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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

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

    81 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  2. Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection

    81 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

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

    81 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  4. Getting rid of the Google cookie consent popup

    81 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

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

    81 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  6. One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet

    81 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  7. Tips for stable and portable software

    81 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  8. Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available

    81 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  9. The Deafening Silence of the Royal Society Open Science Journal

    81 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

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

    81 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  11. Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server

    80 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  12. Keeping Time at NIST

    80 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  13. YC W21 Remote Batch

    80 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  14. Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm

    80 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  15. Trials begin for a new weapon against Parkinson’s: light

    80 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  16. US military increasingly using drone missile with flying blades in Syria

    80 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  17. Chrome anchors are broken, Google has locked and is ignoring bug thread

    80 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  18. Smart Cow Collars

    80 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  19. U.S. Adult Obesity Rate Tops 42 Percent; Highest Ever Recorded

    80 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  20. Neurotoxic peptides isolated from venom of giant Australian stinging tree

    79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  21. Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere

    79 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  22. GitPals – Find team for cooperative development

    79 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  23. Reverse Engineering the Logitech Harmony

    79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  24. Fun Yet Effective Meetings

    79 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  25. Retro Unix Operating System

    79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  26. The Anthropologist in an Economist World

    79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  27. Tesla says its battery innovations will deliver its goal of a $25,000 car

    79 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  28. What is the purpose of issuing laws/regulations without penalty? (2017)

    79 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  29. Jamstack Handbook – All things Jamstack with 3 step-by-step tutorials

    79 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  30. Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11

    79 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  31. Show HN: TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data

    79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  32. ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms

    79 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  33. Show HN: Remotely Controlled Escape Room

    79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  34. Verne Edquist – Glenn Gould’s Piano Man

    79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  35. Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols

    79 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  36. A Horrible Experiment

    79 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  37. A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]

    79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  38. Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4

    79 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  39. Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing

    79 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  40. Loose Lips Sink MIPS

    79 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  41. A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard

    79 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  42. Jet Fuel Is Now So Cheap It’s Being Blended for Use by Ships

    79 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  43. In Defence of Half-Arsing

    79 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  44. Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian

    79 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  45. Yacd – Decrypts FairPlay applications on iOS 13.4.1 and lower, no jb required

    78 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  46. Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a

    78 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  47. Show HN: Chrome Extension Starter Kit and eBook

    78 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  48. For Camus, It Was Always Personal

    78 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  49. The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute

    78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  50. The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) [pdf]

    78 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  51. Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability

    78 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  52. Software supply chain security

    78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  53. NSA spying exposed by Snowden didn't stop a single terrorist attack, judge finds

    78 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  54. A creature that eats its own brain

    78 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  55. QAnon website shuts down after Citigroup security analyst identified as operator

    78 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  56. My Hacking Adventures with Safari Reader Mode

    77 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  57. Assange Hearing Day 13

    77 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  58. Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch

    77 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  59. Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high

    77 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  60. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  61. A request to a YouTube video downloads the title 14 times and displays it twice

    77 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  62. A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (2008) [pdf]

    77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  63. Deep Learning for Compilers

    77 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  64. McAfee S-1

    77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  65. Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Made with Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood

    77 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  66. Bush Did North Dakota – Slate Star Codex

    77 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  67. Manually verified job salaries/offers in Artificial Intelligence

    77 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  68. Woman hatches ducks from Waitrose eggs

    77 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  69. YouTube launches TikTok competitor, Shorts

    77 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  70. Alu (Runic)

    77 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  71. Great North Air Ambulance trials paramedic jet suit

    77 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  72. The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)

    77 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  73. On Hacking MicroSD Cards (2013)

    76 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  74. Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit

    76 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  75. .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL

    76 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  76. Save ARM

    76 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  77. Smartphone cameras struggle to capture San Francisco's orange sky

    76 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  78. Bash code generator for command-line arguments

    76 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  79. Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?

    76 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  80. C++ vs. Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story

    76 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  81. The Economics of Skyscraper Height

    76 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  82. Why should I do production support?

    76 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  83. Defer Reference Implementation for C

    76 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  84. Visualizing Gzip Compression with Python

    76 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  85. Due Diligence That Money Can’t Buy

    76 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  86. Judge Blocks US Attempts to Ban WeChat

    76 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  87. LibreOffice Online API

    76 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  88. A discretization attack [pdf]

    76 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  89. Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas (2019)

    76 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  90. Show HN: Neural Image Compression Demo

    75 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  91. Bastion Fort

    75 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  92. Tesla Shares Fall as It Fails to Make It into S&P 500 Index

    75 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  93. Bill Gates slams 'shocking' U.S. response to Covid-19 pandemic

    75 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  94. California Businesses Leave the State by the Thousands

    75 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  95. Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics

    75 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  96. UK supermarket Tesco sets 300% sales target for plant-based alternatives to meat

    75 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  97. Rails Concerns: To Concern or Not to Concern

    75 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  98. The Guardian’s New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism

    75 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  99. California Will Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars

    75 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  100. Impossible Colors

    75 points • comment • sep 02, 2020