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Hacker News (Oct 2020)

  1. An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits

    162 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  2. Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data

    162 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  3. Facebook Is a 'Super Spreader' of Election Misinformation

    162 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  4. The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019)

    162 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  5. India's new paper Covid-19 test

    161 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  6. Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals

    161 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  7. MobX 6

    161 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  8. Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight

    161 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  9. What if you knew how computers work? (2015)

    161 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?

    161 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  11. Ask HN: Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?

    160 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  12. figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

    160 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  13. State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield

    160 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  14. A Family of Better Random Number Generators

    160 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  15. Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?

    160 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  16. Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity

    160 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  17. Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job

    160 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  18. DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion

    159 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  19. Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream

    159 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  20. Simulating Machines in Clojure

    159 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  21. Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?

    159 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  22. Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly

    159 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  23. Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire

    158 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  24. Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites

    158 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  25. Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008)

    158 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  26. Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?

    158 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  27. Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US

    158 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  28. Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)

    157 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  29. Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died. CUPS creator M. Sweet has moved on to a fork

    157 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  30. The Whitworth Three Plates Method (2017)

    157 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  31. My toothbrush streams gyroscope data

    157 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  32. Writing Is Thinking (2014)

    157 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  33. For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns against them

    157 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  34. Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram

    157 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  35. Big Trouble in a Deep Void

    157 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  36. Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using optics and standard monads

    157 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  37. What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?

    156 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  38. A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster

    156 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  39. An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy

    156 points • comment • oct 07, 2020

  40. How to better calculate churn rates

    156 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  41. Tesla dissolves its PR department

    155 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  42. Tokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardware Took Down a Market

    155 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  43. Machine Learning Engineering Book

    155 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  44. A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia

    155 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  45. Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?

    155 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  46. Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS

    154 points • comment • oct 10, 2020

  47. The misuse of colour in science communication

    154 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  48. 'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West

    154 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  49. The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means

    154 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  50. It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth

    154 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  51. Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

    153 points • comment • oct 06, 2020

  52. Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims

    153 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  53. Covid-19 can damage hearts of some college athletes

    153 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  54. Reversing the technical interview (2017)

    153 points • comment • oct 09, 2020

  55. Swift Concurrency Roadmap

    153 points • comment • oct 30, 2020

  56. Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code

    153 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  57. The End of the American Internet

    152 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  58. Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk

    152 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  59. Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world

    152 points • comment • oct 11, 2020

  60. ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time

    152 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  61. My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure

    152 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  62. Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect

    152 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  63. OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy

    152 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  64. Google Adds WireGuard VPN to Android 12’s Linux Kernel 5.4 Tree

    152 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  65. C++ the Good Parts (2014)

    152 points • comment • oct 01, 2020

  66. Multicore OCaml: September 2020

    152 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  67. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Compression

    151 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  68. Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat

    151 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  69. Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings

    151 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  70. Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court

    150 points • comment • oct 21, 2020

  71. Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

    150 points • comment • oct 20, 2020

  72. Humans are more closely related than we commonly think

    150 points • comment • oct 05, 2020

  73. Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors

    150 points • comment • oct 22, 2020

  74. Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years

    150 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  75. Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better

    150 points • comment • oct 08, 2020

  76. Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf]

    150 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  77. Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted for popular devices

    150 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  78. Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually

    150 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  79. GDB 10.1

    149 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  80. Ungrammar

    149 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  81. Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90

    149 points • comment • oct 31, 2020

  82. Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100

    149 points • comment • oct 17, 2020

  83. Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness

    149 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  84. Flame retardant may cause hyperthyroidism in cats

    149 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  85. Blender Conference 2020

    149 points • comment • oct 27, 2020

  86. House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M

    148 points • comment • oct 18, 2020

  87. When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion

    148 points • comment • oct 19, 2020

  88. Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely

    148 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  89. RFC 8905 – The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments

    148 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  90. Teens' mental health did surprisingly well in quarantine

    148 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  91. Vdx – An intuitive CLI for processing video, powered by FFmpeg

    148 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  92. Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing

    148 points • comment • oct 23, 2020

  93. Wyoming uses a “dark money” organization to advocate for coal in other states

    148 points • comment • oct 29, 2020

  94. After 14 years a new printed UK Amiga magazine

    147 points • comment • oct 25, 2020

  95. FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230

    147 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  96. Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media

    147 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  97. Humans Are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

    147 points • comment • oct 28, 2020

  98. Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells

    147 points • comment • oct 04, 2020

  99. 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator

    147 points • comment • oct 24, 2020

  100. Collision Detection (2015)

    147 points • comment • oct 10, 2020