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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. The IRS Is Outgunned

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  2. BBC finds Facebook failed to remove child abuse (2017)

    35 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  3. Automatic Optical Illusions Using Python and OpenCV

    35 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  4. Self-erecting pneumatic structures (2000) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  5. Euro English

    35 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  6. New Relic employees report unrest over work culture, CEO’s donations

    35 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  7. Show HN: Hacktoberfix, Fix your October already

    35 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  8. My doctor gave a wrong neurological diagnosis. I should know: I'm a neurologist

    35 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  9. 10 years, 8 months and 12 days

    35 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  10. AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world

    35 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  11. bat, a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting, Git integration written in Rust

    35 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  12. Fund manager: ‘Nightmare’ US stock valuations driven by ‘young, dumb’ investors

    35 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  13. Time Gun – Maps

    35 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  14. Nokia Composer in 512 bytes of JavaScript

    35 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  15. Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard

    35 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  16. Silicon Valley and Defense Tech

    34 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  17. Sweden is moving away from its no-lockdown strategy

    34 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  18. Nature supports Joe Biden for US president

    34 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  19. Get Your Facebook Account in ‘Good Standing’ Before Buying Oculus Quest 2

    34 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  20. US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told

    34 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  21. Show HN: Learning Project: building an imperative language

    34 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  22. Show HN: SixtyFPS – multi-language GUI toolkit for desktop/embedded

    34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  23. Cassini Data Solves Mystery of Arecibo Radar Signals on Titan

    34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  24. BlazingSQL Speeds Up Queries on Summit Supercomputer with GPU-Accelerated SQL

    34 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  25. Don’t Find Mentors. Find Your Future Self

    34 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  26. DNA ties Ashkenazi Jews to group of just 330 people from Middle Ages

    34 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  27. Reddit will now pay all US employees SF/NYC salary regardless of where they live

    34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  28. India’s engineers have thrived in the tech industry. So has its caste system

    34 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  29. What Is a Worldview? (2001)

    34 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  30. Show HN: Learn Programming Basics in 40 Minutes

    34 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  31. SEC just paid a record $114M to a whistleblower

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  32. Late Aaron Swartz is omitted from the founders page of Reddit

    34 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  33. US Department of Justice to file antitrust lawsuit against Google

    34 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  34. Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study

    34 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  35. At Home Covid-19 Testing for Pirates – Hello Virology

    34 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  36. California Republican Party Admits It Placed Misleading Ballot Boxes

    34 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  37. Bash Bracket Cheat Sheet (By Julia Evans)

    34 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  38. Pandemic fatigue may be setting in across much of the world

    34 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  39. IBM Watson's Next Challenge: Modernize Legacy Code

    34 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  40. The Death of the Full Moon Party

    34 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  41. Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)

    34 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  42. Swedish virologist says her country's strategy has failed, but nobody admits it

    34 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  43. Did You Write Mine?

    34 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  44. Hardware-as-a-Service

    33 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  45. Utubster downloads YTB playlists, MP4 videos and MP3s from almost any website

    33 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  46. Golden Dawn Found Guilty of Running Criminal Organization in Greece

    33 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  47. Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 Covid tests in England

    33 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  48. Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]

    33 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  49. A Free Hyperlegible Typeface from the Braille Institute

    33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  50. Remotion raises $13M to build video workspace for short spontaneous conversation

    33 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  51. With Hunter Biden Expose, Suppression Is a Bigger Scandal Than the Actual Story

    33 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  52. A potential employee’s guide to Silicon Valley startup equity

    33 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  53. UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women

    33 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  54. Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

    33 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  55. Recursion Revisited

    33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  56. Acorns in the Middle Ages

    33 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  57. Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device

    33 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  58. Rejuvenating Autoconf

    33 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  59. 'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake'

    33 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  60. Kubernetes: Curated List of Tools and Resources

    33 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  61. CG/SQL: Easy, accurate code generation for SQLite

    33 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  62. Ask HN: How does WhatsApp make money?

    33 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  63. 'I never saw stars': Gene therapy brings back 8-year-old Canadian boy's sight

    33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  64. Bay Area co-living startup HubHaus implodes, stranding renters and homeowners

    33 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  65. Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50

    33 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  66. New Geologic Map Reveals Portland's Deep History

    33 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  67. The Life and Death of SNET, Havana's Alternative Internet

    33 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  68. Stripe's Political Correctness

    33 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  69. Arm’s Transactional Memory Extension support in gem5

    33 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  70. Yelp to place “alert” on businesses accused of racism

    33 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  71. Optical receiver for space communications has ‘unprecedented’ sensitivity

    33 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  72. Generating bingo cards with clojure.spec, Clojure/test.check, RDD and TDD

    33 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  73. Reducing Abusive Notification Content

    33 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  74. It Pays to Be a Space Case

    33 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  75. The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

    33 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  76. The Age of Scurvy (2017)

    33 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  77. Millennials the largest share of the U.S. workforce, control 4.6% of U.S. wealth

    33 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  78. Show HN: App to create object detection projects without coding

    33 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  79. We left the UK for Portland expecting a liberal dream. That wasn’t the reality

    32 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  80. Historical Thesaurus of English

    32 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  81. Sneaky Sliders

    32 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  82. How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: An AMA with Cory Doctorow

    32 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  83. Pattern Matching in Python

    32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  84. Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters

    32 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  85. Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism

    32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  86. From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects

    32 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  87. The persistence of COBOL: why a 60-year old language is still in demand

    32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  88. Covid-19 Vaccine Protocols Reveal That Trials Are Designed to Succeed

    32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  89. What it's like to write a book that gets censored

    32 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  90. Pope endorses same sex civil unions

    32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  91. Tech companies are clamoring to give you credit cards

    32 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  92. Image processing techniques that you can use in machine learning projects

    32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  93. File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter

    32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  94. Memgraph DB 1.1

    32 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  95. Show HN: Betafeedback – Tools for Feedback Loops and Sprint Reviews

    32 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  96. Hi, I'm shitoberfest. Tag me with hacktoberfest vandalism

    32 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  97. Documentation-driven development for APIs

    32 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  98. The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations for 2020

    32 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  99. More Taste: Less Greed? Or, Sending Unix to the Fat Farm (1990)

    32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  100. Fredrik deBoer on the taboo of admitting some kids just aren't good at school

    32 points • comment • oct 24, 2020