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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Neural Databases

    121 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  2. Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, had been free for years

    121 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  3. PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos

    120 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  4. Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its corals since 1995

    120 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  5. Google Sunsets Google Cloud Print

    120 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  6. CVE-2020-16898 – Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    120 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  7. Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (2018)

    120 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  8. Launch HN: Osmind (YC S20) – software for better mental health therapies

    120 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  9. Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?

    120 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  10. Show HN: Build your own isometric city

    120 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  11. Show HN: TidalWaves API – live, tokenized news metadata from around the world

    120 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  12. Slow map: Mapping Britain's intercity footpaths

    120 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  13. Show HN: I built a simple web app for streaming videos

    120 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  14. Baumol Effect

    120 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  15. Quibi is shutting down

    119 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  16. Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide

    119 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  17. Interoperability Between Swift and C++

    119 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  18. The Sackler family’s plan to keep its billions

    119 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  19. Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014)

    119 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  20. Silicon Valley pay cuts ignite tech-industry Covid-19 tensions

    119 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  21. GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production

    119 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  22. Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency

    119 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  23. Show HN: Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes

    119 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  24. Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources

    119 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  25. Show HN: You had a productive day, until now

    118 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  26. Temporal: open-source microservices orchestration platform

    118 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  27. Ninja: A simple way to do builds

    118 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  28. Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau

    118 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  29. OpenMPTCProuter

    118 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  30. Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?

    118 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  31. My Life Countdown (2007)

    118 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  32. Microsoft's CEO is tired of working from home and he's not alone

    118 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  33. The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]

    118 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  34. Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities

    117 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  35. Using a Piece of Paper as a Display Terminal – Ed vs. Vim

    117 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  36. Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)

    117 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  37. Teaching our five year old to code by cheating

    117 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  38. Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password

    117 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  39. Next.js Commerce – Starter kit for high-performance ecommerce sites

    116 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  40. The Importance of End-to-End Thinking in System Design

    116 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  41. Disney and Integrators versus Aggregators

    116 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  42. A Review of Consensus Protocols

    116 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  43. Slow Ways – a network of walking routes connecting Great Britain

    116 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  44. Corporate networks weren't designed for working from home

    116 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  45. FPGAwars: Exploring the Open Side of the FPGAs

    116 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  46. Unlocking eBPF power

    116 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  47. An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you

    116 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  48. MathJax

    116 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  49. World reaction to long queues of voters in US

    116 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  50. Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation Beta

    116 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  51. US grid-battery costs dropped 70% over 3 years

    116 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  52. No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to make us never churn

    115 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  53. RaspberryPi 4 home lab with LXD cluster

    115 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  54. SRE Teams: Hash

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  55. A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)

    115 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  56. Self-medication by orangutans using bioactive properties of a plant

    115 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  57. The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (2015)

    115 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  58. Graphics in Qt 6.0: QRhi, Qt Quick, Qt Quick 3D

    115 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  59. Reverse Engineer Amazon's Whispersync

    115 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  60. Bazel Build System Support for LLVM

    115 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  61. FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles

    115 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  62. Tabletop Simulator

    114 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  63. Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?

    114 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  64. Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?

    114 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  65. How to put machine learning models into production

    114 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  66. Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs

    114 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  67. Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market

    114 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  68. Two members of videogame piracy group “Team Xecuter” in custody

    114 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  69. Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'

    114 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  70. Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

    113 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  71. NYU DS-GA 1008 – Deep Learning

    113 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  72. Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User

    113 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  73. Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app in December

    113 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  74. Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities

    113 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  75. Single_file_libs: List of single-file C/C++ libraries

    113 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  76. Asterisk

    113 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  77. Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?

    113 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  78. The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019)

    113 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  79. The ungentle joy of spider sex

    113 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  80. Fedora 33

    113 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  81. Commodore Amiga could get a mini/classic version next year

    113 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  82. How to build an open source business

    113 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  83. Morgan Stanley Closes Acquisition of E*TRADE

    112 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  84. Bob Murray, Who Fought Regulations as a Coal Operator, Files for Lung Benefits

    112 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  85. Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter

    112 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  86. Programming language notation is a barrier to entry

    112 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  87. Lloyd's Coffee House

    112 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  88. Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD

    112 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  89. Ask HN: How do I improve my command of mathematical language?

    112 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  90. No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How

    112 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  91. Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey

    112 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  92. Differential Dataflow

    112 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  93. Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in admissions

    111 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  94. Haiku: Call for Wallpapers

    111 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  95. Boswell’s Life of Johnson

    111 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  96. C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video]

    111 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  97. The Nobel Peace Prize 2020

    111 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  98. 5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer over ‘Apolitical’ Stance

    111 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  99. Ask HN: What are the pros / cons of using monorepos?

    111 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  100. John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks

    110 points • comment • oct 27, 2020