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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. The Nature of Lisp (2006)

    66 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  2. The power of two random choices

    65 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  3. I switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years

    65 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  4. Efficient Evenly Distributed Sampling of Time Series Records in PostgreSQL

    65 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  5. The - -var: ; hack to toggle multiple values with one custom property

    65 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  6. LocalCDN – an extension that emulates CDN to improve your online privacy

    65 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  7. Steps For Better Online Privacy

    65 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  8. Fossil footprints: the longest known prehistoric journey

    65 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  9. Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo

    65 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  10. Qt Support for State Charts

    65 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  11. FBI arrests militia members plotting to kidnap Michigan governor

    65 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  12. What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school

    65 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  13. AI’s “world in chains” scenario

    65 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  14. Raymarching with Fennel and LÖVE

    65 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  15. BPG Image Format

    65 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  16. Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 100

    65 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  17. I got hacked, lost crypto and what it says about Apple’s security. Part 1

    65 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  18. E-6B Mercury airborne command just went active on east/west coasts

    64 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  19. Thinking About Recursion

    64 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  20. The Himalayan invention powered by pine needles

    64 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  21. Zuckerberg Throttled Traffic to Progressive News Sites

    64 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  22. Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets

    64 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  23. Deep interpolation – denoising data by removing independent noise

    64 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  24. ARM32 Page Tables

    64 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  25. Row scrolling for parallax effects in Street Fighters 2

    64 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  26. How to Read a Surface Weather Map

    64 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  27. Multi-screening may mess with your memory

    64 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  28. Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Own a Piece of the Internet in India

    63 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  29. Earn IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives

    63 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  30. Fear and Loathing in YAML

    63 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  31. Coal baron Robert Murray has died

    63 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  32. Deep Learning in Production Resource List

    63 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  33. A Guide to Deep Learning and Neural Networks

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  34. Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Rook Graduation

    63 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  35. I built an app to fix my depression

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  36. CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild

    63 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  37. House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split

    63 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  38. A parable about problem solving in software development (2013)

    63 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  39. CP/67 CMS Operating System Source Code

    63 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  40. Large 2k-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

    63 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  41. A Bayesian Perspective on Q-Learning

    63 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  42. The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

    63 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  43. Is Reddit doing mass bot suspensions?

    63 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  44. The 8th Wonder of the World: Foxconn Mirage Factory in Wisconsin

    63 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  45. Google’s Internal Data Show Engineers Found It Harder to Code from Home

    62 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  46. Supercharging TensorFlow.js with SIMD and multi-threading

    62 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  47. Archive of tech interview questions of Google, Amazon, FB, Samsung and et al.

    62 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  48. Future gun control has been shot down

    62 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  49. Programming with a Read-Eval-Synth Loop [pdf]

    62 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  50. Gardening Your Twitter

    62 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  51. A Better Mousetrap – Converting WebPages to Web APIs

    62 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  52. Boswell's Life of Johnson

    62 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  53. Tolstoy as philosopher

    62 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  54. The Rome Toolchain: A linter, compiler, bundler, and more

    62 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  55. Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

    62 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  56. Apple learned automation can't match human skill

    62 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  57. Show HN: Online Activities for Remote Teams

    62 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  58. Global circulation of influenza viruses in 2020

    62 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  59. Kroomen: Black Slaver Hunters

    62 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  60. Probability and Statistics with Applications to Computing [pdf]

    62 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  61. A Collection of application ideas to improve your coding skill

    62 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  62. Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal

    61 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  63. Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption

    61 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  64. Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL

    61 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  65. What You Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (2018) [pdf]

    61 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  66. PySpark Style Guide

    61 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  67. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

    61 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  68. Crafting Functions

    61 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  69. Interview with David Vélez, founder of Brazil’s Nubank

    61 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  70. Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of

    61 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  71. Tobler's First Law of Geography

    61 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  72. Nilang.jl – A Reversible Julia DSL

    61 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  73. Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit

    61 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  74. Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012)

    61 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  75. Algorand Consensus Protocol

    61 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  76. A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

    61 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  77. Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

    61 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  78. Optimizing the Timing of Brainwork

    61 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  79. The Foundations of Liberia

    61 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  80. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

    61 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  81. I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (2014)

    61 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  82. Show HN: Mental State of HN Users Before/After Lockdown

    60 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  83. The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think

    60 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  84. NAPI Polling in Kernel Threads

    60 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  85. Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employees and visitors

    60 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  86. Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads

    60 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  87. Dendrite (next-gen Matrix server) is entering beta

    60 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  88. 5 Arrested, charged as illegal agents for China (Re: PRC's 'Operation Fox Hunt')

    60 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  89. Show HN: Deploy to K8s without YAML using ShuttleOps

    60 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  90. California Exodus: An online industry seizes Covid to sell the Red State Dream

    60 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  91. Measuring the Memory Overhead of a Postgres Connection

    60 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  92. Alan Turing – In Our Time

    60 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  93. Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft

    60 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  94. Show HN: How to X with Y. Engineering questions, answered

    60 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  95. Polyform Licenses

    60 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  96. How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

    59 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  97. Show HN: WebCatalog – turn websites into desktop apps

    59 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  98. New political polarization casts rivals as alien, unlikable, contemptible

    59 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  99. Eric Yuan's Visa Application Was Rejected 8 Times

    59 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  100. Why Software Developers Suck at UX

    59 points • comment • oct 12, 2020