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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Hotels of Pyongyang

    110 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  2. Designing Up Banking

    110 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  3. How the CPython compiler works

    110 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  4. Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons

    110 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  5. The economics of the Tour de France

    110 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  6. Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power

    110 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  7. Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

    110 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?

    110 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  9. Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation

    110 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  10. Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo

    109 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  11. Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)

    109 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  12. Fourier Filtering

    109 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  13. We Still Need Howard Zinn

    109 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  14. Really Atari ST?

    109 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  15. How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home

    109 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  16. AWS Boilerplate

    109 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  17. Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)

    109 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  18. The Treachery of Image Files

    108 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  19. Sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector

    108 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  20. How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]

    108 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  21. ACLU sues Palo Alto over ‘unconstitutional’ restrictions at residents-only park

    108 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  22. The case for comments in code

    108 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  23. Oysters That Knew What Time It Was

    108 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  24. Show HN: Automated Health Dashboard

    108 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  25. ByteDance won't sell TikTok U.S. operations to Oracle or Microsoft: CGTN

    108 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  26. Ask HN: Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives

    108 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  27. Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World

    107 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  28. Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments

    107 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  29. Pinegrow: Multi Platform HTML / CSS / JavaScript GUI

    107 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  30. Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server

    107 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  31. A New Back End for Cranelift: Instruction Selection

    107 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  32. The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature

    107 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  33. Urkel – authenticated key-value store written in C

    107 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  34. How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?

    107 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  35. Largest multi-city traffic dataset available

    107 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  36. How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks

    107 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  37. TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024

    106 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  38. Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice

    106 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  39. Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy

    106 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  40. I don’t have time for coding challenges

    106 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  41. A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons

    106 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  42. When Math Gets Impossibly Hard

    106 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?

    106 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  44. Toilets in a Medieval Castle (2018)

    106 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  45. Pachyderm Hub: data science without the hassle of managing infrastructure

    106 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  46. 5D chess game where pieces time travel

    106 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  47. Regenerative Dentistry Breakthrough: Biological Therapy for Damaged Teeth

    106 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  48. Decision Table Patterns

    106 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  49. Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments?

    106 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  50. Make Him a Suspect: Rochester PD's Response to Killing of an Unarmed Black Man

    105 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  51. Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Libraries (2017)

    105 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  52. Something funny is about to happen to some prices

    105 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  53. Julia Child Cooks Primordial Soup (1973) [video]

    105 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  54. Show HN: How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI

    105 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  55. Specially made gloves let Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins play again

    105 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  56. Fintech in Chains

    105 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  57. New England's Dark Day

    105 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  58. Myth-busting article about radiation hardened microchips for space applications

    105 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  59. Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men

    104 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  60. Getting paid not to use Facebook

    104 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  61. You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English

    104 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  62. Bitwarden leaks passwords to other subdomains

    104 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  63. Scorpion Transforming Computer Chair

    104 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  64. Show HN: Life Calendar – Your Life in Weeks

    104 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  65. They told you not to reply (2008)

    104 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  66. Writing an Efficient Vulkan Renderer

    104 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  67. The Last Gunsmiths of the Khyber Pass

    104 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  68. The Powder Toy

    104 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  69. Diversity-Related Training Meta-analysis

    104 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  70. 120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia

    104 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  71. First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

    104 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  72. How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

    103 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  73. Pac-Man Maze Generation

    103 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  74. Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work

    103 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  75. Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial

    103 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  76. Louisiana voter registration portal mysteriously shuts down on Registration Day

    103 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  77. Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly

    103 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  78. Read Fewer Books

    103 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  79. Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (2013)

    102 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  80. Next-Level SSD Performance – Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Review

    102 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  81. Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression [pdf]

    102 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  82. 3D Realms announces Graven, the spiritual successor to Hexen II

    102 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  83. Using a Raspberry Pi to Add MIDI to a CV Synthesizer

    102 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  84. What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too

    102 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  85. You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript [video]

    102 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  86. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

    102 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  87. Randomized Living

    102 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  88. A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020

    102 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  89. New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2

    102 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  90. Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)

    101 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  91. Latin in the Voynich Manuscript

    101 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  92. Charge more for app subscriptions

    101 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  93. Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk

    101 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  94. Ask HN: Where to meet non-technical cofounders?

    101 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  95. Researchers identify new type of superconductor

    101 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  96. A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science

    101 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  97. More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy

    101 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  98. Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award

    101 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  99. DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX

    100 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  100. Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090

    100 points • comment • sep 29, 2020