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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming

    203 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

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

    203 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  3. TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node

    203 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  4. More than half of all whale and dolphin species are of conservation concern

    203 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  5. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation

    202 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  6. Mailing lists are resistant to censorship

    201 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  7. Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder

    201 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  8. Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively

    201 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  9. Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness?

    201 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  10. Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software

    201 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  11. Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement

    200 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  12. Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

    200 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  13. Pointers from Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War

    200 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  14. Get started with 2-minute rule

    200 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  15. PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

    200 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  16. Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy

    199 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  17. On the destruction of America’s best high school

    199 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  18. KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

    199 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  19. Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support

    199 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  20. FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues

    198 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  21. Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears

    198 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  22. Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL

    198 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  23. Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”

    197 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  24. MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great

    197 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  25. It’s 255:19AM. Do you know what your validation criteria are?

    197 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  26. Combating abuse without backdoors

    197 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  27. Why I Prefer Functional Programming

    197 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  28. Data engineering learning path with recommended resources

    196 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  29. How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work

    196 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  30. An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

    196 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  31. Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?

    196 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  32. The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

    195 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  33. Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book

    195 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  34. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries

    194 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  35. Sid Meier's Memoir

    194 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  36. Menu simulation, Spidertron, Ghost building, Confirm button

    194 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  37. PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python

    194 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  38. An Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom

    194 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  39. Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet

    194 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  40. Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop

    193 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  41. FastCGI – The Forgotten Treasure (2002)

    193 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  42. Porn, Zen, and .vimrc

    193 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  43. You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

    193 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  44. Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious

    193 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  45. Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016

    193 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  46. How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

    193 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  47. Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?

    193 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  48. Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (2014)

    193 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  49. Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code

    193 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  50. VSCode on Google Colab

    193 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  51. Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second

    192 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  52. Loading CSV File at the Speed Limit of the NVMe Storage

    192 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  53. Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants being sold

    192 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  54. Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012)

    192 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  55. Sentimental Versioning

    192 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  56. Visidata 2.0

    192 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  57. Tasmota: Cloud-free open source smart home firmware for ESP8266 devices

    191 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  58. Stealth – Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser

    191 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  59. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

    191 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  60. Pelican static site generator 4.5

    191 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  61. Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps

    190 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  62. Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (2018)

    190 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  63. OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding

    190 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  64. Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

    190 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  65. We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot

    190 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  66. Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers

    189 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  67. The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable

    189 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  68. ØMQ – The Guide (2011)

    188 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  69. Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parliament

    188 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  70. Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions

    188 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  71. LyX – The Document Processor

    187 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  72. KDE.org migrated to Hugo

    187 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  73. Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in damages

    187 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  74. Programmable Search Engine

    186 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  75. Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator

    186 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  76. The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)

    186 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  77. Media buyer: Facebook updates have ‘wrecked the ad platform on the backend’

    185 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  78. Extreme Debugging

    185 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  79. Prologue: A web framework written in Nim

    185 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  80. C++ still isn't cutting it

    185 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  81. Show HN: Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds

    184 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  82. Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies

    184 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  83. AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology

    182 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  84. New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

    182 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  85. Steps to Improve Your Writing

    182 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  86. Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast

    182 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  87. How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry

    181 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  88. Particle Physicists Continue to Make Empty Promises

    181 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  89. The Abundance of Silicon Valley

    181 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  90. Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale

    181 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  91. United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden

    180 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  92. Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails

    180 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  93. In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 17.3GB/month

    180 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  94. Choosing the Management Track

    180 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  95. Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk Future

    180 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  96. Section 230 Explained

    179 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  97. Apple forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors

    179 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  98. BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP

    179 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  99. GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago

    179 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  100. Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP

    178 points • comment • oct 07, 2020