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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. When science was the best show in America

    133 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  2. Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB

    133 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

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

    133 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  4. The Unreasonable Syntactic Expressivity of RNNs

    133 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  5. For Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything has been ‘sort of liberating’

    133 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  6. Simulating RAM in Clojure

    132 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  7. Show HN: Switch Git Users CLI

    132 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  8. TSMC: SoIC

    132 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  9. Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0

    132 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  10. Centre for Applied Eschatology

    132 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  11. The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol

    132 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  12. On the Beauty of Python's ExitStack (2015)

    132 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  13. Symbiotic bacteria tell ant embryos how to develop

    132 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  14. Ask HN: How do you work through large ideas?

    132 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  15. The polls messed up

    131 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  16. Safely open apps on your Mac

    131 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  17. Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing

    131 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  18. Optimizing Things in the USSR (2016)

    130 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  19. The Purpose of Writing

    130 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  20. We have no idea what happens next

    130 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  21. Holodomor

    130 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  22. P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values

    129 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  23. BiVector.net – Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering

    129 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  24. Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? (2016)

    129 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  25. Americans are more worried about their sons than their daughters

    128 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  26. Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had

    128 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  27. A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century [video]

    128 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  28. DKIM: Show Your Privates

    128 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  29. Why Typing Erlang is Hard: Standard Erlang

    128 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  30. TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)

    128 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  31. Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review

    128 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  32. No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday

    128 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  33. Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code

    128 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  34. DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage

    128 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  35. The Linux Commands HandBook

    128 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  36. Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores

    128 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  37. TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stacking'

    128 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  38. Getting a biometric security key right

    127 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  39. Hangover, Win64/Win32 applications on arm64/ppc64le/x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac

    127 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  40. A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)

    127 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  41. Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period

    127 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  42. Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device

    127 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  43. Our Immune System

    127 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  44. Durable Objects in Production

    127 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  45. No surprises here – On the absence of information in today’s media

    127 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  46. Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

    127 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  47. Digital sound processing tutorial

    127 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  48. What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?

    126 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  49. My First Kernel Module: A Debugging Nightmare

    126 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  50. Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects

    126 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  51. Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)

    126 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  52. Archive of Lisp Machine, Inc

    126 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  53. China attacks fishing boats in conquest of South China Sea

    126 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  54. 1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wages, new study finds

    126 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  55. Max Schrems hits Apple with complaints over ad-tracking device

    125 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  56. Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

    125 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  57. Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy

    125 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  58. Why I chose Electron.js for my side business

    125 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  59. Rebrickable – Build with Lego

    124 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  60. Headlamp: a new UI for Kubernetes

    124 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  61. Millions of animals missing from scientific studies

    124 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  62. British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen

    124 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  63. Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution

    124 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  64. SymPy 1.7

    124 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  65. Simple Image Vectorization

    124 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  66. Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors [pdf]

    124 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  67. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)

    123 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  68. Let's Solve the File Format Problem (2019)

    123 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  69. Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free D&D map maker

    123 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  70. EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

    123 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  71. K0s – Zero Friction Kubernetes

    123 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  72. What Is a Particle?

    123 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  73. Echo/printf to write images in 5 LoC with zero libraries or headersnetpbm

    122 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  74. The great Internet TCP congestion control census

    122 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  75. Watch live: Zuckerberg, Dorsey testify before Senate [video]

    122 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  76. Scaleway Stardust Instances

    122 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  77. Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Subsetting

    122 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  78. Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to the United States, Subject to Judicial Review

    122 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  79. VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform library

    121 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  80. Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans for Centuries (2016)

    121 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  81. Perl One-Liners Cookbook

    121 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  82. Field geology at Mars' equator points to ancient megaflood

    121 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  83. macOS 11 (Big Sur) Compatibility News

    121 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  84. A crop of startups are trying to make for-profit local news work

    121 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  85. European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’

    121 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  86. Wish S-1

    120 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  87. Why Leaders Need to Learn the Skill of Writing

    120 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  88. Open Source Design – community of designers and devs for open design processes

    120 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  89. Typedefs

    120 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  90. I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

    120 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  91. Legally operating a job board in Japan

    120 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  92. Supersonic Electric Flight

    120 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  93. Jan Morris Has Died

    120 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  94. JFK in Trauma Room One: A Witness Remembers

    120 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  95. The Economics of Sex Robots

    120 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  96. Show HN: A Python container for dataclasses with multi-indexing and vector opps

    120 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  97. LazySSH – A jump-host SSH server that starts machines on-demand

    120 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  98. Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara's 316-MPH speed record

    120 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  99. Al-Adudi Hospital

    120 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  100. Poor Sleep Linked with Future Amyloid-β Build Up

    119 points • comment • nov 22, 2020