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Hacker News (Nov 2020)

  1. Open-source paved the way for today’s remote software development processes

    171 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  2. Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots? (2011)

    171 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  3. 3D engine implemented in DNA code

    171 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  4. DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi

    170 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  5. How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1

    170 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  6. Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language

    170 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  7. Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)

    170 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  8. The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'

    169 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  9. Show HN: Kord – Python tool for displaying guitar chords/scales on your terminal

    169 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  10. Mozilla/web-ext: A command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions

    169 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  11. Hunting for Malicious Packages on PyPI

    169 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  12. Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

    169 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  13. Chrome ‘Bug’ Exempts Google Cookies from Data Privacy Settings

    169 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  14. Rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

    169 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  15. An Introduction to Pluto

    168 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  16. Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer

    168 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  17. Lithuania is paying people to trade in polluting cars for escooters and ebikes

    168 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  18. AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool

    168 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  19. Apple hits back at European activist complaints against tracking tool

    168 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  20. Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley with Them

    168 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  21. Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house

    167 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  22. How the U.S. Used Disinformation and the 'Jakarta Method' to Change the World

    167 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  23. Rehex – Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor

    167 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  24. Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with an unlikely friendship

    167 points • comment • nov 22, 2020

  25. The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)

    166 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  26. Best aspects of C

    166 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  27. British Airways Flight 5390

    166 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  28. Exploring PGO for the Rust Compiler

    166 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  29. Anu: A sound, distributed version control systema

    165 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  30. Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux

    165 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  31. Army wants smaller brigades, stronger divisions and lots of robots

    165 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  32. Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

    165 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  33. U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates

    165 points • comment • nov 03, 2020

  34. Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA

    164 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  35. The Truth About Starting a Startup

    164 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  36. Show HN: A 1000 auto-generated hexagonal SVG logos

    164 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  37. Mitmproxy 5.3

    164 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  38. SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase

    163 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  39. Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano Style Cheese” [video]

    163 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  40. The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare

    163 points • comment • nov 24, 2020

  41. Raspberry Pi Webcam

    163 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  42. How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

    162 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  43. Doomsday prepping – Disaster planning for less crazy folk (2016)

    162 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  44. Minimal 16x16 Dots Coding Environment

    162 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  45. Ex Valve dev on CS:GO’s codebase

    162 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  46. Show HN: Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad

    162 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  47. Blackrota: obfuscated backdoor written in Go

    162 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  48. Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes

    161 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  49. Cell Signaling Technologies – Detailed 3D model of human cells

    161 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  50. Salesforce Deal to Buy Slack Expected to Be Announced Tuesday After Market Close

    161 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  51. Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management

    161 points • comment • nov 26, 2020

  52. A group of recent Princeton graduates has won more than $6M in 66 lottery wins

    161 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  53. NYC Paid McKinsey $27.5M to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared

    161 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  54. Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

    161 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  55. A Pretty Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism

    161 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  56. Pijul: Towards 1.0

    160 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  57. Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road to net zero emissions

    160 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  58. Using TLA+ in the Real World to Understand a Glibc Bug

    160 points • comment • nov 01, 2020

  59. Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready to Be Deemed Stable

    160 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  60. It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)

    160 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  61. Emacs in odd places

    159 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  62. Startups that have hit more than $1K MRR in about 12-24 months

    159 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  63. Disaster prepping is mainstream again

    159 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  64. Start with pen and paper

    159 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  65. Application trust is hard, but Apple does it well

    159 points • comment • nov 14, 2020

  66. American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max

    159 points • comment • nov 10, 2020

  67. Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021

    159 points • comment • nov 07, 2020

  68. The Donut King who went from rags to riches, twice

    159 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  69. Indian developer jailed for making unauthorized train ticket booking app

    158 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  70. Prediction Markets Beat Polls

    158 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  71. Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes

    158 points • comment • nov 23, 2020

  72. Stop using RSA (2019)

    158 points • comment • nov 08, 2020

  73. Affirm Public S-1 Filing

    158 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  74. Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less secure browsers, apps

    158 points • comment • nov 21, 2020

  75. It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

    158 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  76. About the security content of iOS 12.4.9

    158 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  77. A Port of “The Last True Unix” to x86

    157 points • comment • nov 25, 2020

  78. Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths [video]

    157 points • comment • nov 30, 2020

  79. Drumbit – Online Drum Machine

    157 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  80. Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely

    157 points • comment • nov 09, 2020

  81. JetBrains Compose

    157 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  82. Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?

    156 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  83. Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

    156 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  84. Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server

    156 points • comment • nov 16, 2020

  85. The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System

    156 points • comment • nov 06, 2020

  86. Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac

    156 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  87. US Postal Service data suggests significant population decline in San Francisco

    156 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  88. Apple removes then restores DoNotPay app in the App Store

    156 points • comment • nov 04, 2020

  89. The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

    155 points • comment • nov 13, 2020

  90. ReStuff

    155 points • comment • nov 27, 2020

  91. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length in isolated blood cells

    155 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  92. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

    155 points • comment • nov 15, 2020

  93. PCalc for macOS

    155 points • comment • nov 19, 2020

  94. Guybrush Fact vs. Fiction

    155 points • comment • nov 29, 2020

  95. Dusk is a 90s style shooter from the mind of a teenager (2016)

    155 points • comment • nov 18, 2020

  96. 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions

    154 points • comment • nov 17, 2020

  97. Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)

    154 points • comment • nov 11, 2020

  98. AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

    153 points • comment • nov 02, 2020

  99. Job interest not a big predictor of job satisfaction

    153 points • comment • nov 12, 2020

  100. TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents

    153 points • comment • nov 27, 2020