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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

California's Vanishing Lakes and the Hunger of the Mines (2015)
54 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
How Scrabble Blew Its Big Moment
54 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Analogue Duo: FPGA Based TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine Clone
54 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Virgin Hyperloop picks West Virginia to test high-speed transport system
54 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
iPhone 12
54 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
PayPal increasing withdrawal fee to 3.0%
53 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones
53 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Facebook deletes satire post claiming Dem Senator testing ACB as a witch
53 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
The Key Points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code
53 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Doug’s Demo Sequel: 1969
53 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Intonarumori
53 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
A Tree That Owns Itself (2018)
53 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Canadian government invests in small nuclear reactors to help meet net-zero 2050
53 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Rampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F
53 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
53 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
British Airways fined £20m over data breach
53 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Killed by Google
53 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
53 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Why Apple II Is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer (1978)
53 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Telemelt: Web-Based Multiplayer Multiemulator
53 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
53 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Exploring the abandoned birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64 [video]
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
A DIY Audio Induction Loop for the Hard of Hearing
53 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Why I bought a voting machine on eBay
53 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
In Memoriam: John D. Barrow
53 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Ask HN: What are some evergreen HN threads worth revisiting?
52 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Create React App 4.0
52 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Google Contractors Say Their Work Is Being Shipped to Poland After Unionizing
52 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Structured Procrastination
52 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Show HN: I co-wrote a novel with GPT-3 in 118 hours
52 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Why Does Julia Work So Well?
52 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
YouTube broke for 40% of the UK population after rolling out 60 FPS videos
52 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Unconditioned Texas Garage Lab – 1 year later
52 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
But Can It Run Nytimes.com?
52 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Mysterious ‘super-archaic’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors
52 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
President Trump’s Twitter doesn't have 2FA, password “maga2020 ”
52 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
LIL: Little Interpreted Language
52 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Slaughterbots
52 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Landing AI: Visual Inspection Platform (Andrew Ng)
52 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
An Introduction to Computer Networks (2015)
52 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
52 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
52 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
We studied what happens when guys add their cats to their dating app profiles
52 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds
52 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Deprecate FTP support (deprecated)
52 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
The Gap: Where Machine Learning Education Falls Short
52 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Something Awful, a Cornerstone of Internet Culture, Is Under New Ownership
52 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Email to Former Board Member
51 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Ask HN: Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?
51 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Oswald Spengler – an intellectual life
51 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time
51 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
ESP8266 as Open Source Hardware
51 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Slow lorises are one of the world’s only venomous mammals
51 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Ask HN: Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?
51 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Computation of a 30750-Bit Binary Field Discrete Logarithm
51 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Algolia releases new AI search features
51 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time
51 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
A deeply flawed lawsuit that would do nothing to help consumers
51 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Alcoa 50k ton forging press
51 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year
51 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
High minds, low politics: The lives of four revolutionary thinkers
51 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Mobile networks banned from selling locked phones
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
When Evolution Is Infectious
51 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes
51 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Party Line – 1:1 chat across the political spectrum
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Show HN: Essays curated for you with machine learning
50 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
The Supreme Court Hears Oracle vs. Google Tomorrow
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions
50 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Cracking the knuckles is probably harmless
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
4chan reveals online voter exploit that can be used for ballot interference
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says
50 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
The Friden EC-130, one of the world's first electronic calculators
50 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
An experiment about how we view history
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Invites sent for Starlink beta
50 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds
50 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Nvidia Driver not yet supported for Linux Kernel 5.9
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
How to Type 3x Faster
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
From a jumble of secret reports, damning data on big banks and dirty money
50 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Rachel Whiteread’s House: why was this Bow landmark demolished? (2015)
50 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (2003)
50 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Guide to Notion Landing Pages
50 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
50 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Mozilla RegretsReporter
50 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
50 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Wrist Routine – 8 Exercises to Fix Hand and Wrist Pain
50 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Lossless Compression of English Short Messages
49 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Japan to release Fukushima's contaminated water into sea: reports
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
'Long Covid' may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Neuropilin-1 facilitates SARS-CoV-2 cell entry and infectivity
49 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Coinbase Loses 5% of Workforce over Political Speech Ban
49 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Facebook/Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
49 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Noam Chomsky GCAS Lecture
49 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Print These Electronic Circuits Directly onto Skin
49 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Homescapes and Gardenscapes ads banned as misleading
49 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Getting Audio Visualizations Working with Web Audio API
49 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Bletchley Park’s contribution to WW2 'over-rated'
49 points • comment • oct 20, 2020