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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

  1. Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf]

    190 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  2. The unrealized potential of federation

    190 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  3. Kb: A minimalist hacker-oriented knowledge base manager

    189 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  4. OpenSSH 8.4

    189 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  5. Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record

    189 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  6. Tesla suffers network outage disabling vehicles’ mobile app

    188 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  7. Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms

    188 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  8. Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users

    188 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  9. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Book

    188 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  10. Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders

    188 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  11. Web Clipper Browser Extension with Automatic Content Extraction, Now Open Source

    188 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  12. Low Doses of LSD Acutely Increase BDNF Blood Plasma Levels in Healthy Volunteers

    188 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  13. To design and develop an interactive globe

    187 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  14. Caramel: an Erlang back end for OCaml

    187 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  15. U.S. Customs at JFK Seizes Counterfeit Apple Airpod Earbuds

    187 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  16. The EU is set to declare war on encryption

    187 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  17. AresDB: Uber's GPU-Powered Open Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine

    187 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  18. 'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions

    187 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  19. Show HN: Skia-canvas, a browserless implementation of the Canvas API for Node.js

    186 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  20. Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society

    186 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  21. Tips for immersive video calls

    185 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  22. Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers

    185 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  23. Cyberpunk 2077 Logos

    185 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  24. Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

    185 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  25. PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

    185 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  26. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect [pdf]

    185 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  27. Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk

    185 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  28. Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials

    185 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  29. Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds

    184 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  30. Geometric Algebra for Python

    184 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

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

    184 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  32. eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Story of a Stalking Scandal

    184 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  33. Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface

    183 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  34. Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features

    183 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  35. Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14

    183 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  36. Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations

    183 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  37. PostgreSQL B-Tree index deduplication

    183 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  38. Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists

    183 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  39. NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customization [pdf]

    182 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  40. TamaGo – bare metal Go for ARM SoCs

    182 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  41. Show HN: Ruby One-Liners Cookbook

    182 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  42. JPMorgan to pay nearly $1B for metals market manipulation

    182 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  43. Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress

    182 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  44. Arm Officially Supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU Driver Development

    181 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  45. AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac

    181 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  46. The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found

    181 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  47. Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)

    180 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  48. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)

    180 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  49. Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?

    180 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  50. Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning

    180 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  51. Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply

    180 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  52. The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment

    179 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  53. Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

    179 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  54. Bakeware – Compile Elixir applications into single executable binaries

    179 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  55. ProtonDrive Security Model

    179 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  56. Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now

    179 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  57. Boeing whistle-blower says proposed 737 Max fixes aren't enough

    178 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  58. Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19

    178 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  59. Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods

    178 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  60. More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents

    178 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  61. iPhone audio detectable with AM radio

    178 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  62. The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down

    178 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  63. Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline

    177 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  64. Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Accepted)

    177 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  65. The Hash Monster: ESP-32 Tamagotchi for WiFi Cracking

    177 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  66. Python for Kids: A Comprehensive Python Development Tutorial for Kids

    176 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  67. Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better

    176 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  68. An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia

    176 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  69. US sanctions International Criminal Court officials

    176 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  70. Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help?

    176 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  71. The Polygons of Doom: PSX

    176 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  72. Why books don't work (2019)

    176 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  73. Essential C (2003) [pdf]

    175 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  74. If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion

    175 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  75. Neue Haas Grotesk (2011)

    174 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  76. Moving 25TB data from one S3 bucket to another took 7 engineers and 2 full days

    174 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  77. Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage

    174 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  78. Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it’s getting harder to spot them

    174 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  79. Physicists argue that black holes from the Big Bang could be the dark matter

    174 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  80. Visualize Data Structures in VSCode

    173 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  81. The Architecture of Open Source Applications

    173 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  82. BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy

    173 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  83. List of All Current TLDs

    172 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  84. Haskell's Children

    172 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  85. Creativity Changes as We Age

    172 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  86. ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light

    171 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  87. How India Censors the Web

    171 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  88. Old, Good Database Design

    171 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  89. .NET 5.0 – New APIs

    171 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  90. A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics

    171 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  91. Toonify Yourself

    170 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  92. Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man?

    170 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  93. Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

    170 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  94. Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades

    170 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  95. Riding the RISC-V wave

    170 points • comment • sep 13, 2020

  96. Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) performance better than expected

    170 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  97. Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp

    170 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  98. Assange Hearing Day 7

    169 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  99. Apple (Pro) Mouse (2014)

    169 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  100. Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?

    169 points • comment • sep 07, 2020