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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

WorldWide Telescope: a tool for showcasing astronomical data and knowledge
55 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Shmig: Database migration tool written in bash
55 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area
55 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Found this little gem on my $55K Model Y
55 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
Microsoft Teams as a Platform
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
The Bully’s Pulpit (2015)
55 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
The US Air Force has built and flown a prototype of its future fighter jet
55 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
.gay Generic Top Level Domain(gTLD.) is now open for public
55 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
55 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
In Defense of a Switch
55 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Adventures of porting PostmarketOS to the Librem 5
55 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Rare Edition of Shakespeare’s Last Play Found in Spanish Library
55 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
The Trefle Botanical API is now open source
55 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Huawei’s HarmonyOS is now open source
55 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
The long golden age of our glorified junk
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Ask HN: How to Learn Rust
55 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Porting EBU R128 audio loudness analysis from C to Rust
55 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Airbnb REQUIRES recording you call but if you want to record they REFUSE call
55 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
NASA’s 1966 plan for a mission to Mars
55 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation Survivors
55 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Amazon and Ring create surveillance drone that flies around inside your house
55 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
St Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Beatrice the Sixteenth
55 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Air Force Designed, Built, and Flew a Brand-New Fighter Jet In One Year
55 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
We can now edit the human genome – how far should we go? [video]
54 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
How to Build a State
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
T. S. Eliot, the Art of Poetry No. 1 (1959)
54 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Swiss Army Knives used in MacGyver episodes (2019)
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Ask HN: Where do you draw the line between a co-founder and early employee?
54 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
The Most Likely Way You’ll Get Infected with Covid-19
54 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
I'm 18 and can already see my Alaska community changed forever by climate change
54 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Consume less, produce more
54 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
Unsplash’s dataset is now open source
54 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Stripe Checkout
54 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again
54 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Bottom Type in F#
54 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
Dupes and Duplicity
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
The Sac State 8008: The First Full-Fledged Microcomputer (2008)
54 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Show HN: A minimal stack based VM in C
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Almost Realtime Live Data Visualization in QGIS – Air Traffic Use Case
54 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Simple Bugs with Complex Exploits
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold Available for Preorder: Hold onto Your Wallet
54 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Stali is a static Linux distribution
54 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Developing Online with GitHub Codespace
53 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Radioactivity in Antiques
53 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Rust is not a good C replacement (2019)
53 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Uruguayan artist blacklisted by PayPal because her name contains “iran”
53 points • comment • sep 03, 2020
Relax your coding self with the soothing JavaScript simulation of rain
53 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
A Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Covid-19 [pdf]
53 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Archiving URLs (2019)
53 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Computer science professor Christian Grothoff testifies in Assange hearing
53 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives
53 points • comment • sep 08, 2020
Cracking the Who You Show Your Work Code
53 points • comment • sep 13, 2020
Ask HN: Lawyers of HN, are works created in Lego copyrightable?
53 points • comment • sep 19, 2020
Calculus in SaaS
53 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Why SMS Refuses to Die
53 points • comment • sep 30, 2020
DrawERD makes it easy to visualize your database structure
53 points • comment • sep 24, 2020
NSQ A realtime distributed messaging platform
53 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Standards for Gloves
53 points • comment • sep 04, 2020
Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder
53 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Digital banking, now halal
53 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
53 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Apple Event 2020
52 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
A history of elliptic curves in tweets
52 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Wirecard: The scandal spreads to German politics
52 points • comment • sep 29, 2020
Show HN: Linxy – Search News
52 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
From QMake to CMake: A story on why CMake is pretty nice in 2020
52 points • comment • sep 23, 2020
Smart watches could do more for wheelchair users
52 points • comment • sep 05, 2020
Grep-3.5 Released
52 points • comment • sep 28, 2020
How Renormalization Saved Particle Physics
52 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge
52 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Libra – a tool to browse and download more than 275 TB of open Landsat imagery
52 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter
52 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Shutting Down NavHere
52 points • comment • sep 17, 2020
5k people have pledged to give 10%+ of their income to effective charities
52 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
Show HN: 2M+ free stock photos in novel T-SNE based search engine
52 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
Show HN: Fossnode – Free Matrix server for free and open source projects
52 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
In the animal kingdom, the astonishing power of the number instinct
51 points • comment • sep 11, 2020
What's New in C# 9.0
51 points • comment • sep 10, 2020
YAYA, a new threat hunting tool from EFF Threat Lab
51 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Interviews with makers of high-end mechanical keyboards
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2020
Remote First at Brex
51 points • comment • sep 14, 2020
Assange Hearing Day 12
51 points • comment • sep 18, 2020
How we upgraded PostgreSQL
51 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
My Father André Weil (2018) [pdf]
51 points • comment • sep 16, 2020
Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed
51 points • comment • sep 25, 2020
Google accused of ‘double standard’ for punishing publishers for user comments
51 points • comment • sep 15, 2020
Learning How to Learn Japanese
51 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
How Humanity Came to Contemplate Its Possible Extinction
51 points • comment • sep 27, 2020
FedEx teams up with Reliable Robotics on autonomous cargo planes
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
RIP iCloud, Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale
50 points • comment • sep 22, 2020
The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
50 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
The Silent Flight of Owls, Explained (2017)
50 points • comment • sep 06, 2020
Before you ship a “security mitigation”
50 points • comment • sep 26, 2020
Nikola CEO Trevor Milton Resigns
50 points • comment • sep 21, 2020
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin
50 points • comment • sep 09, 2020
Sentinels Can Be Faster
50 points • comment • sep 07, 2020
Gesture Recognition with Line Integrals
50 points • comment • sep 12, 2020
Time Zone Bugs I Ran Into
50 points • comment • sep 25, 2020