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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development

    67 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  2. Paper maps, two-way radios: how firefighting tech is stuck in the past

    67 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  3. The Unrealized Potential of Federation

    67 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  4. Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy's blasphemy jail term

    67 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  5. Show HN: DataSpeeder Instant End-User Web GUI for MySQL

    67 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

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

    67 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  7. Show HN: Parallelise pipelines of Python async iterables

    67 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  8. Netlify was down

    67 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  9. Tutanota aknowledge being under attack

    67 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  10. Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? (2019) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  11. Apache Arrow and MinIO

    67 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  12. Python 3.9 is around the corner

    67 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  13. Talking is throwing fictional worlds at one another

    66 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  14. 'Super bacteria' survives for three years outside space station [video]

    66 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  15. Show HN: Memory Pill

    66 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  16. What's it like to negotiate with ransomware gangs?

    66 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  17. Build Your Own Artificial Neural Network

    66 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  18. Joe Rogan Experience #1536 – Edward Snowden [video]

    66 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  19. Crab – an interpreter for a tiny subset of Logo

    66 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  20. The Art of Voltage Probing

    66 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  21. Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web

    66 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  22. On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (By David Graeber)

    66 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  23. Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here

    66 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  24. JPMorgan to Move $230B Assets to Germany in Brexit Shift

    66 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  25. FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1

    66 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  26. Writing for Snobs

    66 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  27. Memorizing a Deck of Cards

    66 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  28. Doctors Group Sues California for Failing to Add Processed Meat to Cancer List

    65 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  29. Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin

    65 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  30. Gifted Children as Hidden Persuaders in the Cold War (2019)

    65 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  31. Lawyers for Assange Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister et al.

    65 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  32. Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina

    65 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  33. Ask HN: So I Hired a Homeless Guy

    65 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  34. Hypothesis: Bipolar disorder is an Epstein–Barr virus‐driven disease

    65 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  35. The Hardware Lottery

    65 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  36. Solar Foods closes Series A financing for its first commercial factory

    65 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  37. Pasukon – The easy JavaScript parser generator

    65 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  38. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

    65 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  39. The Evolution of Psychiatry

    64 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  40. The Battle over Dyslexia

    64 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  41. Nvidia CEO Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

    64 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  42. SEC Charges Interactive Brokers with Repeatedly Failing to File SARs

    64 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  43. Floating Under a Levitating Liquid

    64 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  44. Z80, the 8-bit Number Cruncher (2011)

    64 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  45. Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever

    64 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  46. DayStar Genesis MP

    64 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  47. Britain has offensive cyberwar capability, top general admits

    64 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  48. Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation (2018) [pdf]

    64 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  49. Ultimate Python Study Guide

    64 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  50. How big is a neutron star?

    64 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  51. Median US worker salaries could have been $102,000 without inequality

    64 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  52. PalanThiel: The Uncola

    64 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  53. Modernize your Bash Scripts by adding GUI

    64 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  54. Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio

    64 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  55. Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API? (2017)

    64 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  56. DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations (2020): $750k to Organizations Worldwide

    64 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  57. Technology has created a barrage of notifications and interactions

    63 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  58. At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold

    63 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  59. The end of dispersed camping?

    63 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  60. Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model

    63 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  61. Getting Users Is Hard

    63 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  62. Athens an open source Roam alternative

    63 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  63. Parents got more time off, then the backlash started

    63 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  64. GitHub: PR won't be merged because the contributor is an Israeli

    63 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  65. The UK's “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year

    63 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  66. Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

    63 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  67. What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too

    63 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  68. Floating Point in the Browser, Part 1: Impossible Expectations

    63 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  69. Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after Covid

    63 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  70. The Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

    63 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  71. Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

    63 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  72. Show HN: I built FabHomePages so your home can have its own homepage in minutes

    63 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  73. Show HN: Build Machine Learning Web-Service with Python and Django

    63 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  74. Out running this morning and a lady runs past me

    63 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  75. How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016)

    63 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  76. How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?

    63 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  77. U.S. surpasses 200k Covid-19 deaths

    62 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  78. Evil Unit Testing (2019)

    62 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  79. A deep dive into Swift’s function builders

    62 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  80. Bazel For Open-Source C/C++ Libraries Distribution

    62 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  81. Electronic music pioneer Simeon Coxe has died

    62 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  82. Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days

    62 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  83. Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMT) to the Rescue

    62 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  84. Simulating Democracy

    62 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  85. Jugaad, an Indian Delivery Methodology

    62 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  86. I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III

    62 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  87. San Francisco Troubles – 19,000 Highly Paid City Employees Earned $150k

    62 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  88. Designed in Minecraft, Built IRL

    62 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  89. Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure

    62 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  90. Playing with fonts

    62 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  91. Nvidia MLOps: The AI LifeCycle for IT Production

    62 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  92. State of Cybersecurity Industry Exposure at Dark Web

    62 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  93. How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work

    62 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  94. Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters

    61 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  95. SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)

    61 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  96. NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval

    61 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  97. A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python

    61 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  98. What makes a good REPL? (2017)

    61 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  99. The Lancet: World population projections by 2100

    61 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  100. Bold for Delphi Is Open Source

    61 points • comment • sep 23, 2020