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21 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Trump boosts China's chip industry like Xi Jinping never could
21 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Android Update blocked by Google: jellyfin
21 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Clusters rule everything around me
21 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Why Dark Mode Matters
21 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Hackaday Guide to the New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
21 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Photoshop's New Neural Filters Are Hilarious
21 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
The Promise of Synthetic Data
21 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Docker Certified Associate Exam Preparation Guide
21 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Reddit removes sort by “Controversial” on comments ability
21 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Speedscope – A fast, interactive web-based viewer for performance profiles
21 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
What If There _Is_ Life on Venus?
21 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
The Trump administration is burying dozens of studies about renewable energy
21 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Synecdoche
21 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Stoicism may allow us to live better, but don't underestimate the value of anger
21 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Show HN: Hackable No-Code Tool for MVPs
21 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
‘Cash Is Trash,’ So Let’s Bet $425M on Bitcoin
21 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Apple’s User-Facing Cameras Have Been Flawed for More Than a Decade
21 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
The Modern Lives of Ancient Symbols
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
The friends who drove a bus behind the Iron Curtain
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Node.js v15.0.0 Is Here
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Why so few people learn the hottest coding language in finance
20 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Trying to Get an Nvidia GPU to Work with Raspberry Pi CM4
20 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Ask HN: Do you get addicted to your HN votes like normal people do to Instagram?
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Fun with Lambda Calculus
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
The Good Old 6502 Microprocessor, but 7000X Bigger
20 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Whitespace, the Language
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Creating Hallucinations Without Any Drugs Is Surprisingly Easy
20 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Show HN: I made an app for designing Embedded Systems and code generation
20 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Global Trends 2015: Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts (2000)
20 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Dropbox Goes Virtual (remote) First
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Emails with Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Spotify Removes Joe Rogan Episode Featuring Alex Jones
20 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents
20 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Internal Documents Reveal Covid-19 Data Government Keeps Hidden
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
The silence of the press on the Julian Assange hearings is a disgrace
20 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Indian Twitter attempts fake news campaign of 'civil war' in Pakistan
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Apple develops alternative to Google search
20 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
The Technium: The Unabomber Was Right (2009)
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
An open letter to my friends with fuck you money
20 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Gnome OS
20 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Exponential Discounting
20 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
The First 1940s Coders Were Women–So How Did Tech Bros Take Over? – History
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Google delays mandating Play Store’s 30% cut in India to April 2022
20 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Why You Shouldn't Max Your 401(k)
20 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 jailbreak/root success
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Farewell, Python 3.5
20 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
All of South Australia's power comes from solar panels
20 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Paper Enigma Machine (2003) [pdf]
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Glenn Greenwald on His Resignation from the Intercept
20 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Stealing unencrypted SSH-agent keys from memory (2014)
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Why can’t Facebook fix itself?
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
I Got 99 Problems and a Distributed Database Ain’t One
20 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
A Nation Plagued by Misinformation
20 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Ask HN: How do you cope with mental illness as a founder and/or employee?
20 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 21
20 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t
20 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics
20 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Plaid Parses Transaction Data
20 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Simple Software Creates Complex Wooden Joints That Interlock with No Nails, Glue
20 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
There are many reasons why everyone should grow a plant, but you need just one
20 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Richard Feynman and Computation (1999) [pdf]
20 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Twitter locks nypost account for reporting on Hunter Biden HDD
19 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Covid-19 Provides All the More Reason to Tax the Rich
19 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Launched My First Startup
19 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
CEOs of Google, Twitter and Facebook Grilled in Senate Hearing
19 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Daycares in Finland Built a 'Forest Floor'; It Changed Children's Immune Systems
19 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
Pope endorses same-sex unions
19 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Forget Counterterrorism, the USA Needs a Counter-Disinformation Strategy
19 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Show HN: Stop creating bad resumes. Use Resoume
19 points • comment • oct 12, 2020
Boundary: New security open source tool from HashiCorp
19 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Quibi streaming service shutting down after less than 1 year
19 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Show HN: I made a macOS app to let you turn On/Off the Touch Bar at will
19 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world's strangest books
19 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Meaning a Life
19 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Software correctness is a lot like flossing
19 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
The fog of war in healthcare
19 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Covid: 19% of cases responsible for 80% of transmissions
19 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
San Francisco's only cat cafe struggles to stay open
19 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
The Case Against Microsoft and GitHub
19 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
With Oculus' mandatory Facebook policy, it's up to Congress or EFF to save VR
19 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Estonia Is a 'Digital Republic'
19 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
The 19th-Century Night Soil Men Who Carted Away America’s Waste
19 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Internal Google document reveals campaign against EU lawmakers
19 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
California Property Taxes Mapped
19 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Chevrolet's ECrate, an Electric Motor You Can Retrofit to Your Existing Vehicle
19 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Ask HN: My girlfriend is “permanently” locked out of her Facebook account
19 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates
19 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Specifications for the Interconnection of a Host and an IMP (1976) [pdf]
19 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Pondering Amazon's Manyrepo Build System
19 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Ask HN: How many of you are actively making contingency plans to leave the U.S.?
19 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Lessons in Scale and Impact from 'My Octopus Teacher'
19 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Stealing Valuable Art
19 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Twitter Is Compromised
19 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
IBM to split into two companies by end of 2021
19 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
A guide to understanding HTML APIs
19 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
SQLite Begin Concurrent
19 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
1990s Festival Poster Generator
19 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Americans Increasingly Believe Violence Is Justified If the Other Side Wins
19 points • comment • oct 01, 2020