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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Research team discovers breakthrough with potential to reverse Alzheimer's

    229 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  2. Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

    229 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  3. Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps

    229 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  4. Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police

    228 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  5. Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites

    228 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  6. Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google

    228 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  7. Police are requesting data from smart speakers

    227 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  8. Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system

    227 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  9. OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games

    227 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  10. KDE Plasma 5.20

    227 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  11. Origami Simulator

    226 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  12. Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2016)

    226 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  13. For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (1986)

    226 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  14. Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives

    225 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  15. Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

    225 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  16. Unifying the Technical Interview

    225 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  17. Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places

    225 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  18. Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit

    225 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  19. Distributed Systems Learning Notes

    224 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  20. Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature

    223 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  21. A brief introduction to BEAM

    222 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  22. Building replacement proprietary battery packs

    221 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  23. LLVM 11.0

    221 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  24. Books in .txt format for AI training purposes

    221 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  25. Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough

    221 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  26. Crouching T2, Hidden Danger

    220 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  27. What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with

    220 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  28. Beware the Casual Polymath

    219 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  29. Why you should write

    219 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  30. iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money

    219 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  31. Business Operations – Tech Stack

    219 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  32. Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more

    218 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  33. 5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

    218 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  34. Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains

    218 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  35. SpaCy v3.0 Nightly

    218 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  36. How you could have come up with Paxos yourself

    217 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  37. Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets

    217 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  38. ElectricityMap – Live CO₂ emissions of electricity production and consumption

    217 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  39. How To Be An Anti-Casteist

    217 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  40. Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano

    217 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  41. A toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for tech

    216 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  42. Building a computer in Conway's game of life

    215 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  43. Google's penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary

    215 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  44. Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain

    215 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  45. EXoDOS: Collecting every game developed for DOS from original media

    215 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  46. YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

    215 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  47. Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?

    215 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  48. Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1

    215 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  49. An/TVs 3 Searchlight – 20 kW Xenon Arc viewable from space

    214 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  50. Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy

    214 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  51. NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

    214 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  52. Towards Tactic Metaprogramming in Haskell

    214 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  53. Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

    214 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  54. Valve put their 'Pressure Vessel' container source for Linux games up on Gitlab

    214 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  55. Johns Hopkins Poker Course

    214 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  56. Abolish the Cash Bail System

    214 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  57. Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself

    213 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  58. Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies

    213 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  59. FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service

    213 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  60. Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water

    213 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  61. ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier (2019)

    212 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  62. I enforced the AGPL on my code

    212 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  63. Show HN: Bunkerized-Nginx – Nginx Docker image secure by default

    212 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  64. How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You

    212 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  65. Logs, Tails, Long Tails (2013)

    211 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  66. Node.js 15.0

    211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  67. Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (2010)

    211 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  68. Extracting firmware from embedded devices [pdf]

    211 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  69. Rethinking Attention with Performers

    211 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  70. The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

    211 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  71. Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up

    210 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  72. AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs

    210 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  73. Google pub/sub released an ordering feature

    210 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  74. Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware

    210 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  75. Lessons from six months at Shopify

    210 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  76. Rust-GPU

    210 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  77. Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System

    209 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  78. Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook

    209 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  79. Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kubernetes

    208 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  80. MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS

    208 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  81. Coinbase Card

    208 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  82. Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement

    208 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  83. BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell at ESP8266 price point

    208 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  84. Apple Watch momentum is building

    207 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  85. Project Cybersyn

    207 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  86. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

    207 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  87. Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index

    206 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  88. CC Hound: A curated library of free music for content creators

    206 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  89. A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher

    206 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  90. Compiler for the M language of the French DGFiP

    206 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  91. I finished filming 12 hours of a coding tutorial: crossword puzzle construction

    205 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  92. How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)

    205 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  93. On Being Bipolar

    205 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  94. Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong WiFi users

    205 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  95. Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco

    204 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  96. Babies' random choices become their preferences

    204 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  97. A Love Letter to the Internet of Old

    204 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  98. Swift Atomics

    204 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  99. McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies

    204 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  100. Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut

    203 points • comment • oct 27, 2020