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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond

    91 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  2. # of days since the last alg=none JWT vulnerability

    91 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  3. AmazonBasics Electronics Fire Safety Investigation

    91 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  4. Half of All False Convictions in US Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct

    91 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  5. The Recovering Programmer (2010)

    91 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  6. Upsert anti-pattern in SQL Server

    91 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  7. The Art of Automation

    91 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  8. SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video]

    91 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  9. Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums 2003 vs. 2012 vs. 2020

    90 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  10. Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3

    90 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  11. Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions

    90 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  12. US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars

    90 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  13. Ask HN: I am “trapped” in a senior engineering role, how can I escape?

    90 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  14. Nikola Denies 'Fraud' Allegations, Threatens Legal Action Against Short-Sellers

    90 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  15. ESP32 based old clock controller, with NTP sync

    90 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  16. SensibleSideButtons – side navigation for third-party mice in macOS

    90 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  17. Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture [pdf]

    90 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  18. CubeSat interplanetary exploration is heating up

    90 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  19. Advancing NLP with Efficient Projection-Based Model Architectures

    90 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  20. New Hubble data suggests an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories

    90 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  21. Piratebay.org Now Being Used to Crowdsource “The Torrent Man” Film

    90 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  22. New Google ChromeOS updates cause 100% CPU usage, heating issues

    90 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  23. Lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment

    89 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  24. Show HN: Fully Open-Sourced Online MIDI Editor

    89 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  25. The Sony “Star Eater” (2017)

    89 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  26. JITSploitation I: A JIT Bug

    89 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  27. The Amstrad CPC 472, an unusual case

    89 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  28. Bean Machine – A Declarative Probabilistic Programming Language

    89 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  29. Docable: Literate Runbooks and Interactive Tutorials from Markdown

    89 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  30. Show HN: AnyLeaf – PH Sensor for Microcontrollers

    89 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  31. Earth's mountains form in millions of years, Moon ones near instantaneously

    89 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  32. Which colour scheme is better?

    89 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  33. Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing

    88 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  34. The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees

    88 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  35. Total number of Brave Browser Publishers

    87 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  36. In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? (2018)

    87 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  37. Webots robot simulator went open-source

    87 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  38. Brutality of Life Reading List

    87 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  39. New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data

    87 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  40. The Memory Area Network at the Heart of IBM’s Power10

    87 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  41. What Is a Minimally Good Life?

    87 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  42. Mind Emulation Foundation

    87 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  43. Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery

    87 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  44. Plague-bearing fleas spark closures at popular Lake Tahoe sites

    87 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  45. Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine?

    87 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  46. No-Code vs. Pro-Code: A New Hope

    87 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  47. Design, edit and share custom terminal color schemes

    87 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  48. Amazon Timestream is generally available

    86 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  49. Assange Hearing Day 9

    86 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  50. Which monads Haskell developers use: An exploratory study

    86 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  51. Letter to 20 Years Ago

    86 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  52. Should social networks tell you if you’ve been following a fake account?

    86 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  53. Rolls-Royce concludes testing of plane technology to break electric speed record

    86 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  54. Uncomfortable Questions About App Signing

    86 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  55. Regular cannabis use were associated with poorer cognitive performance

    86 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  56. Important non-programming skills for programmers

    86 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  57. Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors (2019)

    85 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?

    85 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  59. Quarkus 1.8.1 – Kubernetes native Java framework

    85 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  60. GPT-3 pricing for API usage announced to beta users to go in effect from October

    85 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  61. Discovery of a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

    85 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  62. Post-Open Source

    85 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  63. Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement

    85 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  64. Survey: The average worker experiences career burnout – by the age of 32

    85 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  65. OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I)

    85 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  66. Zoom towns and the new housing market for the two Americas

    84 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  67. How WebAssembly Changes Software Distribution

    84 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  68. Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links

    84 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  69. Ravi: A dialect of Lua with optional static typing and JIT

    84 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  70. Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

    84 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  71. TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday

    84 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  72. Apple accuses Epic of “Willful, brazen, and unlawful” conduct

    84 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  73. MalwareBazaar – Malware Sample Exchange

    84 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  74. AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3

    84 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  75. Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types

    84 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  76. OpenSSL Raccoon Attack (CVE-2020-1968)

    84 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  77. A Collection of Imaginary Software

    84 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  78. Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix

    84 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  79. Toward a Technological Cage for the Masses

    84 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  80. Facebook Campus

    83 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  81. Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal number system

    83 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  82. The Spite Software License

    83 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  83. Graviton Database: ZFS for key-value stores

    83 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  84. The Ocean Is Struggling to Breathe, Too

    83 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  85. Palantir Moves Headquarters to Denver from Silicon Valley

    83 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  86. Named Parameters in C++20

    83 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  87. GAlculator – Geometric Algebra Pocket Calculator

    83 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  88. Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Aboriginal Languages

    83 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  89. Octojam 7: The CHIP-8 game jam

    82 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  90. ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?

    82 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  91. Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving

    82 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  92. All forms of signing email are generally solving the wrong problem

    82 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  93. Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (2016)

    82 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  94. TLDW – Search inside of videos from YC, VCs and established founders

    82 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  95. W64devkit – Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 Windows

    82 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  96. Pointers Are Complicated, Or: What's in a Byte? (2018)

    81 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  97. Hacking on Bug Bounties for Four Years

    81 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  98. To Manage Wildfire, California Looks to What Tribes Have Known All Along

    81 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  99. He Invented the Rubik’s Cube. He’s Still Learning From It

    81 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  100. Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective

    81 points • comment • sep 09, 2020