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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Elixir lang 1.10.0-rc0

    229 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  2. Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)

    229 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  3. Injecting the flu vaccine into a tumor gets the immune system to attack it

    229 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  4. UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders

    229 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  5. Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?

    229 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  6. How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance

    228 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  7. How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)

    228 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  8. Boltzmann Brain

    228 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  9. Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism

    228 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  10. Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop

    228 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  11. America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign

    228 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  12. Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years

    227 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  13. How scientists across three continents produced an Ebola vaccine

    227 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  14. A guide to freelancing in Finland

    226 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  15. C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master

    226 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  16. Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

    226 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  17. Online speech recognition with wav2letter anywhere

    225 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  18. What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

    225 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  19. Towards a Rust Foundation

    225 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  20. Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous

    225 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  21. Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed

    223 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  22. It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

    223 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  23. Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day

    223 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  24. Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills from other people's homes

    223 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  25. Show HN: 1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater's 6502 Computer

    223 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  26. Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

    222 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  27. Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)

    221 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  28. How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (2018)

    221 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  29. The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense

    221 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  30. Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004

    221 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  31. Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says

    220 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  32. The Rust Compilation Model Calamity

    220 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  33. Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

    220 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  34. Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

    220 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  35. What to do if you’re stopped by the police

    220 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  36. Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz

    219 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  37. Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation

    219 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  38. Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head

    219 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  39. Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes

    219 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  40. Haskell Problems for a New Decade

    219 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  41. Security Architecture Anti-Patterns

    219 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  42. Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund

    218 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  43. Things that I think will be important in the next decade

    218 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  44. Show HN: Postgresqlco.nf: PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans

    218 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  45. Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

    218 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  46. SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase

    218 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  47. How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server

    218 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  48. Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate

    218 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  49. Lungs heal damage from smoking

    218 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  50. An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions

    218 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  51. AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates

    217 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  52. Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029

    217 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  53. Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress'

    216 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  54. We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers

    216 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  55. Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy

    216 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  56. RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python

    215 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  57. Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

    215 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  58. Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API

    215 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  59. Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3

    215 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  60. Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

    215 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  61. Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React

    215 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  62. Comma Two Devkit

    215 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  63. The End of the Bonus Culture Is Coming to Wall Street?

    214 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  64. Show HN: Cantools – an extensive set of CAN bus tools

    214 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  65. US pressured Dutch Safety Board to downplay tech faults in 2009 Boeing 737 crash

    214 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  66. Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert

    214 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  67. Mozilla says a new Firefox security bug is under active attack

    213 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  68. All Sonos products will continue to work past May

    212 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  69. Show HN: Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter

    212 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  70. Ask HN: How do you process payments?

    212 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  71. Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll

    211 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  72. Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

    211 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  73. Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch

    210 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  74. Ring fired employees for watching customer videos

    209 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  75. Building a walkie-talkie for remote work

    209 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  76. Impossible Pork

    209 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  77. ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC

    209 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  78. Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast

    208 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  79. Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)

    208 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  80. A Sick Giant

    208 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  81. All ProtonVPN apps are now open source and audited

    208 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  82. Report on the Bezos Phone Hack [pdf]

    207 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  83. CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom

    206 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  84. U.S. to let airlines limit service animals on planes

    206 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  85. Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data

    206 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  86. Gamedev Tutorial: Dot Product, Rulers, and Bouncing Balls

    206 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  87. Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems

    205 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  88. San Diego Awarded GE Mass Surveillance Contract Without Oversight

    205 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  89. Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

    205 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  90. Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030

    205 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  91. Let the Compiler Do the Work

    204 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  92. Coronavirus Real Time Map

    203 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  93. Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism

    203 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  94. U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions from CGT [pdf]

    203 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  95. TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites

    203 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  96. Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle

    203 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  97. Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you

    202 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  98. Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)

    202 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  99. Hello World

    201 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  100. SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years

    201 points • comment • jan 29, 2020