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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Language Design with Leo White

    99 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

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

    99 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  3. Everything you need to know about windsocks

    98 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  4. Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019)

    98 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  5. The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

    98 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  6. The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner

    98 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  7. Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim

    98 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  8. The Making of “My Octopus Teacher“

    98 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  9. Pay attention to the Indian startup scene

    98 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  10. Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins in Search for 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims

    98 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  11. Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)

    98 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  12. No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (2015)

    97 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  13. Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

    97 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  14. Mission Protocol

    97 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  15. A gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service

    97 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  16. The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1993)

    97 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  17. OnlyFans Faces Allegations of Fraud, Theft

    97 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  18. Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?

    97 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  19. Cognition All the Way Down

    97 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  20. A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust

    97 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  21. Hetty: An HTTP toolkit for security research

    97 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  22. Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear

    97 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  23. WordPress's Matt in debate with Netlify's Matt

    97 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  24. The Fall of Silicon Valley

    97 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  25. Weird A.I. Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics

    97 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  26. Consumer Reports: Cadillac's Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla's Autopilot

    97 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  27. The Citroën Ami and the future of urban transportation

    96 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  28. Avoiding Worry Driven Development

    96 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  29. Publishing an F-Droid Repo using a Hardware Security Module

    96 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  30. Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase

    96 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  31. Jupyter Notebooks Gallery

    96 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  32. Building Netflix's Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

    96 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  33. Use “pseudo-sets” to control how many actions people take

    96 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  34. GDPR watchdog: tracking and consent popups unlawful

    96 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  35. WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux

    96 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  36. Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer

    95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  37. Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods

    95 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  38. Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

    95 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  39. The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (2018)

    95 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  40. Feral pig populations have grown to unmanageable numbers

    95 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  41. Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce

    95 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  42. Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (2016)

    95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  43. Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications

    95 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  44. NetBSD 9.1

    95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  45. Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock

    95 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  46. Odroid-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device

    95 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  47. The self-driving car is a red herring

    95 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  48. An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation

    95 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  49. Bead Sort

    95 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  50. Rust and Raspberry Pi Tide Clock

    95 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  51. The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year

    95 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  52. Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming

    94 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  53. State of Independent SaaS

    94 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  54. Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying

    94 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  55. Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?

    94 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  56. E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75

    94 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  57. KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released

    94 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  58. The pandemic turned my parents into day traders

    93 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  59. Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday

    93 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  60. Custom Allocators Demystified

    93 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  61. Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018)

    93 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  62. Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work

    93 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  63. How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible

    93 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  64. Breach at Dickey’s BBQ Smokes 3M Cards

    93 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  65. Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Labelled procedure calls

    93 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  66. Python 3.9

    93 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  67. Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka

    93 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  68. A clear, strong, and thermally insulated wood for energy efficient windows

    93 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  69. The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (1945)

    92 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  70. Cockney Rhyming Slang History

    92 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  71. Durability: Linux File APIs

    92 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  72. Show HN: NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework

    92 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  73. Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

    92 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  74. 40th Anniversary of the Ethernet

    92 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  75. Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project

    92 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  76. Guide to Visual Storytelling

    92 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  77. Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?

    92 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  78. Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996)

    91 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  79. Is your programming language unreasonable? (2015)

    91 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  80. BMW fined $18M for providing inaccurate retail sales information to investors

    91 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  81. The companies that bring us knife steel

    91 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  82. Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf]

    91 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  83. Unofficial ballot drop boxes worry California elections officials

    91 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  84. Car Paint Colors Have Gotten More Boring over the Years

    91 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  85. “Less than one”-shot learning

    91 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  86. Scaling the Root of the DNS

    91 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  87. Banks help scammers with their bad UI

    91 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  88. Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home

    91 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  89. Into the looking glass: Post-viral syndrome post COVID-19

    90 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  90. Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Google

    90 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  91. Orbital edge computing: nano satellite constellations as a computer system

    90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  92. France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws

    90 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  93. Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID19 shutdown

    90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  94. How narcissistic leaders infect their organizations’ cultures

    90 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  95. Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response

    90 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  96. Ask HN: What is your trick to do deep work or study?

    90 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  97. How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus

    90 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  98. CBR 1000RR LEDs

    90 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  99. Is wind power’s future in deep water?

    90 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  100. Overloading by Return Type in C++

    90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020