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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread

    49 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  2. Noam Chomsky GCAS Lecture

    49 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  3. Lossless Compression of English Short Messages

    49 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  4. Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs

    49 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  5. Show HN: URL Shortener Optimized for QR Code

    48 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  6. You Don’t Need a Blockchain, You Need a Time-Series Database

    48 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  7. Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture

    48 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  8. Fact Checks and Context for Wayback Machine Pages

    48 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  9. UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Marriott £18.4m over breach

    48 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  10. The Digital Divide Starts with a Laptop Shortage

    48 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  11. What happened to South America's missing mega-mammals?

    48 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  12. Wisconsin report confirms Foxconn’s so-called LCD factory isn’t real

    48 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  13. WhatWG: Proposal – Update XPath to at least v2.0

    48 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  14. The new minimum salaries in finance and tech for H1B visas

    48 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  15. Reverse Engineering the Japanese Sentence

    48 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  16. Plausible Analytics Isn't GDPR Compliant

    48 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  17. Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (1998)

    48 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  18. The Programmer's Price (2014)

    48 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  19. Developer Advice to Self

    48 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  20. Learning Haskell – Miscellaneous Enlightenments

    48 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  21. Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition

    47 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  22. Model fits in a tweet and predicts all elections since 1960

    47 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  23. Danish chef spent ten years infiltrating North Korea

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  24. Is it time to stop counselling patients to “finish the course of antibiotics”?

    47 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  25. Microsoft Edge dev preview for Linux

    47 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  26. Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies without complaining

    47 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  27. Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenza and pneumonia

    47 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  28. Blizzard: Starcraft II Update

    47 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  29. iPhone 12 does not come with power charger or earbuds in the box

    47 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  30. MusicNet (2016)

    47 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  31. React is Dead, Long live Reactive Rails

    47 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  32. U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle

    47 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  33. Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run

    47 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  34. Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of

    47 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  35. Show HN: A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View

    47 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  36. The Last Ent of Affric (2019)

    47 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  37. Live-streamed $375k deal for Pokémon cards ended in disaster

    47 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  38. Why Are We Living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction? (2019)

    47 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  39. We Open Sourced Docs.github.com

    47 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  40. In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code

    47 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  41. Kazakhstan, Reversing Itself, Embraces ‘Borat’ as Nice

    47 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  42. What is the PDP-11 instruction set?

    46 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  43. Large single compilation-unit C programs (2006)

    46 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  44. State-Transition Tables

    46 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  45. MicroMod – A modular prototyping platform for interchanging microcontrollers

    46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  46. Planka – an open-source self-hosted Trello-like app

    46 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  47. Six Tips to Ace a SQL Interview

    46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  48. Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?

    46 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  49. Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

    46 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  50. Bytecode Alliance: One year update

    46 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  51. De Bruijn Sequences (2011) [video]

    46 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  52. Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom

    46 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  53. Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard

    46 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  54. ICO investigation into use of personal information and political influence [pdf]

    46 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  55. A Page Load Time Comparison of Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 Web Servers

    46 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  56. FEATool Multiphysics – Physics Simulation Made Easy

    46 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  57. Google’s Project Zero discloses Windows 0day that’s been under active exploit

    46 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  58. The Origins of Precision [video]

    46 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  59. Emily Dickinson Lexicon

    46 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  60. At what grade level do presidential candidates debate at?

    46 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  61. NixOS 20.09 Released

    46 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  62. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Review

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  63. What Is Amazon? (2019)

    45 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  64. Ask HN: Best programmable robot for a child with SDK?

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  65. White House pushing no-bid spectrum sale to Thiel-backed Rivada

    45 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  66. 'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  67. AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics

    45 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  68. A company whose name was an XSS injection attack

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  69. MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium (1999)

    45 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  70. Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease

    45 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  71. Apple blocks widow from honouring husband's dying wish

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  72. Diving into /proc/pid/mem

    45 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  73. Pytest-austin: performance regression testing with no instrumentation

    45 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  74. Sony Unveils 'Spatial Reality Display' with Eye-Tracking for Glasses-Free 3D

    45 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  75. Star Wars Asciimation (2015)

    45 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  76. Man charged for 'liking' photo of murdered French teacher

    45 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  77. The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  78. Microsoft Edge WebView2 is production ready

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  79. What Palantir and the LAPD Know About You

    45 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  80. Reverse Engineering a North Korean Sim City Game

    45 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  81. Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support

    44 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  82. Get free backup service for your database and storage

    44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  83. No More Bold Visions of the Future

    44 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  84. Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub

    44 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  85. Asteroids: By the Numbers

    44 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  86. Names and Identities Change – You Should Design for That

    44 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  87. Pepsi Once Owned the World’s 6th Largest Military Fleet

    44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  88. Amazon can smell the blood in Ads. And it’s going for it

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  89. Tell HN: HN now displays the GitHub or Twitter username in the truncated URL

    44 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  90. Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?

    44 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  91. Einstein's theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars

    44 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  92. Throne of Games

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  93. Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’

    44 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  94. Microsoft probed by US government over aim to double black staff numbers

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  95. Founder Paydays at Exit (IPO)

    44 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  96. Tech gig worker underclass: customer service reps who have to pay to talk to you

    44 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  97. Amazon Q3 2020

    44 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  98. Custom Bullets with CSS:Marker

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  99. On a Typical Day: Daniel Ek

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  100. Peter Weir’s 'Witness' (2017)

    44 points • comment • oct 17, 2020