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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland

    12 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  2. AARD Code

    12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  3. How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]

    12 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  4. Only one in ten medical treatments are backed by high-quality evidence

    12 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  5. ‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus

    12 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  6. 13 Beautiful Tools to Enhance Online Teaching and Learning Skills

    12 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  7. Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite

    12 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  8. Invisible Science: The Scientization of the Ordinary (2016)

    12 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  9. YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring

    12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  10. A Physicist Has Discovered Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible

    12 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  11. The Changing World Order

    12 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  12. Guy builds mesmerizing kinetic sculptures [video]

    11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  13. The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit

    11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  14. Ask HN: How to make home network secured

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  15. $100k in bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers earn $100M, DOJ says

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  16. Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs: The Books They Recommended

    11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  17. Ask HN: Why do recommendation algorithms suck?

    11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  18. On writing and selling science fiction stories (2018)

    11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  19. Don DeLillo: The Word, the Image, and the Gun (2013)

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  20. The IRS offers a $625,000 bounty to anyone who can break Monero and Lightning

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  21. Apple owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers

    11 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  22. Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse

    11 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  23. ‘The Innovation Delusion’ Review: Mistaking Novelty for Progress

    11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  24. Newsom orders phaseout of gas vehicles, calls for fracking ban

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  25. A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files

    11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  26. TLS 1.3 to be outlawed in Russia soon

    11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  27. Why It Is Risky to Have a Woke CEO

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  28. After 20 Years of Web Development, I Am Ready for Disruption

    11 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  29. This week in KDE: fixing up Plasma 5.20

    11 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  30. IHP: Live Reloading Haskell Code, How It Works

    11 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  31. A List of Skills and PracticesWe Use to Train Our DevOps Internally

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  32. Identifying and Eliminating Unintentional Ambiguity in Written Communication

    11 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  33. Ask HN: Advice for Multiplayer Back End

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  34. What If Trump Refuses to Concede?

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  35. Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice

    11 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  36. JuliaLang GSoC 2020 Wrap-Up

    11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  37. Private data gone public: Razer leaks 100k gamers’ personal info

    11 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  38. Remote-work visas will shape the future of work, travel and citizenship

    11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  39. Show HN: Market your product to 1m+ journalists

    11 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  40. Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  41. Bill Gates was like Michael Jordan while running Microsoft

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  42. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that adds eyes to Zoom's Post Attendee page

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  43. Show HN: Recipe nutrition calculator focusing on micronutrients

    11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  44. Researchers discover a specific brain circuit damaged by social isolation

    11 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  45. Apple CEO impressed by remote work, sees permanent changes

    11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  46. Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?

    11 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  47. NSCache (2012)

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  48. Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland

    11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  49. Ask HN: What usable mobile phone do you recommend for privacy conscious users?

    11 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  50. Git Secrets: 7 Commands You Might Not Know

    11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  51. Twitter to investigate apparent racial bias in photo previews

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  52. The Revolutionary Thoreau

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  53. Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths

    11 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  54. The right and wrong way to set up Python 3 on macOS (2019, updated 2020))

    11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  55. Rust climake: The simple, dependency-less CLI library

    11 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  56. Mypy – Optional Static Typing for Python

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  57. PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space (Basically) for Free

    11 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  58. Why is SO running a promoted tweet with scaremongering Wikipedia misinformation?

    11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  59. Show HN: sus – static site based URL shortener

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  60. AIX or Linux on Power

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  61. Percival Everett, the Art of Fiction No. 235 (2017)

    11 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  62. Australian conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $ for online posts

    11 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  63. Verizon to buy wireless services provider Tracfone in $6.25B deal

    11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  64. Ask HN: You've got $300 to fill an empty library. What do you choose?

    11 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  65. How to Interpret the Phosphine Discovery on Venus

    11 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  66. McConnell says Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg ‘will receive a [Senate] vote’

    11 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  67. Explainer: L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 Cache

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  68. Trump agrees to deal in which TikTok will partner with Oracle and Walmart

    11 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  69. Principles for Naming a Brand

    11 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  70. Start Measuring Web Vitals with Cloudflare

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  71. Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose a Russian spy network?

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  72. Bpython

    11 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  73. Universal Pictorial Picks (2018)

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  74. Elvis in the Box

    11 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  75. Future Propaganda Will Be Computer Generated

    11 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  76. QAnon Website Shuts Down After N.J. Man Identified as Operator

    11 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  77. THIS IS SDPARTA ! Easter Egg in Firefox WebRTC Implementation

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  78. Vilified Early over Lax Virus Strategy, Sweden Seems to Have Scourge Controlled

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  79. Amazon Empl. Warns Internal Groups They’re Being Monitored for Labor Organizing

    11 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  80. Ask HN: Recommendations for physical intrusion detection in pastures

    11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  81. Four Ex-eBay Employees to Admit Guilt in Cyberstalking Plot

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  82. From the Seabed, Figures of an Ancient Cult

    11 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  83. Loko Scheme, an optimizing R6RS Scheme compiler

    11 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  84. Trying to fix my Linux graphics issues

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  85. /e/OS redefines the mobile OS paradigm for a more sustainable world

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  86. Thought capitalism couldn't get worse? Meet the workplace spiritual consultants'

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  87. Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

    11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  88. AmazonBasics products are going up in flames, but are still on the market

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  89. Colleges should offer a major in sports. It could solve some problems

    11 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  90. You do not own your own content

    11 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  91. ActivityPub Conf 2020 talks are now available

    11 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  92. Rogue Ads from Google Prompt You to Download a Spurious Text File

    11 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  93. GitHub Default Branch Changes

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  94. Show HN: Remoty – Work like you're in the same office

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  95. Princeton's cheap, empty virtue-signaling may prove expensive

    11 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  96. Is Palantir's Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  97. California Endures Kiln-Like Heat as Fires Rage

    11 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  98. Gravity-Based Energy Storage Begins Trials 2021

    11 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  99. American date format leads to arrest in Spain

    11 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  100. Tesla unveils new 4680 battery cell: bigger, 6x power, and 5x energy

    11 points • comment • sep 23, 2020