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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Halide Mark II

    135 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  2. LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)

    135 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  3. What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf]

    135 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

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

    135 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  5. Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf]

    135 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  6. UEFI-rs: Write UEFI applications in Rust

    135 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  7. When we lose weight, where does it go?

    134 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  8. Master of Magic

    134 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  9. Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui

    134 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  10. M17 Aims to Replace Proprietary Ham Radio Protocols

    134 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  11. Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust

    134 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  12. Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks

    134 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  13. The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

    134 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  14. Rust core team promotes Linux on 64-bit Arm to Tier-1 supported platform status

    133 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  15. Pippi and the Moomins

    133 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  16. Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal

    133 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  17. Fibers, Oh My

    133 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  18. Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right

    133 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  19. Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?

    133 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  20. The story of the PDF (2018)

    133 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  21. Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel

    133 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  22. Embracing Asynchronous Communication at Gitlab

    132 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  23. The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs

    132 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  24. German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided

    132 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  25. Product-market fit for a B2B company

    132 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  26. Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in motor sport

    132 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  27. The Stages of Insomnia

    132 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  28. H&M Hit with Record-Breaking GDPR Fine over Illegal Employee Surveillance

    132 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  29. Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes

    132 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  30. Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots

    132 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  31. Pg_stat_monitor – better insights into query performance in PostgreSQL

    132 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  32. The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners

    131 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  33. What Happened to XPath?

    131 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  34. The internet needs our love

    131 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  35. Why I am building permapeople.org

    131 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  36. WebGL procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch

    131 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  37. Show HN: Self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and Google Analytics

    130 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  38. Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'

    130 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  39. Typography in 8 bits: System fonts

    130 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  40. Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust

    130 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  41. /.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile

    130 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  42. A city with a thousand eyes: mass surveillance in Belgrade

    130 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  43. Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply

    130 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  44. Arctic Sea Ice not freezing In October – first time since measurements began

    129 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  45. NYC’s new digital subway map

    129 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  46. Euler's Formula: A Complete Guide

    129 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  47. September 2020 least deadly month ever in Sweden

    129 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  48. So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000)

    129 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  49. Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes

    129 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  50. PyOxidizer 0.8

    129 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  51. How to Hide from a Drone

    129 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  52. The Need for Touch

    129 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  53. Type-Level Programming in Rust

    129 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  54. Gitlab compensation calculator is not open to everyone anymore

    128 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  55. Simple kitten placeholder

    128 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  56. A family of CRDTs supporting both State and Op based replication in Rust

    128 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  57. 'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown

    128 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  58. Proprietary Grapes Come with Draconian End User License Agreement

    128 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  59. War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)

    128 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  60. Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions

    128 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  61. San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune (2019)

    127 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  62. Attempts to make Python fast

    127 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  63. UK Covid-19 data underreported due to file size limit exceeded

    127 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  64. Chefs are adapting their menus for chilly outdoor dining

    127 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  65. Julia GPU

    127 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  66. Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests

    127 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  67. eBPF Summit Day 1 Recap

    126 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  68. German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

    126 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  69. Complete BBC Micro Games Archive

    126 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  70. Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

    126 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  71. How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014)

    125 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  72. Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release

    125 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  73. Quantum Tunnel Shows Particles Can Break the Speed of Light

    125 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  74. Taleb is wrong about IQ (2019)

    125 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  75. Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design

    125 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  76. NYC taxi meter and options pricing

    125 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  77. Ropes, an Alternative to Strings [pdf] (1995)

    125 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  78. Per Brinch Hansen's books on compilers

    125 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  79. Raspberry Pi 4: Hardware accelerated video decoding (GPU) in Chromium

    125 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  80. Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI

    125 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  81. Astronomers reveal first direct image of Beta Pictoris C

    124 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  82. iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple

    124 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  83. Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse

    124 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  84. Common Causes of Bad Decisions

    123 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  85. A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups

    123 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  86. Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

    123 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  87. Rocketcrab: Party Games for Phones

    123 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  88. Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation

    123 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  89. Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” content

    123 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  90. From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income

    122 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  91. Better Than JSON?

    122 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  92. Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election

    122 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  93. Arch Conf 2020 Streaming [video]

    122 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  94. The Deep Anthropocene

    122 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  95. The Story Behind Markdown

    122 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  96. Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court

    122 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  97. Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU

    122 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  98. Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine Learning

    122 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  99. John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

    122 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  100. Neural Databases

    121 points • comment • oct 16, 2020