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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Why is unauthenticated encryption insecure?

    61 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  2. How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

    61 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  3. Maud: Compile-time HTML templates for Rust

    61 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  4. Shortt–Synchronome free pendulum clock

    61 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  5. What makes a good REPL? (2017)

    61 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  6. Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?

    61 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  7. Watch a Tesla Fail an Automatic Braking Test and Vaporize a Robot Pedestrian

    61 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  8. Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5 C warming limit by 2024

    60 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  9. Explain Shell: match command-line arguments to their help text

    60 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Natural language processing to identify grammar in a text?

    60 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  11. Zork source and binaries, January 1978

    60 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  12. Code Health: Make Interfaces Hard to Misuse (2018)

    60 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  13. Show HN: I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API

    60 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  14. The Making of Dune II

    60 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  15. The NBC Chimes Machine (1999)

    60 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  16. Facebook to block news on Australian sites after new law, riling lawmakers

    60 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  17. AWS Tagging Best Practices: Using Terraform and CloudFormation to Enforce Tags

    60 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  18. The reluctant debut of the A14 processor

    60 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  19. Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems

    60 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  20. Worries grow over a K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy

    60 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  21. AlpineJS Guides and Examples

    60 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  22. Prince's Sign O' The Times: An oral history

    60 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  23. Radio Engineer Files Objection to WIPE

    60 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  24. Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea

    60 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  25. A Child’s Guide to Spinors (2016) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  26. Free and Open Source Product Information Management(PIM) System

    59 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  27. How UFO culture took over America

    59 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  28. On “Learning to Summarize”

    59 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  29. Level creates free educational content for people in prison

    59 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  30. Windows update resets your default programs so they can suggest using Edge

    59 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  31. Program Synthesis Papers by Area

    59 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  32. Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete with YouTube?

    59 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  33. Coastline Paradox

    59 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  34. Cloud Hypervisor – Open source virtual machine monitor written in Rust

    59 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  35. How on earth can I ever think of a solution like that in an interview?

    59 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  36. The Breakup of the Cellino and Barnes Law Firm

    59 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  37. SimulIDE 0.4.13

    59 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  38. NASA’s InSight detects Phobos using its seismometer during solar eclipses

    59 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  39. Rewriting the Technical Interview

    59 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  40. Django-newsfeed – A news curator and newsletter subscription package for Django

    59 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  41. Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard

    59 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  42. Show HN: XML Fiddler – tool for quick XML exploration

    59 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  43. Android 11

    58 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  44. Facebook doesn't plan to take strong action against anti-vaccination posts

    58 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  45. The Future Is Decentralized

    58 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  46. Landlord Tech Watch – What Is Landlord Tech?

    58 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  47. Scale model of 'Flying-V' airplane makes successful maiden flight

    58 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  48. Parsing floats in C++: benchmarking strtod vs. from_chars

    58 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  49. Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out

    58 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  50. The opponent-process theory of emotion (2010)

    58 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  51. Why Most Pedestrian Infrastructure Is for Drivers

    58 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  52. The UK's online ID plans: expensive, intrusive, unnecessary

    58 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  53. iPad Air 2020

    58 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  54. Read Me

    58 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  55. Getting Better at Understanding Academic Papers: A Brief Guide for Beginners

    58 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  56. Work is changing profoundly and NYC will not be able to adapt

    58 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  57. Black Tom Explosion

    57 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  58. Why San Francisco is in trouble – highly compensated city employees

    57 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  59. Tail Recursion and Debugging (2011)

    57 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  60. Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly (2009)

    57 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  61. Basic Printing on OpenBSD

    57 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  62. Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy

    57 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  63. Attacking the Qualcomm Adreno GPU

    57 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  64. Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling Spread of Covid-19

    57 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  65. Arbol, a parametric weather risk platform built on IPFS

    57 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  66. The grim truth behind the Pied Piper

    57 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  67. Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says former spokeswoman

    57 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  68. Show HN: Open-source quadruped robot with robotic arm

    57 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  69. Show HN: Asroute – View unique networks traversed by traceroute

    57 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  70. How we threat model

    57 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  71. Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

    57 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  72. Absent aid, few US cities will be able to avoid austerity

    57 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  73. Strategic Communication – programming language made out of buzzwords

    57 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  74. Microchips That Shook the World (2009)

    57 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  75. A Tour of the Tiny and Obfuscated Image Decoder

    57 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  76. Show HN: Ballpoint.io

    57 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  77. On Modern Web Applications Stability

    57 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  78. Star Tek–Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025 (1996) [pdf]

    57 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  79. Would the internet be healthier without 'like' counts? (2019)

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  80. Adventures in JIT Compilation (2017)

    56 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  81. Grand Theft Auto V is 7 years old today

    56 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  82. PDP 11/70 Emulator (2020)

    56 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  83. Hardcaml: An OCaml library for designing hardware

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  84. 84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’

    56 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  85. Hand-Optimizing VLIW Assembly Language as a Game

    56 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  86. On YOLOsec and FOMOsec

    56 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  87. $65k/month website running on one index.php file

    56 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  88. NeoAxis Game Engine 2020.5

    56 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  89. Ask HN: What are your instruments for investment?

    56 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  90. Doom Emacs

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  91. Preserving data integrity: A ZFS-inspired storage system

    56 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  92. An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence

    56 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  93. The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees

    56 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  94. Asynchronously Opening and Closing Files in Asyncio

    56 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  95. Show HN: DNS-based alternative to the web for structured data

    56 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  96. Iceland and its medieval past

    56 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  97. Making a Pratt Parser Generator

    56 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  98. How to resume a SSH encrypted and x11 forwarded session

    56 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  99. President Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  100. A Free Software OS for the ReMarkable E-Paper Tablet

    56 points • comment • sep 06, 2020