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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. To Korea’s ICT Minister: Ensure the TBA amendments don’t harm the open internet

    24 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  2. Good Law Project Forces HMRC to Collect £1.5bn in VAT from Uber

    23 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  3. DuckDuckGo, EFF, & others just launched privacy settings for the whole internet

    23 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  4. Electronic Blood Vessels to the Rescue

    23 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  5. America Is About to Enter Its Years of Lead

    23 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  6. The Man Who Edited Melville (1982)

    23 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  7. What to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects

    23 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  8. Facebook says ad-supported model is ‘under assault’ amid Apple privacy changes

    23 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  9. Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission

    23 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  10. BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution

    23 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  11. NanoAdblocker / NanoDefender is malware now

    23 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  12. Minecraft will require a Microsoft account to play in 2021

    23 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  13. Show HN: App Performance Monitoring (APM) for mobile apps

    23 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  14. Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space?

    23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  15. Bottlenecked on Haskell's Text Library

    23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  16. Why I Left My Tenured Academic Job

    23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  17. D 2.094 Released

    23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  18. I made a simple Alexa knockoff that doesn’t spy on me

    23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  19. The Death of Max Jacob

    23 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  20. When did the CS field turn from freedom of speech and hacker mentality

    23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  21. What the heck is the value of “-n % n” in programming languages?

    23 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  22. Good Bad Bad Good Adjust: What Was the Golden Age of TV? (2019)

    23 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  23. Scuttlebutt is a decentralised secure gossip platform

    23 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  24. Local Solar Time

    23 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  25. All but one of Joint Chiefs of Staff quarantine after admiral tests positive

    23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  26. A quarter of the Alexa Top 10K websites are using browser fingerprinting scripts

    23 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  27. Who are you? The history of MySQL and MariaDB authentication protocols (2017)

    23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  28. Canonical is now offering a fully Managed Apps service

    23 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  29. Dissertation: Marine Insurance in the Netherlands 1600-1870 (2009) [pdf]

    23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  30. Oxford scientists develop extremely rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19

    23 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  31. Charges: Boogaloo Bois fired on Minneapolis precinct in Floyd protests

    23 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  32. Why Does No One Use Advanced Hyperparameter Tuning?

    23 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  33. The official Arch Linux online conference ArchConf 2020 has started

    23 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  34. V6: Color (2018)

    23 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  35. Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA

    23 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  36. A Tour of the Worm (1989)

    23 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  37. Ask HN: What to do if you are not good at building an audience?

    23 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  38. Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis

    23 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  39. Hacker says he correctly guessed Trump’s Twitter password–it was “maga2020 ”

    23 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  40. Earth just had its hottest September on record

    23 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  41. Better Than Product-Market Fit: The Customer Adoption Spectrum

    23 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  42. The Halloween Documents

    22 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  43. Hackers stole data of Google employees after breaching US law firm

    22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  44. The Fall of the CDC

    22 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  45. Covid Deaths

    22 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  46. Tables, a Product from Area 120, by Google: One tool, many uses

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  47. Spotify Is Defending Alex Jones' Appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience”

    22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  48. Nemo: Data Discovery at Facebook

    22 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  49. Using NLP to enable flatter organizations

    22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  50. Delta has banned 460 anti-maskers

    22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  51. Valve's Steam Machines: Was the Idea of Linux-Based Gaming Devices in Vain?

    22 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  52. I will never buy another CyberPower UPS

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  53. Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors

    22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  54. Colibri: A Browser Without Tabs

    22 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  55. Complexity in Operating Systems

    22 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  56. An hour and a half of backseat footage inside self-driving Waymo

    22 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  57. How to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence

    22 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  58. Solving the Sequence Alignment Problem in Python

    22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  59. James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92

    22 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  60. Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? (2015)

    22 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  61. Sender of False DMCA Takedown Notices Ordered to Pay $370K in Damages

    22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  62. Zoom alternatives to encourage casual chatting

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  63. Google Journalist Studio

    22 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  64. Ceiling Height Matters

    22 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  65. Hands-On Review: GemPro Enclosure for Raspberry Pi

    22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  66. TurtleDB – Offline-first, collaborative Web application framework

    22 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  67. Trumania – all your photos and videos become independent evidence of anything

    22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  68. The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences (2018)

    22 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  69. Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  70. File Corruption Is Attractive

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  71. My California ballot, 2020 (by Scott Alexander)

    22 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  72. The Best of Both Worlds: A New Take on Metal–Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  73. Ask HN: Do you think 'normal' working will ever return?

    22 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  74. New Mojave Supplemental Update released that fixes issues caused by older update

    22 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  75. Facebook News

    22 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  76. Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit

    22 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  77. Ask HN: What is your favorite ergonomic chair/desk

    22 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  78. Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / software?

    22 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  79. “Recycler gets sued by Apple for 31M DOLLARS for reusing instead of recycling ”

    22 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  80. iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Teardown

    22 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  81. Common mistakes inexperienced interviewers make

    22 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  82. Starlink ToS: “the parties recognize Mars as a free planet”

    22 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  83. Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

    21 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  84. Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just receive 1.3% of VC funding

    21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  85. Mind and space bending physics on a convenient chip

    21 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  86. Throwable Robot Car Always Lands on Four Wheels

    21 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  87. Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016)

    21 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  88. Debugging async generator errors in Rust

    21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  89. Aspect: Lets you draw websites, then publish or download them

    21 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  90. Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin

    21 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  91. Cloudflare Intrusion Detection System

    21 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  92. Clarence Thomas is begging someone to sue over Section 230

    21 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  93. The Legend of Abraham Wald – The Missing Bullet Holes

    21 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  94. Actifio squashes employee shareholders ‘like cockroaches’

    21 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  95. Study: Race One of Strongest Predictors of How Long People Wait in Line to Vote

    21 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  96. VPNs might finally be dead thanks to Twingate, startup built by Dropbox alums

    21 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  97. Scientists explore ways to use mineral waste from mines to pull CO2 from the air

    21 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  98. Creating Effective Tutorials for Your Dev Team

    21 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  99. How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator

    21 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  100. Amazon's strategic failure with the video game industry

    21 points • comment • oct 09, 2020