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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  2. The Ghidra Book

    81 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  3. How to Design an Algorithm (2018)

    81 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  4. Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?

    81 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  5. Where Are All the Successful Rationalists?

    81 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  6. Starlink Packet Routing

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  7. DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federal antitrust law today

    81 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  8. Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?

    80 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  9. Keeping Calm: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy

    80 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  10. For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin

    80 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  11. Availability of cookies affects evaluation of teaching (2018)

    80 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  12. Zoom and Gloom

    80 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  13. Grid Computing with Plan 9 Ants

    80 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  14. Uber: “Yes on Prop 22” popups shown to drivers

    80 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  15. Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf]

    80 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  16. FreeCAD BIM development news

    80 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  17. Palo Alto Tiny BASIC in the Browser

    80 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  18. AMD Has Scaled Ryzen Faster Than Any Other CPU in the Past 20 Years

    80 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  19. Terraform at Scale

    80 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  20. Everything I know about elite America I learned from Fresh Prince and West Wing

    79 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  21. Giving up on wlroots-rs (2019)

    79 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  22. The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX

    79 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  23. Covid: Belgian doctors with coronavirus asked to keep working

    79 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  24. Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs

    79 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  25. ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]

    79 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  26. Complexity in Operating Systems

    79 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  27. Show HN: Lucia – 3kB Vue Alternative

    79 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  28. Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100

    79 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  29. “Powered by” buttons for customer acquisition

    79 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  30. The Niche I am Looking to Fill

    79 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  31. Dissecting the Gzip Format (2011)

    78 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  32. Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to

    78 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  33. HP-28S Battery Compartment Door

    78 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  34. A Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation

    78 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  35. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25

    78 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  36. On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox

    78 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  37. Issue Grooming

    78 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  38. Facebook Continues Its Bullshit with Oculus Accounts

    78 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  39. First-ever footage of a ram's horn squid in its natural habitat 800m deep

    78 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  40. Why Twilio Acquired Segment

    78 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  41. Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)

    78 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  42. PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts

    78 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  43. Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’

    78 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  44. Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS

    78 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  45. Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium

    77 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  46. Show HN: Feature Rich Wiki for Microsoft Teams

    77 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  47. For reliable excess returns, VC funds need 500 investments

    77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  48. The Elusive Peril of Space Junk

    77 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  49. Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots

    77 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  50. Hacked hospital chain says all 250 US facilities affected

    77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  51. Spaced Repetition (2019)

    77 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  52. Your Response to Mistakes Defines You (2014)

    77 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  53. 4x4 Macro Pad Kit

    77 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  54. Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures

    77 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  55. Deno 1.5

    77 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  56. Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality

    77 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  57. Boa: an experimental Javascript lexer, parser and compiler written in Rust

    77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  58. What does I/O bound mean? (2008)

    77 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  59. Big O, Little N

    77 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  60. Versus – Find alternatives to a product or service

    76 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  61. The YouTube-DL Takedown

    76 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  62. Overmind.js – Frictionless State Management

    76 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  63. Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)

    76 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  64. Women’s gymnastics is legal child abuse

    76 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  65. Show HN: I built a site to compare Presidential Candidates speeches side-by-side

    76 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  66. Quest for the Whistler Button

    76 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  67. New York City thinks up to half of restaurants will close permanently [pdf]

    76 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  68. Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores

    76 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  69. Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]

    76 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  70. Most homebuyers and renters not warned about flood or wildfire risk

    76 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  71. Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?

    76 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  72. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates

    76 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  73. Show HN: Create a 3D book cover and embed it on your website

    75 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  74. Let's Build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell

    75 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  75. Racket: Parsing propositional logic in 33 lines

    75 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  76. Internet of Plastic Things, No Batteries or Electronics Required

    75 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  77. How to arm Caesarean babies with the gut bacteria they need

    75 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  78. Tesla is fighting a Right-to-Repair initiative in Massachusetts

    75 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  79. Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey

    75 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  80. CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

    75 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  81. The truth about ferrites

    75 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  82. Show HN: A Product Idea Prompt Generator

    75 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  83. Three Ways of DevOps

    75 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  84. Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective against Covid-19

    75 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  85. s7 – Scheme implementation intended as extension language for other applications

    74 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  86. Is Twitter Down?

    74 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  87. “This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”

    74 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  88. RC – The Plan 9 Shell (c. 1990) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  89. Big Companies Are Starting to Swallow the World

    74 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  90. Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)

    74 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  91. Show HN: Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine

    73 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  92. What can a pipe wrench teach us about software engineering?

    73 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  93. Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?

    73 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  94. Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone

    73 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  95. Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilon

    73 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  96. Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310

    73 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  97. AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind

    73 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  98. Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (2011)

    73 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  99. California Is Built to Burn

    73 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  100. Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

    73 points • comment • oct 04, 2020