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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. 3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic

    178 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  2. $30 DIY Kilowatt Wind Turbine (2017)

    178 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  3. Timekeeping in Financial Exchanges

    178 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  4. Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support

    178 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  5. What Color Is This? Part 2

    177 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  6. AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses

    177 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  7. The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher

    177 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  8. GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat’

    177 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  9. Dutch flying car gets permission to drive on European roads

    177 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  10. CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R

    176 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  11. FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Timestamps on Videos

    176 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  12. HTML5 Accelerator Card

    176 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  13. Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread

    176 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  14. Indoor Mapping Data Format

    176 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  15. The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland

    176 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  16. GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and development has been paused

    176 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  17. Last Resort Font

    176 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  18. Apple refuses to engrave ‘liberate’ protest slogan on HK customer’s Apple Pencil

    175 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  19. Localisation is too hard for Gmail

    175 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  20. Wim Hof’s teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges

    175 points • comment • oct 14, 2020

  21. When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube

    175 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  22. Lisp from Nothing

    175 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  23. The No-Code Generation is arriving

    175 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  24. Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data

    174 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  25. Chess’s Cheating Crisis

    174 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  26. Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping

    174 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  27. Nine in ten adults think buying latest smartphone is waste of money

    174 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  28. Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums

    174 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  29. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)

    173 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  30. A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal

    173 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  31. imgcat: higher resolution

    173 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  32. Iron, How Did They Make It, Part III: Hammer-Time

    173 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  33. Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks

    173 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  34. Some onions were too sexy for Facebook

    173 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  35. 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

    173 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  36. Germany fines H&M 35 million euros for data protection breaches

    172 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  37. An Honest Review of Gatsby

    172 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  38. Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement

    172 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  39. Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?

    172 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  40. Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering

    172 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  41. The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance

    172 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  42. What are Differential Equations and how do they work?

    171 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  43. We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)

    171 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  44. 1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection

    171 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  45. Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged

    171 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  46. EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US

    171 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  47. My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too

    170 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  48. AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections

    170 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  49. No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain

    170 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  50. OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model

    170 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  51. A List of Post-Mortems

    170 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  52. The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon

    169 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  53. Show HN: Personal CRM: Note taking, the way it should be

    169 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  54. Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015)

    169 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  55. Crowdsec: A Fail2Ban alternative written in Go

    169 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  56. My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work

    169 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  57. Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes

    169 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  58. Web Scraping with JavaScript

    169 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  59. Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling

    169 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  60. Proposed EU rule may mean you can finally delete some apps from your phone

    169 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  61. Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement

    168 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  62. A New Back End for Cranelift

    168 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  63. The experiment that proved airborne disease transmission

    168 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  64. Celery 5.0

    168 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  65. Hacking together a USB-C charger for a cheap Chromebook

    168 points • comment • oct 12, 2020

  66. Acoustic Kitty

    168 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  67. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

    167 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  68. Plug’nPwn – Connect to Jailbreak

    167 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  69. 'Person in jetpack' spotted flying again near LA airport

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  70. AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx

    167 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  71. Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout

    167 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  72. Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

    166 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  73. Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

    166 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  74. XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486

    166 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  75. Mood and cognition after low LSD doses: A placebo controlled dose-effect study

    166 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  76. The case for building a SETI observatory on the moon

    166 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  77. Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training

    166 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  78. Toward an API for the Real Numbers

    166 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  79. Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System

    166 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  80. Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming

    166 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  81. A case for using punctuation in Slack

    165 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  82. Re-Thinking the Desktop OS

    165 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  83. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

    165 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  84. Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse

    164 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  85. iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

    164 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  86. Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic

    164 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  87. Emacs Survey

    164 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  88. “Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World”

    164 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  89. To write better, develop a habit of writing

    164 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  90. The Nikon Small World Competition

    164 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  91. He Married a Sociopath: Me

    163 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  92. 4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video]

    163 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  93. Diolkos

    163 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  94. Benchmarking static website hosting providers

    163 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  95. Cloudflare Analytics review

    163 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  96. How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux

    163 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  97. Your single-page app is now a polyfill

    163 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  98. The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End

    163 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  99. Why I'm Tcl-Ish

    162 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  100. Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming

    162 points • comment • oct 23, 2020