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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Overloading by Return Type in C++

    90 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  2. Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff

    90 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  3. Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning

    89 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  4. Web Neural Network API

    89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  5. A ritual for your product increases satisfaction and spending

    89 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  6. An Indian startup is abusing DMCA to curb online dissent against their products

    89 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  7. Declarative Shadow DOM

    89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  8. The Developer Experience Gap

    89 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  9. The Prize in Economic Sciences 2020

    89 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  10. Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh

    89 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  11. Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs

    89 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  12. “I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”

    89 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  13. Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account

    89 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  14. US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter

    89 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  15. The Corporatization of Nursing Homes

    89 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  16. Nginx Service Mesh

    88 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  17. Germany's Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing WhatsApp/Messenger backdoor

    88 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  18. Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?

    88 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  19. When Plants Go to War

    88 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  20. NASA WebGL of the Universe

    88 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  21. Haskell web framework IHP aims to make web development type-safe and easy

    88 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  22. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

    88 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  23. Otvdm/winevdm: run old Windows software in 64-bit Windows

    88 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  24. Charisma: Now You’ve Got It, Now You Don’t

    88 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  25. Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?

    88 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  26. The shadow investment wars of Alibaba and Tencent

    87 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  27. Presidential Plinko

    87 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  28. Show HN: A site to help you validate ideas in bulk

    87 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  29. Cyclone Scheme

    87 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  30. Obscurix – Arch Linux-based OS configured for privacy, security and anonymity

    87 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  31. CrimeOps: The Operational Art of Cyber Crime

    87 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  32. Show HN: Ajour – A GUI application in Rust to manage World of Warcraft addons

    87 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  33. Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease

    87 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  34. USC's Dying Linebackers

    87 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  35. Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response

    87 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  36. We Were Builders Once, and Strong

    87 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  37. Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water with the feds

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  38. The Walls of the Waldorf Astoria

    86 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  39. AWS IAM having issues yet again

    86 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  40. The Long Road to HTTP/3

    86 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  41. Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it

    86 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  42. Going Viral as a Woman in Tech

    86 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  43. Beg the Question

    86 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  44. The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974)

    86 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  45. Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain

    86 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  46. The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning

    86 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  47. How HN crushed David Walsh's blog

    86 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  48. Linux’s History (1992)

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  49. The Problem of Legacy IT Systems

    85 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  50. 'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?

    85 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  51. Hoppscotch – A free, fast API request builder

    85 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  52. Demo: iPhone as trackpad on macOS

    85 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  53. Lots of overnight tragedies, no overnight miracles

    85 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  54. Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

    85 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  55. Using Lidar to Add Autofocus to a Manual Focus Lens

    84 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  56. Only existing market leaders are benefiting from coronavirus lockdowns

    84 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  57. Kafka in Pieces

    84 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  58. Developing for the Semantic Web

    84 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  59. An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and the Times

    84 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  60. Competition and Quarter-Life Crises

    84 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  61. I'm paying over 10k to stare at a screen and be told to “teach myself”

    84 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  62. Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other languages with Meson

    84 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  63. Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

    84 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  64. A 40KB Optimization Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth

    83 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  65. 2020 Had the Warmest September on Record, Data Shows

    83 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  66. A professionally printed fanzine for the Commodore 64

    83 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  67. Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years

    83 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  68. The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux

    83 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  69. Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US and UK next week

    83 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  70. Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015)

    83 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  71. Why Europe Wins

    83 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  72. Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries

    83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  73. An Almond-Based Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Depression in Diabetics

    83 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  74. Why build another website builder?

    83 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  75. Show HN: Hexagonal Minesweeper with multiplayer, geographic maps, zoom and pan

    83 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  76. Embedded Programming Without the IDE

    83 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  77. CZ-4C R/B passed over LeoLabs Kiwi Space Radar – with no signs of debris

    83 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  78. Rust for Clojurists (2015)

    83 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  79. Viral effects are not network effects

    83 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  80. Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (1969)

    82 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  81. Malloc as a Service

    82 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  82. When is no-code useful?

    82 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  83. Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers

    82 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  84. A modular, extensible DIY NAS

    82 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  85. Old Laptops as Secondary Monitors

    82 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  86. Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19

    82 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  87. Facebook Q3 2020

    82 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  88. Telecom auctions have failed India

    82 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  89. Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool

    82 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  90. RF Shielding Tips and Tricks

    82 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  91. Read-Only Mode for Better Rails Downtime

    82 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  92. Ctypes.sh: A foreign function interface for bash

    82 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  93. Free Email Templates for Developers

    82 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  94. Reproducible Machine Learning in production

    82 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  95. Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France

    81 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  96. How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (2009)

    81 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  97. Joe Rogan Experience #1556 – Glenn Greenwald

    81 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  98. The Ghidra Book

    81 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  99. Where Are All the Successful Rationalists?

    81 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  100. Starlink Packet Routing

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2020