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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Cobalt – Lightweight Electron Alternative

    22 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  2. Bitcoin Breaks $17,000

    22 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  3. Don’t tell people to “Google it.” That’s your job, not theirs (2016)

    22 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  4. Cname Cloaking and Bounce Tracking Defense in Safari

    22 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  5. Scientists Analyzed 24,000 Chess Matches to Understand Cognition

    22 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  6. Passive SSH – A Fast-Lookup Database of SSH Key Materials (DFIR) [pdf]

    22 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  7. Debunking an election fraud claim using open data and Dolt

    22 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  8. The case of the missing dark matter: new suspect found in galactic mystery

    22 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  9. Why renaming Git’s master branch is a terrible idea

    22 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  10. 'Jeopardy’ host Alex Trebek dead at 80 after cancer battle

    22 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  11. Meat-free diets linked with greater risk of breaking bones

    22 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  12. Show HN: WTF - A smart engineering cheat-sheet

    22 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  13. Maildev: An SMTP server and web interface for testing emails during development

    22 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  14. Paradigms Without Progress: Kuhnian Reflections on Programming Practice [video]

    22 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  15. Zoom buys two new IPv4 /16 blocks in a week

    22 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  16. Building a HIPAA-compliant rules engine for text-based service company

    22 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  17. Writing for the Internet Across a Human Lifetime

    22 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  18. Eat butterflies with me?

    22 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  19. TypeScriptToLua – TypeScript to Lua Transpiler

    22 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  20. C Is Not Dependency Free

    21 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  21. Ben Eater: Installing the world’s worst video card

    21 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  22. Hundreds of thousands find their voice in Parler – Downloads nearing 4M

    21 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  23. Large-scale multilingual audio visual dubbing

    21 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  24. Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok

    21 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  25. Turning the Body into a Wire

    21 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  26. Show HN: Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ffmpeg as WebAssembly)

    21 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  27. Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?

    21 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  28. My game won't sell and that's ok

    21 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  29. Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air powered by Apple Silicon M1 chip

    21 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  30. 'It's working ' Deer, bears and other critters like Utah's first wildlife bridge

    21 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  31. Non-partisan DecisionDeskHQ calls race for Biden

    21 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  32. Franz Brentano, who taught Freud and Husserl

    21 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  33. Water Based Analog Computer

    21 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  34. A tiny badge led to dozens of sales and hundreds of new followers

    21 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  35. A GAN to generate dithers minimising frame difference for a slow movie player

    21 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  36. Twenty different masks tested. Here's what will best protect during the pandemic

    21 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  37. Show HN: Anima 4 (YC S18) – Turn design work into developer-friendly React code

    21 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  38. Fingerprinting

    21 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  39. Could a Rating System Help Weigh Claims Made in Popular Science Books? (2019)

    21 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  40. What's the Deal with SvelteKit?

    21 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  41. Five AI failures you need to know before starting AI project

    21 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  42. Buxton Collection: 35 years of input devices

    21 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  43. All ICUs in Switzerland are occupied as of now

    21 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  44. Parsing All of Wikipedia to an Offline Encyclopedia

    21 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  45. Time Loop Software (2013)

    21 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  46. The next fleet of Breitbarts is already raking in your ad dollars

    21 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  47. Show HN: IsRicherThanYou – Whoever pays the most stay on the front-page

    21 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  48. Show HN: Deepnote – a real-time collaborative data science notebook in the cloud

    21 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  49. Adopt your elePHPant now, the only original PHP elephant

    21 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  50. Elixir Community Voices: Lars Wikman

    21 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  51. Amazon Sidewalk (Echo/Ring mesh network with neighbours) is opt-out

    21 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  52. Leather Balls and 3k-Year-Old Pants Hint at an Ancient Asian Sport

    21 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  53. Hostage Situation at Ubisoft Montreal

    21 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  54. Ask HN: Is it okay to downvote without explaining why?

    21 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  55. The Method of Loci

    21 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  56. Comma 2 (openpilot) beats both Autopilot and Super Cruise in Consumer Reports

    21 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  57. Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding to 9 year old kids

    21 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  58. Suzieq: Network Observability

    21 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  59. Anti-aging: oxygen therapy increases telomere length by up to 20%

    21 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  60. ServiceNow buys Montreal's Element AI for $500M

    21 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  61. Synthetic-Aperture Radar Imaging

    21 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  62. Everything you need to know about UX/UI at a high-level

    21 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  63. The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

    21 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  64. TikTok Mansions Are Publicly Traded Now

    21 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  65. CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract

    21 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  66. Apple’s Cork campus celebrates 40 years of community and looks to the future

    21 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  67. How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet

    20 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  68. California, Love It and Leave It

    20 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  69. Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser

    20 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  70. Tests show Apple's M1 emulates x86 faster than Intel can run it natively

    20 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  71. Bill Gates Gives Brilliant 30s Answers to Common Job Interview Questions

    20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  72. Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus – by putting faith in science

    20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  73. Psilocybin therapy 4 times more effective than antidepressants, study finds

    20 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  74. IBM Apologizes for Firing Computer Pioneer for Being Transgender 52 Years Later

    20 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  75. Ask HN: What caused the worldwide outage on YouTube yesterday?

    20 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  76. Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy?

    20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  77. Is it morally wrong to write inefficient code?

    20 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  78. New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground

    20 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  79. California privacy ballot measure Prop 24 passes

    20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  80. Ask HN: Anyone making money with online courses?

    20 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  81. Fact Checking on Vote Claims Going Viral on Social Media

    20 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  82. Decentralized Computing

    20 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  83. Tokenized: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

    20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  84. We Pay for Software

    20 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  85. I compiled all blog posts I read in past six months to learn product management

    20 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  86. Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

    20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  87. Polyphemus silk spinning – from cocoon to yarn

    20 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  88. European Parliament Votes for Right to Repair

    20 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  89. I can do all things through Postgres: Lessons for the Elixir programmer

    20 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  90. Apple's M1 SoC Shreds GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in New Graphics Benchmark

    20 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  91. Kate is soon 20 years old

    20 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  92. Parler – Free speech social media focused on protecting user’s rights

    20 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  93. Injection of long-acting drug prevents HIV in women

    20 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  94. List of human-centered software engineering dissertations

    20 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  95. Trick to Use iPhone Flashlight as Morse Code Generator (Shortcuts App)

    20 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  96. Penguin Random House is buying Simon and Schuster. That’s bad for readers

    20 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  97. KFC restaurant that drives autonomously

    20 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  98. In Japan more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020

    20 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  99. iRobot Home App down due to AWS outage

    20 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  100. Virtual Consensus in Delos

    20 points • comment • nov 09, 2020