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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Paul's Online Math Notes

    391 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  2. Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

    390 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  3. Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

    388 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  4. Rendering photo-realistic glass in the browser

    388 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  5. Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication

    387 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  6. Show HN: Zfs.rent

    386 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  7. eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database

    386 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  8. The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan

    383 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  9. Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

    382 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  10. Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches

    381 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  11. $200k in sales from a $6k advertisement

    380 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  12. Mmhmm

    376 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  13. Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    376 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  14. WordPerfect for DOS Updated

    376 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  15. We made our SaaS home page cookie-free

    375 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  16. U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord

    373 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  17. Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan

    372 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  18. Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript

    371 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  19. An Introduction to ZFS

    369 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  20. My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

    367 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  21. How Go helped save HealthCare.gov

    367 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  22. Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack

    363 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  23. I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM

    363 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  24. No Config for Old Men

    361 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  25. Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)

    361 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  26. Gron – Make JSON Greppable

    360 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  27. 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland

    358 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  28. Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential

    357 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  29. Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing

    357 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  30. New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression

    356 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  31. Marketers are addicted to bad data

    355 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  32. Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should

    355 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  33. A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

    354 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  34. Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux

    353 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  35. Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators

    353 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  36. Eleven Years of Go

    351 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  37. Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition)

    350 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  38. Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices

    350 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  39. Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11

    348 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  40. Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages

    348 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  41. 16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile

    347 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  42. Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

    347 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  43. A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food

    347 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  44. OpenZFS 2.0

    347 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  45. Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

    345 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  46. An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V

    344 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  47. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

    343 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  48. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications

    341 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  49. Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight

    341 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  50. Blender 2.91

    339 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  51. Dark’s new backend will be in F#

    338 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  52. I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop me wasting time

    337 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  53. Ragya – Indian classical music played by time of the day

    336 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  54. A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups

    336 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  55. Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails

    336 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  56. Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

    336 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  57. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)

    335 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  58. Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is able to make a release?

    334 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  59. TypeScript 4.1

    334 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  60. 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser

    332 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  61. Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board, doc editing and more

    329 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  62. Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

    327 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  63. YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”

    327 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  64. On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics

    325 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  65. Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)

    325 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  66. BetterExplained: Clear, intuitive lessons about mathematics

    323 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  67. Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?

    322 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  68. Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus

    322 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  69. Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks

    322 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  70. The Gods on Hacker News

    321 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  71. Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

    321 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  72. Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur

    321 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  73. Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively

    319 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  74. Psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet

    319 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  75. On the Loss of a Cofounder

    318 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  76. Linux Command One-Liners

    317 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  77. Roblox S-1

    317 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  78. Digital Tools I Wish Existed

    316 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  79. Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac

    315 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  80. RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub

    314 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  81. Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance

    314 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  82. Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10

    314 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  83. Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML

    312 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  84. Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethical, survey says (2019)

    312 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  85. Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets

    312 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  86. Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha

    311 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  87. Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)

    310 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  88. E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services

    310 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  89. K6: Like unit testing, for performance

    310 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  90. GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned

    308 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  91. 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

    308 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  92. Notion Timeline View

    308 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  93. Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill

    308 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  94. Please – A cross-language build system

    308 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  95. Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1

    307 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  96. A fun website that simulates fluid

    306 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  97. Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs

    306 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  98. Launch HN: Gather.Town (YC S19) – Spatial video chat for remote teams

    306 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  99. Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years

    305 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  100. Magic mushrooms are changing the lives of terminal cancer patients

    303 points • comment • nov 26, 2020