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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation? (2015)

    36 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  2. China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet

    36 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  3. Hungary's researcher Roska wins award for procedure that could cure blindness

    36 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  4. Google and data brokers accused of illegally collecting people’s data: report

    36 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  5. Most Technical Debt Is Just Bullshit

    36 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  6. Startup Ideas for Inspiration

    36 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  7. The Race to Save 'Contact Languages'

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  8. 9 of Every 10 Restaurants and Bars in NYC Can't Pay Full Rent

    36 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  9. AVIF Has Landed

    36 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  10. Jamal Khashoggi murder: Saudi court overturns five death sentences

    36 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  11. Banker Walks Free from Insider Trading Charge After Deleting WhatsApp

    36 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  12. College student uses GPT-3 to write fake blogs and ends up top of Hacker News

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  13. Why it matters where COVID came from

    36 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  14. Tracking Down Typewriters (2009) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  15. U.S. Border Patrol Bought 'Unlimited' Use of a Nationwide Tracking Database

    36 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  16. Cloudcraft – Architect and budget cloud infrastructure

    36 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  17. Giggle; Laughable Security

    36 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  18. U.S. Election Priced as Worst Event Risk in VIX Futures History

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  19. Dual-Purpose Drones for Agriculture

    36 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  20. Ask HN: How do people become experts?

    36 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  21. New research provides solution for the 'Dust Bowl paradox'

    36 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  22. Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

    36 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  23. Reddit – “Windows 10 prompted me to vote”

    36 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  24. Journalists cheered Assange's abuse. Now they've paved his path to a US gulag

    35 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  25. Bloomberg pays off $20m debts of 31,000 felons so they can vote in Florida

    35 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  26. Oriental Carpets in Renaissance Painting

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  27. Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Still Resonates Today

    35 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  28. Reasons Coding for Kids Is Not Just Another Fad

    35 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  29. Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19

    35 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  30. Which countries have protected both health and the economy in the pandemic?

    35 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  31. Email gateways and gatekeeping

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  32. Two musings on the design of compiler warnings

    35 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  33. Thoughts Pertaining to Youth, Hot Rodders, and Chevrolet (1953) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  34. Upwork to suspend Top Rated freelancers accounts from Eastern Europe

    35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  35. Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On?

    35 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  36. Robinhood Reportedly Under Investigation by SEC, FINRA for March Outage

    35 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  37. Spotify Employees Demanding Direct Editorial Oversight over Joe Rogan Podcasts

    35 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  38. Why New York’s in a Depression and Texas Isn’t

    35 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  39. One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)

    35 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  40. New Windows exploit lets you instantly become admin

    35 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  41. Algorithmic Trading Using Logistic Regression

    35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  42. Twitter Stopped Letting New Users Pick Their Usernames During Sign-Up Years Ago

    35 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  43. Ask HN: I can't do development any more, what should I transition to?

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  44. Why senior engineers get nothing done

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  45. Blech Programming Language

    35 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  46. Vibration overcomes gravity on a levitating fluid

    35 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  47. Safety driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with homicide

    35 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  48. 2020 has been a year without a flu season in the southern hemisphere

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  49. Ask HN: Are you friends with your manager?

    35 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  50. Death decreed over Zoom

    34 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  51. Reading mind and Visualizing thoughts using AI

    34 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  52. Former Sanders Aide Jailed in Belarus Is Being Tortured to 'Confess'

    34 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  53. China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale

    34 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  54. Oregon wildfires: Half a million people flee dozens of infernos

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  55. Show HN: Oscillator Bank / Spectral Synthesizer

    34 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  56. Bankrupt Chuck E. Cheese parent company wants to shred 7B tickets

    34 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  57. Hootsuite signed contract with ICE then lied about it

    34 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  58. Interview with British Pianist Stephen Hough

    34 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  59. A negative Covid-19 test does not mean recovery

    34 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  60. How alarmist rhetoric is informing draconian speech laws in the Global South

    34 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  61. PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

    34 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  62. Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  63. A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

    34 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  64. Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  65. Dutch “Bicycle Buses”

    34 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  66. Ask HN: Technical skills helpful for building a startup today

    34 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  67. COVID19 reinfection by a phylogenetically distinct coronavirus strain confirmed

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  68. Become an Ultralearner – Scott H. Young on the Artists of Data Science Podcast

    34 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  69. Technology leadership lessons from TV show writing

    34 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  70. Producing a Music Video in the Browser

    33 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  71. Apple Helps FBI Track Down Floyd Protester Accused of Firebombing Cop Cars

    33 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  72. Why are there so few black tech entrepreneurs?

    33 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  73. Hackers leak data on 1k Belarusian police officers

    33 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  74. Silero Speech-To-Text models

    33 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  75. The visa woes that shattered scientists’ American dreams

    33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  76. Review: We do not recommend the $299 Oculus Quest 2 as your next VR system

    33 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  77. The Growing Case for a Microsoft Azure Slowdown [pdf]

    33 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  78. Haiku: Contest for System Sounds

    33 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  79. Show HN: Trivial script to spin up a Debian MIPS|PPC|arm|x86|x64 VM

    33 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  80. Delta IV Heavy rocket delayed again, raising concerns of aging infrastructure

    33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  81. The World of Blind Mathematicians (2002) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  82. The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran (2011)

    33 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  83. A History of Punctuation

    33 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  84. The first major sign your web host will not respect you

    33 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  85. Epic Games Is an Unreliable Narrator

    33 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  86. Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down

    33 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  87. Study: Inequality Robs $2.5T from U.S. Workers Each Year

    33 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  88. Ask HN: When an iPhone is released how far off are Apple in the next gen iPhone?

    33 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  89. Apple delays privacy feature in iOS 14 that would keep ad tracking at bay

    33 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  90. Nokia 3310 3G as a podcast player

    33 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  91. Memristor Crossbars as Easy as Raspberry Pi

    33 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  92. EFF Joins Coalition Urging Senators to Reject the Earn IT Act

    33 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  93. Welcoming the Talented Teams and Beloved Game Franchises of Bethesda to Xbox

    33 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  94. Echo open source game engine

    33 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  95. A Catalogue of Optimizing Transformations (1971) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  96. OCaml Labs breakthrough – good things come to those who wait

    32 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  97. The Birth of Wheelchair Basketball

    32 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  98. Solar proton activity may trigger high magnitude earthquakes

    32 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  99. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

    32 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  100. First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate

    32 points • comment • sep 15, 2020