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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. ‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long-Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach

    29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  2. The Great Barrington Declaration

    29 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  3. Why Laugh at Quibi's Failure?

    29 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  4. Mental model to deliver high quality software

    29 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  5. To Eleventy and Beyond

    29 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  6. The Stock Market Is on the Edge of a Historic Crash

    29 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  7. On Cryptocurrencies (2018)

    29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  8. Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system

    29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  9. Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: From Ugaritic to Linear B

    29 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  10. The EU's Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption

    29 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  11. Qcdoc: Quantum Chromodynamics on a Chip (2015)

    29 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  12. Using AWS Cloud9 for browser-based development

    29 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  13. Apple removes browser for Stadia from App Store

    29 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  14. A Brief History of Word Games

    29 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  15. Segmented Addressing Solves the Virtual Cache Synonym Problem (1997) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  16. I Think Bluetooth Is Finally OK

    29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  17. The Data of Long-Lived Institutions

    29 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  18. Coronavirus antibody prevalence falling in England, REACT study shows

    29 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  19. Coronovirus: France to go into national lockdown for whole of November

    29 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  20. Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people'

    29 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  21. Hanford unprepared for another radioactive tank waste leak, says federal audit

    28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  22. An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued

    28 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  23. Ask HN: How is architecture practiced at FAANG companies?

    28 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  24. Copper: A statically-typed, loose syntax programming language

    28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  25. Data shows schools aren’t super-spreaders

    28 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  26. Building computers out of sliding block puzzles [pdf]

    28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  27. President and First Lady Begin Quarantine Process Aide Tests Positive for Covid

    28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  28. Fasting 3 days each quarter

    28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  29. Dylan Playground

    28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  30. The implementation of epoll (2014)

    28 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  31. Marginal Revolution Vrs Hacker News

    28 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  32. Confidential Amazon memo reveals new software to track unions

    28 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  33. On Native Apps

    28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  34. The Real McKee: Lessons of a screenwriting guru (2003)

    28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  35. Ongoing (Albeit Secret) Campaign of Patent Extortion Against Linux Distributions

    28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  36. Protests and Power

    28 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  37. Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene?

    28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  38. Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal-Data Analyst

    28 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  39. Against Xkcd 1357

    28 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  40. Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away

    28 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  41. How the URL Was Built

    28 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  42. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2020)

    28 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  43. QAnon High Priest Was Just Trolling Away as a Citigroup Tech Executive

    28 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  44. Transhumanism and Augmented Reality – A brave new augmented world

    28 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  45. SEC Issues Record $114M Whistleblower Award

    28 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  46. Apple sues GEEP for not shredding reusable iPhones

    28 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  47. We throw away our power as engineers working for other people

    28 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  48. The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017)

    28 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  49. You don’t need talent for Sales

    28 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  50. Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [video]

    28 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  51. Tearing into a $1.3M Oscilloscope

    27 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  52. Fast reinforcement learning through composition of behavior

    27 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  53. Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance

    27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  54. Menger Sponge

    27 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  55. Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots

    27 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  56. Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting

    27 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  57. Show HN: Apio – Simple Application Monitoring for Node or Django

    27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  58. What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?

    27 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  59. Hacker releases PII on Las Vegas-area students after officials don’t pay ransom

    27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  60. EM Information Theory of Consciousness

    27 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  61. Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (2011)

    27 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  62. Why Look at Flying Saucers?

    27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  63. How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

    27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  64. The Anti-Social Novelist

    27 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  65. iSH now available on the App Store

    27 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  66. Ask HN: Is D3 still king for JavaScript visualisation?

    27 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  67. Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell

    27 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  68. Tesla Solar Roof buyer left without roof and tarps over his house after 2-months

    27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  69. Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artef

    27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  70. Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages – Lex Fridman

    27 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  71. After Going All-In on Amazon, a Merchant Says He Lost Everything

    27 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  72. Tom Stoppard: A Life

    27 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  73. Magic-Wormhole: Get Things from One Computer to Another, Safely

    27 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  74. Proving that 1 and 1 = 2 in Rust

    27 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  75. An Introduction to LLDB Reproducers

    27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  76. Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms

    27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  77. Facebook is radicalising your parents

    27 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  78. You will need a subscription license to access Qt 6 (non-LPGL)

    27 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  79. Cyberpunk 2077 devs reportedly chose to work 6-day weeks over delaying the game

    27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  80. A Review of the Clover SPAC

    27 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  81. Show HN: A tiny portable MIDI looper

    27 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  82. 2020 is on course to be the warmest year on record

    27 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  83. The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life

    27 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  84. Judge rules Apple cannot take action against Epic Games dev accounts

    27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  85. Programmers need to think like hackers

    27 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  86. Apple says it never asked Telegram to delete Belarusian channels for doxing cop

    27 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  87. DoorDash doesn't allow a tip of $10 because “The amount is higher than expected”

    27 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  88. Penicillin and cantaloupe

    27 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  89. Colon Cancer Screening Should Start Earlier, at Age 45, U.S. Panel Says

    26 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  90. Show HN: Landmark Papers in Machine Learning

    26 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  91. Department of Homeland Security to Abandon H1B Visa Lottery for Salary Rankings

    26 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  92. Are Flame Retardants in Your Sofa Killing You? (2019)

    26 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  93. Epic says Apple ‘has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor’ in latest filing

    26 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  94. 64% of Americans say social media have a mostly negative effect on the U.S.

    26 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  95. Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service

    26 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  96. Show HN: Wafxr – dynamic sound FX via WebAudio

    26 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  97. Hi-vis clothing for cyclists does not reduce number of crashes

    26 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  98. Drones Complicate the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

    26 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  99. Show HN: Résumé Shell

    26 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  100. GitHub CEO on restoring YouTube-dl

    26 points • comment • oct 27, 2020