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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Pattern Matching in Python

    32 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  2. Historical Thesaurus of English

    32 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  3. File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter

    32 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  4. Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump

    32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  5. Tech companies are clamoring to give you credit cards

    32 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

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

    32 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  7. Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub

    31 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  8. Ask HN: Why can't banking practices change to prevent money-forwarding scams?

    31 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  9. Thumbnails and Screenshots using FFmpeg

    31 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  10. Design patterns, Smalltalk, and the lost art of reading code

    31 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  11. Illuminated Mercedes-Benz badge can cause power steering failure

    31 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  12. 3Blue1Brown Made It to π Million Subscribers

    31 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  13. Platform Liquidity: Why Economic Incentives Matter

    31 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  14. Jonathan Edwards was both 'a nemesis and an avatar' of the Enlightenment

    31 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  15. Node.js malware caught posting IPs, username, and device info on GitHub

    31 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  16. Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3k Years Ago

    31 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  17. Ask HN: Talked about my fave cereals now I see ads for the exact cereals. How?

    31 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  18. ARM64 Performance in .NET 5

    31 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  19. Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos?

    31 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  20. Linux 5.10 Will Have a Fully Lock-Less Ring Buffer

    31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  21. LUMI to become the world's fastest supercomputer

    31 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  22. Florida Gov. DeSantis attempts to vote, discovers someone changed his address

    31 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  23. Email cannot be encrypted at rest

    31 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  24. Show HN: C++17 RISC-V RV32GC / RV64GC userspace emulator library

    31 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  25. ArsDigita: From Startup to Bust-Up (2001)

    31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  26. Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company

    31 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  27. Ask HN: Will Facebook be a badge of shame on a resume?

    31 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  28. Large inequality in international energy footprints between income groups

    31 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  29. A Computer Dungeon Slash Postmortem

    31 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  30. Why the Swedish Model for Fighting Covid-19 Is a Disaster

    31 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  31. Amazon SNS FIFO – First-in-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging

    31 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  32. Redefining Software Quality

    31 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  33. React v17.0

    31 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  34. Billionaires see fortunes rise by 27% during the pandemic

    31 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  35. Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust

    31 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  36. UX of Speculative Brain-Computer Inputs

    31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  37. Facebook is losing users in the US and Canada

    31 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  38. The Physicist’s New Book of Life

    31 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  39. Preparing for Solopreneurship

    31 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  40. My Dad, the Pornographer (2015)

    31 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  41. Show HN: Optimizt – CLI image optimization tool for front end developers

    30 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  42. AWS Is Not Your Ideal

    30 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  43. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

    30 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  44. Bloodletting in Mongolia

    30 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  45. Sony will let PS5 owners record their voice chats and snitch on fellow players

    30 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  46. Yet another alternative to floating-point numbers

    30 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  47. Sketch – Part of your world: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app

    30 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  48. Do Masks on Plane Flights Really Cut Your Risk of Catching Covid-19?

    30 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  49. How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs

    30 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  50. Tesla Starts Full Self-Driving Beta Rollout

    30 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  51. It's kinda like phrenology but worse

    30 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  52. Calliope: Automatic Visual Data Story Generation from a Spreadsheet [pdf]

    30 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  53. Mystery Weapon Attacks Continuing, Even on U.S. Soil

    30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  54. Show HN: Onepanel – Production scale, Kubernetes-native vision AI platform

    30 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  55. Good Intentions, Bad Inventions: Myths of Healthy Tech [pdf]

    30 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  56. 95% of Marine Life on Sea Floor Killed in Kamchatka Eco-Disaster, Scientists Say

    30 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  57. Retool Nears $1B Valuation with Funding from Sequoia

    30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  58. Show HN: Implement a retro game in JavaScript with MakeCode Arcade style sprites

    30 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  59. The Rise and Fall of Quicksand (2010)

    30 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  60. Twitter Drops the Big One

    30 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  61. The World Henry Ford Made

    30 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  62. Ask HN: What should a software engineering Hippocratic Oath equivalent be?

    30 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  63. The Fascinating Influence of Cyclone (2019)

    30 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  64. We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

    30 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  65. You're Allowed to Write Slow Rust Code

    30 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  66. A12 – Advancing Network Transparency on the Desktop

    30 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  67. Coronavirus could age the brain by 10 years or cause IQ to fall

    30 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  68. Network Rail Lifts and Escalators API

    30 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  69. Phase Detection vs. Contrast Detection Autofocus

    30 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  70. Gruber on ‘10 Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows’

    30 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  71. Show HN: Git-Retext

    30 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  72. Compiling without continuations (2017)

    30 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  73. Ask HN: Who is making money with HTML5 Games?

    30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  74. Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?

    30 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  75. Show HN: A simple app to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted text by default (Windows)

    30 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  76. Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest

    30 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  77. A Bluffers Guide to CRDTs in Riak (2013)

    30 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  78. Last Call for Gumshoes

    30 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  79. Ex-App Store head says Apple Arcade violates Apple's own policies

    29 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  80. Interdimensional Cable Box

    29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  81. U.S. Supreme Court warns of limitations to Section 230 platform indemnity [pdf]

    29 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  82. EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement

    29 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  83. Chemistry Nobel laureate uninvited from biodesign conference

    29 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  84. It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History

    29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  85. Harmful language in the RIAA's DMCA against YouTube-dl

    29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  86. Felony Charges Against Burkman, Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocall Investigation

    29 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  87. Show HN: Virtual Corn Maze

    29 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  88. Greek court rules far-right Golden Dawn leaders ran a crime group

    29 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  89. 'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find

    29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  90. Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers

    29 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  91. MIOS: IBM 5150 BIOS Replacement Project

    29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  92. State of AI Report 2020

    29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  93. The Basic Internet Fanzine (1995)

    29 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  94. Optimizations as a Company of One

    29 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  95. Classified knots: Researchers create optical framed knots to encode information

    29 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  96. The Database Is on Fire

    29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  97. Kubernetes SLOs with Prometheus and Linkerd

    29 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  98. Svelte: Cybernetically Enhanced Web Apps

    29 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  99. Scientific consensus on the Covid-19 pandemic: we need to act now

    29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  100. Sexagesimal

    29 points • comment • oct 31, 2020