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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks

    110 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  2. What’s so exciting about Postgres?

    110 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  3. Xen on Raspberry Pi 4

    110 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  4. Petit Fat File System Module

    110 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  5. Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions

    109 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  6. Space Engine – The Universe Simulator

    109 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  7. Tools I use: argparse builder

    109 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  8. Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?

    109 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  9. Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M

    109 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  10. 76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space

    109 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  11. Unfck the Internet

    109 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  12. Introducing Semgrep and r2c

    108 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  13. Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese innovation

    108 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  14. Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?

    108 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  15. GitHub Certifications (Beta)

    107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  16. Ogden's Basic English

    107 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  17. Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues

    107 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  18. Z80 CPU User Manual (2016)

    107 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  19. No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov

    107 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  20. Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit

    107 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  21. The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave

    107 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  22. A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf]

    107 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  23. Is there a known recent Linux locking bug that affects the OCaml runtime?

    107 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  24. 1M Cell Minesweeper

    107 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  25. Gray Wolves to Be Removed from Endangered Species List

    106 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  26. Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?

    106 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  27. Lisp and Haskell (2015)

    106 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  28. Packaging Kubernetes for Debian

    105 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  29. Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops

    105 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  30. Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft

    105 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  31. The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life

    105 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  32. Elderly and Homeless: America’s Next Housing Crisis

    105 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  33. Transparent wood could be the window of the future

    105 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  34. Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns

    105 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  35. Show HN: Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile

    105 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  36. The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

    105 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  37. Lawmakers Want to Protect Local Newspapers From Google, Facebook

    105 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  38. Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers

    105 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  39. A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul

    105 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  40. UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (2017)

    104 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  41. Homotopy Type Theory (2012) [pdf]

    104 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  42. Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging

    104 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  43. PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros

    104 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  44. Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound

    104 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  45. Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves

    104 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  46. An opinionated history of programming languages

    104 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  47. Colorized and upscaled footage of a snowball fight filmed in 1896

    104 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  48. A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn

    104 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  49. Show HN: GridRoyale, a life simulation for exploring social dynamics

    104 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  50. Grid: AI platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning

    104 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  51. Glenn Greenwald Resigns from the Intercept

    104 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  52. Translation Units Considered Harmful?

    103 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  53. Python typosquatting is about more than typos

    103 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  54. SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API

    103 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  55. Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM

    103 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  56. Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement

    103 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  57. Forcing Functions in Software Development

    103 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  58. Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?

    102 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  59. OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot

    102 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  60. The curious case of Romanian broadband

    102 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  61. Show HN: Pixie, Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability Using EBPF

    102 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  62. Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac

    102 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  63. Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  64. Show HN: Gurlic – Free and Open Communities

    102 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  65. Asciidoctor

    102 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  66. The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020

    102 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  67. Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack

    102 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  68. Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  69. Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?

    102 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  70. Charles Lindbergh is the reason the U.S. doesn't have cameras in the courtroom

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  71. Transport Tycoon a.k.a. the great optimiser, Chris Sawyer

    101 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  72. HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you

    101 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  73. Tesla Earning Result 3Q 2020 [pdf]

    101 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  74. Report on Investigation of Twitter’s July 15, 2020 Cybersecurity Incident

    101 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  75. “Within 24h of launch a majority of miners are already on strike” Consequences?

    101 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  76. N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection

    101 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  77. Prefer Fakes over Mocks

    101 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  78. Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers

    101 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  79. The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Incomplete Beginner’s Guide to Smalltalk

    100 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  80. Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware

    100 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  81. Parallel Tracks

    100 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  82. How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup

    100 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  83. Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off

    100 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  84. The virtual device farm for rendering websites on multiple devices

    100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  85. Which McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are Broken?

    100 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  86. Frama-C: Modular Analysis of C Programs

    100 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  87. Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts

    99 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  88. White Women Need Not Apply

    99 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  89. Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working?

    99 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  90. Goodbye, Native Apps

    99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  91. Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

    99 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  92. A tale from the trenches fixing an NES

    99 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  93. How to play the piano: On Glenn Gould

    99 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  94. Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?

    99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  95. Getting noticed as a remote engineer

    99 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  96. Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages

    99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  97. PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says

    99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  98. How to count every language in India (2018)

    99 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  99. All Telegram servers are down

    99 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  100. The Three Sides of Risk

    99 points • comment • oct 11, 2020