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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. How scientists resolved the mystery of Devil’s Corkscrews (2019)

    28 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  2. How The Boring Company is increasing tunneling speed

    28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  3. The land before modern APIs

    28 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  4. The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco

    28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  5. Why So Much Science Is Wrong

    28 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  6. Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats

    28 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  7. The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes

    28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  8. Designing New Cryptography for Non-Standard Threat Models

    28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  9. How the IRS was gutted (2018)

    28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  10. What If ‘Capitalism’ Isn't the Problem? [audio]

    28 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  11. Theranos’ Holmes May Pursue ‘Mental Disease’ in Her Defense

    28 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  12. William Gates Senior dies at 94

    28 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  13. Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli

    28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  14. Microsoft will release a new perpetually licensed Office in 2021

    28 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  15. A Black Hole at the Center of Earth

    28 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  16. Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland

    28 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  17. Facebook Is Turning a Blind Eye to Global Political Manipulation

    28 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  18. NVIDIA Marbles at Night real-time raytracing demo

    28 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  19. The End of Spectrum Scarcity (2004)

    28 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  20. St Giles Rookery: A Lost London Landmark

    28 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  21. Microsoft: 'We Are Finished with F# 5'

    28 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  22. Covid Is Accelerating a Global Censorship Crisis

    28 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  23. Performance Benchmark Analysis of Egress Filtering on Linux

    28 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  24. Google Demands Its 30% Cut from App Developers in Play Store

    28 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  25. The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit

    28 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  26. Saudi Arabia to Cut Oil Prices as Demand Fears Grow

    28 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  27. ‘Green’ billionaires behind suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

    28 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  28. U.S. judge halts Trump administration's order to remove WeChat from app stores

    28 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  29. Why it’s better to be the anti-status quo

    27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  30. CNN Worked with Army PsyOps Group During Kosovo War (2000)

    27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

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

    27 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  32. The rate of obsolescence of knowledge in software engineering

    27 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  33. A True Story (150 AD)

    27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  34. Juul to lay off over half its workforce

    27 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  35. The 1999 and 2003 messages explained [pdf]

    27 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  36. Pointers are Easy, Optimization is Complicated

    27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  37. Altair 8800 Clone

    27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  38. Why Rust is not a mature programming language

    27 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  39. Fairphone 3 review: ethical smartphone gets camera upgrades

    27 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  40. Free VPNs are a privacy nightmare. You shouldn’t download them

    27 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  41. Why the French Love to Complain

    27 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  42. Fragmentation, MTU, MSS clamping and tunnels (2014)

    27 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  43. Who Was the Falling Man from 9/11? (2016)

    27 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  44. VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack

    27 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  45. Collaborative Circuit Design & Simulation in the Browser

    27 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  46. A New Algorithm for Graph Crossings

    27 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  47. Book Summary: 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. The Full List with Notes

    27 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  48. Audible-visuals: Audio visualizer experiments

    27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  49. Apache OpenWhisk is a truly portable Serverless Platform

    27 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  50. Microsoft’s $10bn Jedi cloud contract “sets dangerous precedent”, says AWS

    27 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  51. U.S. Justice Dept weighs stripping federal funds from cities allowing 'anarchy'

    27 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  52. Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?

    27 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  53. The economics of fun – The secret economics of a VIP party

    27 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  54. 'Moonshot' hype illustrates the UK government's obsession with tech hyperbole

    27 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  55. Show HN: Pooductivity – An extension to replace productivity with the poo emoji

    27 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  56. SoftBank Nearing Deal to Sell Arm Holdings to Nvidia for More Than $40B

    27 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  57. Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Named to Amazon Board of Directors

    27 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  58. Information, incentives, and goals in election forecasts [pdf]

    26 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  59. I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo

    26 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  60. Iced: x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder in Rust

    26 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  61. Donald Trump taxes report published/leaked

    26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  62. Victor Hugo, a SEO tool for Hugo based sites (opinions pls)

    26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  63. The JPMorgan Trading Desk the U.S. Called a Crime Ring

    26 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  64. 'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming

    26 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  65. Show HN: We made a meeting companion app on macOS to improve remote meetings

    26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  66. How much does a bad hire cost?

    26 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  67. Higher ground: the expert guide to making the perfect cup of coffee at home

    26 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  68. Musings on the Impossibility of Testing

    26 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  69. Lithium find in Cornwall spurs hopes of regeneration

    26 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  70. Are We in a Reddit Trading Bubble?

    26 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  71. A self-erasing chip for security and anti-counterfeit tech

    26 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  72. Evaluating Schwarz–Christoffel Maps in Pie Slices

    26 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  73. Lenovo goes all in with the Linux desktop with two dozen+ Ubuntu powered PCs

    26 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  74. Simon Says: 'Invent'

    26 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  75. Apple Delays iPhone Ad Tracking Changes That Rattled Industry

    26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  76. Motion sensing using the doppler effect in browser

    26 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  77. The Passport is one of society's longest-running temporary hacks

    26 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  78. The CIA and the Intellectuals (1967)

    26 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  79. The Making of Quake Soundtrack; Carmack, McGee, Nine Inch Nails

    26 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  80. Four Golden Lessons (2003)

    26 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  81. Tesla Tire Costs 10× Battery Cost, & My Plan to Deflate Tire Costs 90%

    26 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  82. Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires

    26 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  83. American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review

    26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  84. Show HN: Hotpot – A tool to make graphic design easier

    26 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  85. Amazon Spent $24,000 to Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban

    26 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  86. I speak with a computerized voice. Republicans used it to put words in my mouth

    26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  87. Jeff Bezos's gain during Covid is enough to give all his employees a $105k bonus

    26 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  88. Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

    26 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  89. REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008)

    26 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  90. ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence

    26 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  91. How can Ceasefire be self-supporting?

    26 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  92. The Feedback Loop of Productivity

    26 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  93. Seeing our own reflection in the birth of the self-portrait

    26 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  94. KDevelop – A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

    26 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  95. Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track

    26 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  96. Personality traits affect the open source development process

    26 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  97. Ask HN: How have you successfully managed upwards?

    26 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  98. A Detailed History of MongoDB

    26 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  99. Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)

    26 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  100. Show HN: Glowbom – Using voice to make software

    26 points • comment • sep 05, 2020