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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Eddie's Ink Chip Hack (2002)

    78 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  2. Technical phone screen superforecasters

    78 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  3. Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms [pdf]

    78 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  4. Show HN: Twelve Days of Shell

    78 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  5. We are the Starlink team, ask us anything

    77 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  6. Sweden bans public events of more than eight people

    77 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  7. Show HN: Forexbook – Automated trading journal that syncs with Metatrader

    77 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  8. Becoming a magician (2018)

    77 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  9. AMD EPYC 7713 'Milan' Zen 3 CPU Benchmarked

    77 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  10. When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world

    77 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  11. FreeCAD Simulator

    77 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  12. OpenSUSE MicroOS

    77 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  13. EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs

    77 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  14. Contemplating the End of Physics

    77 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  15. Artificial intelligence may be making people buy things

    77 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  16. Volt: A reactive web framework where your Ruby code runs both server and client

    77 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  17. Amazon Academy India

    77 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  18. Using Alfred to open your GitHub repositories in the browser

    77 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  19. An Account of Human Costs: The reservoirs that provide water to New York City

    77 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  20. Str: Yet another string library for C language

    77 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  21. Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs

    77 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  22. The Math of Password Hashing Algorithms and Entropy (2019)

    77 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  23. Brazil's full DB of Covid tests and patient PII leaked

    76 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  24. Anarch: Super small public domain no-dependency from-scratch suckless Doom clone

    76 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  25. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?

    76 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  26. Apple: Developer ID Certificate Revocation (OCSP)

    76 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  27. Understanding Associations in Elixir's Ecto

    76 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  28. The sparrow with four sexes (2016)

    76 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  29. A recall earned Lexus a top reputation (2006)

    76 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  30. Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty'

    76 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  31. Microsoft and the NSA

    76 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  32. Clean code won't save the planet

    76 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  33. Apple’s New Era Has Begun

    76 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  34. Governors take heat for violating their own coronavirus restrictions

    76 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  35. Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3

    76 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  36. How to force yourself to leave the computer using the leave command

    75 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  37. Recompile – a 3D Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure game

    75 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  38. Introduction to Google Cloud Functions

    75 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  39. AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen

    75 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  40. IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering

    75 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  41. Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim

    75 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  42. Alexander Grothendieck: Memories of a Great Mathematician (2014)

    75 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  43. The major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

    75 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  44. The largest commercial cylindrical slide rule has a scale length of 24m

    74 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  45. Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System

    74 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  46. Show HN: Jupystar – Run any Jupyter notebook in the browser

    74 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  47. New binary artifact management tool

    74 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  48. AWS Security Maturity Roadmap [pdf]

    74 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  49. Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor

    74 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  50. Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’

    74 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  51. Show HN: Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file

    74 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  52. Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller (2018)

    74 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  53. Decision Journal in Notion

    74 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  54. Review of High Priority Projects free software: your input is needed

    74 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  55. I can't vacuum because us-east-1 is down

    74 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  56. Do we really need a third Apache project for columnar data? (2017)

    74 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  57. Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites

    73 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  58. Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle

    73 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  59. David Fincher’s Impossible Eye

    73 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  60. GCompris Celebrates 20 Years

    73 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  61. Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (2014)

    73 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  62. Steve Blank on the Chip Wars of the 21st Century

    73 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  63. Exactly how much physical memory is installed?

    73 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  64. RipTable – multi-threaded Python data analytics tools for numpy arrays/datasets

    73 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  65. Ubooquity: Free home server for your comics and ebooks library

    73 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  66. How to write warm emails

    73 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  67. Rapid Note-Taking with the Morse Code Method (2008)

    73 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  68. The man who invented the Zamboni

    73 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  69. Wayeb: A Complex Event Processing and Forecasting Engine

    73 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  70. Scary Outage Stories from CTOs

    73 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  71. Time has come for four-day week, say European politicians

    73 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  72. Why is day of the month 1-indexed but the month is 0-indexed in C?

    73 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  73. Archaeologists Discover Viking Age Ship Burial in Norway

    72 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  74. The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years

    72 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  75. Hyperdimensional Computing

    72 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  76. Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow signal

    72 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  77. Githubassets.com Cert Has Expired

    72 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  78. Museum of Obsolete Media

    72 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  79. Django refactoring game – can you fix all the Models anti-patterns?

    72 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  80. Parler 'free speech' app tops charts in wake of Trump defeat

    72 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  81. Cities are living entities always changing and adapting to new environments

    72 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  82. InfluxDB 2.0 Is Out

    72 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  83. China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties

    71 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  84. Soumitra Chatterjee: India acting legend dies, aged 85

    71 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  85. Krebsonsecurity.com has an expired SSL certificate

    71 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  86. Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (1987)

    71 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  87. A Modest Proposal in the New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression

    71 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  88. Golang web service framework with DI, Telemetry and more

    71 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  89. Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

    71 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  90. Thought-Control Tactics Narcissists Use to Confuse and Dominate You (2019)

    71 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  91. The Future of RLSL

    71 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  92. I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript

    71 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  93. The number of people dying is not the same as in any other year

    71 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  94. The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map)

    71 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  95. Joe Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election

    71 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  96. The missing explanation of ZK-SNARKs: Part 1

    71 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  97. GNU poke – new interactive editor for binary data

    71 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  98. Scammers Expose Facebook Data Haul of 13M Records

    71 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  99. Facebook Joins the Blender Development Fund

    71 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  100. Chasing a Performance Regression with Erlang/OTP 22

    70 points • comment • nov 12, 2020