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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground

    507 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  2. Notes on My Colon Cancer

    506 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  3. My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

    506 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  4. Pressing YubiKeys

    503 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  5. Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently

    497 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  6. Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

    492 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  7. Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”

    491 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  8. Ruby on Rails in a week

    491 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  9. There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)

    490 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  10. We learn faster when we aren’t told what choices to make

    489 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  11. Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain

    485 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  12. Foundations of Software Engineering

    485 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  13. Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

    484 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  14. PS5 Teardown [video]

    484 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  15. Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

    484 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  16. Escaping strings in Bash using !:q

    482 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  17. iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

    482 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  18. A Theory of Software Architecture

    481 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  19. ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

    478 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  20. The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen

    474 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  21. Quibi Is Shutting Down

    473 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  22. FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

    470 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  23. The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it

    468 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  24. PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack

    465 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  25. 100k Stars

    464 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  26. If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour

    460 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  27. Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository

    460 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  28. “35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”

    459 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  29. Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story

    457 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  30. YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

    457 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  31. ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study

    457 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  32. Fuck You Sunday

    455 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  33. AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th

    454 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  34. We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal

    452 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  35. Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust

    452 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  36. Hacking Grindr Accounts with Copy and Paste

    451 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  37. Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products

    450 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  38. A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%

    448 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  39. Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

    444 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  40. Wobblepaint

    444 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  41. Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos

    443 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  42. Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon

    439 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  43. Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store

    439 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  44. Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon

    434 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  45. Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic

    432 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  46. A small but complete JavaScript engine

    431 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  47. Good sleep, good learning, good life

    430 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  48. Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

    429 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  49. What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

    428 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  50. We deleted the production database by accident

    426 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  51. Image Scaling Attacks

    424 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  52. The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?

    424 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  53. Org Mode's new site

    424 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  54. Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job

    423 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  55. Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

    422 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

    421 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  57. Microsoft Tilecode

    419 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  58. New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars

    417 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  59. Welcome to the Old Internet Again

    417 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  60. Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

    416 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  61. That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

    416 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  62. Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready

    416 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  63. Privacy is the most important concept of our time

    414 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  64. Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland

    413 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  65. Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time

    412 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  66. I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)

    411 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  67. When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

    410 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  68. Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure

    410 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  69. The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)

    410 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  70. Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

    409 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  71. The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

    409 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  72. 14,000x Speedup (2015)

    409 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  73. Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

    408 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  74. Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people

    405 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  75. Y Combinator Failed Startups

    404 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  76. Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course

    403 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  77. 1Password for Linux beta

    403 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  78. San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

    402 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  79. AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out

    402 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  80. Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform

    402 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  81. Parsing Algorithms

    401 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  82. Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet

    401 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  83. Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

    401 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  84. America's True Unemployment Rate

    400 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  85. OAuth 3

    400 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  86. The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)

    399 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  87. Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens

    399 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  88. Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

    396 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  89. ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

    396 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  90. Dockerfile Security Best Practices

    396 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  91. United States vs. Google

    395 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  92. Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street

    392 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  93. OptaPlanner – constraint solver for optimizing planning and scheduling problems

    392 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  94. From its name to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on with grapefruit

    391 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  95. On Abandoning the X Server

    391 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  96. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

    390 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  97. Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission

    390 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  98. Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition

    389 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  99. Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware

    388 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  100. Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee

    388 points • comment • oct 09, 2020