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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Mark in the Middle

    253 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  2. Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability

    253 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  3. The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages

    253 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  4. Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns

    253 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  5. Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison

    253 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  6. Americans don't feel they can get justice when wronged by their ISP – survey

    253 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  7. Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day

    252 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  8. Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow

    251 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  9. Apple Fitness+

    251 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  10. Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses

    251 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  11. US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  12. Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas

    249 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  13. Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee

    249 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  14. Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II

    249 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  15. Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff

    249 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  16. YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

    248 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  17. Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go

    247 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  18. Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

    247 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  19. Bevy 0.2

    247 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  20. Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes

    246 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  21. Fossil

    246 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  22. Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml

    246 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  23. DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet while tripping

    245 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  24. NSA chief who oversaw sweeping domestic phone surveillance joins Amazon board

    245 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  25. Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year

    243 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  26. Netgear Firmware Requires Online Registration

    243 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  27. Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM

    243 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  28. C++20 has been approved

    242 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  29. Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds

    241 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  30. A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

    241 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  31. Why is Snowflake so Valuable?

    241 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  32. Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

    240 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  33. A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir

    240 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  34. Create system diagrams with Go

    239 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  35. Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers

    238 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  36. It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is

    238 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  37. The life and death of email read tracking

    238 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  38. How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?

    237 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  39. Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks

    237 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  40. Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

    236 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  41. The compositor is evil

    236 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  42. JPMorgan to trade shares of pre-IPO giants including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb

    236 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  43. Data science interview questions with answers

    235 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  44. Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

    235 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  45. When Fonts Fall

    235 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  46. Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?

    235 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  47. Universal Paperclips

    235 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  48. How Internet Archive Is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journals

    234 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  49. My Favorite Rust Function Signature

    234 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  50. Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust

    234 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  51. Birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US

    234 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  52. Microsoft 365 Outage

    233 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  53. On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap

    233 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  54. In-App Purchase Rules

    233 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  55. Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting

    233 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  56. Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users

    233 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  57. Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query

    233 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  58. Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman

    233 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  59. WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly

    232 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  60. Cloudflare keeps sending emails over a year after account was cancelled

    232 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  61. FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona

    232 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  62. Show HN: My GitHub Readme Is Interactive

    232 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  63. Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (2018)

    231 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  64. Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP

    230 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  65. Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone

    229 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  66. How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter

    229 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  67. Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible

    229 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  68. How I stay motivated working on my long-term project

    228 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  69. Amazon restricts how rival device makers buy ads on its site

    228 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  70. Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy

    228 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  71. We made an open source ESP8266 dev board for makers

    227 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  72. Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS

    226 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  73. Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval

    226 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  74. Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece

    225 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  75. Is revenue model more important than culture?

    224 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  76. C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

    224 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  77. Ancient Earth Globe

    224 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  78. Tor Browser 10

    223 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  79. Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

    223 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  80. Towards Principled Reactive UI

    223 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  81. HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine

    223 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  82. Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1

    223 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  83. UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech

    222 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  84. Letsencrypt, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    222 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  85. A Few Rules

    222 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  86. Cloudflare Radar

    221 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  87. 8086 Microcode Disassembled

    221 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  88. Ask HN: We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?

    221 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  89. .NET Memory Performance Analysis

    221 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  90. Details on the Ham Radio Equipment Being Used on the ISS

    221 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  91. All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL

    221 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  92. Pine64 September update

    221 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  93. Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library

    221 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  94. AWS IAM is having issues again

    220 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  95. Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux

    220 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  96. Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn

    219 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  97. Which GPUs to get for deep learning

    219 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  98. Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires

    219 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  99. Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets [pdf]

    219 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  100. Giant Pacific Octopus

    219 points • comment • sep 18, 2020