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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

    146 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  2. Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code

    146 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  3. Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs

    146 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  4. Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db

    146 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  5. Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial

    146 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  6. What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)

    146 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  7. Applying Textbook Data Structures for Real Life Wins

    146 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  8. How to Interview Engineers

    146 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  9. Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE

    146 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  10. JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor

    146 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  11. Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel

    146 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  12. Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?

    146 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  13. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics (2019)

    145 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  14. Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8

    145 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  15. Cursed Elixir

    145 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  16. The Most Surveilled Cities in the World

    145 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  17. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

    144 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  18. A Youtube video downloader written in Go

    144 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  19. How to Live with Dying

    144 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  20. Suicide Linux (2009)

    144 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  21. St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska

    144 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  22. Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”

    144 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  23. Face retouching settings should be off by default

    144 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  24. Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done

    144 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  25. Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee has died

    144 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  26. NixCon Live

    143 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  27. The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life

    143 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  28. DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

    143 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  29. The Xonsh Python Shell

    143 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  30. SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility

    143 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  31. Snap! 6 is here, and it's all about scale

    143 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  32. UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”

    142 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  33. Facebook Prediction Market Launches in US and Canada

    142 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  34. How Microsoft went from “Linux is a cancer” to “Microsoft loves Linux”

    142 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  35. Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting

    142 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  36. Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI

    142 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  37. Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros

    141 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  38. Yahoo Groups is closing down

    141 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  39. Deprecating SHA1

    141 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  40. LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction

    141 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  41. Spamtoberfest

    141 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

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

    141 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  43. Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks

    141 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  44. Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?

    141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  45. A web of trust for NPM

    141 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  46. Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)

    141 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  47. Doing old things better vs. doing brand new things

    141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  48. GardaWorld lost track of millions

    141 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  49. Letter from Raspberry Pi Foundation over trademark use

    140 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  50. Falling in love again with the haunting sounds of interwar Polish tango

    140 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  51. Rich Comment Blocks in Clojure

    140 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  52. Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System

    140 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  53. When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (2018)

    139 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  54. Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs

    139 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  55. OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)

    139 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  56. Gradient Boosted Decision Trees

    139 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  57. Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs

    139 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  58. AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU

    139 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  59. Logs Seized from F-Secure’s VPN Must Be Destroyed, Court Rules

    139 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  60. Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog

    139 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  61. Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally but Not Vertically? Here's the Physics

    138 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  62. How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption

    138 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  63. Updated BBC micro:bit

    138 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  64. Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene

    138 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  65. Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook

    138 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  66. Launch HN: Decentro (YC S20) – APIs for Banking Integrations in India

    138 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  67. A tool that increased my typing speed

    138 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  68. A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

    138 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  69. Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

    138 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  70. Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app

    138 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  71. Show HN: Collaboratively Edit Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io

    138 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  72. Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

    138 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  73. US Seizes Domains Used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

    138 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  74. Pandemic sparked European cycling revolution

    138 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  75. Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes

    138 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  76. A CIA Office Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches

    138 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  77. Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time

    138 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  78. Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers

    138 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  79. Geeking Out with UEFI

    138 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  80. Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?

    137 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  81. Java Concurrency – Understanding the Basics of Threads

    137 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  82. Proton 5.13: A Massive Update

    137 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  83. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis

    137 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  84. How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers

    137 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  85. Shasqi (YC W15) aims to make chemotherapy more powerful and less toxic

    137 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  86. Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser

    137 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  87. Show HN: Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer

    137 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  88. Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)

    137 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  89. Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars

    137 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  90. Show HN: Live map of “good morning/night” tweets

    136 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  91. Galileo's Ground Segment Problem

    136 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  92. Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)

    136 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  93. Why and How zk-Snark Works (2019)

    136 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  94. Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability

    136 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  95. Why Is There a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee?

    136 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  96. Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp

    135 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  97. Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile

    135 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  98. List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools

    135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  99. Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors

    135 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  100. UEFI-rs: Write UEFI applications in Rust

    135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020