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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?

    88 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  2. You don't need no service mesh

    88 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  3. Mishima in the Twenty First Century

    88 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  4. Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers fees for exceeding their usage cap

    88 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  5. ReCAPTCHA and the Anonymous Experience

    88 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  6. Linus Torvalds on the new MacBook Air

    88 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  7. James Dyson Award – International and Sustainability winners announced

    87 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  8. Election Battleground State Changes

    87 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  9. A few ways to make money in FOSS

    87 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?

    87 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  11. Mind-Melting Decision Proves a Dialer Can Never Be Too Old to Be an ATDS

    87 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  12. The Anti-Federalist Papers

    87 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  13. DOM recording for web application demos

    87 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  14. My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat

    86 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  15. Confusing Grep Mistakes I've Made

    86 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  16. Italian police use Lamborghini to transport donor kidney 300 miles in two hours

    86 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  17. The Case Against More Ethanol (2016)

    86 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  18. Finding Startup Ideas and Building in Heavily-Regulated Spaces

    86 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  19. BGP Lego Bricks

    86 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  20. Turing Incomplete Languages

    86 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  21. Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014) [slides]

    86 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  22. The future of microwave cooking is solid-state (2016)

    86 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  23. Honda claims it will launch the first Level 3 autonomous production car in March

    86 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  24. What I didn't know about Ruby Classes

    85 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  25. High Performance Individuals and Teams

    85 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  26. Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future

    85 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  27. Singapore rears moquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria to combat dengue

    85 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  28. Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

    85 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  29. P.L. Deshpande

    84 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  30. SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air

    84 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  31. Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (1977)

    84 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  32. Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

    84 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  33. Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack

    84 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  34. CSVs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    84 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  35. Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip

    84 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  36. I'm going to experiment by being Blind and Alone for 24 Hours

    84 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  37. Talon – scriptable voice/gaze input

    84 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  38. Old Dogs, New Research and the Secrets of Aging

    84 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  39. Apple Silicon M1 – What to Expect, Based on A14

    84 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  40. Pure destination-passing style in Linear Haskell

    84 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  41. Google makes breaking change to publishing Sheets as data

    83 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  42. Post PC

    83 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  43. We need less powerful languages (2015)

    83 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  44. Leveraging ML Compute for Accelerated Training on Mac

    83 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  45. Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (2017)

    83 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  46. Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)

    83 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  47. Zig 0.7.0 tagged

    83 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  48. The Turing-Completeness Problem

    83 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  49. The Die Is Cast: Hardware Security Is Not Assured

    83 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  50. Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates

    83 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  51. Qt 6.0 Beta 4 Released

    82 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  52. Advanced Join Patterns for the Actor Model Based on CEP Techniques

    82 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  53. First beta release of Alire, the package manager for Ada/SPARK

    82 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  54. Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence

    82 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  55. Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi

    82 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  56. US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year

    82 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  57. What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)

    82 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  58. A68 iceberg on collision path with South Georgia

    81 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  59. We Fix: A DIY Manifesto (2014)

    81 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  60. Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?

    81 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  61. M1 Mac mini overtakes entire Japanese desktop market in less than 2 weeks

    81 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  62. Ask HN: Have you picked up any new skill from scratch in your 40s or later?

    81 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  63. Understanding Statistical Power and Significance Testing

    81 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  64. macOS file diff app, Kaleidoscope, acquired by Letter Opener GmbH

    81 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  65. Anki Cards for Fast.ai

    80 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  66. Kraken – P2P Docker Registry

    80 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  67. Show HN: Making Python one-liner-fit with the new pwk (Python With Kurly braces)

    80 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  68. Interactive, 3D printed Stargate with wormhole effect

    80 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  69. Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

    80 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  70. A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works

    80 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  71. Is the Internet Different?

    80 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  72. The Cit0Day Breach Collection

    80 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  73. Neural Nets (1994)

    80 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  74. When 13.3 is greater than 14

    80 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  75. The blockchain/cryptocurrency space is mostly fraudulent

    80 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  76. Show HN: FFCreator-A fast short video processing library

    80 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  77. Japan's New Hydrogen Project

    80 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  78. There's Still No Viable Open Source Business Model [video]

    80 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  79. Twilio wraps $3.2B purchase of Segment after warp speed courtship

    80 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  80. A one hundred thousand-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of silicon

    79 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  81. The Origin of the Shell

    79 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  82. The accidental genius of Yo

    79 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  83. Quake III Arena, K3s and a Raspberry Pi

    79 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  84. In Chicago, 90% of voters agreed the internet should be a public utility

    79 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  85. The Leaderless Organization (2012)

    79 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  86. Pijul – The Mathematically Sound Version Control System Written in Rust

    79 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  87. VLC and Qt – A History [video]

    79 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  88. Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference

    79 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  89. Goodbye, Twitter

    79 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  90. What to do if the bank says you're dead

    79 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  91. DigitalOcean Container Registry Now GA

    79 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  92. Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (2007)

    79 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  93. Google Play bans third-party app for YouTube alternative BitChute

    79 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  94. Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years

    79 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  95. When tipping was considered un-American (2015)

    78 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  96. Butano: Modern C++ high level GameBoy Advance engine

    78 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  97. FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System

    78 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  98. Testing for Divisibility by 19

    78 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  99. Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires

    78 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  100. Eddie's Ink Chip Hack (2002)

    78 points • comment • nov 11, 2020