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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee

    388 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  2. SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE

    388 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  3. Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F

    387 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  4. Loss of smell could be a 'highly reliable indicator' of Covid-19, research says

    387 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  5. Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks

    386 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  6. U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker

    385 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  7. Krita 4.4.0

    385 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  8. Chaos Ink

    384 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  9. A Note about Spotify Transfers

    384 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  10. An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose

    383 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  11. I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts

    381 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  12. 40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away

    381 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  13. Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961

    378 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  14. Why I left my tenured academic job

    377 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  15. Elixir 1.11

    377 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  16. Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC

    375 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  17. Stripe Climate

    375 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  18. Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater

    373 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  19. A 3D sculpting web application

    373 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  20. The Right to Read (1997)

    373 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  21. How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

    371 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  22. I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call

    371 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  23. Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]

    371 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  24. Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier

    371 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  25. Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”

    370 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  26. My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes

    370 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  27. How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck

    370 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  28. Patent Lawyer Turned Judge Advertises for Patent Trolls to Come to His Court

    368 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  29. Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes

    368 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  30. Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio

    367 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  31. FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

    367 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  32. Principles of Data Oriented Programming

    367 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  33. Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions

    367 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  34. How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

    366 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  35. The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human

    366 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  36. 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

    365 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  37. Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later

    365 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  38. Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO

    364 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  39. Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive

    362 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  40. Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

    362 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  41. Car seats as contraception

    361 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  42. Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

    360 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  43. How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

    360 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  44. Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

    359 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  45. The open source paradox

    356 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  46. Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine

    354 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  47. Free Linear Algebra textbook

    354 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  48. I Hate Coordinate Systems

    354 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  49. Cloudflare One

    353 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  50. California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees

    349 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  51. Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits

    349 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  52. Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR

    348 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  53. Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models

    348 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  54. Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand

    347 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  55. Goodbye IFTTT

    345 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  56. Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'

    344 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  57. AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball

    343 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  58. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

    342 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  59. What's in a Linux Executable?

    342 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  60. Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t

    341 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  61. Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

    341 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  62. If Not SPAs, What?

    340 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  63. Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

    340 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  64. Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

    340 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  65. The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity

    339 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  66. “Really successful people say no to almost everything”

    339 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  67. Next.js 10

    335 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  68. Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

    335 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  69. Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses

    335 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  70. Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy

    335 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  71. L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground, but no one could see it until now

    335 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  72. MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

    334 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  73. Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime

    334 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  74. Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

    334 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  75. Debian donation for Peertube development

    334 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  76. Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election

    334 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  77. Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head

    333 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  78. Git Exercises

    333 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  79. Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust

    332 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  80. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

    331 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  81. Firefox 82

    331 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  82. Rust Starter Kit 2020

    329 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  83. Raycasting engine in Factorio 1.0 (unmodded) [video]

    328 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  84. Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly

    327 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  85. Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU

    327 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  86. Witeboard

    327 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  87. YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

    324 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  88. Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life

    324 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  89. Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO

    324 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  90. Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

    323 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  91. Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code

    323 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  92. Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?

    323 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  93. Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y

    322 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  94. What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)

    321 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  95. Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup

    321 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  96. A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

    321 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  97. How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time

    321 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  98. Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps

    320 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  99. Time for a WTF MySQL Moment

    320 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  100. Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

    319 points • comment • oct 23, 2020