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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Hundreds of surveillance experiments along the U.S.-Mexico border

    162 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  2. Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI

    162 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  3. Rust DataBase Connectivity (RDBC)

    161 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  4. Developing GHC for a Living

    161 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  5. SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp

    161 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  6. How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video]

    161 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  7. Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral

    161 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  8. Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4

    161 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  9. U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years

    160 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  10. Preliminary analysis of 11 Novel Coronavirus genomes from the Wuhan outbreak

    160 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  11. Lessons Learned from Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide

    160 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  12. 'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus

    160 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  13. Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal

    160 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  14. Vulkan 1.2

    159 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  15. India’s about to hand people data Americans can only dream of

    159 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  16. Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations

    159 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  17. An Opinionated Guide to Machine Learning Research

    159 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  18. Pursuing a Business I'll Love

    158 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  19. Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier

    158 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  20. Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit

    158 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  21. Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?

    157 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  22. An update to 37-year-old MIDI

    157 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  23. Writing Software to Last 50 Years

    156 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  24. Vaping-related lung injuries primarily linked to black-market products

    156 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  25. Amiga Java

    156 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  26. Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?

    156 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  27. Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi

    156 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  28. Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore

    156 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  29. California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio

    155 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  30. Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers

    155 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  31. EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones

    155 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  32. Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo

    155 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  33. PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas

    154 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  34. Training GPT-2 to Play Chess

    154 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  35. Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67

    154 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  36. I'm building an open, crowdsourced database of ML models

    154 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  37. Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (2019)

    154 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  38. Web of Documents (2019)

    154 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  39. Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

    154 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  40. U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal

    153 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  41. Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?

    153 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  42. Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

    153 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  43. JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator

    152 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  44. Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades

    152 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  45. Who Says Tcl Rules?

    152 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  46. Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’

    152 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  47. U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy

    152 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  48. Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

    151 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  49. Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks

    151 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  50. Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails

    151 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  51. A fitness watch that measures blood pressure

    151 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  52. The Status of HTTP/3

    151 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  53. Proposals for Go 1.15

    151 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  54. 'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres

    151 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  55. Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain

    150 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  56. The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather

    150 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  57. Frank Abagnale on the death of the con artist and the rise of cybercrime

    150 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  58. Reformer, the Efficient Transformer

    150 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  59. Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia (2018)

    150 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  60. What Unix Cost Us [video]

    149 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  61. Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'

    149 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  62. How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online

    149 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  63. Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (2018)

    149 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  64. Scammers registering date-based domain names

    149 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  65. Table Detection and Extraction Using Deep Learning

    149 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  66. One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history

    148 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  67. Bees are essential to the almond industry, and billions are dying in the process

    148 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  68. CleverCSV: A Drop-In Replacement for Python's CSV Module

    148 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  69. Tesla races past $100B in market valuation

    148 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  70. Show HN: I combined Milligram, Skeleton, and Normalize into a single CSS project

    148 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  71. Three New Longevity Startups

    148 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  72. Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons

    148 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  73. Teen Vogue published and then deleted an uncritical story about Facebook

    148 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  74. Tradition Is Smarter (2018)

    147 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  75. Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers

    147 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  76. Chrome OS has stalled out

    147 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  77. DuckDuckGo Lite

    147 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  78. Show HN: Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

    147 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  79. Nestur: NES Emulator in Rust

    147 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  80. LInQer – C# Integrated Queries ported to Javascript

    146 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  81. Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia

    146 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  82. Trust Is at the Core of Software Marketing

    146 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  83. Milvus – An Open-Source Vector Similarity Search Engine

    146 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  84. Air-Traffic Control Is in the Midst of a Major Change from Radar to GPS

    146 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  85. Sir Ian McKellen's Lord of the Rings Production Blogs

    146 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  86. Schema.org v6.0

    146 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  87. Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s?

    146 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  88. Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention

    145 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  89. Florida joins U.S. government in probing foreign ties of researchers

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  90. Second Travel-Related Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Detected in United States

    145 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  91. Ending Support for macOS and Linux

    145 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  92. Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?

    145 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  93. Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'war cloud'

    145 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  94. The strange properties of the infinite power tower

    145 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  95. Decentralize Messaging

    145 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  96. Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  97. Clear and Present Leadership

    144 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  98. A Modern Introduction to Online Learning

    144 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  99. Tech’s Next Revolution Might Be Open Source Semiconductors

    144 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  100. Alan Turing’s stolen OBE, doctorate recovered in Colorado

    144 points • comment • jan 20, 2020