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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. What happened after Portugal decriminalised all drugs? [video]

    44 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  2. Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?

    44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  3. London Pneumatic Despatch Company

    44 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  4. Get free backup service for your database and storage

    44 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  5. Visualize Starlink's current coverage with active TLEs

    44 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  6. Federal Agents Say They Thwarted a Miltia Plot to Kidnap Michigan

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  7. On a Typical Day: Daniel Ek

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  8. Making a heat treatment oven

    43 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  9. Which Cities Have the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?

    43 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  10. Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How

    43 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  11. The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; it is a moral crisis

    43 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  12. Ask HN: Is Microsoft preferable, from a privacy point of view, to Google?

    43 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  13. Software Freedom Conservancy: The Strategic GPL Enforcement Initiative

    43 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  14. OberonScript: a safe scripting language and runtime for web apps (2007)

    43 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  15. Berlin's 'new' BER Airport: A story of incompetence and corruption – DW News

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  16. Chess Captcha

    43 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  17. Escaping the Index of Prohibited Books

    43 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  18. Denver's STAR program removes police from low-level 911 calls

    43 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  19. The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (1981) [pdf]

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  20. TSP Tour in 3D through 2,079,471 stars

    43 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  21. DOJ – International Statement: End-to-End Encryption and Public Safety

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  22. Formal Models for Ethics

    43 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  23. Common problems I see in technical interviews

    43 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  24. Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience

    43 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  25. AI outperforms humans in speech recognition

    43 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  26. Mac Keeps a Log of All Your Downloads

    42 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  27. Containers Are Linux (2017)

    42 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  28. Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML

    42 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  29. Darwin’s theory about atolls is ‘beautiful’ but wrong

    42 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  30. A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights

    42 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  31. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945

    42 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  32. A Prayer for Archimedes

    42 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  33. Singapore to treat infosec as equivalent public good to fresh running water

    42 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  34. A Scientist’s Reckoning with the Cruelty of Chance

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  35. Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (2017)

    42 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  36. A History of the Russian Bathhouse

    42 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  37. Spinach-based catalysts could power fuel cells

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  38. Qt 6 will provide additional libraries via Conan package manager

    42 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  39. Charles H. Turner, pioneer in animal cognition

    42 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  40. How the Presidential Candidates Spy on Their Supporters

    42 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  41. Cross-Border Payments – A New Beginning

    42 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  42. Justice Department: Resolution with Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family

    42 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  43. Show HN: LaunchSong – A platform for artists to promote their music

    42 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  44. Neon Programming Language

    42 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  45. The next US president won’t be great for H-1B visas

    42 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  46. Ubuntu 20.10 Released

    41 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  47. Evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker

    41 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  48. Show HN: Uncover how your funds spend money in politics

    41 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  49. Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge

    41 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  50. Better than the Scoville scale? Chili-shaped device can rate pepper hotness

    41 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  51. Nvidia replaces video codecs with neural networks for virtual meetings

    41 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  52. The Development of Robotron

    41 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  53. SK-Intel NAND deal points to wider shake-up of chip sector

    41 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  54. Two Paradigms of Personal Computing

    41 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  55. This Person Does Not Exist (2019)

    41 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  56. Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed

    41 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  57. “A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates”

    41 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  58. The Complexity Paradox (1998)

    41 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  59. Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users

    41 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  60. The Hydraulic Press Channel Is the Internet Sensation of Our Time

    40 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  61. In Dune, Paul Atreides led a jihad, not a crusade

    40 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  62. Show HN: Mapipedia – Map your geotagged photos

    40 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  63. Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale [video]

    40 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  64. Why is my unused Vizio TV sending gigabytes of traffic every day?

    40 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  65. Scalable, Ultra Low Latency and Adaptive WebRTC Streaming

    40 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  66. Asteroids: By the Numbers (2019)

    40 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  67. What Is Philosophy? A survey of some answers

    40 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  68. Thank you, uBlock Origin

    40 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  69. Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests

    40 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  70. There’s a Hole in Your SoC: Glitching the MediaTek BootROM

    40 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  71. Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportable, 4G LTE Equipped

    40 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  72. Reddit removes Aaron Swartz from founders list

    40 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  73. Solid Relevance by Uncle Bob

    40 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  74. Ask HN: Finding reference customers for a SaaS product

    40 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  75. Google Workspace

    40 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  76. Tell HN: Y Combinator’s Work at a Startup Expo Is Online on Thurs, December 3rd

    40 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  77. MicroCOVID: Estimate the Covid risk from your ordinary daily activities

    40 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  78. Peter Elson: Science Fiction Illustrator

    40 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  79. Interrupted Loops

    40 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  80. Vertices Required for Cycles

    40 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  81. Chaos Engineering in Healthcare: Getting Started with Sensitive Workloads

    40 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  82. Lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

    40 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  83. How Coronavirus Spreads (airborne update)

    40 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  84. Composer 2.0 is now available

    40 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  85. Draw on a PDF Online

    40 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  86. World’s First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves into Energy

    40 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  87. Filecoin Mainnet Is Live

    40 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  88. White noise as sleep aid may do more harm than good, say scientists

    40 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  89. Aim for Operability, Not SRE as a Cult

    40 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  90. Covering a cover-up in real time

    40 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  91. 78 days, and still no broadband (Sky/Openreach, UK)

    40 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  92. Show HN: Static blog generator in about 1 KLOC

    40 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  93. Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers

    40 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  94. Machine learning model helps characterize compounds for drug discovery

    39 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  95. Taking a new look at ancient books

    39 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  96. UK: 16K Covid cases missed because an 'Excel spreadsheet maxed out’

    39 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  97. Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept

    39 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  98. A Digital Euro

    39 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  99. Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save the Monarchy

    39 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  100. Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do with Theology

    39 points • comment • oct 22, 2020