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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Random Effects Key to Containing Epidemics

    9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  2. CFTC charges BitMex with illegally operating derivatives exchange

    9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  3. Asterisk Corrections

    9 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  4. The Cure for Aging Might Be the Cure for Alzheimer’s

    9 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  5. A Brief History of Surgeons

    9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  6. Marketing on Hacker News

    9 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  7. Don't Copy Paste into a Shell

    9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  8. Concerns over China and UN’s Joint Data Center

    9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  9. Remembering a classic “time travel” bug

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  10. Liberals' 2021 single-use plastic ban includes grocery bags, takeout containers

    9 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  11. Expensify CEO implores customers to vote for Biden

    9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  12. Modern Running Shoes and Heel Striking

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  13. Hacked Off with Hacktoberfest

    9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  14. How Humans Judge Machines [pdf]

    9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  15. Understanding the Junior Developer

    9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  16. I altered my personality to fit in at work

    9 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  17. The Mesopotamian wheel, 3500 BC, the oldest known wheel (2016)

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  18. Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform

    9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  19. Show HN: Pixlet – Build apps for highly-constrained displays with Starlark

    9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  20. Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children (2020)

    9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  21. Kearny Fallout Meter

    9 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  22. Tracking sea turtle egg traffickers with GPS-enabled decoy eggs

    9 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  23. A game of developer ecosystems: why mobile developers will be pissed off

    9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  24. Ask HN: Why does Twitter unfollow people without their consent?

    9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  25. “Oh Jeeeesus”: Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release

    9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  26. Iceland’s most active volcano may be about to erupt

    9 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  27. Linux gaming is set to get a whole lot better

    9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  28. How to Use Docker Images, Containers, and Dockerfiles

    9 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  29. Iran Amends Law to Allow Imports to Be Funded with Cryptocurrency

    9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  30. Azure Space – cloud-powered innovation on and off the planet

    9 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  31. On Volitional Philanthropy (2017)

    9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  32. Americans view U.S. tech companies in 2020 – Pew Research Center

    9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  33. If a robot is conscious, is it OK to turn it off?

    9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  34. Amazon said nearly 20k workers got coronavirus

    9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  35. Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations keep decreasing across California

    9 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  36. Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms

    9 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  37. Firebase: Google Cloud’s Evil Twin

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  38. How to Get Started with Dungeons and Dragons

    9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  39. William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno

    9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  40. Electronic Blood Vessels to the Rescue

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  41. Twitch detects and tells you to stop using adblockers

    9 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  42. Palantir Goes IPO

    9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  43. Trump to be hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center after Covid-19 diagnosis

    9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  44. When Too Much Concurrency Slows You Down (Golang)

    9 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  45. The PS3 and Vita are being buried alive

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  46. Guard Clauses, a Better Way to Do Conditionals

    9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  47. James Gosling explains his motivations for creating programming language Java

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  48. Visa’s Planned Purchase of Plaid Faces Antitrust Scrutiny at Justice Department

    9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  49. “Our infrastructure to deploy a single Docker container on AWS.”

    9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  50. We just launched Amazon SNS FIFO topics

    9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  51. Navy ship breaks longest time at sea record due to Covid concerns

    9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  52. Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  53. Facebook and Twitter Limit Sharing New York Post Story About Joe Biden

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  54. Command Palette for Jira, GitHub and Google Workplace

    9 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  55. Reddit announces permanent wfh, eliminates cost-of-living pay compensation

    9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  56. South Atlantic Anomaly

    9 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  57. An Introduction to Reddit’s ‘Slave Labour’ Subreddit

    9 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  58. Walter Reed – American pathologist and bacteriologist

    9 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  59. Autological Humor

    9 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  60. On Life in the Shadow of the Boomers

    9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  61. The curious, three-person committee in Iceland that approves and rejects names

    9 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  62. Ask HN: What software will space need?

    9 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  63. PPL Bench: A standard for benchmarking probabilistic programming languages

    9 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  64. Lidar Is on iPhone 12

    9 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  65. Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030

    9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  66. Principles used in Wall Street trading algorithms

    9 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  67. AI reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  68. Remote Work and Mental Health

    9 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  69. Wasteful, damaging and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers?

    9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  70. Zuckerberg Throws the Open Internet Under the Bus; Support Section 230 Reform

    9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  71. The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000)

    9 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  72. Tech Dilemma: Unfilled jobs, few workers, lack of confidence in STEM education

    9 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  73. Ask HN: What features would you like to see for PDF documents?

    9 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  74. I learned to Shut Up when Learning

    9 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  75. Bill Gates introducing Windows 3.1 (video 60s)

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  76. Why Does Everybody Hate Their Parents?

    9 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  77. Popular anti-adblocking extension gets sold, users details compromised

    9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  78. Introducing Pro1 X: Official LineageOS Android Phone by XDA

    9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  79. Twitter to prompt anyone retweeting something to share a quote tweet instead

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  80. Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  81. Beginner's Guide to Digital Privacy

    9 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  82. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs vs. the Max Neef Model of Human Scale Development (2016)

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  83. Process for Regenerating Neurons in the Eye and Brain Identified

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  84. Show HN: Remote Compilation for Your Build

    9 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  85. GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week

    9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  86. Supreme Court inclined to affirm copyrightability holding Oracle vs. Google

    9 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  87. Eddie Van Halen, Virtuoso of the Rock Guitar, Dies at 65

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  88. The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations

    9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  89. Detecting asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

    9 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  90. He Married a Sociopath: Me

    9 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  91. Ask HN: How to deal with ADHD on your own? (If you have to)

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  92. 5G Drains iPhone 12 Battery 20% Faster Than 4G in Benchmark

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  93. FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE now available

    9 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  94. First Look at Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta and it looks just insane

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  95. Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole

    9 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  96. The Netherlands Is Becoming a Predictive Policing Hot Spot

    9 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  97. The Internet Archive is temporarily offline

    9 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  98. Swiss central bank, BIS plan to test digital currency by the end of this year

    9 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  99. Piyama-Radu

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  100. Palisade: Version Bumping at Scale in CI

    9 points • comment • oct 07, 2020