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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Ask HN: I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?

    46 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  2. PRET – Printer Exploitation Toolkit

    46 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  3. Genode OS Framework 20.11

    46 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  4. Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states

    46 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  5. Microsoft patents tech to score meetings with body language, facial expressions

    46 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  6. M3 v1.0 a scalable Prometheus metrics engine released

    46 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  7. Increase in Bitcoin Addresses as More People Join the BTC Price Surge

    46 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  8. Intake of saturated fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease

    46 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  9. Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls

    46 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  10. Build a Minimum Loveable Product

    46 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  11. Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018)

    46 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  12. It’s Not Just You: Garfield Is Not Meant to Be Funny (2013)

    46 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  13. Ask HN: Is it OK to not have a “thing”?

    46 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  14. Guess the Correlation

    46 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  15. How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy

    46 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  16. Show HN: Presenta Lib, JavaScript presentation library

    46 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  17. DeepMind Lab2D

    46 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  18. Installing OpenVMS 8.4 Alpha inside AXPbox with networking

    46 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  19. Informational privacy: a precondition for democratic participation?

    45 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  20. Science as a Vocation, by Max Weber (1918)

    45 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  21. Germany raided 83 homes in coordinated raids against online hate speech

    45 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  22. Ask HN: Instead of picking a party, why can’t we vote on issues

    45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  23. Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin's latest bubble?

    45 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  24. Considerations Before Graduating as an Engineer

    45 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  25. “An Odd, Almost Senseless Series of Events” (2018)

    45 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  26. Global nitrogen dioxide levels dropped since COVID: NASA video

    45 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  27. Obama says social media companies making editorial choices, algorithms or not

    45 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  28. Lambda Calculus with Brainfuck for side effects

    45 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  29. Why I’m Losing Hope in India

    45 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  30. Privacy-preserving features in the Mobile Driving License

    45 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  31. Objects in Functional Languages

    45 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  32. Mars is not a legal vacuum

    45 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  33. Deprecating scp

    45 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  34. Linux Kernel NTFS read-write driver by Paragon Software

    45 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  35. Open letter to founders: entrepreneurship is not physics

    45 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  36. Covid-19 is killing my people – And no one seems to care

    45 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  37. The Philosophical Implications of the Four-Color Problem (1980) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  38. Show HN: React Native template for open source identity provider Ory Kratos

    45 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  39. Police Caught Using Clearview AI, Potentially Violating Surveillance Ordinance

    45 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  40. A new model-F keyboard

    45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  41. Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve (2018)

    45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  42. Concert Roulette

    45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  43. Opinion: On Google’s ReCAPTCHA Privacy Nightmare

    45 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  44. MacBookAir Apple Silicon’s early benchmarks

    45 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  45. Pinecil: Portable USB-C RISC-V soldering iron

    45 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  46. Computer Crime: Pirates and Phone Phreaks (1983)

    45 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  47. Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffrey Epstein case missing

    45 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  48. A Novel Framework for Explaining Machine Learning Using Shapley Values

    45 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  49. Disorder Persists in Larger Graphs, New Math Proof Finds

    45 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  50. Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox

    44 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  51. Five Biggest Stocks Are 23% of S&P 500 Market Cap

    44 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  52. Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages

    44 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  53. Covid pushes Asia to embrace big government

    44 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  54. Structured Concurrency

    44 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  55. Productivity vs. Privacy

    44 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  56. What were these Roman objects used for?

    44 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  57. Xkcd: Election Impact Score Sheet

    44 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  58. FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (2015)

    44 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  59. Show HN: Reimagine the File System

    44 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  60. Aspects of Reasonableness

    44 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  61. Email Lessons from Napoleon

    44 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  62. QEMU 680x0 support [video]

    43 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  63. It’s time to remove news from Facebook and Google

    43 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  64. To What Extent Do We See with Mathematics?

    43 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  65. I got rich on the other hand

    43 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  66. Console Spreadsheets

    43 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  67. Console Living Room

    43 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  68. Hacker Nearly Stole $8M from Aussie Hedge Fund Using a Fake Zoom Invite

    43 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  69. Show HN: Text-to-podcast: Repurpose any content into podcasts

    43 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  70. Ask HN: How do you stimulate your creativity on a day like today?

    43 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  71. The Polymath: A Cultural History

    43 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  72. Pam 1.5.0 has a auth bypass under some conditions

    43 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  73. Show HN: Dead easy Python for executing many HTTP requests asynchronously

    43 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  74. Show HN: Keenforms – Form Builder with No-Code Rules Engine

    43 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  75. Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Working Class

    43 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  76. Linus Torvalds would like to use an M1 Mac for Linux, but

    43 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  77. The Great Cannonball Boom

    43 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  78. The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8k Years

    43 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  79. “Overpaid Executive Tax” in SF hits firms that pay CEOs 100X more than workers

    43 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  80. Snow on The Atlantic: How Cocaine Came to Europe

    43 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  81. U.S. Groups Linked to CCP Influence Effort with Ambition Beyond Election

    43 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  82. Loopy C Puzzle (2011)

    43 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  83. Having Fun with Signal Handlers

    43 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  84. Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable

    43 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  85. The Mac is losing me

    43 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  86. Learning State Abstractions for Long-Horizon Planning

    43 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  87. Let's put e-voting where it belongs: on the trash-heap of bad ideas (2016)

    43 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  88. Intel Xe Graphics: An Interview with VP Lisa Pearce

    43 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  89. The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking (2017)

    42 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  90. Bootstrap 5 Alpha 3

    42 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  91. Newton’s Daunting Masterpiece Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find

    42 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  92. Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85

    42 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  93. Tiny Homes Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis

    42 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  94. The testing pyramid should look more like a crab

    42 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  95. New Zealand struggles with plague of peacocks

    42 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  96. Metatrends shaping the next decade

    42 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  97. China's Hopeless Twitter Influence Operations

    42 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  98. The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous

    42 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  99. CXX – safe interop between Rust and C++

    42 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  100. Ask HN: What underestimated technologies will dominate within 5 years?

    42 points • comment • nov 15, 2020