations

    253 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  29. Wine 5.0

    253 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  30. Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source

    252 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  31. The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (1897)

    251 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  32. U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban

    250 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  33. LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them

    248 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  34. Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware

    248 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  35. Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?

    248 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  36. Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition

    248 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  37. A 60 GHz phased array for $10

    247 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  38. Retiring Internet Explorer

    246 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  39. The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)

    246 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  40. _NSAKEY

    246 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  41. State of Independent SaaS [pdf]

    246 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  42. Show HN: Thinc, a new deep learning library by the makers of spaCy and FastAPI

    245 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  43. OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR

    245 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  44. Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

    244 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  45. Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

    244 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  46. Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry

    244 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  47. How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing

    244 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  48. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left

    244 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  49. Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"

    243 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  50. SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

    243 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  51. Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem

    243 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  52. I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (2015)

    243 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  53. Master of Orion

    242 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  54. AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th

    242 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  55. Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body

    242 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  56. The spine of San Francisco is now car-free

    242 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  57. Vine founder launches TikTok competitor

    241 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  58. How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage

    241 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  59. On Privacy versus Freedom

    241 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  60. Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

    240 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  61. The Light Phone

    239 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  62. Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI [video]

    239 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  63. Alone in a Crowded Milky Way

    239 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  64. Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project

    239 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  65. How I automate my home

    239 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  66. Cello – High Level C

    239 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  67. Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices

    239 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  68. A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math

    239 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  69. The Edge of Emulation

    239 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  70. Clojure for the Erlang VM

    239 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  71. The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

    239 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  72. How to stay private when using Android

    238 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  73. Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if lands on specific runways

    238 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  74. Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)

    238 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  75. Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US

    237 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  76. Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]

    237 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  77. Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch

    237 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  78. Google App Maker Shutting Down

    237 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  79. Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit

    236 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  80. UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange

    236 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  81. The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)

    236 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  82. A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties

    235 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  83. Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App

    235 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  84. Ways of Implementing a System Call

    235 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  85. Libc++'s Implementation of std::string

    235 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  86. Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It

    235 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  87. The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history

    234 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  88. Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)

    234 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  89. Fancy Clojure REPL

    234 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  90. Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says

    232 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  91. Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims

    232 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  92. Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”

    232 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  93. FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case

    231 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  94. Pharo 8.0

    231 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  95. Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

    231 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  96. End-to-end double-ratchet encryption with epoch key exchange

    231 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  97. Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100

    231 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  98. A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

    231 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  99. ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs

    230 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  100. Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can damage undeveloped film

    230 points • comment • jan 29, 2020