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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Impossible Colors

    75 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  2. CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf]

    75 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  3. If high street shopping was like online shopping

    75 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

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

    75 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  5. Islamic State: Giant library of group's online propaganda discovered

    75 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  6. New species of “supergiant” isopod uncovered

    74 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  7. Show HN: Rentify – Create an online rental store

    74 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  8. Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom of information

    74 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  9. Tgppl, a new type of open-source license

    74 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  10. The HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can't even add

    74 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  11. World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

    74 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  12. A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive

    74 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  13. USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI Are Both SCSI

    74 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  14. Tourists on Tech's Toll Roads

    74 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  15. Getting Color Output out of a TI-99/4A

    74 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  16. Many Ways to Start an Xserver

    74 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  17. TeXMe Self-rendering Markdown and LaTeX documents

    74 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  18. At Least 37M People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror

    73 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  19. A Tale of Two Libcs

    73 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  20. A European Spacecraft Is About to Fly Past Venus

    73 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  21. Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

    73 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  22. How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life

    73 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  23. Compiling to Assembly from Scratch: the book, released

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  24. Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly

    73 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  25. Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)

    73 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  26. Military police considered using controversial heat ray against D.C. protesters

    73 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  27. Impact of xenoestrogens on male fertility: a systematic review (2019)

    73 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  28. Creality Developing Belt-Driven Desktop 3D Printer

    73 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  29. Picasso, Schoenberg, Moss: how humans unlock social capital and spark progress

    73 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  30. Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal coronaviruses

    73 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  31. The Power and Paradox of Bad Software

    73 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  32. Who invented the lightbulb?

    73 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  33. How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw over Workers

    73 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  34. Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams

    72 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  35. French judge rules GPL license must be enforced via contract law, not copyright

    72 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  36. The sad state of PDF-Accessibility of LaTex Documents (2016)

    72 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  37. Finally Confirmed Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in Covid-19

    72 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  38. Eleanor Roosevelt's son authored mysteries in which his mother solves murders

    72 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  39. Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther

    72 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  40. Airtable Apps

    72 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  41. A housing industry of endless one-offs is holding our society back

    72 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  42. Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)

    72 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  43. The problem with C

    72 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  44. Leaked UI A/B Tests from Major Websites

    72 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  45. How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

    71 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  46. FinCEN Files Show Criminals Moved Billions as Banks Watched

    71 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  47. V8 Release v8.6

    71 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  48. Coinbase is a mission focused company

    71 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  49. Saying No to unjust computing even once is help

    71 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  50. Together vs. Alone: Thoughts on building a team

    71 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  51. EU seeks new powers to penalize tech giants

    71 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  52. Blazor WebAssembly on Azure Static Web Apps

    71 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  53. Show HN: Inspect – DevTool to debug Safari and WebViews on iOS devices

    71 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  54. C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept according to TIOBE

    71 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  55. Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart

    71 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  56. Free hosting providers for static websites in 2020

    70 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  57. Show HN: Stargate – An open source API framework for data

    70 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  58. A Review of Language Learning Tactics

    70 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  59. NIST Samate – Source Code Security Analyzers

    70 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  60. Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  61. Show HN: Yarr – Yet Another RSS Reader

    70 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  62. Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

    70 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  63. Ted Nelson argues the importance of personal computing (1979) [video]

    70 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  64. LibreDWG: “Plans are to add support for SolveSpace, OpenSCAD and PythonCAD”

    70 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  65. Catalina VM

    70 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  66. From NASA to Amtrak, These Are All the Government Agencies with Tactical Teams

    70 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  67. The Dark Side of the ‘Angel’s Share’ (2019)

    70 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  68. Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%

    70 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  69. Open Source Foundation for Application Security

    70 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  70. Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform

    70 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  71. ExamSoft's remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns

    70 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  72. Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds

    70 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  73. How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor

    69 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  74. Roughly 2000 blogs running on a $7/month dyno

    69 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  75. Tarsnap – cleaning up old backups

    69 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  76. The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (2018)

    69 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  77. Transistor Options Beyond 3nm (2018)

    69 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  78. Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings from the Big Bang

    69 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  79. Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

    69 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  80. The Cost of Software-Based Memory Management Without Virtual Memory

    69 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  81. Gary Marcus's Kafkaesque critique of GPT-3

    69 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  82. Pass the Payment Choice Act

    69 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  83. The Tech Behind the Mind-Reading Pangolin Dress

    69 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  84. Threat modelling case study: bicycles

    69 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  85. ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory

    69 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  86. Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jeremy Howard

    69 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  87. Approaching object might become Earth’s mini-moon

    69 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  88. British Museum makes lost Hokusai drawings available online

    69 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  89. Show HN: Clouddraw – draw cloud architecture diagrams with ease

    68 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  90. Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial

    68 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  91. Stanisław Leśniewski: rethinking the philosophy of mathematics [pdf]

    68 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  92. Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm

    68 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  93. Trevor Milton Out of Nikola Motors

    68 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  94. GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up to 3.3x

    68 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  95. What Is the Sound of Thought?

    68 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  96. What is it like to be a smartphone?

    68 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  97. Introduction to runc

    68 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  98. CME, Nasdaq to Launch Water Futures Contract

    68 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  99. Show HN: bbox-visualizer – Make drawing and labeling bounding boxes easy as cake

    67 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  100. Foreign Actors Likely to Spread Disinformation Regarding 2020 Election Results

    67 points • comment • sep 22, 2020