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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Greenland ice sheet on course to lose ice at fastest rate in 12,000 years

    9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  2. Bitcoin, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Future of Money

    9 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  3. World failing to meet all biodiversity goals, says UN

    9 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  4. Why Music Is Helpful for Concentration

    9 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  5. Data and Reality, 2nd Edition

    9 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  6. Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown

    9 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  7. The History of the Electric Scooter

    9 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  8. The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

    9 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  9. Ask HN: What software has improved your life the most?

    9 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  10. The Millennials Are Coming for the Boomers' Money

    9 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  11. Second alignment plane of solar system discovered

    9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  12. Ask HN: What are your favorite weeklong courses not related to work?

    9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  13. A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable

    9 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  14. Dictionary.com revises definitions to eliminate prejudiced language

    9 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  15. Losing the Right to Encryption Means Losing Business

    9 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  16. The surprising secret hidden in a pregnancy test

    9 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  17. Apple will no longer terminate Epic’s usage of ‘Sign In with Apple’

    9 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  18. Jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust

    9 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  19. Emily Ratajkowski on Reclaiming Her Own Image

    9 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  20. Man flying a jet pack spotted at LAX

    9 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  21. In its 5th filing with the SEC, Palantir finally admits it is not a democracy

    8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  22. Tesla to Sell as Much as $5B of Shares After Rally

    8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  23. Form Follows Function: On Louis Sullivan’s Kindergarten Chats

    8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  24. A conversation with Bloomberg Beta venture capitalist Roy Bahat

    8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  25. China bans Scratch, MIT’s programming language for kids – TechCrunch

    8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  26. What Tesla will put in its new batteries

    8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  27. An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence

    8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  28. Diffbot's Natural Language API

    8 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  29. Killer whales launch ‘orchestrated’ attacks on sailing boats

    8 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  30. Microsoft report shows increasing sophistication of cyber threats

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  31. Facts You Need to Know About Google on Its 21st Birthday

    8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  32. Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink in the field

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  33. Implementing Records in X7

    8 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  34. The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know

    8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  35. Geneva to raise minimum wage to £3,500 a month

    8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  36. Moobot vs. Gatebot:Cloudflare Auto Blocks Botnet DDoS Attack Topping at 654 Gbps

    8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  37. “yarn is dead, long live npm”

    8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  38. Why Magic Leap Failed

    8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  39. U.S. Border Patrol Digital Forensics Programs [pdf]

    8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  40. Blur attacks bypass Bluetooth Classic and BLE security mechanisms CVE-2020-15802

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  41. Show HN: Explore breathtaking places from home with 360° Audio Tours

    8 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  42. An Asymmetric Landscape: The Different Shapes of Blue and Red News

    8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  43. MicroG 0.2.12 released, adds support for Covid-19 contact tracing apps

    8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  44. The Truman Show Delusion

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  45. Stack Overflow is buying reviews for Teams

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  46. Ask HN: How does a product like Snowflake pitch itself to customers

    8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  47. Amazon Wants Alexa to Move into Your Apartment Before You Do

    8 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  48. New Covid Cases Soar in Denmark, Surpassing No-Lockdown Sweden

    8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  49. RISC-V: What’s Missing and Who’s Competing

    8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  50. Disqus Comments Has Been Hacked

    8 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  51. Show HN: A Chrome extension to help save books you want to read

    8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  52. Hong Kong shocked by violent police arrest of 12-year-old girl

    8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  53. Microsoft Teams Is Down

    8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  54. U.S. Military Seeks Authorization to Expand Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya

    8 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  55. As humanity ages the numbers of people with dementia will surge

    8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  56. A 'Cure for Heart Disease'? a Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys

    8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  57. How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK

    8 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  58. Is it time we started killing spammers? (2010)

    8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  59. Semantic Import Versioning is unsound

    8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  60. Ang Rita–who climbed Everest record 10 times 1983-96 without added O2–dies at 72

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  61. Podjeli: A dumb new way to share files online

    8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  62. Remote working has negative effects

    8 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  63. Show HN: OOTB Code-Server, Easiest “VSCode on Browser” + HTTPS and GitHub Auth

    8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  64. Healthcare giant UHS hit by ransomware attack

    8 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  65. Ask HN: Why would a bot (or person) leave these identical nonsense IMDB reviews?

    8 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  66. Genetic algorithm discovers 5 reflected TCP amplification attacks

    8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  67. Microsoft Edge on Linux preview is coming in October

    8 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  68. Scaling Up Fundamental Quantum Chemistry Simulations on Quantum Hardware

    8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  69. Quibi Explores Strategic Options Including a Possible Sale

    8 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  70. How Do I Hide All Firefox Browser Welcome Pages?

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  71. The Pandemic Has Parents Fleeing from Schools–Maybe Forever

    8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  72. UK scores an own goal with its Digital Services Tax

    8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  73. Show HN: WunderGraph - the GraphQL BFF to Aggregate APIs + OIDC Auth + Caching

    8 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  74. Welcome to Birthday Week 2020

    8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  75. Dupes and Fellow Travelers (1949)

    8 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  76. I’m Leaving the West Coast

    8 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  77. America is trapped in a pandemic spiral

    8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  78. Tawk of the Town

    8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  79. Show HN: CUDA Pathtracer with Lots of Features

    8 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  80. The Great Filter of Startups

    8 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  81. Facebook and Instagram Down

    8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  82. Palantir Apollo: Powering SaaS where no SaaS has gone before

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  83. Exponent Rule for Derivative: An Introduction

    8 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  84. Only About 3.5 Percent of Americans Care About Democracy

    8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  85. Dozens of Amazon's own products have been reported as dangerous

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  86. Greatest Musical Albums of All Time

    8 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  87. Speeding up HTTPS and HTTP/3 negotiation with DNS

    8 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  88. Donald Trump Nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

    8 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  89. US to Sell Taiwan Drones; Rockets

    8 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  90. New Electronics Book Honors Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims III

    8 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  91. We built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue

    8 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  92. India bans PUBG and over 100 additional Chinese apps

    8 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  93. Clearing up mysteries – The original goal (1989) [pdf]

    8 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  94. Numan Türle adds every Gitlab user to project

    8 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  95. What happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  96. Deanonymization of police officers in Belarus could be a game-changer

    8 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  97. Learning the concept of even numbers (differentiable ILP; my first paper impl.)

    8 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  98. Ominous map shows the entire West Coast with the worst air quality on Earth

    8 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  99. Is this an eggplant which I see before me?

    8 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  100. CNN report finds Amazon's own products are being flagged as fire hazards

    8 points • comment • sep 12, 2020