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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating Vitamin D levels

    298 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  2. Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-Bit Real Time Processor

    298 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  3. Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts

    297 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  4. Smoke has caused temperature forecasts to go crazy

    297 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  5. Google requiring Android apps on Play store to use its billing system next year

    296 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  6. Law allows police to seize and sell cars of non-lawbreakers, keeping proceeds

    296 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  7. TSA tries out another biometric system

    295 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  8. Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python

    295 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  9. TikTok reveals details of how its algorithm works

    294 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  10. Small Tech

    293 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  11. Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

    293 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  12. Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

    293 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  13. On finally learning to program at the age of 40

    292 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  14. Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial

    292 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  15. Why Not Rust?

    292 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  16. How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping

    291 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  17. Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

    290 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  18. Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse

    289 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  19. John Carmack’s presentation at Facebook Connect [video]

    289 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  20. Orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar

    286 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  21. Why we are suing the Administration

    286 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  22. Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence

    285 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  23. Getting Fiber to My Town [video]

    285 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  24. LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor

    285 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  25. Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

    283 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  26. Bash Pitfalls

    283 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  27. List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

    282 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  28. Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac

    282 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  29. Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

    282 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  30. Array Programming with NumPy

    281 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  31. Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

    281 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  32. Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

    280 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  33. Lo-Fi Player

    279 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  34. Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)

    279 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  35. Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux

    278 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  36. Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch

    278 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  37. Toward a “modern” Emacs

    278 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  38. OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker

    278 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  39. Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks

    278 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  40. Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents

    278 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  41. Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions

    278 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  42. Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter

    277 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  43. Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

    277 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  44. Nvidia’s Integration Dreams

    276 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  45. The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

    276 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  46. WSL Getting GUI Support

    275 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  47. Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs

    274 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  48. Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

    273 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  49. Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habits, work

    273 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  50. Ice

    272 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  51. EMule 0.60a

    272 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  52. We need young programmers; We need old programmers

    272 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  53. Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest

    271 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  54. Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge

    271 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  55. Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

    271 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  56. Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool

    271 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  57. LLVM merges machine function splitter for reduction in TLB misses

    269 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  58. Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation

    269 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  59. Is the web getting slower?

    267 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  60. Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer

    267 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  61. I built an app to fix my depression

    266 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  62. Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

    266 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  63. Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later

    266 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  64. Kubernetes YAML Generator

    266 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  65. Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?

    266 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  66. Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?

    265 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  67. Amnesty International denied access to court in the Assange extradition hearing

    265 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  68. Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'

    265 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  69. Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (2017)

    264 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  70. Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code

    264 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  71. CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested by FBI, Facing Fraud Charges

    264 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  72. Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds

    264 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  73. Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

    264 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  74. Luna – Cloud gaming service

    263 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  75. Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining

    263 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  76. Instant.page

    262 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  77. Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go

    262 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  78. FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord

    261 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  79. Bypassing Android MDM Using a $1.50 Electric Gas Lighter

    261 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  80. Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall

    260 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  81. Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry

    260 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  82. No script is too simple

    259 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  83. JDK 15

    259 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  84. Amazon hid its safety crisis

    259 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  85. Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches

    259 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  86. Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution

    259 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  87. Nvidia Broadcast App

    258 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  88. Deno 1.4

    257 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  89. PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board

    257 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  90. A Picture of Java in 2020

    257 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  91. Analog Terminal Bell

    256 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  92. Why Privacy Matters

    256 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  93. AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction

    256 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  94. Meeting everyone on a new team

    256 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  95. Intercepting Zoom's encrypted data with BPF

    256 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  96. I suspect many task deadlines are designed to force engineers to work for free

    255 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  97. Law firms pay Supreme Court clerks $400k bonuses – what are they buying?

    255 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  98. Several Apple Services Down

    254 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  99. Let employees sell their equity

    254 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  100. What Clojure Spec is and what you can do with it

    254 points • comment • sep 10, 2020