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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. /* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)

    316 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  2. How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer

    316 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  3. Be prolific

    316 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  4. Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)

    315 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  5. Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea

    315 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  6. Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud

    314 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  7. Discipline Doesn’t Scale

    314 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  8. Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle reaches Supreme Court

    314 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  9. Color blindness

    313 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  10. Apple’s A14 Packs 134M Transistors/mm²

    312 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  11. Industrial Literacy

    312 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  12. Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)

    311 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  13. PHP 8: Before and After

    310 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  14. GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

    309 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  15. Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterprise users

    309 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  16. CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

    308 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  17. When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

    308 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  18. Standard ML in 2020

    308 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  19. Cat Gap

    308 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  20. Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?

    307 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  21. IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push

    306 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  22. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video]

    306 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  23. Google Antitrust Notes

    305 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  24. Discord Desktop App RCE

    305 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  25. Launch HN: Deepnote (YC S19) – A better data science notebook

    305 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  26. A legislative path to an interoperable internet

    303 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  27. Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

    303 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  28. Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim

    303 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  29. Logging Everyone Out

    302 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  30. Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

    302 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  31. The Accelerating Adoption of Julia

    301 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  32. Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content

    301 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  33. Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development

    301 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  34. US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations

    300 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  35. Uninstall Nano Defender

    300 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  36. Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters

    300 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  37. Surviving Disillusionment

    300 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  38. YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images

    300 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  39. Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting

    300 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  40. SEO mistakes I've made and how I fixed them

    299 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  41. PostgreSQL community impact of 2nd Quadrant purchase

    298 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  42. Rust 1.47

    298 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  43. HomePod Mini

    297 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  44. Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance

    296 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  45. Is Rust web yet?

    295 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  46. A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication

    295 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  47. Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization

    295 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  48. Jailbreaking Used Teslas

    293 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  49. NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML

    293 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  50. Show HN: Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab

    293 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  51. Ruby's Proposed STM

    292 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  52. Apache Helix – Near-Realtime Rsync Replicated File System

    292 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  53. Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment

    291 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  54. Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go

    291 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  55. Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available

    289 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  56. The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini

    287 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  57. Philipp Hagemeister, former YouTube-dl maintainer re: takedown

    287 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  58. EULA Found on a Package of Fruit

    286 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  59. A Little Money Laundering Can Have a Big Impact on Real Estate Prices (2019)

    286 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  60. Cells are fast and crowded places (2011)

    285 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  61. Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

    285 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  62. Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-status

    285 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  63. A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

    284 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  64. Bash Error Handling

    284 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  65. Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)

    283 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  66. We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application

    283 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  67. What if we had Local-First Software?

    281 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  68. Why we’re changing to the AGPL license

    281 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  69. Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

    280 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  70. Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them

    280 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  71. Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals

    280 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  72. Removing Holocaust Denial Content

    278 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  73. Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash

    277 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  74. Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer

    276 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  75. Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)

    276 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  76. Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network

    275 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  77. Electoral College Decision Tree

    275 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  78. Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy

    275 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  79. Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

    274 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  80. Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?

    274 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  81. New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing

    273 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  82. Just Write the Parser

    273 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  83. First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws

    273 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  84. Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

    273 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  85. Sonos is spying on me (and you)

    272 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  86. The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

    271 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  87. Fortunately, I don't squash my commits

    271 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  88. Don’t pay for 95% (2016)

    271 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  89. Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22

    270 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  90. .NET Orleans

    270 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  91. JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

    268 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  92. Pygame 2.0

    268 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  93. Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers

    268 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  94. RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

    268 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  95. Where our economy is, for the young

    268 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  96. Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go

    268 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  97. Nim 1.4

    266 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  98. Swift Algorithms

    266 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  99. Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis

    266 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  100. Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation

    266 points • comment • oct 11, 2020