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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

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

    303 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  2. Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

    303 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  3. Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle

    303 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  4. Winamp for Windows 10

    302 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  5. Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps

    301 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  6. Why We're Building Observable

    299 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  7. I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions

    298 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  8. 750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida

    298 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  9. Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’

    298 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  10. Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative

    297 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  11. What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]

    297 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  12. WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS

    297 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  13. Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

    296 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  14. Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”

    296 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  15. Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers

    295 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  16. Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures

    293 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  17. The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting

    293 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  18. Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship [video]

    293 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  19. SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019)

    293 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  20. Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes

    293 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  21. Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007) [video]

    293 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  22. Guitar Center files for bankruptcy

    292 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  23. Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

    290 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  24. Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps

    289 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  25. Fast Inverse Square Root

    289 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  26. Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 3: Effect Systems

    288 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  27. Apple's Shifting Differentiation

    288 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  28. How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet

    286 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  29. Advent of Code 2020

    285 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  30. Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?

    285 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  31. Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)

    285 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  32. Eight Years at Roblox

    285 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  33. Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests

    281 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  34. Is Apple Silicon Ready?

    280 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  35. Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months

    279 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  36. Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++

    279 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  37. Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots

    279 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  38. Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron

    278 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  39. The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical

    278 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  40. How to seriously read a scientific paper

    278 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  41. A US Visa in 937 Days

    277 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  42. Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler

    277 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  43. Dan's online motorcycle repair course (1999-2020)

    277 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  44. All Hail Geometric Algebra

    276 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  45. Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

    276 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  46. DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system

    276 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  47. Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting

    275 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  48. California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers

    275 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  49. Evidence-based software engineering: book released

    274 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  50. Writing Rust the Elixir Way

    274 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  51. Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall

    273 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  52. Mutt 2.0 Release Notes

    273 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  53. Java Verbal Expressions

    273 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  54. Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy

    273 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  55. iFixit tools in Apple's lab

    272 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  56. “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

    272 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  57. Tips for Performant TypeScript

    271 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  58. Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

    271 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  59. FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

    270 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  60. YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]

    270 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  61. Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model

    270 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  62. OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail

    270 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  63. Dan Kohn has died

    270 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  64. The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation

    270 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  65. Writing well

    269 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  66. CERN Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November

    269 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  67. Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells

    269 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  68. The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

    268 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  69. What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?

    267 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  70. Walmart Exclusive Wi-Fi Router Contains Backdoor to Control Devices

    266 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  71. Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems

    266 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  72. Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else

    265 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  73. The Tao of Programming (1987)

    265 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  74. Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached

    265 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  75. A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension

    265 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  76. Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients

    264 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  77. Undeleting a file overwritten with mv

    264 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  78. GFXBench: Apple M1

    264 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  79. A new jailbreak for a new era

    263 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  80. Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality

    262 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  81. Let’s Build a Video Card

    262 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  82. Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen

    262 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  83. Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting

    261 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  84. Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate

    261 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  85. X11 Library Sees Lots of Fixes with LibX11 1.7 Release

    261 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  86. Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory

    260 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  87. Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014)

    260 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  88. RIP Google Music

    260 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  89. IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant

    260 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  90. US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test

    260 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  91. I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”

    260 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  92. What is the benefit of having FIPS hardware-level encryption on a USB stick?

    259 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  93. Names are not type safety

    259 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  94. For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overtook diesel

    259 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  95. DaVinci Resolve – A high-end video editing/post-production software program

    258 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  96. I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator

    257 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  97. We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)

    257 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  98. How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)

    256 points • comment • nov 28, 2020

  99. DoorDash S-1

    255 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  100. Visualizing Git Concepts with D3

    255 points • comment • nov 01, 2020