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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

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

    42 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

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

    42 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  3. Always leave the code better than you found it

    41 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  4. Why Proof of Stake?

    41 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  5. ‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Startups

    41 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  6. Idea Napkins, a place for your brilliant ideas

    41 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  7. Lockdown mentioned by 80% of callers to suicide prevention helpline – ITV News

    41 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  8. Using ROCm to Program FPGAs

    41 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  9. Homemade Q-Switch for Solid State Lasers

    41 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  10. Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases

    41 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  11. Flying squirrels glow pink thanks to fluorescence

    41 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  12. What Should Be Done About Social Media?

    41 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  13. “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV

    41 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  14. Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

    41 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  15. Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well (1986) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  16. ClickHouse Capacity Estimation Framework at Cloudflare

    41 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  17. Unslack: Transform the way your business communicates (again)

    41 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  18. Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?

    41 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  19. Rebuilding from scratch after a cease and desist

    41 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  20. Apple MBPr 13 M1 cinebench R23 score

    41 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  21. Hacking the Perfect Auction

    41 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  22. Good Heavens 10M Impacted in Pray.com Data Exposure

    41 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  23. The golden age of configuration languages

    41 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  24. Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less Likely to Get Hired

    41 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  25. Converting Utzoo-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to PostgreSQL Back End Using Python

    41 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  26. Ham Radio Needs to Embrace the Hacker Community Now More Than Ever

    41 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  27. Deciphering Chopin’s shorthand in the posthumous Mazurka in F minor (2018)

    41 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  28. Detective Game Design Problems

    41 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  29. Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years

    41 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  30. Debugging Misadventures: Down the Rabbit Hole

    40 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  31. Ask HN: How do you prevent code leak from current/former employees?

    40 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  32. Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating system

    40 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  33. France Is About to Become Less Free

    40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  34. Spring-powered wheel claims to be ‘E-bike alternative at lower cost’

    40 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  35. Google moves into Venmo, banks’ territory with checking accounts

    40 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  36. Expensive Security Fails in Healthcare Apps

    40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  37. Helicopter pilot finds 'strange' monolith in remote part of Utah

    40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  38. Down to the Suburbs

    40 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  39. The West has failed – US and Europe have made a mess of handling the crisis

    40 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  40. Best Practices for Writing Clean Interfaces in Go

    40 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  41. The Presidential Election of 1876

    40 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  42. BBC Online Moves to AWS, Serverless

    40 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  43. Ask HN: Wouldn't it be great to be able to follow fellow HN users?

    40 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  44. Sinter: A user-mode application authorization system for macOS written in Swift

    40 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  45. Show HN: Portabella – privacy friendly project management

    40 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  46. How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

    40 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  47. Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen

    40 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  48. Nipkow Disk

    39 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  49. How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?

    39 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  50. Learn Assembly by Writing Too Many Brainfuck Compilers in Rust

    39 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  51. Show HN: Pronounce – practice while you browse for any language

    39 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  52. The first-time founder’s guide to learning everything the hard way

    39 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  53. Doubleclicking on the Web (2015)

    39 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  54. Researchers solve mystery of odd behavior by droplets of food coloring (2015)

    39 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  55. Arm Looks to Laptops: Cortex-A78C Processor for PCs Announced

    39 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  56. Ask HN: Are Google products getting worse?

    39 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  57. Tesla (TSLA) to join S&P 500 December 21st

    39 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  58. Marc Geiger helped create Lollapalooza, now he wants to save live music

    39 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  59. Grinch Bots Will Steal the Best Deals This Holiday Season

    39 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  60. Coral Griefs: Finding Hope Amidst Loss

    39 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  61. Racket v7.9, with parallel garbage collection

    39 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  62. How to Run a Database on AWS with Better Performance and Lower Cost

    39 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  63. U of Miami uses facial recognition to intimidate protestors

    39 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  64. Hedy: A Gradual Language for Programming Education

    39 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  65. How do people find bugs?

    39 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  66. Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel

    39 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  67. Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter

    39 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  68. PHP 8 Release Announcement

    39 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  69. Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format

    39 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  70. What mother never told you about VM service (1983) [pdf]

    39 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  71. What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch

    39 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  72. Scaling live streaming for millions of viewers

    39 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  73. Getting Started with Random Matrices: A Step-by-Step Guide

    38 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  74. A new hot hand paradox

    38 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  75. Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.9 Release Notes

    38 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  76. 'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividing American families

    38 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  77. Multivitamins' 'benefits' are all in your head: study

    38 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  78. There are only three startup stages

    38 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  79. The GitHub YouTube-Dl Takedown Isn't Just a Problem of American Law

    38 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  80. The Poor, Misunderstood InnerText (2015)

    38 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  81. Selling to unicorns from my parents basement

    38 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  82. The Secrets of Monkey Island’s Source Code

    38 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  83. “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”

    38 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  84. Klein Vision’s AirCar, a Flying Car Prototype, Completes Maiden Flight

    38 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  85. UN actively passing names of Uighur dissidents to Chinese regime

    38 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  86. Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast

    38 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  87. Letter to German Greens on UPC and software patents: don’t betray your voters

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  88. Show HN: Video-input, an HTML element that acts like a video form field

    38 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  89. Design Note: Implicit Semicolons (2017)

    38 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  90. Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings

    38 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  91. Lock Yourself Down, Now

    38 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  92. How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

    38 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  93. PyPy: Faster Python with Minimal Effort

    38 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  94. Whatever Happened to New Math? (1990)

    38 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  95. Software and Hardware for General Robots

    38 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  96. Hacker News over Gemini

    38 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  97. Amazon reviews for scented candles, before and during the pandemic

    38 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  98. The UK Government Isn't Being Transparent About Its Palantir Contracts

    37 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  99. 'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year sentence

    37 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  100. The IDE Divide (2004)

    37 points • comment • nov 12, 2020