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Hacker News (Sep 2020)

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

    169 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  2. Assange Hearing Day 7

    169 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  3. OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

    169 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  4. New JSX Transform

    168 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  5. Almost 90 percent of NYC bars and restaurants couldn’t pay August rent

    168 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  6. Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine’s presidential election, court rules

    168 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  7. Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]

    168 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  8. RxDB – a real-time database on top of PouchDB

    167 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  9. Lessons from the Gnome Patent Troll Incident

    167 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  10. On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)

    167 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  11. Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

    167 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  12. Which Parsing Approach?

    167 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  13. Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges

    166 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  14. A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe

    166 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  15. It used to be simpler to teach Unix

    166 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  16. WebRTC Samples

    166 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  17. Lattice Confinement Fusion

    166 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  18. Amazon’s Alexa for landlords is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen

    166 points • comment • sep 12, 2020

  19. “I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots”

    166 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  20. SiFive to Debut RISC-V PC for Developers Based on Freedom U740 Next-Gen SoC

    166 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  21. Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns

    165 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  22. MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux

    165 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  23. Does storing bread in the fridge make it last longer? (2019)

    165 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  24. Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup

    165 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  25. Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy

    165 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  26. 2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

    165 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  27. Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D

    165 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  28. Build Personal Moats

    165 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  29. All the jobs I failed to get

    165 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  30. Things Come Apart

    164 points • comment • sep 14, 2020

  31. Let's talk about safety of Pinephone

    164 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  32. Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters

    164 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  33. Growing a Language (1998) [video]

    164 points • comment • sep 05, 2020

  34. Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs

    164 points • comment • sep 10, 2020

  35. APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS

    164 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  36. Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live

    164 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  37. Noise.sh – a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design

    164 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  38. Tell HN: My HN app is rejected by Apple for showing Covid-related submissions

    163 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  39. Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated

    163 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  40. Python's Innards: Introduction (2010)

    163 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  41. A patient died after ransomware attackers hit a German hospital

    163 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  42. Writing System Software (2018) [video]

    163 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  43. The IRS Sets a Trap for Cryptocurrency Tax Cheats

    163 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  44. The bridges portrayed on Euro banknotes aren't fictional anymore

    163 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  45. How the US Hacked ISIS

    162 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  46. K-9 Mail removed from Google Play Store due to listing description

    162 points • comment • sep 09, 2020

  47. Mastering PostgreSQL Administration [pdf]

    161 points • comment • sep 27, 2020

  48. Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app

    161 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  49. The technical interview is an ego trip

    161 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  50. Doom Eternal – Graphics Study

    161 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  51. Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads

    161 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  52. Chef to be acquired by Progress

    161 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  53. Home Office Projects Series: Air conditioner setup

    161 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  54. Bypassing ESP32 Encrypted Secure Boot

    161 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  55. Why some people suffer from a stutter

    161 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  56. The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels

    160 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  57. Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects

    159 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  58. Direct sales for SaaS startups – our experience and tips

    159 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  59. Students Left Behind by Remote Learning

    158 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  60. OpenJDK is now on GitHub

    158 points • comment • sep 08, 2020

  61. Show HN: Jazz up your Python scripts with sound effects

    158 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  62. Pixel 5

    158 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  63. Base 65536

    158 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  64. Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising content

    157 points • comment • sep 01, 2020

  65. Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]

    157 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  66. SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading

    157 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  67. First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved

    157 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  68. Using time travel to remotely debug faulty DRAM

    156 points • comment • sep 25, 2020

  69. Pb-jelly – A Protobuf code generation framework for Rust, developed at Dropbox

    156 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  70. 2020 Bundles

    156 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  71. Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes

    156 points • comment • sep 20, 2020

  72. Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter

    156 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  73. Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google

    156 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  74. What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]

    156 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  75. EWW: Emacs Web Wowser

    155 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  76. Durability: NVMe Disks

    155 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  77. Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems

    155 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  78. Universe in a Nutshell App

    155 points • comment • sep 22, 2020

  79. Understanding Daemons

    155 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  80. How far into the Americas did the Vikings travel?

    154 points • comment • sep 24, 2020

  81. The age-old strategy of buying cheap shares is faltering

    154 points • comment • sep 19, 2020

  82. The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices

    154 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  83. Do things that don't require scale

    154 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  84. Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strings Attached

    153 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  85. Interview with Paul Graham

    153 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  86. Update on My Situation

    153 points • comment • sep 11, 2020

  87. Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'

    153 points • comment • sep 29, 2020

  88. Split Keyboard for Professionals

    153 points • comment • sep 28, 2020

  89. To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’

    153 points • comment • sep 02, 2020

  90. U.S. expected to sue Google next week as DOJ seeks support from states

    153 points • comment • sep 30, 2020

  91. The Infosec Apocalypse

    153 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  92. Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver

    152 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  93. Time spent programming is often time well spent

    152 points • comment • sep 23, 2020

  94. Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots”

    152 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  95. How to form a California LLC without a lawyer

    152 points • comment • sep 15, 2020

  96. Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?

    152 points • comment • sep 26, 2020

  97. Creating a Home IPv6 Network

    152 points • comment • sep 21, 2020

  98. AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory

    152 points • comment • sep 06, 2020

  99. Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316 days)

    152 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  100. Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?

    151 points • comment • sep 27, 2020