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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

Leaked Document Reveals Binance’s Elaborate Scheme to Evade Bitcoin Regulators
12 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
Why can’t we talk about the Great Barrington Declaration?
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
China warns it will take Americans hostage if DOJ doesn’t drop charges
12 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Are FPGAs More Secure Than Processors?
12 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
I wrote a new tool in Rust to convert M4A’s to MP3’s
12 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
What Is Money?
12 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE
12 points • comment • oct 31, 2020
Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?
12 points • comment • oct 07, 2020
Is Apple Building Its Own Search Engine?
12 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Robinhood estimates hackers infiltrated almost 2000 accounts
12 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Custom-made UEFI bootkit found lurking in the wild
12 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Great Woman of Mathematics: Marie-Sophie Germain, 1776-1831
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest
12 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350M Customer Records on Unsecured Elasticsearch
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2020
Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook
12 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Malloc as a Service
12 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks
12 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
Show HN: Thumblink – Add link thumbnails to your website with one line of HTML
12 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Katherine Johnson, the trailblazing NASA mathematician, wins the Hubbard Medal
12 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
Reading and writing skills can be taught through Minecraft
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Optimizing a Wing
12 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Mystery Knowledge and Useful Tools
12 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Hacked and Hoaxed: Tactics of an Iran-Linked Operation to Influence BLM
12 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
GPUs on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Can You Build a CPU?
12 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
I enforced the AGPL on my code, here's how it went (bad)
12 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
I Started an Escort Service Generating $200K/Month
12 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
A Ring of Content-Marketers Submitting Disguised Paid Posts to HN/Reddit
12 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Europe braces for monster 2nd coronavirus wave
12 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
C# designer Torgersen: Why the programming language is still so popular and
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Just received an extraordinary email from Expensify CEO
12 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla adds Raspberry Pi as a “first class citizen”
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the “New Jim Code”
12 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Ask HN: Why is Prime Day so hard?
12 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
dn2l – Linux Port of the Dos Navigator Open Source Project
12 points • comment • oct 28, 2020
Show HN: Building a project based on universal income concept
12 points • comment • oct 01, 2020
Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland
12 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx grabs rocks from asteroid in historic mission
12 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Atlassian to end sales of Server products, Data Center prices to be raised
12 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Tesla initiates talks to set up research centre in Bengaluru
12 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires Big Fucking Meetings
12 points • comment • oct 18, 2020
Blowjob Injection Attack
12 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
"We Don't Hire Blacks"
12 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Polar 2.0 Released (open-source knowledge base)
12 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
12 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race
12 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max
12 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Facebook will ban US political ads indefinitely after election
12 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Ask HN: How to find profitable business ideas?
12 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Trump approves funding for revolutionary nuclear power plant
12 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
South Korea’s Universal Basic Income Experiment to Boost the Economy
12 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Cognition All the Way Down
12 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Scott Adams: better to have a system than a goal
12 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
RISC-V is trying to launch an open-hardware revolution
12 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Python 3.9.0
12 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
Coronavirus hit the U.S. long before we knew
12 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
12 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Jeff Bezos in talks to buy CNN
12 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
Tell HN: Craigslist seems to have removed its RSS feeds
12 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Developer Logs: a simple knowledge base and sync tool for your dev team
12 points • comment • oct 14, 2020
Why Many Americans Don't Vote
12 points • comment • oct 26, 2020
Show HN: Generate cover photos for all social media – Get early access
12 points • comment • oct 05, 2020
AOC’s debut Twitch stream is one of the biggest ever
12 points • comment • oct 21, 2020
Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
12 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Show HN: Track Your Deep Work Sessions
12 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Microsoft Took 10 Days to Remove Leaked XP Code from Its Own Site
12 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Building your app cross-platform can be dangerous, especially for startups
11 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Validate pointers with the msync() Linux system call
11 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Bullshit Jobs
11 points • comment • oct 04, 2020
Nvidia uses GAN for video compression
11 points • comment • oct 06, 2020
Dead at 31 after her chemo was 'paused' due to Covid Regulations
11 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Atomic Typos (2005)
11 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
Transpiling NoSql to SQL
11 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
What GPT-3 thinks of what Yann LeCun thinks of GPT-3
11 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Why Making Accurate World Maps Is Mathematically Impossible
11 points • comment • oct 11, 2020
Amazon revealed its first electric delivery van of a 100k-strong EV fleet
11 points • comment • oct 09, 2020
iPad 12.9“ 2020 review (A PC user’s perspective)
11 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Mochi – Spaced Repetition with Modern UI
11 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Intel Nears Deal to Sell NAND Memory Unit to SK Hynix
11 points • comment • oct 19, 2020
Ask HN: How to Properly Learn CSS
11 points • comment • oct 22, 2020
Twitter Is Down
11 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
What philosopher Peter Singer has learned in 45 years of advocating for animals
11 points • comment • oct 27, 2020
QNX Failed Amiga
11 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Springtime Everywhere
11 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)
11 points • comment • oct 24, 2020
App Store gives Apple ‘monopoly power’ over iOS apps, US House antitrust (cont)
11 points • comment • oct 10, 2020
Nvidia’s Return Dominates Tesla
11 points • comment • oct 13, 2020
Trump Has Covid
11 points • comment • oct 02, 2020
You have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene
11 points • comment • oct 25, 2020
Peer Assessment Bias
11 points • comment • oct 30, 2020
Understanding static single assignment forms
11 points • comment • oct 23, 2020
Fenestra6502
11 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
Sale of Amateur Radio AMPRnet TCP/IP Addresses Raised $108M
11 points • comment • oct 29, 2020
HTTP/3 Explained
11 points • comment • oct 20, 2020
Human Learn – Machine Learning models should play by the rules, literally
11 points • comment • oct 08, 2020
The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)
11 points • comment • oct 15, 2020
Facebook Chides Netflix over Portrayal in Movie on Social Media
11 points • comment • oct 03, 2020
Nontransitive Dice
11 points • comment • oct 17, 2020
The Last Smash and Grab at the Federal Communications Commission
11 points • comment • oct 28, 2020