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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. All positive returns to major market indices over 3 decades occurred overnight

    6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  2. On Writing Technical Blogs

    6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  3. When Coffee Machines Demand Ransom, You Know IoT Is Screwed

    6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  4. Apple introduces iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max with 5G

    6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  5. Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  6. 5 Hidden Python Features You Probably Never Heard Of

    6 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  7. City of SF Spends $8k per Homeless Person, per Hotel Room, per Month

    6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  8. Facebook Communications Chief: We are reducing distribution of anti-Biden posts

    6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  9. Bot Analytics

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  10. Twitter suspends Scott Atlas, White House Covid advisor, for mask tweets

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  11. Open Dylan 2020.1 – Now with LLVM Back End

    6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  12. MDN Web Docs: Editorial strategy and community participation

    6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  13. AR Copy and Paste – photograph something physical and paste it into a document

    6 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  14. James Randi has passed away

    6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  15. Simultaneous Interpreting (2013)

    6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  16. Dataflow-based Pruning for Speeding up Superoptimization [pdf]

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  17. Jailbreak Oculus VR from Facebook control? EFF’s Cory Doctorow has advice first

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  18. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series (Live Stream)

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  19. Does Palantir See Too Much?

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  20. The World’s 100 Smallest Countries (Infographic)

    6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  21. Extremely rare Higgs boson decay process spotted

    6 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  22. Five Eyes warns tech firms that encryption creates 'severe risks'

    6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  23. Amazon says 19,000 employees tested positive for Covid-19

    6 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  24. Here's how Russia could track your every move – without even hacking your phone

    6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  25. Deep Learning for NLP: Stanford Course (My Notes on the Free Lectures)

    6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  26. How to create automated AWS billing reports

    6 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  27. Michael Cohen says he's working to free Reality Winner

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  28. Emulating regexp lookarounds in GNU sed

    6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  29. Alpine-term: x86_64 under QEMU with termux on Android

    6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  30. Show HN: Web Annotation

    6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  31. China's Qingdao orders city-wide Covid-19 testing following new infections

    6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  32. Major Retailers in Britain Say No to Glitter for Christmas

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  33. Are the health claims about Apple cider vinegar true? (2016)

    6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  34. Signs the Pandemic Is About to Get Much Worse

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  35. 7 looming questions about the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine

    6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  36. Preppers plan to scrub social media profiles post-election, kidding themselves

    6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  37. Monstrous Offspring

    6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  38. Get Creative Commons Musics Ranked by Usage in YouTube Videos

    6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  39. New England Journal of Medicine: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum

    6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  40. Statement regarding BGP hijacking on September 29

    6 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  41. Go: Location interprets wrong timezone (DST) with slim zoneinfo

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  42. In Reversal, Twitter Is No Longer Blocking New York Post Article

    6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  43. Universal Basic Income (UBI) – A poverty fix?

    6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  44. The selfish hypocrisy of champagne lockdownism is demolishing our society

    6 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  45. Why so much coverage of Amazon Prime Day? The incentives, of course (2016)

    6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  46. CDC says virus can spread indoors in air beyond six feet

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  47. A Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Street Like None Other (See Footnote)

    6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  48. Camouflaged Fire Sprinklers Erupt to Protect a Historic Japanese Village

    6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  49. If you're pinning your hopes on a Covid vaccine, here's a dose of realism

    6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  50. No Drugs, No Crime and Pennies for School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  51. Put not thy trust in Nate Silver

    6 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  52. Inaugural eBPF Summit for users and developers

    6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  53. To Serve the Public, Seek Profits

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  54. Ice Age Farmer Discord has been terminated due to “Spreading Misinformation.”

    6 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  55. Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux

    6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  56. A Teardown Peek Inside Oral B’s Seriously Connected IO Toothbrush

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  57. Goldman Sachs will claw back money paid to CEO, ex-CEO, & execs after 1MDB Fines

    6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  58. Guy makes website in 25 min with Webflow and No-code

    6 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  59. The self-made man, history of a myth

    6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  60. Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Shiny vs. Voila vs. Flask vs. Jupyter

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  61. The Coronavirus Unveiled

    6 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  62. Dubai introduces facial recognition on public transport

    6 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  63. The Cloudflare Radar 2020 Elections Dashboard

    6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  64. To avoid quarantining students, school district moves them every 15 minutes

    6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  65. AfricArXiv: The Pan-African Open Scholarly Repository

    6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  66. Vitalik Buterin interviews Tyler Cowen on tech and crypto [video]

    6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  67. Slack: Degraded Performance and Connectivity Issues

    6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  68. An introduction to timekeeping in Linux VMs (2017)

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  69. The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark

    6 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  70. Tesla’s seven-day return policy has been quietly removed

    6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  71. I created a webapp to help me learn simplified Chinese characters

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  72. Well preserved 2k-year-old brain cells found in Vesuvius victim

    6 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  73. IROS Robotics Conference Is Online Now and Completely Free

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  74. HN is suppressing anti-tech stories

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  75. Mission to a Metal World: Psyche

    6 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  76. The new iPhone 12 has an Anti Repair design

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  77. Tracy – A real time, frame and sampling profiler

    6 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  78. That advice to women to ‘lean in’, be more confident it doesn’t help

    6 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  79. AdoptOpenJDK 8u272, 11.0.9, and 15.0.1 Available

    6 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  80. Ask HN: What Operating Systems courses would you recommend?

    6 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  81. If Working from Home Is Destroying Your Back, You're Not Alone

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  82. Increase in Analog Problems

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  83. Goodbye to the Truly James Randi

    6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  84. Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord

    6 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  85. The Enemies Briefcase

    6 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  86. Why millions of freelancers fear a Biden presidency may put them out of work

    6 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  87. The Beam Marches Forward

    6 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  88. Paralyzed Dutch man can temporarily move and talk again thanks to sleeping pill

    6 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  89. Ask HN: What product, etc. do you think is snake oil?

    6 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  90. China's successful control of Covid-19

    6 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  91. In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest

    6 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  92. Reading Poorly Structured Excel Files with Pandas – Practical Business Python

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  93. Employers Should Reward Workers for Accomplishments, Not Hours Worked

    6 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  94. Twitter abruptly changes hacked-materials policy after blocking Biden story

    6 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  95. FreeBSD 12.2-Release Announcement

    6 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  96. Why Signups and Logins Should Open in a Right Form Drawer

    6 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  97. Americans are becoming climate migrants before our eyes

    6 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  98. A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air

    6 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  99. uBlock Origin Extra has been discontinued

    6 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  100. Show HN: Speed Up Python with Rust via WebAssembly

    6 points • comment • oct 05, 2020