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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

    265 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  2. DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

    265 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  3. Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life

    265 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  4. How We Institutionalized Incompetence

    262 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  5. Yann LeCun on GPT-3

    261 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  6. Show HN: Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes

    261 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  7. Show HN: I made a computer vision addon for Blender

    260 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  8. SparkFun À La Carte

    260 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  9. Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

    259 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  10. Fast UTF-8 validation

    259 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  11. Zheap – Reinvented PostgreSQL Storage

    259 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  12. The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights

    258 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  13. The cheap pen that changed writing forever

    258 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  14. What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)

    257 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  15. Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in Phoenix

    257 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  16. Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers

    257 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  17. Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)

    257 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  18. Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

    256 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  19. Pyston v2: Faster Python

    256 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  20. Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron

    255 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  21. ReactOS

    255 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  22. Kube Doom, Kill Kubernetes Pods Using Id's Doom

    255 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  23. Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

    255 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  24. A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

    254 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  25. How to create minimal music with code in any programming language

    254 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  26. The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant

    253 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  27. Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer

    253 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  28. Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In

    253 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  29. Why most Hacktoberfest PRs are from India

    252 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  30. Show HN: Austin-Tui – Spy inside a running Python program at no performance cost

    251 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  31. A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)

    251 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  32. Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition

    250 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  33. Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed

    250 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  34. Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption

    250 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  35. U.S. faculty job market tanks

    249 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  36. Python For Feature Film

    249 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  37. A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival

    249 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  38. The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)

    249 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  39. Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole

    247 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  40. I Tried to Reduce Pylint Memory Usage

    247 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  41. What is expected of a engineering manager?

    247 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  42. Memcmp being wrongly stripped like strcmp

    247 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  43. Ontario police used Covid-19 database illegally, civil rights groups find

    247 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  44. Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’

    247 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  45. Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors

    247 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  46. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

    247 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  47. Why I stopped reading HN (2010)

    246 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  48. The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (2018)

    245 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  49. Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering

    245 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  50. iSH Shell

    245 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  51. The economics of vending machines

    244 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  52. The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

    244 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  53. Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux

    244 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  54. First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English

    244 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  55. XB-1 Supersonic Rollout

    244 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  56. Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF

    244 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  57. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    244 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  58. How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)

    243 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?

    242 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  60. Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]

    242 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  61. Webpack 5

    242 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  62. 25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer

    242 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  63. Evolving Reddit’s Workforce

    241 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  64. Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia

    241 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  65. Purism – Fund Your App

    241 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  66. Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19

    240 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  67. Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

    240 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  68. AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters

    239 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  69. The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched

    239 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  70. The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

    239 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  71. Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition

    238 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  72. Show HN: Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

    238 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  73. Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach

    238 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  74. Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy

    238 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  75. 2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way

    237 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  76. Implementation plan for speeding up CPython

    237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  77. Four features that justify a new Unix shell

    237 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  78. Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

    237 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  79. Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams

    237 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  80. GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account

    237 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  81. YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop

    236 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  82. There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts

    236 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  83. Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim

    235 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  84. An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]

    235 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  85. Show HN: SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning

    235 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  86. Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years

    235 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  87. Openproject: Open-source project management software

    234 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  88. Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more

    234 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  89. Are we losing our ability to remember?

    234 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  90. Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts

    234 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  91. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020

    233 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  92. Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies

    233 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  93. The Chaos Engineering Book

    233 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  94. Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data

    232 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  95. Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool

    232 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  96. USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2

    232 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  97. Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity

    232 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  98. Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election

    231 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  99. Taikyoku Shogi

    230 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  100. Whose Computer Is It?

    230 points • comment • oct 22, 2020