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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Hootsuite CEO terminating contract with ICE

    100 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  2. A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving

    100 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  3. Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)

    100 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  4. Fuck You Startup World

    100 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  5. April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]

    100 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  6. Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)

    100 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  7. URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web

    100 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

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

    100 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  9. Principles for Better Design

    100 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  10. A Brief Explanation of Greg Egan’s Dust Theory

    100 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  11. Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam

    100 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  12. FinCEN Files: HSBC moved Ponzi scheme millions despite warning

    100 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  13. Database Version Control with Liquibase

    100 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  14. Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (2008)

    100 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  15. Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45

    100 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  16. Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

    99 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  17. How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?

    99 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  18. How to Hide a Billion Dollars: Three Techniques the Ultrarich Use to Dodge Ex-Sp

    99 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  19. How to blur your house on Google Street View

    99 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  20. U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent

    99 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  21. Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?

    99 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  22. TIC-80 version 0.80

    99 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  23. Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century

    99 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  24. TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000

    99 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  25. Chromecast with Google TV

    99 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  26. Fluid framework, for building distributed, real-time collaborative web apps

    99 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  27. A controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals

    99 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  28. Amnesty International to halt India operations

    99 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  29. Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use

    99 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  30. DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian

    98 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  31. Sattolo's Algorithm (2017)

    98 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  32. Steve Jobs and the usable computer (2011)

    98 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  33. Tracking Mixed Bitcoins

    98 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  34. The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger

    98 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  35. Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas

    98 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  36. A bank security check that leaves you guessing your own name

    98 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  37. Best Practices for Testing in Java (2019)

    98 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  38. Show HN: O'Doyle Rules – a new rules engine for Clojure

    97 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  39. Anecdotes from Donald Knuth and Robert Tarjan

    97 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  40. Freeman Dyson’s letters offer another glimpse of genius

    97 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  41. Algorithms are changing what we read online

    97 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  42. Original Bessemer Investment Memos for Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, Pinterest

    97 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  43. Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)

    97 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  44. Communicating with Interactive Articles

    97 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  45. Introduction to Computer Graphics Online Textbook (2018)

    97 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  46. Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage

    96 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  47. Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54

    96 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  48. Albuquerque Police Engaged in Secret Intelligence Gathering Operation

    96 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  49. LibreOffice 7.1

    96 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  50. Show HN: Bit Serial CPU

    96 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  51. The missing harm of manual dispatch in Julia

    96 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  52. OOP: History, and challenges for the next fifty years (2013)

    96 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  53. A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen (2018)

    95 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  54. NASA Funded Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Propellantless Propulsion

    95 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  55. United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf]

    95 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  56. Throw away code

    95 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  57. Simple WireGuard Docker network setup

    95 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  58. The Unix `Who` Command

    95 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  59. The Expression Problem

    95 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  60. Physics is stuck

    95 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  61. Data-Oriented Programming in Python

    95 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  62. Astrophysicists detect the strongest magnetic field in the universe

    95 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  63. The 10,000 Year Clock

    95 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  64. GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms

    95 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  65. What motivates the authors of video game walkthroughs and FAQs?

    95 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  66. What happened to all the non-programmers? (2015)

    95 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  67. Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving Capability' Falls Short of Its Name

    94 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  68. Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?

    94 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  69. Ask HN: How can I prevent myself from being doxxed?

    94 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  70. Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic

    94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  71. Humankind neither nasty nor brutish

    94 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  72. When feature flags do and don’t make sense (2019)

    94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  73. North Pacific Logbook

    94 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  74. Debian-installer, mdadm configuration and the Bad Blocks Controversy

    94 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  75. Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook

    94 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  76. U.S. Google antitrust case set to expand with GOP states joining

    94 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  77. Mainline Linux on the MikroTik RB3011

    94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  78. High school student leads archaeologists to lost Inca settlement

    94 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  79. Show HN: Play Battleships on PostgreSQL

    93 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  80. Mystery seeds: Amazon bans foreign plant sales in US

    93 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  81. Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current

    93 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  82. Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 (2019)

    93 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  83. Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API

    93 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  84. Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools

    93 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  85. ZEROe: Hydrogen-hybrid aircraft concept

    93 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  86. Microsoft Has a Large Presence at This Year's X.org Conference

    93 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  87. Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to be impossible

    93 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  88. Jack Sharp works of amateur photographer circa 1950-1970

    92 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  89. A Meta-Layer for Notes

    92 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  90. Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle (2016)

    92 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  91. Jitsi’s Emil Ivov on scaling up during a pandemic

    92 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  92. You have turned Google Chrome into IE

    92 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  93. Show HN: Erlang code generator for Idris 2

    92 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  94. The Black Vault: A FOIA obsessive’s UFO-filled empire

    92 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  95. As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

    92 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  96. Home Server Room Power Upgrade and Multi-Room UPS

    92 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  97. Apple announces Apple One subscription bundle for Music, TV Plus, and more

    92 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  98. Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data

    92 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  99. Show HN: Single neuron neural network written in COBOL

    92 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  100. U.S. Financial Regulator and Banks Urge Action on Climate

    92 points • comment • sep 10, 2020