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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. What kind of risk-taker are you: Maximax, Minimin, or Minimax?

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  2. Single episode of heavy drinking tied to Brain Atrophy in Young Adults

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  3. 20 Predictions for Community in the 2020s

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  4. Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  5. Trusted Contacts won’t be supported after December 1, 2020

    10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  6. European Space Agency finalises plans to ‘explore the moon properly’

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  7. Baldur’s Gate 3 devs built a testing AI. Then, they tried to defeat it

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  8. Gap: Groups, Algorithms, Programming: System for Computational Discrete Algebra

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  9. Show HN: KN95 Mask Price Dataset

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  10. For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  11. Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-Pocalyptic Predictions

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  12. Barbie's Careers

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  13. Scientists find 24 'superhabitable' planets more hospitable for life than Earth

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  14. Amazon Inexplicably Removes Apple Card from Payment Options

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  15. Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed to US Supreme Court

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  16. Show HN: Bookpub v1 – free web library with classic books

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  17. Ask HN: What side business do you have that makes money?

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  18. Trying to add more than 5 family members to Google family

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  19. Show HN: Timesheet – Minimalist Work Hours Manager

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  20. Amazon has created fertile ground for bribery schemes, sellers say

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  21. Tomb: File Encryption on GNU/Linux

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  22. On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide for Managers

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  23. Ask HN: If you were to build the web today from scratch how would you design it?

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  24. The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  25. Brain Fog Plagues Covid-19 Survivors

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  26. Movie Company Sues Pirates Who Used an Anonymous VPN (PIA)

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  27. GCHQ Link to Debian Analyzed

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  28. On Automation Part 2: If it can be automated, it will

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  29. Senate to Subpoena Twitter CEO over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  30. Pocketbook Color review: is color e-ink finally ready?

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  31. Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  32. Facebook Has Always Been Right-Wing Media

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  33. Genetics in the Madhouse

    10 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  34. Reports: Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  35. Grand Theft Auto 3 GTA3 Is Running on the Nintendo Switch

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  36. Apple Does Not Need to Return Fortnite to App Store, Judge Rules

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  37. Jack Dorsey faces Senate subpoena after blocking NY Post articles

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  38. California will now require more diversity on company boards

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  39. MemgraphDB: Why and how we implemented Bolt Protocol v4

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  40. The Abyss of Ignorable: A Route into Chaos Testing from Starling Bank

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  41. Crypto Cruise Ship

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  42. Facebook bans QAnon across all its platforms

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  43. Show HN: iOS14 weather (METAR) widgets for pilots

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  44. Managing your hosts file with a CLI

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  45. Humpback whales seize chance to sing in Alaska's cruise-free Covid summer

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  46. QEMU Virgil – Virtualization, acceleration, celebration

    10 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  47. Ask HN: Is it possible to use Google search results like startpage.com does?

    10 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  48. The Ghosts of Newspaper Row

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  49. Bay Area could be worst hit by outward pandemic migration

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  50. Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  51. Tesla had water shut off at Giga Berlin because they didn't pay their bill

    10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  52. The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  53. OpenStack Foundation Transforms into the Open Infrastructure Foundation

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  54. You Don’t Need a Blockchain, You Need a Time-Series Database

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  55. DHS Memo Told Officials to Make Comments Favorable to Kenosha Shootings Suspect

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News open links in a new tab?

    10 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  57. A Historical Dig Sheds Light on the Food of the Underground Railroad

    10 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  58. "Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity"

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  59. AOC's Twitch viewership already competitive with FOX and MSNBC ratings

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  60. Ask HN: Why is the US so vulnerable to disinformation from abroad?

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  61. Show HN: The only diary app with a community and features to boost mental health

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  62. Ask HN: What language/framework you thought was the future but ended up dying?

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  63. I've never met my cofounder

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  64. 5000mAh graphene powerbank can be fully recharged in under 20 minutes

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  65. Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  66. As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, ex-creators raise cash for a new gaming studio

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  67. Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  68. Games Playing with Computers (1972)

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  69. Archillect – an AI created to discover and share stimulating visual content

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  70. European Commission approved the new Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  71. Covid-19 Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on Virus Spread – National Review

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  72. Mercedes-Benz teases ‘highest-efficiency electric car’ with 750 miles range

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  73. Observations on Consequences of Short-Term Thinking in Technology Organizations

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  74. The Deadliest Pandemics in History

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  75. On Roger Penrose's Nobel Prize

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  76. Dish-O-TRON – AI to detect dirty dishes in the sink

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  77. Hunting Ghost No. 1

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  78. Facebook and Twitter begin restricting circulation of Hunter Biden expose

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  79. Chileans Vote to Draft a New Constitution

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  80. Why Woke History Is Not the Answer

    10 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  81. Spaces or Tabs? Microsoft developers reveal their preferences

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  82. Nearly a decade late, Berlin's Brandenburg Airport finally opens

    10 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  83. ByteDance High-Resolution AMT System Achieves SOTA in Piano Note

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  84. Unusual electronic and vibrational properties in thermopower material FeSb2

    10 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  85. Giving up on politics is often tempting. It is also risky

    9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  86. U2’s Songs of Innocence Has Haunted Me for 6 Years. Until Now

    9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  87. Filecoin's diluted marketcap was hundreds of billions yet miners are losing $

    9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  88. Inflation Isn’t just 2% for a Small Brewery

    9 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  89. The New Tyranny Few Even Recognize

    9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  90. Img2css – Convert any image to pure CSS

    9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  91. American Liberalism is in Danger

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  92. Why economists believe 47.2 is our most miserable age

    9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  93. Geoff Huston apologises for bringing the internet to Australia

    9 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  94. UK Companies House warns customers of company name with possible XSS-injection

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  95. Understanding Memory Initialization Patterns

    9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  96. Polymaths want to know everything – but ‘everything’ isn’t what it used to be

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  97. Show HN: FlashCode – Create and review developer flash cards within VS Code

    9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  98. Photoshop Adds Deep Fakery

    9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  99. Show HN: Nested forEach directive in non-standard GraphQL server

    9 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  100. Boris Johnson Says U.K. Is Now Preparing for No-Deal Brexit

    9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020